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to finance the journey.

References

* Islamic Glossary: https://web.archive.org/web/20031228072807/http://www.idleb.com/Quran_and_Hadith/Terms/term.BAKKAIN.html. Visited September 27, 2007 7th-century Islam Islamic terminology {{Islam-stub