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“I'm a spiritual person, she said. "I believe in Allah, you know, though I don't always call It 'Allah' and I pray the way I want to pray. Sometimes I just look out at the stars and this love-fear thing comes over me, you know? And sometimes I might sit in a Christian church listening to them talk about Isa with a book of Hafiz in my hands instead of the hymnal. And you know what, Yusef? Sometimes, every once in a while, I get out my old rug and I pray like Muhammad prayed. I never learned the shit in Arabic and my knees are uncovered, but if Allah has a problem with that then what kind of Allah do we believe in?”

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Author:Michael Muhammad Knight
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“My teachers revealed to me how traditional Islamic scholarship rests upon unbroken chains of transmission called Isnad (Literally, “to lean back on for support”—an unbroken transmission of religious authority similar to the Rabbinic concept of Semikhah) that link each student back in time through the generations to Muhammad himself. To bring my own Isnad to life, my teachers would occasionally gift me books written by ancestors in my chain, like Imam Ad-Dani who lived in eleventh-century Spain.”

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Book:The Life of the Qur'an: From Eternal Roots to Enduring Legacy
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“The coming of the Prophet would sweep away this fragmented and pluralistic pattern of trade in the ancient world. Within a few centuries of Muhammad's death, one culture, one religion, and one law would unify the commerce of the Old World's three continents nearly a millennium before the arrival of the first European ships in the East.”

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Book:A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
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“পরিস্থিতির স্বার্থে হযরত মোহাম্মদ [সা.] মক্কা ছেড়ে মদিনায় যাবার পর হিংসুটে বোকারা ভেবেছিল তাদের জয় হয়েছে! ইতিহাসে তাদের স্থান শুধুই ষড়যন্ত্রকারী শয়তান হিসেবে কিন্তু হযরত মোহাম্মদ [সা.] সর্বশেষ নবী ও সর্বশ্রেষ্ঠ মহামানব!”

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Author:Md. Ziaul Haque
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“Allah has no partners, Allah has no equal, Allah the All-Seeing, the All-Hearing, the All-Powerful. Allah the Everlasting, who has no beginning and no end, Beyond our imagination, we cannot even begin to comprehend, Praise Allah and upon Muhammad ﷺ our blessings we send.”

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Book:Getting to Know The Prophet Muhammad (PBUH): a Rhyming Seerah for Teenagers and Young Adults.
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