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               sky and pursued them as soon          east and west of the world, and
               as    they    approached      the     the reason for this Find.
               meteorite. They said that there          On the day that the Prophet
               was  a  new  occurrence  in  the      sent to the market of paintings,
               world, so they decided to go to       a number of Jeans had come to
               find the cause.                       search  for  that  cause  in  the
                  In  the  exegesis  of  the         land  of  Thamma,  and  passed
               Assembly,  Ibn  Abbas  states:        through  the  Prophet  of  Allah
               Ibn  Abbas  has  narrated  that:      while this gentleman was busy
               The      Prophet      had     not     with the morning prayer, when
               specifically  prayed  for  the        he  heard  the  voice  of  the
               Quran, and did not see the Jinn       Quran  from  that  gentleman,
               at  all  in  this  regard;  But  they   they listened well.
               went  through  a  series  of             Then they said:
               companions  to  reach  the                   “Say:  It  has  been
               market,  and  this  In  the  days            revealed  to  me  that  a
               when the Jinn's were forbidden               company       of    Jinns
               from climbing to heaven, there               listened (to the Quran).
               was  no  longer  any  news  of               They  said:  We  have
               heaven,  and  the  devils  had               really      heard        a
               seen  each  other  what  was                 wonderful  Recital!  It
               going on.                                    gives  guidance  to  the
                  They  said  that  our  hands              Right,  and  we  have
               will  never  reach  the  news  of            believed  therein:  we
               the sky, whoever asks us to go               shall    not    join   (in
               up    the    messiah     to   his            worship)  any  (gods)
               suppression,  and  after  telling            with      our      Lord”.
               the  tongues,  they  came  to  the           (Quran, 72: 1-2)
               conclusion  that  there  must
               have  been  an  incident  in  the        After  this  incarnation,  Say:
               world,  you  should  look  at  the    “It  has  been  revealed  to  me
                                                     that  a  company  of  Jinns
                                                     listened  (to  the  Quran).  They
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