The preacher left Long Lartin prison in Worcestershire at around 2020 BST on Tuesday night.
They became the preacher's essential aid in spreading the Christian belief: that Jesus was God incarnate.
Yet for all the admiration he attracts, many details of the preacher's life remain elusive.
There is Dylan the prophet, the enigma, the innovator, the restless lover, the preacher and the outlaw.
"It's beautiful, but it's not the real thing, " said the preacher, Mhlanubanzi Mjadu.
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But the new measures will not affect existing tenants, like the preacher's wife.
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The preacher stood on a humble, foot-high dais, to show that he did not believe he was better than them.
Mr Justice Mitting's comments came as the preacher began what may be the last appeal in his seven-year legal battle.
The preacher seemed to know all of his secret sins, Hunter says.
They listened as the preacher laid down a list of sins so complete it left a person no place to go but down.
Mrs May had argued she had obtained fresh assurances that would guarantee the fair treatment of the preacher on his return to Amman.
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The preacher's wife comes from Olympia Fields, where Mr Kelly lives, and insisted her religious beliefs would not affect her time as a juror.
But the failure to convince Siac meant the preacher could not be held in prison any longer and had to be released on bail.
The government sought fresh assurances from Jordan on the type of trial that the preacher would face - but those were rejected by Siac.
But the preacher challenged that decision and eventually won, arguing that he had been left stateless because he had long ceased to be Egyptian.
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The preacher, who is in his early 50s, had been living on bail with his family in London since winning the latest stage of his battle against deportation.
In January, the European Court of Human Rights ruled the preacher could not be deported until Jordan gave an assurance that torture tainted evidence would not feature at his trial.
Earlier this week, Mr Justice Mitting told the UK's Special Immigration Appeals Commission the preacher should be freed within days because his deportation had been blocked by the European Court.
The BBC understands that Abu Hamza's application will focus on the state of his mental health - but the preacher is is also asking judges for his confiscated passport to be returned.
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Tempers flared as the preacher's supporters shouted "Pharoah!"
Once Mrs May thought she had a deal with Jordan guaranteeing a fair trial for the preacher, she had to present it to Siac to see if deportation could now be approved, in line with Strasbourg's conditions.
Mr. MYERS: In "Hellfire, " Nick Tosches' biography of Jerry Lee, Nick recounts the scene where young Lewis was playing a Pentecostal hymn at a chapel service, and the preacher shot him a glance of reproach for he was playing it boogie-woogie style.
More than 200 years ago, when the planet was inhabited by less than one-sixth the population it supports today, the pessimistic preacher posited the idea that Earth's big problem was too many people, that overpopulation made prosperity impossible.
Yet it comes as a surprise that Yusuf Qaradawi, the star preacher on the popular al-Jazeera satellite channel, who is a widely respected moderate on most issues, should find himself at the heart of a far bigger storm.
The chapel once hosted the famous preacher Evan Roberts, leader of the Welsh religious revival of 1904-05.
When, in March 1928, the charismatic preacher Hassan al-Banna founded the Moslem Brotherhood in Egypt, it was a flop.
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That's from the famous " booze sermon" of Billy Sunday, the great popular preacher of the 1910s and 1920s.
Raniero Cantalamessa, who holds the post of preacher to the papal household, delivered a Good Friday sermon in which he celebrated the holiness of Jesus and the Christian faith.
One leader who has recently come into the fold is the Shia preacher, Muqtada al-Sadr.
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