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The Memorable Year of the Elephant

Before the advent of this year Arabs paid little attention to the passage of years but thereafter they

would refer to events as

being either before or after it.

Allah caused that eventful year

to be

rememebered by the Arabs to mark and honor the birth of His last Prophet
Fifty days before Muhammad was born, an event occurred which the people of Mecca



would