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days.
My two Companions were so overcome by misery and shame that
they retired from the world shutting themselves away in their homes.
Being the youngest and more resilient of the three, I would go out
and join my fellow Muslims for prayers and walk in the streets
although no one would speak to me.
I would wait before the Prophet, praise and peace be upon him,
when he sat in the Mosque after prayer and greet him and
wondered whether he had moved his lips to return my greeting.
During the prayer, I would stand near him and noticed that he would
glance in my direction when I was occupied with prayer and look
away when I looked in his direction.
Feeling anguish and deeply hurt by the harshness of Muslims
towards me, one day I climbed over the garden wall belonging to my
cousin Abu Katadah of whom I was very fond. I greeted him, but he
My two Companions were so overcome by misery and shame that
they retired from the world shutting themselves away in their homes.
Being the youngest and more resilient of the three, I would go out
and join my fellow Muslims for prayers and walk in the streets
although no one would speak to me.
I would wait before the Prophet, praise and peace be upon him,
when he sat in the Mosque after prayer and greet him and
wondered whether he had moved his lips to return my greeting.
During the prayer, I would stand near him and noticed that he would
glance in my direction when I was occupied with prayer and look
away when I looked in his direction.
Feeling anguish and deeply hurt by the harshness of Muslims
towards me, one day I climbed over the garden wall belonging to my
cousin Abu Katadah of whom I was very fond. I greeted him, but he