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Lessons from the Koran on the need to exercise patience

In the Koran we read about Moses requesting God to teach him some wisdom and knowledge. "You can’t handle my wisdom," God answers Moses... "but if you are so interested, I will link you up with my messenger."

The setting of this narrative is in Chapter 18, verses 65–82 titled Al Kahf, meaning the café. Moses meets the servant of God, referred to in the Koran as “one of our slaves whom we had granted mercy from us and whom we had taught knowledge from ourselves” Muslim scholars identify him as Nabi Khadar.

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