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This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired in the United States and those countries with a copyright term of no more than the life of the author plus 100 years.

The source information: I have scanned the image from the book named "Khan, Dr. Majid Ali (1998). Muhammad The Final Messenger. Islamic Book Service, New Delhi, 110002 (India). ISBN 81-85738-25-4". However the page of this picture was not numbered and hence not part of the book. Because this is a historical document of many centuries old and cannot be copyright to any book. The tag above correctly defines the status of this image. Please read the information given by above fair-use tag. --- Faisal 14:09, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

The B&W version of the image is created by Durin for wikipedia. --- Faisal 18:41, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

It is my opinion that no photographer or publisher could possibly have copyright over this image. The image, ie the writing/calligraphy that constitutes the original is itself ancient. The photograph of the image does not constitute an original work of art. In this case, photography has merely been utilised as a medium to reproduce the image. Because the image is fragile, should not be made subject to exposure from very bright lights and is of itself protected, few photos are available and those that are have been created as records, not as works of art.

If you are going to claim that the photographer holds the copyright, then for every single reproduction of the Mona Lisa, we must also claim that someone photographed it, in order that it might be reproduced and therefore holds a copyright to a specific reproduction of a painting that is 500 years old. The apply that to every work of art, craft or architecture and every sample of ancient text ever created! This is ridiculous.

--Amandajm 13:05, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

What is evidence that this letter is real? Looks like a forgery to me. Also wasnt Muhammad supposed to be illiterate, whats he doing writing letters?Opiner 20:12, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Can not he dictate to someone? Why it is difficult to imagine that for you? Also it is not a talk page. So post on the talk page. Also he had written many more letters too see Muhammad_as_a_diplomat --- ابراهيم 22:17, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Please see the talk page. —Bkell (talk) 21:28, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

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current	18:22, 11 August 2006	1,276×722 (500 KB)	ALM scientist (Talk \| contribs)	(To remove any copyright problem, I am replacing the image with its black and white version. I want to acknowledge Durin for creating this B&W image. --- ~~~~ )
	23:53, 10 August 2006	1,373×839 (636 KB)	ALM scientist (Talk \| contribs)