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God combined in His last Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم the most illustrious qualities of character, in order to secure the confidence of His one who listened and followed Him. His character shone from all angles and was seen as admirable in the eyes of all. Those who considered lineage to be crucial, even if it is not in God’s …

The Hijri calendar was established by the second rightly guided Caliph and the Prophet’s close companion, Umar ibn al-Khattab, in 637/638 AD. According to al-Jabarti, the great chronicler of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Abu Musa al-Ash’ari wrote to the then Caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab saying: “We have received letters from the Commander of the Faithful, but we …