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Lady Zainab (Evelyn) Cobbold was the first European woman on record to enter Mecca. In her Hajj diary, she writes:
“If I never see Arabia again, always will live the cherished memory of these wonderful days, of Mecca alight with the torch of a living faith...
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#HajjMubarak
![Lady Zainab (Evelyn) Cobbold was the first European woman on record to enter Mecca. In her Hajj diary, she writes:“If I never see Arabia again, always will live the cherished memory of these wonderful days, of Mecca alight with the torch of a living faith...[1] #HajjMubarak](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EeLn1J9WoAQE9Iq.jpg "Lady Zainab (Evelyn) Cobbold was the first European woman on record to enter Mecca. In her Hajj diary, she writes:“If I never see Arabia again, always will live the cherished memory of these wonderful days, of Mecca alight with the torch of a living faith...[1] #HajjMubarak")
“If I never see Arabia again, always will live the cherished memory of these wonderful days, of Mecca alight with the torch of a living faith...
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#HajjMubarak
..Medina and its gardens, its peace, its charm.’
She was born Lady Evelyn Murray in Edinburgh on July 17, 1867. She was the eldest child of the Scottish peer, Charles Adolphus Murray, 7th Earl of Dunmore, and Lady Gertrude Coke, daughter of the 2nd Earl of Leicester.
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She was born Lady Evelyn Murray in Edinburgh on July 17, 1867. She was the eldest child of the Scottish peer, Charles Adolphus Murray, 7th Earl of Dunmore, and Lady Gertrude Coke, daughter of the 2nd Earl of Leicester.
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The seed of Islam was planted in the heart of Lady Zainab in her early travels which later blossomed into a tree of conviction:
‘As a child I spent the winter months in a Moorish villa on a hill outside Algiers… my delight was to escape my governess and visit the Mosques..
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‘As a child I spent the winter months in a Moorish villa on a hill outside Algiers… my delight was to escape my governess and visit the Mosques..
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with my Algerian friends, and unconsciously I was a little Moslem at heart’
She further says:
‘I didn’t know when the truth of Islam dawned of me.’
On Islam and women’s rights, she wrote:
‘The improvement effected in the position of women by the Great Prophet of Arabia..
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She further says:
‘I didn’t know when the truth of Islam dawned of me.’
On Islam and women’s rights, she wrote:
‘The improvement effected in the position of women by the Great Prophet of Arabia..
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has been acknowledged by all unprejudiced writers, and it is false calumny to assert that the Islamic system lowers the status of women and denies them a soul’.
Lady Zainab showed great reverence to the Glorious Qur'an:
‘The simple grandeur of the diction, the variety of...
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Lady Zainab showed great reverence to the Glorious Qur'an:
‘The simple grandeur of the diction, the variety of...
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imageries, the splendour of the word painting differentiates the Koran [sic] from all other scriptures…’
She specified in her will to have the Verse of Light (24:35) inscribed on her grave:
“Allahu nur-us-samawati wal ard” (Allah is the light of the heavens and the earth).
She specified in her will to have the Verse of Light (24:35) inscribed on her grave:
“Allahu nur-us-samawati wal ard” (Allah is the light of the heavens and the earth).