Khadijah: the cards as text

Stories. Draft written with AI help: awaiting scholar review.

Card 1
He came home shaking. She was the first to believe him.
Card 2
The merchant who proposed
Khadijah ran her own trading business. She hired Muhammad to take her goods to Syria. His honesty impressed her, so she proposed marriage herself. Most reports say she was forty and he twenty-five. Some say she was younger.
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Lesson: Khadijah proposed, and while she lived he married no one else.
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"Allah will never disgrace you"
After the first revelation in the cave of Hira, Muhammad came home shaking. Khadijah wrapped him up and reassured him, listing his kindness to others. She was the first to believe him.
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Qur'an 96:1-2
ٱقۡرَأۡ بِٱسۡمِ رَبِّكَ ٱلَّذِي خَلَقَ ۝١ خَلَقَ ٱلۡإِنسَٰنَ مِنۡ عَلَقٍ ۝٢
¹ Read in the name of your Lord Who created,
² created man from a clinging clot.
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Lesson: Khadijah's first proof was his character.
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The year of sorrow
Khadijah spent her wealth on the early Muslims and shared three years of boycott in a valley outside Makkah. She died around 619, the same year as Abu Talib. The Prophet called her one of the best women of all time.
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Lesson: Years after Khadijah died, the Prophet still spoke of her.
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Reflect: Who was the first person to accept Islam?
Answer: Khadijah. Khadijah, the Prophet's wife, after the first revelation in the cave of Hira.
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The end of Khadijah.

The merchant who proposed