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Unknown: This is tape seven of a series of cassettes recorded on the facing apocalypse conference held at Sally Regina college Newport, Rhode Island, June 10 11th, and 12th 1983. The following speaker as recorded in O'Hare academic center on Sunday

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afternoon June 12 1983 is Professor Norman Oh brown PhD, Professor of humanities at Carmel College, University of California at Santa Cruz. His lecture is titled The Apocalypse of Islam and will be preceded by a rating from soda 18 of the

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Holy Koran, Norman old Brown. I'd like to try to begin by making a bridge between my topic and even specifically Surah 18 of the Holy Quran.

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And this environment, this Roman Catholic college Salvy Regina, the link or the bridge is the name I have on the board. Louis masino. A name to little known in America. Perhaps one of the

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great Catholic intellectual, Roman Catholic intellectual saints of the 20th century. I did not know that I would be here or what to do till our organizer, Robbie horseneck, in a letter to me, and I quote, said Louis masino in 1947, in an

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era nos article, called the age after 1945, the eschatological age so that Louis massino connects with the Aronoff club to witches has a nucleus of membership and our presence here. And please allow me to say a few more words about him. His

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major work is, is called the passion of in French of owl how large the great Sufi mater of the ninth century, a tea I think. And the book has not been as in process of being translated by

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the Bovington Foundation, I believe. And those of you who have influenced with the Boland Foundation, might try to hurry up that publication. They are very slow and it's very important, very important. There are some works of his from the

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aeronauts I think in translation, but not very much. I wish I could spend the time on I just read and didn't bring with me, a tribute translated a tribute to him by a Franciscan. A brother Franciscan. He became a lay member of the Franciscan

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Order. And an Italian Franciscan from name like Bassano Sahni, I think did a tribute in the life of his of which

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I suspect is not in South a Regina library, and ought to be I would love to be refuted on that by information. Brother Louis masini made his life work to to be an ecumenical

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spirit, reestablishing the connection between the three great branches have what he was the first in the west to proceed as the Abraham make or Abrahamic religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

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He had our secular origin like many of us and he describes this Conversion experience in an Iraqi jail from which he was rescued by his Muslim friends, performing the obligation of succoth one of the

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pillars of Islam hospitality friendship, and who did not want him to die and infertile. They saved him from death in prison. And he remembers his first prayer was an Arabic. He, St. Francis meant something special to him, because of and I want to

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find out more about this because of St. Francis, expedition, Crusade, expedition single, armed crusade or non violent crusade to Egypt. We're here to find some alternative to the bloody crusades at a time. Saint Francis went to Egypt and

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challenged the caylus to some ordeal by fire. The Kayla's declined. This Louis masino thought was a duplicate of that episode which is in the life of Muhammad in the traditional life of

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Muhammad. Muhammad at Medina in the second phase of his life had confrontation sharp confrontations with Judaism and Christianity. And he challenged Christians to an ordeal by fire, which they declined. And so for Louis masino, the game between

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those is tied as unresolved game is tied. Louis masino was also I I heard a voice this morning saying the Middle East pay some attention to the Middle East. Louis na

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senior was tireless in his desperate explorations for the true foundations of peace in Jerusalem, above all things, the sacred city of all three religions and over the whole area and tireless in his protests against the way Western

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civilization has treated Muslim civilizations throughout the Mediterranean. And he was also a a friend and has written powerful tributes to Gundy

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which saw that politics and theology were always and the relation between politics and theology were always in the center of his mind. And finally, although I speak as a Protestant now, to

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whom the culture the Virgin Mary is strange, but not so blind, a Protestant as that I cannot recognize some the effort to express values that way that you're very hard to express any other way. And the chain of peace stopped in front of the

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Virgin statue outside Salva, Regina. It is certain that Louis massino would like to be remembered at a place called Salvy, Regina. He was a profoundly Marian soul. And

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what I have to say, would be absolutely impossible without his work, specifically on Surah 18. You all have copies of Surah 18. Well, I'm not quite going to go straight into it. I now read my text going into Surah 18. We

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can read the Bhagavad Gita in translation, and Confucius, we cannot read the Quran. Carlyle Carlisle has perfectly articulated the response of every honest Englishman. I must say, it is as toilsome reading as Ever I undertook wearisome

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confused, Jumbo crude in conduit, endless iterations, long winded pneus entanglement most crude in conduit, insupportable stupidity ensure nothing but a sense of duty could carry any European through the Quran. With every allowance

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one feels it is difficult to see how any mortal ever could consider this Quran as a book written in heaven to good for the earth as a well written book, or indeed as a book at all.

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Louis masino co called Surah 18, the apocalypse of Islam. The solemn recitation of Surah 18. Every Friday is all that Islam has in the way of a weekly liturgy corresponding to the Christian Eucharist. In Islam, the body is the book. And the

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part that represents the whole is Surah 80. In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. praise be to Allah who has revealed the scripture onto his slave, and

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have not placed there in any crookedness but have made it straight, to give warning of stern punishment from him, and to bring unto the believers who do good works, the news that there's will be a fair reward, wherein they will abide forever.

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And to warn those who say, Allah has chosen a son, a thing of they have no knowledge, nor had their fathers. dreadful is the word that comes out of their mouths, they speak not for a lie. Yet it may be if they believe not in the statement

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that thou wilt torment I so with grief over their footsteps. Though we have placed all that is in the earth as an owner of that we may try them, which of them is best in conduct, and low, we shall make all that is there in a barren mound, or

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deema style that the people of the cave and the inscription are a wonder among our portents. When the young men fled for refuge to the cave and said, Our Lord, give us mercy from the presence and shape for us, right conduct in our plight, then we

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sealed up their hearing in the cave for a number of years. And afterwards, we raised them up that we might know which of the two parties would best calculate the time that they had carried. We narrate unto thee their story with truth, low, they were young

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men who believed in their Lord, and we increase them in guidance. And we made firm their hearts when they stood forth and said, Our Lord is the Lord of the heavens and the earth. We cry on to know God beside him. For Then, should we utter an

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enormity. These are people who have chosen other gods beside him, so they bring no clear warrant about safe to them, and who does greater Rong than he who invented ally concerning Allah. And when you withdraw from them and that which they

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worship except Allah, then seek refuge in the cave, your Lord will spread for you of His mercy and will prepare for you a pillow in your plight. And our might just have seen the sun when it rose, move away from their cave to the right. And

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when it's set, go past them on the left, and they were in the cleft, they're off. That was one of the portance of Allah, he whom Allah guide us he indeed is letter right. And he will be sent us a stray for him that will not find a guiding friend

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and our Woods have deemed them waiting King, though they were asleep, and we cause them to turn over to the right and to the left, and that dog stretched, stretching out his paws on the threshold. If thou hadst observed them closely,

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thou hadst assuredly turned away from them in flight, and has been filled with all of them. And in like manner, we awaken them that they might question one another. A speaker from among them said, How long have you carried, they said, We have

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carried a day or some part of a day. Others said, Your Lord best knows what she has carried. Now send one of you with this your silver coin onto the city, and let him see what food is purest there, and bring you a supply there off, let him be courteous

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and let no man no of you, for they, if they should come to know of you, will stone you or turn you back to their religion, then he will never prosper. And in like manner, we disclose to them, to the people of the city, that they might know that the

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promise of Allah is true, and that as for the hour, there is no doubt concerning it. When the people of the city disputed of their case among themselves, they said, build over them a building, their Lord knows best concerning them. Those who

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wonder point said, We verily shall build a place of worship over them. Some will say they were three their dogs a fourth, and some say five, that dog the sixth guessing at random, and some say seven and dog the eight. say, oh, Muhammad, my

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lord is best aware of their number. None no FM save a few. So content, not concerning them except with an outward contending and ask not any of them to pronounce concerning them, and say not have anything low. I shall do that tomorrow.

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Except if Allah will. And remember thy Lord when thou forget us and say, it may be that my lord guided me on to a neuro way of truth than this. And it is said they tear it in their cave, 300 years and at nine. Say, Allah is best aware

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how long they carried, his his the invisible of the heavens and the earth. How clear of sight is he and keen of hearing? They have no protecting friend beside him. And he makes us non to share in his government and recite that which has been

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revealed unto thee of the Scripture of the Lord. There is none who can change his words, and that will find no refuge beside him. restrain myself along with those who cry unto their Lord that morning and evening seeking His countenance

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and let not thine eyes overlook them, desiring the pomp of the life of the world, and obey not him whose heart We have made heedless of our remembrance, who follow us his own lust, and whose case has been abandoned. Say, it is the truth from their

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law from the Lord Have you all, then whosoever will let him believe and whosoever will let him disbelieve low we have prepared for disbelievers fire, it's tent enclose a thin, if they ask for showers, they will be showered with water like to

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molten lead which burns the faces, calamitous the drink, and Ill the resting place. Low as for those who believe and do good works low, we suffer not the reward of one whose work is got goodly to be lost. As for such this will be gardens have

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eaten for in reverse flow beneath in that in they will be given omelets of gold and will wear green robes of finest silk and gold embroidery, reclining upon throne fair in Leicester award and fair the resting place

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coin for them a similitude to men and to one of whom we had assigned to gardens of grapes. And we had surrounded both with date palms and had put between them tillage. Each of the gardens gave its fruit and we've held not there off and we caused

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a river to gush for seven and he had fruit and he said unto his Congress When he spoke with him, I am more than the in wealth and stronger in respect of men. And he went into his garden. While he does run himself. He said, I think not that all this will

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ever perish, I think not that the hour will ever come. And if indeed I am brought back on to my Lord, I surely shall find better than this as a resort, and his comrades while he disputed with him, explain, exclaimed disbeliever style in

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Him, who created the out of dust, then have a drop of seed and then fashion the into a man, but he is Allah, my Lord, and I ascribe unto my Lord, no partner, if only when now entrust I garden thou had said, that which Allah will, Earth

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will come to pass, there is no strength, saving our those are csvs less than the in wealth and children. That it may be that my Lord will give me better than die garden, and we'll send on it about from heaven, and some morning it will be a smooth

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hillside, or some morning the water there will be lost in the earth, so that that can not make search for it. And his fruit was a sec with destruction. Then he began to wring his hands for all that he had spent upon it, when now it was all ruined on its

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trellises, and to say, what that I had ascribed no partner to my Lord. And he had no troupe of men to help him again as against Allah, nor could he save himself, in this case, is protection only from Allah the true, he is best for reward and

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best for consequence. And coin for them the civility of the life of the world as water which we send down from the sky, and the vegetation of the earth mingling with it, and then become as dry twigs that the wind scatter. Allah is Able to

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do all things. wealth, and children are an ornament of life in the world. But the good deeds which endure are better in our Lord sight for reward, and better in respect of hope. And the CQ of the day, when we remove the hills, and you see

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the earth emerging, and we gather them together, so as to leave not one of them behind. And they are set before the Lord in ranks, and it is said unto them, now, verily, have you come on to us as we created you at the first but g thought that we

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had set no trust for you. And the book is placed and thou sees the guilty fearful of that which is there in and they say, what kind of a book is this that leave us not a small thing, not a great thing, but have countered it, and they will find

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all that they did, confronting them, and I lowered wrongness no one. And remember when we said unto the angels for prostrate before Adam, and they fell prostrate all save a belief. He was of the

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jinn. So he rebelled against his Lord's command, will you choose him and his seed for your protecting friends instead of me, when they are an enemy unto you? calamitous is the exchange for evil doers. I made them not to witness the creation of the

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heavens and the earth, nor their own creation, nor choose I miss leaders for my helpers. And be mindful of the day when he will say, call those partners of mine whom he pretended, then they will cry on to them, but they will not hear that prayer, and

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we shall still set a gulf of doom between them. And the guilty behold the fire and knows that they are about to fall they're in and they find no way of escape dens and vetterli we have displayed for mankind in this Quran all manner of

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similitudes. But man is more than anything contentious, and not hindering mankind from believing when the guidance comes on to them, and from asking forgiveness of their Lord, unless it be that they wish that the judgment of men of

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old should come upon them, or that they should be confronted with the doom. We send not the messenger Save as bearers of good news and Warner's, those who disbelieve, contend with false suit in order to refute the truth thereby, and they take

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our revelations and that for which they are threatened as a jest. And who does greater wrong than he who has been reminded of the revelations of his Lord, yet turn us away from them and forget us what is hand sent forward to the judgment Low on

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their hearts we have placed covering so that they understand not. And in the ears a deafness, those are calling for guidance in that case they can never be led a write. Dialogue is the forgiver, full of mercy. If he took them to task now for what

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they earn, he would hastin on the doom for them, but theirs is an appointed term from which they will find no escape. And all those townships, we destroyed them when they did wrong, and we appointed a fixed time for their destruction. And

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when Moses said unto His servant, I will not give up until I reached the point where the two rivers meet. So I marched on for ages. And when they reached the point where the two meet, they forgot their fish, and it took its way into

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the waters being free. And when they had gone further, he said on to his servant, bring us our breakfast. Surely we have found fatigue in this our journey. He said, Did sow see when we took refuge on the rock, and I forgot the fish, and none but Satan

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caused me to forget to mention it. It took its way up into the waters by a marvel. He said, this is that which we have been seeking. So they retrace their steps again, then found a one of our slaves on tomb we had given Mercy from Us, and had taught

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him knowledge from our presence. Moses said unto him, May I follow thee to the end, that thou May as Teach me right conduct of that which thou has been taught? He said, lo, thou canst not bear with me. How can start bear with that wear off

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our cans not compass, any knowledge? He said, Allah willing, thou shall find me patient, and I shall not in order to gain saving. He said, Well, they still go with me, asked me not concerning ought to I myself mentioned of it onto

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the so the twain set out to when they were in the ship, he made a hole there in Moses said, has made a hole there into drown the folks are off, though verily has done a dreadful thing. He said, Did I not tell the doc could not bear with me?

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Moses said, Be not Ross with me that I forgot, and be not hard upon me for my fault. So the twain journeyed on till they met a lad, he slew him. Moses said, What Hast thou slain innocence? So who has slain no man? Verily thou has done a horrid thing. He

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said, Did I not tell these at all, could not bear with me. Moses said, If I asked the after this concerning or keep not company with me, now has received an excuse for me. So they Twain journeyed on, to when they came on to the folk of a

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certain Township, they asked its folk for food, but they refuse to make some guests. And they found there in a wall upon the point of falling into ruin, and he repaired it. Moses said, If thou had which now could have taken payment for it. He said,

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this is the parting between the and me, I will announce unto thee the interpretation of that thou quince could not bear with patience. As for the ship, it belonged to poor people working on the river, and I wished to maarit for there was a king

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behind them, who is taking every ship by force. And as for the lad, his parents were believers, and we feared lest he should oppress them by rebellion and disbelief. And we intended that their Lord should change him, for them for one better in

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purity, and nearer to mercy. As for the wall, it belonged to orphan boys in the city. And there was beneath it, a treasure belonging to them and their father had been righteous. And I Lord intended that they should come to their full strength, and

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should bring forth their treasure as a mercy from their Lord. And I did it not upon my own command, such as the interpretation of that with valve could not bear they will ask the have dual choir name. Say, I shall recite unto you a

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remembrance of him. Lo, we made him strong in the land and gave him onto gave him onto everything a road. And he followed a road to when he reached the setting place of the sun, he found that setting in a muddy spring and found the

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people there about we said, Oh, do car name, either punish or show them kindness. He said, as for him who do us wrong, we should punish him. And then he will be brought back on to his Lord who will punish him with awful punishment, but as for

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him, who believe us and to us, right goodwill, goodwill be his reward, and we shall speak unto him a mile command, then he followed a road to earth when he reached the rising place of the sun, he founded rising on the people, for whom we had

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appointed no shelter there from so it was, and we knew all concerning him. Then he followed a road till when he came between two mountains, he found upon the

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other side of folk that's that's scarce could understand a saying. They said, Oh, do car name, low gogue and make our our spoiling the land. So may we pay the tribute on condition that are set a barrier between us and then he said, that for in my

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lord has established me is better than your tribute. Do but help me with strength of men and I will set between you and then a bank, give me pieces of iron, till when he had leveled up the gap between the cliffs he said, blow, till when he had made it a

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fire he said, Bring me molten copper to pour their own and Gargan May God were not able to surmount nor could they pierce it. He said, this is a mercy from my Lord. But when the promise of my Lord comes to pass, he will lay at low, for

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the promise of my lord is true. And on that day, we shall let some of them search against others on the Trumpet will be blown, then we shall gather them together in one gathering. On that day, we shall present hell to the disbelievers playing to

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view those whose eyes were hoodwinked from my reminder and who could not bear to hear, do the disbelievers reckon that they can choose my bondsman as protecting friends beside me, lo, we have prepared hell as a welcome for the disbelievers

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say, shall we inform you Who will be the greatest losers by their works? Those whose effort goes astray in the life of the world, and yet they reckon that they do good work. Those are they who disbelieve in the rest of revelations of their Lord,

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and in the meeting with him. Therefore, their work so vain, and on the Day of Resurrection, we assign no weight to them. That is their reward. Hell, because they disbelieved and made a gesture of our revelations and our messengers,

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low those who believe and do good works. There's other gardens of Paradise for welcome, wherein they will abide with no desire to be removed from thence say, those are see became ink for the words of my Lord. Verily the see would be used up before

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the words of my Lord were exhausted, even though we brought to light they're off to help. Say, I am only a mortal like you, My Lord, inspire us and me that your God is only one God, and to ever hope for the meeting with his Lord, let him

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do righteous work, and make none share of the worship to his Lord. In the Farago of Surah 18, the bewildered Western mind, disturbance and fastens on three mysterious episodes. One cannot

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call them narratives. The sleepers in the K Moses journey Dual carnations, war against God and make are the sleepers in the cave. Those of the caves the name given in the Quran and in later

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Arabic literature to the US, who increased in the Christian oxidant are usually called the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus. According to the legend in the time of the Christian persecution of the Emperor Odysseus to 49 to 51 ad, seven

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Christian use, fled into a cave near Ephesus, and there sank into a miraculous sleep for centuries, woke under the Christian Emperor Theodosius about 437 ad were discovered and then went to sleep forever. The resting place in the grave was

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considered at any rate since the beginning of the sixth century AD as a place of worship. Do a car name do literally the two horned is Alexander the Great as in the Syriac legend of the sixth century AD in which Alexander says to God, I know

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thou has caused horns to grow upon my head, so that I may crush the kingdoms of the world with some in late classical antiquity in between Christ and Mohammed. apocalypse apocalyptic syncretism, Judeo Christian Hellenistic expanding online lay

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down and the biblical book of Daniel and revelations absorbed the figure of Alexander into its sequence of world conquers Gargan Magog or biblical figures of eschatological terror in a CQ Gargan maker represent peoples of the North who are let loose

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against the peaceful land of Israel unwalled and undefended in Revelations. When the thousand years are over, Satan will be let loose from his prison and work come out to seduce donations in the four corners of the earth and to

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muster them for battle. Yay the hosts of God and makeup. Quranic commentary in the spirit of the modern historian Tarn, seas and Alexander a prophet of the unity of mankind, as well as a world conqueror, and thus a prefiguration of Muhammad

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himself. early Christian tradition and Jewish tradition as earliest Josephus identified garden May God with barbarian peoples to the north, locked away behind iron gates of the Caspian Sea by Alexander the Great, but destined to break

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loose at the end of time. The episodes of the sleeper in the cave and duel carnations war palpably allude to pre existing legends, the episode of Moses journey is more complex. The most baffling lay electrical of the three episode and

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centerpiece of the surah introduces a new Moses and Moses who like Gilgamesh, and Alexander is committed to the quest for the fountain of life. I will not give up till I reach the point where the two rivers meet. The new Moses, having

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become a seeker submits to spiritual direction by a mysterious master slave of God. Mysterious Master, who bewilders Moses through a series of Zen like absurd actions, finally justified by His privy knowledge of the secrets of

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predestination. Again, we have to do with pre existent materials, but here he action is positive confusion. In the first place, confusion between Moses and Alexander, not the historical but the mythical Alexander of the Alexander

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romance. A complex literary production completed about 300 years, the third or fourth century of the Christian era, giving volte voice to eschatological dreams close to the heart of late classical antiquity. Alexander goes in

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quest of the fountain of life. By the mirrors chance his cook discovers the fountain he was preparing a dried fish by cleaning it in a fountain. The fish came to life again and swam away. The cook jumps in and gains immortality. He tells

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Alexander the story, but they cannot find the fountain again. A Quran with its creative confusion of Moses and Alexander, and a characteristically abrupt and monumental gesture breaks with Judaic ethnocentrism and read

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projects the prophetic tradition on a new trans cultural universal world historical plain. At the same time by making Moses a seeker on the same plane as the pagan Alexander the Quran defines a limitation in Moses and in the

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halakhic Judaism, of which he is the author. He lacks eternal life. In doing so, the passage mobilizes without naming the powerful contrast latent in Jewish tradition between Moses and Elijah. Elijah, the most popular figure in the legendary

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world of post biblical Judaism, Elijah who did not like Moses die inside of the Promised Land, but who never died being caught up to heaven in a chariot of fire. Elijah the omnipresent comforter spirit present at every Jewish circumcision

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ceremony on every Jewish Passover, Elijah the Harold and helper of the Messiah at the time of the return, Elijah who knows the secret of heaven, and is claimed as the direct source of revelation by Jewish mystics including cabalists. Quran sends

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Moses to Elijah school. It was taught in Elijah school, Jewish mystics say to represent what Moses learned in Elijah school, the Quran has resorted to a folk tale. It's type number 759. And on Thompson types of the folk tale, God's justice vindicated.

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Thompson's paradigm of this type of folk tale of which there are abundant specimens, archetype or folk tale is the Christian story of the angel and the hermit. Very popular, he says, amongst oriental Christians about the middle of the fifth century AD.

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Summary, an angel takes a hermit with him and does many seemingly unjust things. repays hospitality by stealing a cup in hospitality by giving a cup of hospitality by throwing his hosts servant from a bridge, and by killing the hosts son. The

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angel shows the hermit why each of these actions was just just as the Quran transplants Christian, the Christian legend of the Seven Sleepers and the Hellenistic legend of Alexander into a new Quranic context. So it is drawing here on the vast

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ocean of traditional Talmudic midrashic organic wisdom. Conventional Western commentators who are quite sure that there is nothing new in the Quran, assume without hesitation that the folk tale is to be taken literally. And that all is

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going on and the passage is the transmission of conventional a gothic piety. A detailed study of the Jewish and Muslim theodicy justifying God's way to men legends by the Jewish scholar Haim Schwarz, Baum shows that Surah 18 taken literally

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offers nothing new to justify the ways of God to men. What is new is its promotion of a garlic folklore material to the status of Revelation. It's transgression or confusion of the boundary, separating a garda and Torah and the Quran, if one

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may say so knows what it is doing. The Quran with characteristic monumentality reduces the folk tale to its archetypal essence Makes evident its folktale form. The Quran makes evident the folktale form, and thereby alerts the

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intelligence to the problem of interpretation. folk tales like dreams are not to be interpreted literally. And the content of the folk tale the episodes of the ship, the youth, the wall, tells us in the most literal even crude way, three times

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reiterated that there is a distinction between what actually happened, events as seen by the eye of historical materialism. And what is really going on events under the aspect of eternity, as seen by the inward, the clairvoyant eye, the

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second sight. The form and the content of the folk tale obliges us, as it has obliged all subsequent Islamic culture, to make the distinction between literal meaning and something beyond, in Islamic terminology between saathiya and baatein.

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Between outer exoteric and inner esoteric between external, visible patent, and internal invisible lat tent between materialist and spiritual meanings Surah 18 as the apocalypse of Islam, the heart of its message,

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not displaced, not displayed on the surface, is the distinction between surface and substance between Zaheer and bateen. The context in which the folk tale is embedded contains further paradoxical revelations for those who have eyes to see and

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are alert to read between the lines as well as in them. The context obliges us to identify prophecy, the Prophet Moses, with the literal or external view of events, the ship the youth, the wall, and to attribute the deeper view into

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the hidden reality to a mysterious other servant of God, not a prophet, or a prophet of the Elijah type, as opposed to the Moses type. The context also obliges us to associate the materials mysterious other with the water of life, or where the

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two waters meet the water of life in the water of death. Surah 18 thus opens up silently, majestically in the heart of the Quran the question what lies beyond or after the Quran from Mohammed is like Moses, a prophet. Muhammad is the seal of

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prophecy, what comes after prophecy? prophecy is delivered in the form of a book of Scripture. But everything including the book has an exterior, that here and an interior by teen especially the book, according to the Prophet

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himself, of evil Abbas, one of the intimate companions of the Prophet tradition, say that this Companion of the Prophet says, One day while standing on Mount arafat, he, the prophet made an allusion to the verse, Allah it is Who has created the seven

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heavens and of the earth, the light there off. And he turned to the people saying, Oh man, if I were to comment before you this verse, as I heard it commented upon by the prophet himself, you would stone me

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Even my boss says to the people, if I were to comment on that, the way Mohammed common opponent, you would stone me. There is therefore a basic distinction and Islamic terminology between tar wheel

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the symbolic and hermeneutic interpretation of the inner meaning and tough seer. The explanation of the external aspect of the book Surah 80 became In fact, in the subsequent history of Islam, the basis of the elaboration of a

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distinction between prophecy and another transcendent or esoteric kind of wisdom, a kind of wisdom, which in the fullness of time, came to be most notoriously represented by on the one hand, the Sufi Master, the pier, and on the other hand,

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the Shiite imaam. Whereas the cycle of prophecy is over. Muhammad is the seal of prophecy, the cycle of Willa yart continues, which said Jose Nasser, ideals and realities of Islam a good book says wilaya for want of a better term may be

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translated as the cycle of initiation or and sanctity. For want of a better term. The translation has to be in terms of the Western Judeo Christian religious experience. initiation is closer to Shiite notions. Sufi masters, on the other hand,

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are often more like Christian saints. The Shiite mom represents a principle of authoritative guidance in the interpretation of Revelation. The Sufi peer represents a principle of mystic illumination, which supplements

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the legislative or imperative mood of prophecy. The text of Surah 18 leaves us with a riddle, who is the mysterious other one of our slaves on to whom we had given Mercy from Us and had taught him knowledge from our presence?

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Also, he is like alijah He is not exactly alijah. The Quran with a characteristically majestic gesture leaves him unnamed. The Quran leaves us with a riddle. The Quran leaves us with a riddle or an assignment to find him. The

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ellipses ellipses in the Quran, are pregnant with a future. Very soon within the first century, Muslim traditions and commentary on the Quran had given a name to the servant of God who initiate Moses are Cuddyer or a key the green the sacred color of Islam

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or evergreen. taking their cue not from the reminiscence of Elijah, but from the bowl Quranic association of the servant with the fountain of life and the Alexander romance. The name the Evergreen, while naming preserves his unnameable

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on historical or Supra historical, archetypal, or folkloristic essence. In traditional Muslim piety ki Dre like Elijah enjoys eternal life and invisible omnipresence. Like Elijah, he participates in the small rituals of domestic life

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and in the great public liturgies. Every Friday he prays in five different places, Mecca, Medina, Jerusalem, far southeast of Medina and torsina Sinai for the annual fast of Ramadan. He is in Jerusalem for the Hodge the pilgrimage, he is always in

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Mecca. The eternal protector of the community will appear at the return at the head of the armies of Marty Marty, who will fill the earth with justice, even as it is now full of injustice. In Islam, the umbilical cord which connects popular superstition in

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quotation marks so called popular superstition with avant garde esoteric theosophic. Speculation has not been cut and key drop is that chord. The SU fees attribute their illuminations to the inspiration of key Dre and only Coburn's

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book on even Arabi, the mastermind of sophistic see offices Theosophy, that book which has been translated got the title of creative imagination, creative imagination, creative imagination in the Sufism of

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ebinger. Robbie is organized around two questions, who is key drum? And what does it mean to be a disciple of key drum. The roundtable of Moses and key Dre becomes the prototype of all those later mystic voyages and the company of a spiritual

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guide, including when Western civilization becomes strong enough to absorb into its own system, some of the strong medicine of Islam, Dante under the guidance of virtue of Beatrice the post biblical goddess shows the efforts of

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Jewish orthodoxy to reduce Elijah stature and to counter the excessive veneration accorded to him in apocalyptic Jewish sectarianism and Christian apocalyptic Christian circles. It was denied that Elijah had ever gone up to

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heaven. biblical evidence to the contrary notwithstanding. A lie just had that of revealing Divine Names to pious mortals once earned him a severe punishment of 60 lashes of fire. That's from the encyclopedia today occur if you doubt the

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Quran goes the other way. Without impairing the Quran goes the other way without impairing its veneration for Moses as a prophetic figure. It endorses the eschatological longings and mystic revelations associated

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with the figure of Elijah without naming him but the Orthodox Sunni Lama, theologians of Islam regress to the posture of halakhic Judaism. The official theologians of Islam we are told or are and

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always have been averse to the excesses. These excesses of the popular key drew belief, even as the Talmudic rabbis tried to put down the popularity of Elijah who is key Dre? How much does he know? These are questions which

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Neo orthodox Sunni Islam can do without the great Egyptian modernist or Neo fundamentalist Islamic reformer Rashid Rida attacked the Friday Liturgy of Surah 18. As a degenerate innovation bita a departure from the original sooner the hallowed

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practice of primitive Islam. Rashid Rida also condemned as subjective interpretation all top wheel, which claimed to find a hidden sense beyond the literal and restricts Quranic exegesis, to simple literalist commentary Tafseer but the

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controversy between literalism and mysticism in the interpretation of Quran is Aboriginal in Islam and reaches into the split in the core of the prophets followers over the succession to the leadership is leadership. The rejected leader

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Olli is to be identified not simply with the principle of hereditary legitimacy, but also with the assertion of charismatic authority after the

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prophet and in inspired interpretation after the Quran, that is to say Surah 18 is pregnant with the Sunni Shiite split and the whole subsequent history of Islam. The Quran is pregnant with the future. It is only in the light of later

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developments that we can find a riddle. The question who is keyed in Surah 18. This is where my senior has done incredible work and pursuing not only the legend of ki Drew, but also the relation between the Christian legend of the Seven Sleepers and

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the Islamic the cult the relation between the code of the Seven Sleepers and Catholic Christianity and Islam. In Islamic tradition, key drug becomes the key to the surah as

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a whole. He called spirit of key Dre links up with the Seven Sleepers and with dual Corning's wall. kid is the director of the Seven Sleepers their watchdog. Together

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the sleepers and their dog, Kedar form a community of apotropaic or intercessory saints whose virtue saves the city like those 10 just men for who for whose sake the Lord would have at Abraham's

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intercession spared Sodom. They repair breaches in the wall against God and make og that duel Carnegie built. The weekly liturgical recitation of Surah 18 is to invoke the spirit of Kedah and join in the communion of saints in that action of

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repairing that wall. The fight jihad against Gargan make og is an eschatological reality but not in the future. In the Islamic sense of time, we are always in the last days. The interpenetration works both ways.

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Ki Dre is assimilated to the Seven Sleepers. He is an anchorite era my hermit anchorite who has to flee from persecution and lives exempt from death having found the fountain of life concealed in a remote island. The melting or

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merging confusion of key and the Seven Sleepers generates mystical IE non literal interpretations of that sleep of the Seven Sleepers. The literalist Christian and Islamic site the story of the Seven Sleepers as proof of the

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resurrection literally understood as life after death. But seen with the inward eye to be amused alive in a cave, is an image of saintly or ever might withdraw from the world, taking refuge with ALLAH and sleep, the image of that extinction of the

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self. That condition of being lost in God, which characterizes the st. Wiley, as distinct from the Prophet Nabil in the night of unction. The Night of the heavenly ascension, the blessing at night, the night of enshrouding, which is also the

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night of power, the dark night of the soul, which is also the night of Finnegans Wake. The spirit of key Dre is an eschatological as well as mystical. The sleepers awake at the end of time to figure

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together with keyed in the return of the Mardi. History becomes a night or seven nights and everything is there sleep.

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The Seven Sleepers can represent the seven prophets who periodize World History Adam II dress, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus Muhammad. The text explicitly provokes millenarian calculations, which of the two parties would best calculate the

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time that they have carried? It is said that they carried in their cave 300 years and nine, say Allah is best aware how long they carried. It is Shiite exegesis that has made the most elaborate eschatological interpretations of Surah 18. The

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sleepers hidden in the cave are the Quranic authority for this Shiite notion of the guide bar, or occultation of the hidden in mom the hidden among

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all quotation. The there are two branches of Shiites, the 12, verse and seven are in the 12, or Shiites,

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the predominant branch, the tech the branch that is predominant in contemporary Iran in the 12, or Shiites, the quotation becomes the principle on which they base their periodisation of the whole of

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post Koranic history. We are living in the art quotation, which began with the disappearance or sleep of the 12th Imam, hence 12 verse in 874 Christian era 874 and will last

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till his reappearance or reawakening with Samadhi at the end of time, modern times since 874 are divided into the left are divided into the lesser or quotation, which lasted from 874 to 941 Christian era in which the Imam in that first period,

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though invisible, was still in regular touch with visible representatives of his authority. And after that came the greater occultation beginning at 941 Christian era and is still our present condition in which communication

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with the Imam is irregular, rare, unpredictable, unpredictable, and always miraculous. In this vision of history, modernity means the disappearance of authority, authoritative guidance and the interpretation of Scripture. The

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Shiite notion of the hidden imaam is to be understood in analogy with folk tale number d 1960. Point two instis Thompson's index of motifs of World Literature. Baba rasa, King asleep in a mountain will awake one day to sucker his

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people. Thus interpreted the legend of the Seven Sleepers contains a perpetual threat of eschatological outbreak. For example, the Seven Sleepers are the seven imams of the

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smiley Shiites. They're the center's hidden in the cave, which is the womb of Fatima, the daughter of Muhammad, married Ali, and from whom the genealogical legitimacy comes.

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The seven day mom's hidden in the cave, the womb of Fatima and guarded over by their watchdog Ali, the great Shiite insurrection or resurrection on behalf of social justice in the ninth and 10th centuries of the Christian era. At insert

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insurrection, which succeeded in establishing the fatimid Fatima fatimid anti Caliphate in Egypt was commenced in the 309th year of the hagie era, as prophesied in Surah 18 verse 26 mahcine yong Chol Surah 18 the apocalypse of Islam. But Surah

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18 is a resume an epitome of the whole Quran. The Quran is not like the Bible, historical, running from Genesis to apocalypse. The Quran is altogether apocalyptic. The Quran backs off from that linear organization of time, Revelation

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and history which became the backbone of Orthodox Christianity and remains the backbone of Western culture after the death of God. Islam is Holy apocalyptic or s ketologic. And it's s cartel, tautology is not teleology. The moment of

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decision, the hour of judgment is not reached at the end of a line. Nor by a predestined cycle of cosmic recurrence, eschatology can break out at any moment. Quran 1677 to Allah belongs the secrets of heaven and earth and the matter of the

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hour as as the twinkling of an eye or it is nearest still. In fully developed Islamic theology only the moment is real. The world is made up of atomic space time points, among which the only continuity is the utterly inscrutable will of Allah, Who

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creates every atomic point a new at every moment. And the Islamic mosque discards the orientation towards time essential to a Christian Church. The space says Titus burckhardt, in that beautiful monograph on the space in the mosque is as if

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reabsorbed into the ubiquity of the present moment, the ubiquity of the present moment, it does not take an AI in a specific direction. It suggests no tension or antinomy. Between the here below and the beyond, or between Earth and Heaven, it

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possesses all its fullness in every place. The reject the rejection of linearity, involves a rejection of narrative. There is only one decent narrative in the Quran Surah 12, Joseph, a claimed by condescending Western orientalist for once Mohammed

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overcame his temperamental incoherence, they say and manage to do it right. The strict set of the carry G's on this point and on others, the voice of rigorous Islamic consistency, condemned Surah 12 on the ground, that narrative has no

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place in Revelation. The Quran breaks decisively with that alliance between the prophetic tradition and materialistic historicism what actually happened, which set in with the materialistically historical triumph of Christianity. Hence

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the strangely abortive and incoherent character of the pseudo narratives. In Surah 18. Something happened, but this strange revelation manages not to reveal what or why, in fact, the impossibility of history is what actually happened, becomes

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the theme of an abrupt interruption in the narrative of the sleepers. How many were they to Lord only knows. To quote the authority to study of the mystical tradition of Quranic exegesis which I am obviously following. This is a

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quote from my seniors pupil, my seniors Muslim pure. My seniors Muslim pupil, schooled in the Quran. Muslim consciousness is spontaneously an historical and historical. That is to say mythic, this is what New Year says. It takes up events of the

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past in approximately the same way as the apocryphal gospels adapt the gospel narratives. When Muslim consciousness takes up for its own ends and events borrowed from the Bible, or Judeo Christian hagiography, in most cases cannot resist

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effecting a transvaluation by introducing fabulous details, or otherwise transforming the meaning passing from one hand to another and a chain of Muslim transmission. The historical Event evaporates. And all that is less is a vague memory

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submerged in a story which has become mythic. The use of the term mythic with its Hellenic origins and overtones. I quit question. I would prefer folklore ristic. At any rate, apocryphal, not obsessed with the question what really

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happened, willing to surrender to the fiction that is more real. Gibbon are ironist and skeptic and anti christian Gibbon delighted in the irony that the immaculate conception of the Virgin the dogma of 1854 is first offered as a salvific.

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image in the Quran. The immaculate conception of the Virgin is first offered as a saving image in the Quran, surah three, verse 35, and six. The Quran, with its angels and chins, is pregnant also with the

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Arabian Nights. In Surah 18 in the Quran, there is a mysterious regression to a more primitive straiten archetypal, folkloristic fabulous, apocryphal, historical material is fragmented into its archetypes archetype of

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constituents, and then subjected to displacement and condensation as in dreams. It is a rebirth of images as in the book of revelations, or Finnegans Wake. In becoming unhistorical, it becomes elliptical. And they forgot their fish, and it took

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its way into the waters being free. The fish appears suddenly from nowhere as in dreams, no causal explanation no narrative coherence the fish becomes a symbolic or the archetype of fish the same one you see on the bumper stickers, or in the

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medieval Jingo, crystals, assess crystals passes. Rhine, fish eaten, Christ suffered Christ's suffering.

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And Moses and Elijah meet Moses and Alexander merge or in the words of Finnegans Wake and I going to quote it without acknowledgement at interval from now on. Rhea Malaga merge, re

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amalgam merge. Not on the plane of materialistic historicism what actually happened, but in the world of archetypal image, that world in which Moses and Alexander meet, because they are both two horned in Surah 19. Mary giving birth, under a palm

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tree in the desert is also a Gar, the wife of Abraham, and in Surah three, Mary is also Miriam, the sister of Moses. In this condensation Western scholarship of the Quran sees only confusion. Who is who, when everybody is somebody else.

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As in Finnegans Wake, my seniors speaks of transhistorical meta historical telescoping, systematic anachronism. Islam is committed by the Quran to project a meta historical plain on which the

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eternal meaning of historical events is disclosed. It is that plane on which Moses and Elijah are seen conversing with Jesus in Matthew chapter 17. That plane on which Dante's Divine Comedy unfolds. And Blake prophetic books and Finnegans

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Wake history under the aspect of eternity There is an apocalyptic or eschatological style. Every surah is an epiphany and a portent a warning playing tokens that happily we may take heed. The apocalyptic side style the

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apocalyptic style is Totem symbol, simultaneous totality, the whole in every part Hudson, the great Quaker

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historian of Islam, Hartson on the Quran, almost every element which goes up to make its message is somehow present in any given passage. Simultaneous totality as in Finnegans Wake, or more

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generally, and what Umberto Eco called the poetics of the open work, what he eco said, we can see in the poetics of the open work, we can see it as an infinite contained within finiteness. The work therefore has infinite aspects because

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each of them at any moment of it contains the totality of the work. Eco is trying to characterize a revolution and the aesthetic sensibility of the West. We are the first generation in the West able to read the Quran, if we are able

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to read Finnegans Wake. In fact Carlisle's reaction to the Quran. A wearisome confused jumble crude and conduct endless iterations long winded, pneus entanglement is exactly our first reaction to Finnegans Wake. The affinity between this

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most recalcitrant of sacred text, and this most avant garde of literary experiments is a sign of our times. And Joyce was fully aware of the connection as is easily shown by Atherton's chapter on the Quran and books of the week. In both the Quran

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and Finnegans Wake, this effect of simultaneous totality involves systematic violations of the classic rules of unity, propriety harmony, bewildering changes of subject, abrupt juxtapositions of incongruities. Surah 18 is a good example. In

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addition to the melones of pseudo narratives, there are two intrusive parables similitudes to remind us of the Day of Judgment, intrusive allusions to the current circumstances of the Prophet, his grief, his lack of children, verse 40, and one

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intrusive pointer on or pi pointer on pious decorum or etiquette of speech. Watch your tongue verses 24 five. As in Finnegans Wake the Quran, rudely insists on indecent conjunctions. The surah on light 24 in the words of Hudson

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contains the most ethereal passage of visionary mysticism, on light juxtapose with what might seem to some of its most sordid, dealing with matters of etiquette, sexual decency, and in particular with accusations of infidelity levied against the

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favorite wife of the Prophet. The whole texture is one of interruption, Joyce's enter eruption collision, Joyce's collide or scape, abrupt collage or brick collage, disconnected ejaculations just yet to remember miscellaneous

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fragments. The widely accepted tradition is that the Quran was collected after the death of the Prophet not only from the hearts of men but also from pieces of parchment or pirates, flat stones, palm leaves, shoulder blades and ribs of animal animos

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pieces of leather and wooden boards. In the words of Finnegans Wake, a bone pebble around skin chips and chapped him, cut them up always leave them to terror cook in the muttering part.

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Hence it does not matter in what order you read the Quran. It is all there all the time and it is supposed to be all there in your mind or at the back of your mind memorized and available for appropriate quotation and collage into your conversation

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or your writing or your action. Hence the beautiful inconsequential reality of the arrangement of the surah from the longest to the shortest. In this respect, the Quran is more avant garde and Finnegans Wake, in which the overall

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organization is entangled in both linear and cyclical patterns which it is trying to transcend. Every surah is an epiphany and important and therefore not beautiful, but sublime. Not beautiful, but sublime. Again, he speaks in

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thunder and in fire. What the funder said dumbfounding wonder struck us as a funder yonder. well all be done. In the Quran, as in Finnegans Wake, there is a destruction of human language to quote say good or saint Nasser. Many people non Muslims who read

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the Quran for the first time are struck by what appears to be a kind of incoherence from the human point of view. It is neither like a mystical text nor a manual of Aristotelian logic, though it contains both mysticism and

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logic, just not just poetry, although it contains most powerful poetry. The text of the Quran reveals human language crushed by the power of the Divine Word. It is as if human language were scattered into 1000 fragments, like a wave

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scattered into drops against the rocks at sea. One field through the shattering effect left upon the language of the Quran, the power of the Divine whence it originated. The Quran displays human language, with all the weakness inherent in it,

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becoming suddenly the recipient of the Divine Word and displaying its frailty. Before a power which is infinitely greater than man can imagine. In Islamic apologetics, the miraculous character of the Quran is self evident in the

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immediate effect of its style. It's it jobs, they have a word for it, literally the rendering incapable or powerless. The overwhelming experience of manifest transcendence, compelling surrender to a New World Vision. The bewilderment

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is part of the message, through the winder of a wonder in a williger is a welter as a wearable of a world is a world how do you start a new civilization in the seventh, or the 20th century in the Christian era? With all that

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history, way like an owl on the brains of the living? out of the rubble of the old, there is no other way. He dumped the whole borrow of rubbish onto soil here. Must Senor speaks of the Farago of folklore fatra folklorist in the Quran. First,

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you trash or junk do as in Finnegans Wake of the Quran, reducing pre existent traditions to rebel. Muslim piety for whom the Quran is the Supra historical Word of God. is troubled by the question of the relation of the Quran to pre

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existent traditions. Western historical systems with its well honed methods of source criticism is only too delighted to lose itself in tracing the Quran to its sources. With the usual nihilistic result. The Quran is reduced to a

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meaningless confusion and meaning is attributed to to the original sources. But in Surah 18 they have been quote, mutilated almost beyond recognition, or

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mechanically combined in a most artificial inclemency manner. Muhammad is seen and pleased This is this area's full of legitimate Western condescension Muhammad is this is a quote a scene making a brave show with borrowed trappings. Muslim piety

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need not be so troubled no Western scholarship so complacent and condescending Surah 18 with its imperious restructuring of Christian, Hellenistic and Judaic traditions is not troubled. It is a prototypical model of

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Islamic syncretism. The Quran is not an operation of high cultural continuity, that translate to translation of the legacy of Greece and Rome or Jerusalem, or the appropriation of the jewels of Egypt as we make our Exodus as an

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Augustine's City of God. It is not like Augustine City of God. It's starting something new. To start a new civilization is not

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to introduce some new refinement in higher culture, but to change the imagination of the masses. The folk who shape and are shaped by folklore and folk tales. prophecy is an operation in what Vico called vulgar metaphysics. The Islamic

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imagination my senior has written should be seen as the product of a desperate, desperate regression, back to the primitive, the eternal pagan substrate of all religions. That proteoforms cube house the Kaaba, as well as to a

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primitive, pre mosaic monotheism of Abraham. The dome is built on the rock. Islam stays with the dream life of the masses, the eschatological imagination of the lonely and depressed

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the dream life of the masses discarded by the elite to the enlightenment of superstition. The stone which the builders rejected, becomes in the 20th century, the golden bow for the return to the archetypal unconscious, called semper

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cordeaux. Big quick Audubon knows what, always whatever we're by all or in Finnegans Wake, here comes everybody. Sora 18 under Quran as a whole like Finnegans Wake, shows us pre existent traditions Jewish Christian Hellenistic

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pulverized into condensed atoms or atoms of meaning. The ad Nihal ization of the atem and Finnegans Wake out of this dust

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the world is to be made new. We are one some more as babes of wondering in a world made fresh, were with the hand in the story of who we start from scratch.

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In the words of the poet Akhbar, one of the great poets of the 20th century Indian Islam Muslim, the Quran

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100 new worlds lie within its verses whole centuries are involved in its moments. A believing servant himself is a sign of God, every world to his breast is as a garment. And when one world grows old upon his bosom, the Quran gives him

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another world the Quran is not responsible for The way Islam developed into a closed system. The way the dryly rational spirit of the Sunni Lama turned all the luxury and cosmic imagery of the Quran into common sense probes

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in a tragic view of history taken by the Shiites, things went wrong. things went wrong from the start from the moment the Prophet died.

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The problem is, what comes after the profit. The question is, who is key? And what does it mean to be a disciple of key? The question at the heart of Surah 18. pursuing that question,

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mystic EvenOr Robbie said that he had plunged into an ocean on who shore the prophets remain behind standing