Journey

Understanding & Comfort  
She understood, rejoiced, and comforted him; gave strength to his shaken senses; wrapped up in warmth his shivering body, unused as yet to bear the strain and stress of an experience rare to mortal men. She knew it was no dream or delusion. She went and consulted her cousin Waraqah, a devout worshipper of God in the Faith of Christ, learned in spiritual lore. He listened and with her rejoiced that he, Muhammad, was God's Chosen One to renew the Faith.

Stilling the Passions  
She said: 'Blessed be thou, Chosen One! Do we not see thy inner life -- true and pure? Do not all see thy outer life -- kind and gentle? -- Loyal to kin, hospitable to strangers? No thought of harm or mischief ever stained thy mind nor word ever passed thy lips that was not true or stilled not the passions of narrower men. Ever ready in the service of God, thou art he of whom I bear witness: there is no god but He, and thou art His Chosen Prophet.'

True Freedom  
Khadijah believed, exalted in faith above all women; 'Ali, the well-beloved, then a child of ten, but lion-hearted, plighted his faith, and became from that moment the right hand of Islam; Abu Bakr, the Sincere, the True-hearted, the man of wealth and influence, who used both without stint for the Cause, the sober counselor, the inseparable friend, never hesitated to declare his faith; and Zayd, the freedman of Muhammad, counted his freedom as naught compared with the service of Muhammad and Islam. These were the first fruits of the mission: a woman, a child, a man of affairs, and a freedman, all banded together in the equality of Islam.