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THE HERO AS PROPHET MAHOMET AND ISLAM

learning, for the art of writing was just then being introduced
into Arabia. Real practical life in the desert with all his
experiences: This was his education. He is alone deep down in
the bosum of the wilderness where he grows up communing
with the infinite, alone with Nature and his own thoughts. His
companions named him Al Amin ? The faithful. A man of
truth and fidelity, true in what he did, in what he spake and
what he thought. He was silent when there was nothing to be
said; but pertinent, wise and sincere when he did speak; always
throwing ilight on the matter. This is the only sort of speech
worth speaking. Throughout his life he was regarded as a
serious, yet amiable, cordial, companionable man with the
capacity to laugh and enjoy a good joke. There are men whose
laugh is as untrue as anything about them- not Mahomet! One
hears of his beauty- his fine sagacious honest face, brown
florid complexion and his beaming black eyes. A spontaneous,
passionate, yet just, true-meaning soul. Full of wild faculty,
fire and light; of wild worth, uncultured, and working out his
life in the depths of the desert there. At 25 he married the
widow Kadijah. Theirs was a most affectionate, peaceful
marriage, for he loved her and alone.

At the age of 40 he began to talk of his mission from Heaven
and during Iamadhan retired to a cavern in Mount Hara near
Mecca. One day he told Kadijah that by the special favour of

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