Zamilooni or "Cover Me!"

The First Revelations
Taken from “Muhammad” , By Martin Lings.

It was not long after this outward sign of his authority and his mission (the incident of the placing of the Black Stone in the Ka’bah) that he began to experience powerful inwards signs., in addition to those of which he had already been conscious. When asked about these, he spoke of “true visions” which came to his during his sleep and he said that they were “like the breaking of the light of the dawn”.

The immediate result was that solitude became dear to him, and he would go for spiritual retreats to a cave in Mount Hira, a cave not far from the outskirts of Mecca.
(.....) In accordance with this age-old practice, Muhammad would take with him provisions and consecrate a certain amount of nights to the worship of God.

(...)During these few years it would often happen that after he had left the town and was approaching his hermitage he would hear clearly the words “Peace be upon thee, Oh Messenger if God”, and he would turn and look for the speaker, but no one was in sight, and it was is the words had come from a tree or a stone.

Ramadan was the traditional month of retreat, and it was one night towards the end of the of Ramadan, in his fortieth year, when he was alone in the cave, that there came to him an Angel, in the form of a man. The Angel said to him: “Recite!” and he said: “I am not a reciter!”, whereupon, as he himself told it: “the Angel took me and whelmed me in his embrace until he had reached the limit of my endurance. Then he released me and said: “Recite!” I said “I am not a reciter!”, and again he took me and whelmed me in his embrace, and again when he had reached the limit of my endurance, he released me and said: “Recite!”, and again I said “I am not a reciter!” then a third time he whelmed me as before, then reeleased me and said:

Recite in the name of your Lord who created!
Created man from a clot of Blood.
Recite, and your Lord is the Most Bountiful,
He who has taught by the pen,
Taught man what he knew not.

He recited these words after the Angel, who thereupon left him. (...) He feared that this may mean he had become a jinn-inspired poet, or a man possessed.
So he fled from the cave, and when he was half way down the slope of the mountain, he heard a voice above him saying:

“Oh Muhammad, You are the Messenger of God! And I am Gabriel!”

He raised his eyes heavenwards, and there was his visitant, still recognisable but clearly an Angel, filling the whole horizon, and again he said:

“Oh Muhammad, You are the Messenger of God! And I am Gabriel!”

The prophet stood gazing at the Angel, then he turned away from him, but whichever way he looked the Angel was always there, astride the horizon, whether it was to the north, to the south, to the east or to the west. Finally the Angel turned away , and the prophet descended the slope and went to his house.

“Cover me! (Zamilooni) Cover me! (Dathirooni) ” he said to Khadija as with still quaking heart he laid himself on his couch.

Alarmed, yet daring not to question him, she quickly brought a cloak and spread it over him...