The First Muslim: The Story Of Muhammad - Plot & Excerpts
It had taken nearly two years for the Quraysh leadership to concede the obvious, by which time the only words still legible on the tattered parchment were the customary opening ones: “In your name, oh God . . .” But no sooner had life returned to something approaching normal for Muhammad than personal tragedy struck: Khadija died. It happened suddenly. There was no long illness, so the cause may well have been a heart attack brought about by the stress of living through the boycott, or simply the fact that she was in her sixties by then, a good old age for the seventh century. Quite possibly it was a combination of the two: the effect of stress on an aging heart. But to the end, a loving one. F or twenty-four years, she had beenMuhammad’s pole-star—his refuge, his rock, his confidante, his solace. From the beginning, she had seen what was in him more accurately and more presciently than anyone else. She had defied social norms to marry him, lifting him out of insecurity into respectability.
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