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Page xi
... other races and creeds , though , theologi- cally speaking , the Imán and the Dín , the faith and the practice , are unchanged , and remain as I have described them in chapters four and five . If Islám Introduction . xi.
... other races and creeds , though , theologi- cally speaking , the Imán and the Dín , the faith and the practice , are unchanged , and remain as I have described them in chapters four and five . If Islám Introduction . xi.
Page xii
... speaking generally , a tendency to inertness . It is thus that in Bengal , Madras and perhaps in other places , they have fallen far behind the Hindus in educational status , and in the number of appointments they hold in the Government ...
... speaking generally , a tendency to inertness . It is thus that in Bengal , Madras and perhaps in other places , they have fallen far behind the Hindus in educational status , and in the number of appointments they hold in the Government ...
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... speak , telling how from minutest beginnings man had been called into existence , and lifted up by understanding and knowledge of the Lord , who is most beneficent , and who by the pen had revealed that which man did not know , Muhammad ...
... speak , telling how from minutest beginnings man had been called into existence , and lifted up by understanding and knowledge of the Lord , who is most beneficent , and who by the pen had revealed that which man did not know , Muhammad ...
Page 9
... speaking of the Prophet to say : - " His character is the Qurán . " When people curious to know details of the life of their beloved master asked one of his widows , about him , she used to reply : - " Thou hast the Qurán , art thou not ...
... speaking of the Prophet to say : - " His character is the Qurán . " When people curious to know details of the life of their beloved master asked one of his widows , about him , she used to reply : - " Thou hast the Qurán , art thou not ...
Page 33
... speak with great respect of the elder . Thus Sháfa'í said : - No one in the world was so well versed in jurisprudence as Abu Hanifa was , and he who has read neither his works , nor those of his disciples knows nothing of juris ...
... speak with great respect of the elder . Thus Sháfa'í said : - No one in the world was so well versed in jurisprudence as Abu Hanifa was , and he who has read neither his works , nor those of his disciples knows nothing of juris ...
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