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Heavier Than Uhud: The Forgotten Shepherd Boy Who Became the Voice of the Qur'an

Heavier Than Uhud: The Forgotten Shepherd Boy Who Became the Voice of the Qur'an

Hikma, Narin

Paperback

Islam

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ISBN13: 9798187035199
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.59 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What if the parts of you the world laughed at were never your weakness?

You know what it is to be overlooked. To be measured by people who never bothered to look closely enough to measure you fairly. To carry something the world calls small, and to wonder, quietly, whether it will ever count for anything at all.

Abdullah ibn Mas'ud was the poorest boy in Mecca - a shepherd with no clan, no protection, and legs so thin that grown men once laughed at the sight of him climbing a tree. Then two exhausted strangers asked him for a cup of milk he had no right to give away, and his refusal - and everything that followed it - quietly rearranged the entire shape of his life. He became the companion closest to the Prophet Muhammad's side, the first man to recite the Qur'an aloud before a hostile crowd, a soldier at Badr, a scholar whose memory the whole early Muslim world came to rely on - and, in his final years, a man broken by the very community he had given everything to serve. He died believing his story ended unresolved. This book tells you exactly why he was wrong.

Recognize the specific ache of being underestimated by people who never once asked what you were actually capable of

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