Sublime

But it was difficult to see how this regime was in any way Islamic. The caliph and his entourage lived in splendid isolation, which could not have been in more marked contrast to the asceticism of the Prophet and the rashidun.

Israel is also [kadosc], that is “consecrated” to him, which means “exclusively reserved for him,” as we have already explained in the previous chapters when discussing the word “sacred.”

Reading God's Word regularly, and praying habitually in the secret place of the most high puts one where he is absolutely safe from the attacks of the enemy of souls, and guarantees him salvation and final victory, through the overcoming power of the lamb.14Prayer and the House of GodPRAYER stands related to places, times, occasions and circumstanc

Both the Temple and the Tabernacle were elaborate structures, a complex mass of stuff arranged in intricate concentric patterning around a charged emptiness at the center. The Holy of Holies, the sacred space at the center of the sanctuary, was essentially a vacated space, a place no one could ever enter except the high priest, and even he for only

In 1818, the Egyptian khedive, Muhammad Ali (1769–1849), at the behest of the Ottoman Caliph, sent a massive contingent of heavily armed soldiers into the peninsula. The Egyptian army easily overwhelmed the ill-equipped and poorly trained Wahhabis. Mecca and Medina were once again placed under the care of the Sharif and the Wahhabists forcefully se

The fourth, and perhaps the most famous, Pillar is the annual Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. All Muslims must, if possible, journey to Mecca at least once in their lives to…

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