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Habakkuk 3:3 “God (his guidance) came from Teman, and the Holy One from
mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of
his praise.”
The wilderness of Paran is where Abraham's wife Hagar and his eldest son Ishmael, the
father of the Arabs, settled (Genesis 21:21) in the Arabian desert. Specifically, Makkah2.
Makkah is, of course, the capital of Islam in Arabia and the birthplace of Muhammad
(pbuh). Indeed, it was Hagar and Ishmael themselves who transformed a barren patch of
desert into what is now the capital of Islam, “Makkah.” Mount Paran is the chain of
mountains in that same region which the Arabs call the “Sarawat mountains.”
Muhammad (pbuh) first became the prophet of Islam in the cave of “Hira’a” located in
the highest part of these mountains. Jesus (pbuh) never in his life traveled to Paran nor
Teman. Muhammad, however, was born in Paran, he died there, and it was the capital of
the Islamic religion in that day and this. No man from Paran, throughout history, has had

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