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  • Inshallah, I will keep it and marry Amir Fadlan in accordance with the teachings of the Quran and the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him.†   (source)
  • " We don't blame Ellaha's difficulties on the Prophet Muhammad or on Islam as such.†   (source)
  • Aidid's clan (Habar Gidir), Ali Mandi Muhammad's clan (Abgaal), and other clans overthrew Somalia's dictator.†   (source)
  • In high school, he was exposed to fundamentalist Islam and Bin Laden grew his beard long like the Prophet Muhammad.†   (source)
  • Muhammad was reassuring.†   (source)
  • It is expressed in the various black nationalist groups that are springing up across the nation, the largest and best known being Elijah Muhammad's Muslim movement.†   (source)
  • The armies of Muhammad, the six men were saying, were coming for the Jews of France.†   (source)
  • Stephen convinced his young crop that a great spiritual teacher was needed by mankind in every generation, someone like Buddha or Muhammad, and as far as everyone on the Farm was concerned, Stephen was the "one on deck to hold the show together, to be the fuse that the electricity of mankind runs through."†   (source)
  • La illaha il Allaha, Muhammad u rasul ullah.   (source)
  • We are here today because the will of Allah and the word of the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, are alive and well here in Afghanistan, our beloved homeland.   (source)
  • He says the boy had cut himself deeply and had lost a great deal of blood and my mouth begins to mutter that prayer again: La illaha il Allah, Muhammad u rasul ullah.   (source)
  • Uncle Muhammad gave a speech and announced that he would never retire.†   (source)
  • He always quoted the Prophet Muhammad: "Pay the laborer his wages before his sweat dries."†   (source)
  • Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you, Richard Parker!†   (source)
  • In the early 1950s, the prime minister, Dr. Muhammad Mossadegh, nationalized Iran's oil.†   (source)
  • I bear Witness that there is no deity but Allah and I bear witness that Muhammad is His Messenger.†   (source)
  • Uncle Muhammad is our family's symbol of perseverance.†   (source)
  • Like the butcher, Del-Muhammad—or Dello, as Baba called him—refused payment for his services.†   (source)
  • My oldest paternal uncle, Muhammad, did become a doctor, the first in the family.†   (source)
  • In the Muslim world, for example, misogynists routinely quote Muhammad to justify themselves.†   (source)
  • The instructors spoke to her only in Arabic and referred to themselves as Abdul, Muhammad, or Ahmed.†   (source)
  • Muhammad called them "friends," but they were not friendly once Muhammad left.†   (source)
  • It was Muhammad who had explained to him that some people actually lived in the park.†   (source)
  • At the same time, Muhammad himself had many slaves, and Islamic law unmistakably accepts slavery.†   (source)
  • And now Muhammad was heading home to Senegal.†   (source)
  • Muhammad reminded Deo a little of his favorite uncle, a man of few words and completely reliable.†   (source)
  • Selling coffee beans, Deo told them through Muhammad.†   (source)
  • Muhammad worked at the airport as a baggage handler.†   (source)
  • Sometimes they're used as taxis," said Muhammad.†   (source)
  • Muhammad himself didn't think this was a good idea.†   (source)
  • Muhammad said something in English to the agents.†   (source)
  • Along the way he followed Muhammad to a store named Gristedes, on the Upper East Side.†   (source)
  • Even Muhammad used it, and the Senegalese tailors and sidewalk merchants.†   (source)
  • The next morning Muhammad told him, "You know how to get there."†   (source)
  • But neither Muhammad nor the agents looked impressed.†   (source)
  • Because it's so hard here," Muhammad said.†   (source)
  • With Muhammad away at work, these people from Senegal were the nearest thing he had to friends.†   (source)
  • Muhammad asked Deo the agents' questions and also some questions of his own.†   (source)
  • Muhammad said he stayed here to save money.†   (source)
  • And Muhammad.†   (source)
  • I don't know that much about Muhammad, but, by all that's holy, I don't think my own God wished me to die.†   (source)
  • My older brothers wore their hats sideways and talked in low voices about Jim Brown and Muhammad Ah, but not even the boldest of them, not even eldest brother Dennis, to whom we all bowed low, fooled with Rosetta.†   (source)
  • To seventh-century Arabia, Muhammad brought the promise that anyone could find fulfillment and everlasting life through allegiance to the one true God.†   (source)
  • I spent my last year at St. Joseph's School feeling like the persecuted prophet Muhammad in Mecca, peace be upon him.†   (source)
  • He sat on the edge of my cot and tried to teach me a Muslim prayer: La La e La La-Muhammad del la su La La.†   (source)
  • The prophet Muhammad—peace be upon him—brought us the word of God without any undignified nonsense and died at a ripe old age.†   (source)
  • An illiterate man, Muhammad was visited by the angel Gabriel (Jibril in Arabic), who related to him the words of God.†   (source)
  • But this time there was no noise, just one brief second of silence in my mind, amid all the chaos and malevolence of this monstrous struggle for supremacy, apparently being conducted on behalf of His Holy Prophet Muhammad.†   (source)
  • As for Ravi, if Lord Krishna had held a cricket bat rather than a flute, if Christ had appeared more plainly to him as an umpire, if the prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, had shown some notions of bowling, he might have lifted a religious eyelid, but they didn't, and so he slumbered.†   (source)
  • In the Qur'an, Gabriel is described as having six hundred wings, and is assumed to have accompanied Muhammad when he ascended to the heavens.†   (source)
  • The night before the big party Baba's friend Del-Muhammad, who owned a kabob house in Shar-e-Nau, came to the house with his bags of spices.†   (source)
  • This meant that certain risk-taking people, like my uncle Muhammad, could climb on high walls and rooftops to watch the movies for free.†   (source)
  • Muhammad became the conduit for these messages, and The Qur'an, then, was simply the word of God in written form.†   (source)
  • In Islam, the archangel Gabriel, the same Gabriel who in the Bible spoke to the Virgin Mary and foretold the birth of Jesus, is believed to be the messenger who revealed the Qur'an to the Prophet Muhammad.†   (source)
  • My amoo Muhammad recently turned eighty, an event that the family celebrated with a Hawaiian-themed birthday party.†   (source)
  • My uncle Muhammad immediately jumped down and ran away, leaving my panic-stricken father abandoned like a fledgling on a high branch.†   (source)
  • When my parents want hospitality, they visit Muhammad, whose kindness and generosity remind my parents of their lives back in Abadan.†   (source)
  • My aunt and uncle have four sons, Muhammad, Mahmood, Mehdi, and Mehrdad, all of whom are married with children of their own.†   (source)
  • Uncle Muhammad, the oldest doctor, purchased a plot high on the hill with a view of the Pacific Ocean.†   (source)
  • I always found it unsettling to invoke religion in anything having to do with Las Vegas, a place that I'm quite sure the Prophet Muhammad would not have approved of.†   (source)
  • Muhammad's Iranian medical license did not allow him to practice in America, so he had to take both English and medical courses and pass the necessary exams.†   (source)
  • I explained to her that I lived an hour away from Hollywood; as for famous people, I thought of telling her that my father is directly descended from the Prophet Muhammad, but I knew that wasn't the kind of famous person she was inquiring about.†   (source)
  • If someone were to ask my father about his proudest moment, he would probably mention the day his nephew Muhammad finally bought a house in America, or the day his great-nephew Mahan graduated from law school.†   (source)
  • Once my father saw my tears, he sat down with me and said, "Firoozeh, when the Prophet Muhammad forbade ham, it was because people did not know how to cook it properly and many people became sick as a result of eating it.†   (source)
  • Hassan jumped up and straddled Colin on the floor and pinned his arms down and started shouting, "There is no God but God and Muhammad is His Prophet!†   (source)
  • The leader of his cellblock was Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, a firebrand preacher who was one of the foremost theoreticians of jihadism.†   (source)
  • He had named the truck Buraq, the heavenly steed that had carried the Prophet Muhammad from Mecca to Jerusalem during the Night Journey.†   (source)
  • One answer is historical, and it is no. When Muhammad introduced Islam in the seventh century, it was a step forward for women.†   (source)
  • She had planted the bomb, she said, to punish the blasphemers and the infidels in the name of Allah and Muhammad, peace be upon him.†   (source)
  • In Morocco, King Muhammad VI married a computer engineer who does not veil herself and who has become a role model for many Moroccan women.†   (source)
  • For every Dina, there are hundreds like Mahabouba Muhammad, a tall woman who grew up in western Ethiopia.†   (source)
  • And it has more in common with Muhammad and his earliest followers—al salaf al salih—than some of the so-called experts care to admit.†   (source)
  • It said that he was a relative of His Majesty and, as such, was a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him.†   (source)
  • --KOFI ANNAN, THEN UN SECRETARY-GENERAL, 2006 Saima Muhammad would dissolve into tears every evening.†   (source)
  • When Omar alKhattab, a close confidant of Muhammad, conquered Jerusalem in 639 with a small band of Arab cameleers from the Hejaz and Yemen, it was a predominantly Christian city.†   (source)
  • All in all, Muhammad comes across in the Koran and the traditions associated with him as much more respectful of women than early Christian leaders.†   (source)
  • --MUHAMMAD IMRAN, Ideal Woman in Islam On Nick's first trip to Afghanistan, he employed an interpreter who had studied English in university.†   (source)
  • He had in his possession a file, which he said had been prepared by the security department of his organization, though he did not say precisely what organization that was, only that its members emulated the original followers of Muhammad, peace be upon him.†   (source)
  • Muhammad himself was progressive on gender issues, but some early successors, such as the Caliph Omar, were unmitigated chauvinists.†   (source)
  • The Islamic feminists, as these scholars are known, argue that it is absurd for Saudi Arabia to bar women from driving, because Muhammad allowed his wives to drive camels.†   (source)
  • Aisha vigorously contested views of Islam that were hostile to women, and she recorded 2,210 hadith, or recollections of Muhammad used in Islam to supplement and clarify Koranic teachings.†   (source)
  • Then Roshaneh happened to find herself seated at a dinner next to Muhammad Yunus, the ebullient Bangladeshi professor who much later won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for pioneering microfinance.†   (source)
  • King Muhammad also reformed family law, giving women more rights in divorce and marriage, and he supported the pathbreaking appointment of fifty women imams, or preachers.†   (source)
  • Aisha was the only one of Muhammad's wives who was a virgin when he married her, and she grew to be a strong-willed woman with whom he spent a great deal of time.†   (source)
  • In Bangladesh, Muhammad Yunus developed microfinance at the Grameen Bank and targeted women borrowers--eventually winning a Nobel Peace Prize for the economic and social impact of his work.†   (source)
  • There is, for example, a well-known statement attributed to Muhammad stipulating that a man's prayers are ineffective if a woman, dog, or donkey passes in front of the believer.†   (source)
  • "This helps keep girls in school," said Abdu Muhammad, principal of the elementary school in Sebiraso, in a remote grassy plain of Eritrea in the Horn of Africa.†   (source)
  • After Muhammad died in Aisha's arms (according to Sunni doctrine, which is disputed by Shiites), she took on an active and public role, in a way that annoyed many men.†   (source)
  • When Muhammad returned from work that night, Deo told him -- it felt like confession -- "I got lost."†   (source)
  • " Suicide bombers have often written about their expectations of being rewarded by the houri, and Muhammad Atta reassured his fellow hijackers on the eve of 9/11: "The houri are calling you.†   (source)
  • Muhammad took him to a grocery store.†   (source)
  • Muhammad sided with her--that's when he had the revelation about needing four witnesses to attest to adultery before punishment could be applied--and ordered that the accusers be flogged with forty lashes.†   (source)
  • But they told him he could do as Muhammad did -- leave his suitcase with them, use their phone for local calls, and wash up in their bathroom.†   (source)
  • When Deo said he had come from Burundi, Muhammad made a pained face and said to him in French, "How did you get out?"†   (source)
  • The next day, Muhammad led him outside and down a staircase in the sidewalk, and introduced him to the subway.†   (source)
  • Muhammad led the way toward a brick building with broken windows and letters scribbled here and there on the walls.†   (source)
  • They were friends of Muhammad's, they spoke French, and they had an apartment in a building a block away from PEN.†   (source)
  • They would go in the direction called "Uptown," Muhammad said, speaking the word in English, then translating it: "Haut de la ville."†   (source)
  • When Muhammad finally turned off a main avenue onto a side street, Deo wanted to ask, urgently, why they were stopping here.†   (source)
  • On a Saturday morning, Muhammad handed him a subway map, and Deo spent the day learning how to read it, as they rode the trains beneath Manhattan.†   (source)
  • As this stocky and serious-looking stranger, Muhammad, walked him out of Customs, he said that Deo could stay with him in New York City.†   (source)
  • He asked a French-speaking friend of Muhammad's why people were drinking alcohol out of bottles concealed in paper bags, and the man said it was illegal to drink in public.†   (source)
  • He had slept on dirt floors most of his life, and in forests and fields, but it was hard to surrender to sleep on the piece of floor that Muhammad had staked out inside the tenement.†   (source)
  • He still couldn't sleep for long on the floor of the filthy room he shared with Muhammad, and when he did nod off he often wished he hadn't, because of the dreams that came.†   (source)
  • High up on one wall there were three letters painted, as if each letter were swollen: P E N. He followed Muhammad inside, the air reeking of urine and excrement, up a staircase with a busted railing, and finally into a room with a dirty wooden floor, a room with no door and no furniture.†   (source)
  • But for all the horror visited on Deo, the list of strangers who had saved him seemed remarkable: the Hutu woman in the banana grove, Muhammad the baggage handler, Chukwu and James O'Malley and above all Nancy and Charlie and Sharon.†   (source)
  • Then they were crossing a bridge so high he felt as if he were in the airplanes again, and Muhammad said, "Manhattan," and pointed at a horizon of buildings impossibly tall, like giant trees, like a sky of pillared clouds at sunrise in the mountains.†   (source)
  • Muhammad had a big car.†   (source)
  • His name was Muhammad.†   (source)
  • …Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo, The Man in the Gap, The Woman Who Didn't, Benjamin Franklin, Napoleon Bonaparte, John L. Sullivan, Cleopatra, Savourneen Deelish, Julius Caesar, Paracelsus, sir Thomas Lipton, William Tell, Michelangelo Hayes, Muhammad, the Bride of Lammermoor, Peter the Hermit, Peter the Packer, Dark Rosaleen, Patrick W. Shakespeare, Brian Confucius, Murtagh Gutenberg, Patricio Velasquez, Captain Nemo, Tristan and Isolde, the first Prince of Wales, Thomas Cook and Son,…†   (source)
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