Our Beloved Master - His Early Life — Page 67
20 The Child’s FiRst JouRNEY T he Quraish were a nation of traders. Every year their trading convoys would go to Syria, Iraq, Palestine and Eg ypt. They had also established trading ties on the other side of the continent from India to China. The Quraish would buy merchandise from other countries and sell the goods that they had brought from their own country. At this time in Arabia neither individuals nor convoys were safe from bandits, robbers, and highwaymen. They robbed whoever would fall victim to them. They immediately wiped out anyone who tried to fight them. They felt neither shame in plundering nor any constraint in