Interestingly enough, the Prophet also encouraged doing ablution before going to bed. |
In this period, the communication and orders of the Holy Prophet were usually written in Kufic script. |
But to whomever he talked, the Prophet stressed God's oneness and that the belief in His oneness is the key to faith. |
In fact a revelation came asking people to give the Prophet privacy in his own home. |
Eventually, after a particularly tortuous twist, the path opened out and they came to the Cave of the Prophet. |
The black-turbaned man with outsized feet, hands, girth, and ambition is a Sayyid, a direct descendant of the Prophet Mohammed. |