They raised their arms as if about to strike me with their...

They raised their arms as if about to strike me with their iron rods and in voices sharper than before they repeated, 'Who is your Lord?" But I was no longer afraid and so I replied softly that Allah, the One, Only and Unique was my Lord, 'He is Allah; there is no God but he, the knower of the unseen and the seen. He is the Beneficent and Ever Merciful. He is Allah, there is no God but He, the King, the Holy.

the Peace loving, the Bestower of conviction, the Guardian, the Ever-prevalent, the supreme, the great absolute. For too exalted is Allah from what they associate (with him). (Soora Hashr verse 22,23) I remembered this particular verse because I had been in the…