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Mar 2021
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The First Five Months

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In the first 5 months of Quranic revelation 46 surahs were revealed, and they highlight the situation of the early Muslims. Sheikh Azhar also describes who the earliest converts were and what the evidence indicates about when Abu Bakr converted to Islam.

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