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As narrated in hadith, when some mourners carrying a body of a deceased Jewish man passed by him, the Apostle Muhammad stood up. His companions asked him why. He replied, Was he not a soul?

Pictured below: a Jewish funeral procession in Cairo in 1911, the grand scale and ornateness of the uniformed mourners depicting the dignity and flourishing a non-Muslim community enjoyed in Islamic Egypt, in the same period it was engulfed in its own existential battle against the brutality of British AND French colonizers.