“ Muhammad was crippled with doubt about the experience he had had on the mountain. He didn’t...

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Muhammad was crippled with doubt about the experience he had had on the mountain. He didn’t know what to believe and was desperately awaiting any sign at all that might confirm what had happened.

For two years, he waited. God was silent and Muhammad, an orphan who’d been left by his father, felt abandoned. Those two years were the darkest period in his life. He experienced abject loneliness, depression, suffering and doubt.

Many hundreds of years later, in the sixteenth century, the Christian Saint John of the Cross would refer to such a period of doubt as the “dark night of the soul,” a rite of passage that every saint must endure on the path to true enlightenment.

And that’s exactly what happened to Muhammad. God, finally convinced of Muhammad’s faith as he stood strong despite God’s silence, passed on further revelations of profound beauty and meaning.
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