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lend a hand, but much to their sorrow, were thanked but told to return home.
THE MIRACLE OF THE BOULDER:
Jabir and his companions were working hard on their section when they struck a huge
boulder. Try as best they might, no one, not even the strongest among them could
shatter it let alone move it. When the news of the boulder reached the Prophet, praise
and peace be upon him, he left what he was doing and made his way to it, then, taking
hold of a ax he struck the boulder three times whereupon it started to disintegrate into a
piles of sand.
As the Prophet, praise and peace be upon him, struck the boulder the first time, a light
shone so brilliantly from it that it reached the ramparts of the castles in distant Yemen;
which was then under the rule of Abysinnia. Upon his second strike, the light stretched
as far away as the fortresses of Syria and upon the third, it reached and lit up the white
palace of Chosroes in Madian. The Prophet, praise and peace be upon him, later
explained that the miraculous light was a sign that one day Islam would spread to these
distant lands.
THE MIRACLE OF THE BOULDER:
Jabir and his companions were working hard on their section when they struck a huge
boulder. Try as best they might, no one, not even the strongest among them could
shatter it let alone move it. When the news of the boulder reached the Prophet, praise
and peace be upon him, he left what he was doing and made his way to it, then, taking
hold of a ax he struck the boulder three times whereupon it started to disintegrate into a
piles of sand.
As the Prophet, praise and peace be upon him, struck the boulder the first time, a light
shone so brilliantly from it that it reached the ramparts of the castles in distant Yemen;
which was then under the rule of Abysinnia. Upon his second strike, the light stretched
as far away as the fortresses of Syria and upon the third, it reached and lit up the white
palace of Chosroes in Madian. The Prophet, praise and peace be upon him, later
explained that the miraculous light was a sign that one day Islam would spread to these
distant lands.