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TAMIL - AUTHOR : MUFTI A.UMAR SHARIF KASHIMI
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ENGLISH- THE SEALED NECTAR – MEMORIES OF THE PROPHET (PBUH)-AUTHOR- ISSAM DIAB
Knowing already that Quraish would mobilize all its potentials to find him, he played a
clever trick on them and instead of taking the road to Madinah in north side of Makkah
as the polythiest would expect, he walked along a road least expected lying south of
Makkah and leading to Yemen. He walked for 5 miles until he reached a rough rocky
mountain called Thawr. There his shoes were worn out, some said he used to walk tiptoe
in order not to leave a trail behind him. Abu Bakr [R] carried him up the mountain to a
cave called after the name of the mountain, Cave Thawr.
Abu Bakr first entered to explore the cave and be sure that it was safe, closed all holes
with pieces torn off from his clothes, cleaned it and then asked the Prophet [pbuh] to
step in. The Prophet [pbuh] went in and immediately laid his head in Abu Bakr’s lap and
fell asleep. Suddenly Abu Bakr’s foot was stung by a poisonous insect. It hurt so much that
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his tears fell on the Prophet’s face. The Prophet [pbuh] immediately applied his saliva on
Abu Bakr’s foot and the pain went off on the spot
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