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goes about in the markets, why has not an angel been sent down to him so that he should have been a warner with him: Or (why is not) a treasure sent down to him or he is made to have a garden from which he should eat". "And those who do not fear our meeting, say: Why have not angels been sent down to us, or (why) do we not see our Lord? Now certainly they are too proud of themselves and have revolted in great revolt."^[1]

Our Prophet Mohammed was an orphan and had scanty means of livelihood, so the Koraishite chief Walid bin Moghera and Abu Masood Sakfi used to speak contemptuously of him.^[2] And when people believed in him and accepted Islam, the proud Koraishites used to say: Mohammed is surrounded by poor men, let him send them off and

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1. Quran xxv. 7, 8; 21.
2. Quran xliii, 31, And they say: why was not this Quran revealed to a man of importance in the two towns." (Mecca and Taif).