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The Miracles of our Prophet (saas)

trust ed in Allah, ig nored what the peo ple might say, and re lat -
ed it to thou sands of peo ple who wit nessed this mir a cle.

Other news from the un seen re vealed by our

Prophet (saas)

Egypt's con quest:
Abu Dharr re port ed that the Messenger of Allah (saas)

said: "You will soon con quer Egypt, and that is a land in which
the qir at is named. So when you con quer it, treat its in hab it -
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ants well." 68 When he an nounced this good news, Egypt was
still gov erned by the Byzantines. In ad di tion, the Muslims were
not yet very strong. But this pre dic tion came true dur ing
Umar's (ra) cal i phate, when Amr ibn al-As con quered it in
641. 69

Conquering the lands held by Byzantium
and Persia

"Khosrow will die and there will be no Khosrow aft er
him. Caesar will die and there will be no Caesar aft er him,
but you will dis trib ute their treas ures in the way of Allah." 70
Kisra was the word used for the an cient Persian kings, and

Qaysar was the des ig na tion of the Byzantine em per or. When
our Prophet (saas) an nounced this good news, the Muslims
were not in a po si tion, as re gards their mil i tary strength and
eco nom ic and po lit i cal or gan i za tion, to achieve such a ma jor
vic to ry. Besides, at that time, Persia and Byzantium were the

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