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THE WAY OF LIFE

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(Heraclius Emperor of Rome asked) "’What does he (the Prophet) teach you?’ Abu Sufyan replied, ‘He teaches us to worship Allah alone and not to associate anything with Him. To abandon what our ancestors worshipped and he commands us to establish the prayer, to tell the truth, to be chaste and to strengthen the ties of kinship.’"

Bukhari and Muslim - in the extraction of the Prophet's message to Heraclius, conveyed by Abu Sufyan, Heraclius asked Abu Sufyan this.