Muhammad a Prophet For all Humanity
16. The Companions of the Prophet
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And should sleep, and rise night and day, and
the seed should spring and grow up, he
knoweth not how. For the earth bringeth forth
fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear,
after that the full corn in the ear.
But when the fruit is brought forth,
immediately he putteth in the sickle,
because the harvest is come. And he said,
Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of
God? or with what comparison shall we
compare it?
It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when
it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds
that be in the earth:
But when it is sown, it groweth up, and
becometh greater than all herbs, and
shooteth out great branches; so that the
fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow
of it.
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This parable, told in both the Qur’an and the
Bible, tells how the social evolution of the
Companions of the Prophet would be like that of a
