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Updated: May 4, 2025
He paid her the compliment of silence; but her memory was continually with him, even when he had taken many fairer women to wife. Ayesha, in all the insolence of beauty, scoffed at Khadijah's age and lack of comeliness: "Am I not dearer to thee than she was?" "No, by Allah!" cried Mahomet; "for she believed when no one else believed."
The inspiration had not yet descended upon him, but it was imminent, and the shadow of its stern requirements was about him as he attended to his work of supervising Khadijah's wealth or took part in the religious life of Mecca. In A.D. 605, when Mahomet was thirty-five years old, the chief men of Mecca decided to rebuild the Kaaba.
Mahomet went immediately up into the mountain, and there Gabriel appeared to him waking and said: "Thou art God's Prophet, and I am Gabriel." The archangel vanished, but Mahomet remained rooted to the spot, until Khadijah's messengers found him and brought him to her.
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