 | Simon Ockley - Caliphs - 1857 - 566 pages
...recites the following passage from Ali : — " God hath given men two Imams, that is to say, two pontifs or mediators between him and them. The first is the prophet who is gone, and is no more among them. The second which remains and shall continue always with them is... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Caliphs - 1870 - 458 pages
...Paraphrase and Commentary upon the Alcoran ' — 'God hath given men two Imams, that is to say, two pontifs or mediators between him and them. The first is the prophet who is gone, and is no more among them ; the second, which remains and shall continue always with them,... | |
 | Simon Ockley - Caliphs - 1875 - 580 pages
...recites the following passage from Ali : — " God hath given men two Imams, that is to say, two pontifs or mediators between him and them. The first is the prophet who is gone, and is no more among them. The second which remains and shall continue always with them is... | |
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... after a particular fashion; but that they also twist their hair after a manner quite different from the rest of the Mussulmans.* Hosain Waez also, in his paraphrase and commentary upon the Koran, recites the following passage from Ali : — " God... 