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ever, for soon thereafter, tragedy
was to come again, and little
Muhammad’s heart would be bro-
ken into a million tiny pieces.

On their journey back to Makkah lit-
tle Muhammad’s mother, Lady
Aminah, became terribly ill and
died. Now he was an orphan, all
alone, without the love of a father or
the care of a gentle mother.

Little Muhammad was now left in
the care of his grandfather, the chief
of all Arabia, ‘Abd al-Muttalib, the
very man who had given him his
beautiful name.

Now ‘Abd al-Muttalib was a power-
ful man whom everyone respected,
even the most fiersome Arab war-
riors. But he had one weakness,
and that was his love for little
Muhammad. Hand in hand the two

Vocabulary
warrior
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fascinating
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winding
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shimmer
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approach
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deceive
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gaze
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solitary
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shielding
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absent
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minding
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destined
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