The Faith of IslamTrübner & Company, 1880 - 269 pages |
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... soul . Muhammad sang of none of these . No love - minstrelsy his , not the joys of the world , nor sword , nor camel , nor jealousy , nor human vengeance , not the glories of tribe or ancestor . He preached Islám . " The very fierceness ...
... soul . Muhammad sang of none of these . No love - minstrelsy his , not the joys of the world , nor sword , nor camel , nor jealousy , nor human vengeance , not the glories of tribe or ancestor . He preached Islám . " The very fierceness ...
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... soul of Gabriel when he assumed the bodily form of Dahiah . At times , the angelic nature of Gabriel overcame Muhammad , who was then translated to the world of angels . This always happened when the revelation was one of bad news ...
... soul of Gabriel when he assumed the bodily form of Dahiah . At times , the angelic nature of Gabriel overcame Muhammad , who was then translated to the world of angels . This always happened when the revelation was one of bad news ...
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... souls and the close advent of the millennium . He was a disciple of Mah- múd of Busakhwán , the founder of the Nuqtawiah sect . As this is another offshoot of the Shía'hs I give a brief account of them here . Mahmúd lived in the reign ...
... souls and the close advent of the millennium . He was a disciple of Mah- múd of Busakhwán , the founder of the Nuqtawiah sect . As this is another offshoot of the Shía'hs I give a brief account of them here . Mahmúd lived in the reign ...
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... souls of men differ in degree , but not 1. Nothing shows this more plainly than the Fatvá pronounced by the Council of the ' Ulamá in July 1879 anent Khair - ud - din's proposed reform , which would have placed the Sultán in the ...
... souls of men differ in degree , but not 1. Nothing shows this more plainly than the Fatvá pronounced by the Council of the ' Ulamá in July 1879 anent Khair - ud - din's proposed reform , which would have placed the Sultán in the ...
Page 88
... Soul with the assembled world of spirits , who are parts of it . Each spirit was addressed separately , thus : " Art ... soul , Is faith as vague as all unsweet : Eternal form shall still divide The eternal soul from all beside ; And I ...
... Soul with the assembled world of spirits , who are parts of it . Each spirit was addressed separately , thus : " Art ... soul , Is faith as vague as all unsweet : Eternal form shall still divide The eternal soul from all beside ; And I ...
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Page 88 - That each, who seems a separate whole, Should move his rounds, and fusing all The skirts of self again, should fall Remerging in the general Soul, Is faith as vague as all unsweet: Eternal form shall still divide The eternal soul from all beside; And I shall know him when we meet...
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