Muhammad by Deepak Chopra

Author:Deepak Chopra
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2010-04-28T16:00:00+00:00

Recite! In the name of your Lord,

who created human life from congealed drops of blood.

Recite, for your Lord is ever bountiful,

he who teaches by the pen,

who taught mankind what was not known before.

As he spoke, my father was transformed. His face glowed; he seemed transported to Paradise. And the verse. I can’t explain to strangers how beautifully it fell on the ear, like liquid song. Such precious words couldn’t have been his. Where did they come from?

Zaynab broke the spell by suddenly fleeing the room. I looked at my other sister, Umm Kulthum, who had been playing absent-mindedly with her braided hair, the way an infant might pet a doll. “How beautiful,” she murmured.

The moment was over. My mother ran down the corridor calling for Zaynab. My father came back to his usual self with a small cough and asked Umm Kulthum if she was all right. A servant ran in to announce that Abu Bakr was at the door.

“Tell him I’m just coming,” said my father, adjusting his robe and looking around for his slippers. He wouldn’t greet a respected friend in his bare feet.

As he was leaving the room, I grabbed his arm. “Tell me, Papa, what has really happened to you?”

“There is an inner man that nobody sees,” he replied. “Now he is on the outside, and the outer man, who is seen by everyone, he is gone forever.”

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