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| | Islam Online - The Qur’an (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | Ibn Ishaq said that the Abyssinian governor of Yemen, Abraha Al-Ashram, built a huge, lofty church and wrote to the king of Abyssinia, the Negus: “I have built you a church that is unprecedented, and I am intending to divert pilgrimage from Makkah to Abyssinia.” |
 | | Ibn Ishaq said: I have been told by Ya`qub Ibn `Utbah that that year was the first in which measles, smallpox, and bitter trees such as colocynth and African rue appeared in the Arab Peninsula. |
 | | Then, Ibn Ishaq cited the poetry the Arabs composed pertaining to that great incident in which Allah the Almighty made victorious His Sacred House, which He wanted to honor, dignify, purify, and respect by sending His Messenger Muhammad (peace be upon him) and the Law He sent with him. |
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