—indeed, do they not share one and the same sense, that of something coming plainly to light and becoming manifest?
So, can you point to any religion whose emergence matched the emergence of Islam and whose influence spread throughout the Easts and Wests of the earth with a diffusion comparable to its own?

Ibn Zufar said:
“Seir is a mountain in al-Sham; from it the Messiah’s prophethood shone forth.”

I replied:
“Beside Bethlehem—the village in which the Messiah was born—there is, to this very day, another village called Seir, and it has a mountain that likewise bears the name Seir.”

And in the Torah it is stated that the descendants of Esau dwelt in Seir, and Allah commanded