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 of great wisdom and experience, brought with him great help and reputation to his, canse; and his example was soon followed by five others Othman Ebu Affan, Zobair Ebmo'l Aa'ah, Epad Ebu Abu-Waccas, Abdorrahman Ebn Auf, and Abu Obeide Ebno'l. Jerah, who were afterwards the principal generals of his armies, and the chief instruments under him,, by whose help he established both his empire and his imposture together, in these parts of the world.

After he had gotten these nine disciples, some of which were the principal men of the city, he began openly to publish his imposture to the people of Mecca, in the 44th year of his age, and publicly to declare himself a Prophet sent by GOD, to reduce them from the error of Paganism, and to teach them the true religion.

The first doctrine that he propagated among them, was that there was but one God, and that he only is to be worshipped; and that all idols were to be taken away, and their worship utterly abolished; and that those who say God had sons and daughters, or that there are any other God associated with him, are impious, and ought to be abhorred.

By denying him sons and associates, he reflected on the Christians for holding the doctrine of the Trinity; and that Jesus Christ is the Son of God the belief of both which he doth in many places in his Alcoran vehemently forbid. By denying him daughters, he condemned the idolatrous practice of the Arabians, who worshipped Allat Menahr sud Al-Uzzah, female deities, which they held, to be the daughters of God; whose idols, and temples he afterwards every-where destroyed.

He did not pretend to deliver to them any new