The Faith of IslamTrübner & Company, 1880 - 269 pages |
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... references to the revelation of the Qurán are : - " Verily from the Lord of the worlds hath this book come down ; the Faithful Spirit ( Rúh - ul - Ámín ) hath come down with it " ( Súra xxvi . 192. ) " The Qurán is no other than a ...
... references to the revelation of the Qurán are : - " Verily from the Lord of the worlds hath this book come down ; the Faithful Spirit ( Rúh - ul - Ámín ) hath come down with it " ( Súra xxvi . 192. ) " The Qurán is no other than a ...
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... reference to the men I have men- tioned , be somewhat freely 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 ...
... reference to the men I have men- tioned , be somewhat freely 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 ...
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... references to historical events sometimes give a clue . Individual Súras are often very composite in their character , but , such as they are , they have been from the beginning . The recension made by Zeid , in the reign of the Khalíf ...
... references to historical events sometimes give a clue . Individual Súras are often very composite in their character , but , such as they are , they have been from the beginning . The recension made by Zeid , in the reign of the Khalíf ...
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... reference to the tables of the Law given to Moses . " If God did this for former prophets and their works , how much more , it is argued , should he not have done it for the last and greatest of the prophets , and the noble Quran ? It ...
... reference to the tables of the Law given to Moses . " If God did this for former prophets and their works , how much more , it is argued , should he not have done it for the last and greatest of the prophets , and the noble Quran ? It ...
Page 105
... reference to the quotations given , it will be known that my authority for the statements thus made is Muhammad Ismá'íl , the most famous of all Sayyid Ahmad's disciples . This book was followed by the Sirát- ul - Mustaqím , said to ...
... reference to the quotations given , it will be known that my authority for the statements thus made is Muhammad Ismá'íl , the most famous of all Sayyid Ahmad's disciples . This book was followed by the Sirát- ul - Mustaqím , said to ...
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