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Posted at Feb 20/2009 12:21AM:
Akram: The Christian king of Abyssinia, a kingdom located in present-day Ethiopia.
After the Quraysh began to persecute the Muslim converts in Mecca, many muslims fled to Abyssinia to seek protection and to live in peace.
They were offered protection by Negus even after the Quraysh came to "reclaim" their kinsmen.
I believe it is important to understand that Negus found the muslim converts to be more like his people, in that they believed in one God, and unlike their "kinsmen" who had not yet began to believe in God.
Negus later converts to Islam, becoming a follower of Prophet Muhammad.