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Foreword Mr. Rashid Ahmad obtained his Master’s degree in Islamic Studies and subsequently his L. L. B. and B. T. at Punjab University, Pakistan. He is at present a teacher in one of the Comprehensive schools in London. In this book, he combines his knowledge of the subject with nineteen years of teaching experience to produce a collection of stories about famous Muslims, supplementing such stories with a brief introduction about Islam. The stories make compelling reading matter for both young and old. They give an insight to the simple lives led by the early Muslims and show how such people sacrificed their lives, prop- erty and honour for the sake of their faith and thus became popularly known as martyrs or heroes. The reader has been