The Faith of IslamTrübner & Company, 1880 - 269 pages |
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... Muhammad - ur- Rasúl - Ulláh , " ( There is no deity but God , and Muhammad is the Apostle of God ) is very short , but the system itself is a very dogmatic one . Such statements as : " The Qurán is an all - embracing and sufficient ...
... Muhammad - ur- Rasúl - Ulláh , " ( There is no deity but God , and Muhammad is the Apostle of God ) is very short , but the system itself is a very dogmatic one . Such statements as : " The Qurán is an all - embracing and sufficient ...
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... Muhammad as occasion required.2 " Verily we have caused it ( the Qurán ) to descend on the night of power . " ( Súra xcvii . 1. ) That night is called the blessed night , the night better than a thousand months , the night when angels ...
... Muhammad as occasion required.2 " Verily we have caused it ( the Qurán ) to descend on the night of power . " ( Súra xcvii . 1. ) That night is called the blessed night , the night better than a thousand months , the night when angels ...
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... Muhammad woke up from his trance and felt as if " a book had been written in his heart . " He was much alarmed . Tradition records that he went hastily to his wife and said— “ O Khadíja ! what has happened to me ! " He lay down and she ...
... Muhammad woke up from his trance and felt as if " a book had been written in his heart . " He was much alarmed . Tradition records that he went hastily to his wife and said— “ O Khadíja ! what has happened to me ! " He lay down and she ...
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... Muhammad the special and most striking feature of the age was the wonderful power of the Arabs in the art of poetry . Muhammad - ud - Damiri says : — " Wisdom hath alighted on three things - the brain of the Franks , the hands of the ...
... Muhammad the special and most striking feature of the age was the wonderful power of the Arabs in the art of poetry . Muhammad - ud - Damiri says : — " Wisdom hath alighted on three things - the brain of the Franks , the hands of the ...
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... Muhammad is said to have convinced a rival , Lebid , a poet - laureate , of the truth of his mission by reciting to him a portion of the now second Súra . " Unquestionably it is one of the very grandest specimens of Koranic or Arabic ...
... Muhammad is said to have convinced a rival , Lebid , a poet - laureate , of the truth of his mission by reciting to him a portion of the now second Súra . " Unquestionably it is one of the very grandest specimens of Koranic or Arabic ...
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