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Word of Allah. He shall be a master and caste, a Prophet
and from the righteous.'" Ch:3:39 Koran. Nothing is known
about his infancy, except that he was a Nazarite living in the
wilderness, eating locusts and wild honey, covering his body
with a cloth made of camel's hair, tied with a leather girdle.
He is believed to have belonged to a Jewish religious sect
called the "Essenes," from whom issued the early Christian
"Ibionites" whose principal characteristic was to abstain from
worldly pleasures. In fact, the Koranic descriptive term
of this hermit Prophet - "hasura," which means "chaste" in
every sense of the word - shows that he led a celibate life
of chastity, poverty, and piety. He was not seen from his
early youth until he was a man of thirty or more, when he
began his mission of preaching repentance and baptizing the
penitent sinners with water. Great multitudes were drawn
to the wilderness of Judea to hear the fiery sermons of the
and from the righteous.'" Ch:3:39 Koran. Nothing is known
about his infancy, except that he was a Nazarite living in the
wilderness, eating locusts and wild honey, covering his body
with a cloth made of camel's hair, tied with a leather girdle.
He is believed to have belonged to a Jewish religious sect
called the "Essenes," from whom issued the early Christian
"Ibionites" whose principal characteristic was to abstain from
worldly pleasures. In fact, the Koranic descriptive term
of this hermit Prophet - "hasura," which means "chaste" in
every sense of the word - shows that he led a celibate life
of chastity, poverty, and piety. He was not seen from his
early youth until he was a man of thirty or more, when he
began his mission of preaching repentance and baptizing the
penitent sinners with water. Great multitudes were drawn
to the wilderness of Judea to hear the fiery sermons of the