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C. 32.—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 Waraqa,

A devout worshipper of God in the Faith of Christ,

Learned in spiritual lore. He listened

And with her rejoiced that he, Muḥammad,

Was God’s Chosen One to renew the Faith.

C. 33.—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’s no God but He,

And thou art His chosen Apostle.

C. 34.—Ḵẖadīja believed, exalted in faith

Above all women; ’Alī, the well-beloved,

Then a child of ten, but lion-hearted,

Plighted his faith, and became from that moment

The right hand of Islam; Abū Bakr, the Sincere,

The True-hearted, the man of wealth and influence,

Who used both without stint for the Cause,

The sober Counsellor, the inseparable friend,

Never hesitated to declare his faith;

And Zaid, the freedman of Muḥammad,

Counted his freedom as naught compared

With the service of Muḥammad 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.