The Faith of IslamTrübner, 1880 - 269 pages |
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... translated unless there is the most urgent necessity, and even then the Arabic text is printed with the translation. It is said that God chose the sacred month of Eamazan in which to give all the revelations which in the form of books ...
... translated unless there is the most urgent necessity, and even then the Arabic text is printed with the translation. It is said that God chose the sacred month of Eamazan in which to give all the revelations which in the form of books ...
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... translated unless there is the most urgent necessity , and even then the Arabic text is printed with the translation . It is said that God chose the sacred month of Ramazán in which to give all the revelations which in the form of books ...
... translated unless there is the most urgent necessity , and even then the Arabic text is printed with the translation . It is said that God chose the sacred month of Ramazán in which to give all the revelations which in the form of books ...
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... translated as " one's own judg- ment , " it can have no such meaning now . It is a purely technical term , and its use and only use now is to express the " referring of a difficult case to some analogy drawn from the Qurán and the ...
... translated as " one's own judg- ment , " it can have no such meaning now . It is a purely technical term , and its use and only use now is to express the " referring of a difficult case to some analogy drawn from the Qurán and the ...
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... translated to the world of angels . This always happened when the revelation was one of bad news , such as denunciations or predictions of woe . At other times , when the message brought by Gabriel was one of consolation and comfort ...
... translated to the world of angels . This always happened when the revelation was one of bad news , such as denunciations or predictions of woe . At other times , when the message brought by Gabriel was one of consolation and comfort ...
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... translated " slay " is in Arabic " nahr , " which has many meanings . The followers of the great Legist Abu Hanífa render it , " sacrifice , " and add the words ( the " victims " ) . The followers of Ibn Sháfa'í say it means " placing ...
... translated " slay " is in Arabic " nahr , " which has many meanings . The followers of the great Legist Abu Hanífa render it , " sacrifice , " and add the words ( the " victims " ) . The followers of Ibn Sháfa'í say it means " placing ...
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