THE FAITH
AS UNFOLDED BY MANY PROPHETS.
THERE IS NO GOD BUT GOD.
There was a friendship like that of brothers between Havilah the son of Aram, and a man of another nation, to whom Havilah gave the name Eber. Yet Eber was a Christian, while Havilah was a follower of the Prophet. Havilah remembered how his father had early taught him to despise the Jews and Christians, and how he had hated them in his youth; yet he did not repent of his love for Eber.
Eber was not like many persons, whether Musselmen, Jews, or Christians, who having known no men but those of their own country and their own religion, despise or fear all other
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