remove it, Muhammad said, “The Physician thereof is He who placed it where it is” (Muir, new edition, p. 542). The Dictionary of Islam interprets the “Seal of Prophecy” as: This, says one, was a protuberance on the Prophets back of the size and appearance of a pigeon’s egg. It is said to have been the divine seal which, according to the predictions of the Scriptures, marked Muhammad as the last of the Prophets.… From the traditions it would seem to have been nothing more than a mole of unusual size
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