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Show Mohammed's Mother FOR twelve hundred years the name of Assinu has come down side by side with that of Mohammed, Mo-hammed, for she was the prophet's mother, and It Is told that when Mohammed was born, he, in the same moment, cried, "Allah is great! There Is no god but Allah, and I am h"s prophet." And on that August day there were earthquakes around the couch on which the mother and the young child lay, and the sacred fire which, until extinguished, had burned for a thousand years on the altar of Zoroaster under the watch of the magi, went out, and many other marvelous events happened to signify that there was to be a new dispensation, for Assinu had descended from a brother of the sweet Kossal; that indeed her lineage was traced back to the beginn'ng of the world, and she was chosen because of her worth to be the mother of the prophet. |