The Orphan of Makkah

E-snad · Sîra
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Three losses before the age of nine, and the verse that sums them up.

Episodes

  1. Episode 1 · free

    Without a father

    He ﷺ grew up without his father. The Qur'an says it in one word: orphan. Women nursed him and cared for him. Who were they, and how did he ﷺ remember them, years later?

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  2. Episode 2

    Without a mother

    He ﷺ was six when his mother died on the road home. Years later, a prophet, he visited her grave. And he wept.

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  3. Episode 3

    And He gave you refuge

    At six, he ﷺ still had a grandfather. Two years later, he died too. Yet the Qur'an sums up that childhood in one word: refuge.

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