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MYTHOLOGY Such is the nature of the soul according to Islam; and it is a source of real pleasure to me to find animal life placed on the same level as the human in the Qur'an.
* There is no kind of beast on earth, nor fowl which flieth - with its wings, but the same is a people like uoto you ;
we have not omitted anything in the book of our dec.
roes : then unto their Lord shall they returu " (chap, vi), It is also very refreshing to find in the Qur'an such passages as acknowledge prior revelation of truth amongst other uations and countries. As a matter of fact, it is a part of the teaching of Islam that men were professors of one religion only at first; afterwards they dissented, (Al Koran by Sale, p. 151).
As for reincarnation, the Muslim idea of predestin nation, which bas brought upon Islam the stigma of fatalism, itself suffices to prove the theory of transmigration, if investigated philosophically, " Taqdir, or the absolute decree of good and evil,” says
T. P. Hughes in ' A Dictionary of Islam,' " is the sixth article of the Mahomedan creed, and the orthodox believe. that whatever has, or shall come to pass in this world, whether it be good or bad, proceeds entirely from the Divine will, and has been irrevocably fixed and recorded
on a preserved tablet by the pen of fate." This preserved tablet is the Perspicuouis Book, the Book of God's decrees, called lauk.i.mahfuz (bogenowe zoud in Arabic, and is said to contain all that has happened in the past and all that is to happen in the future. - Nor is anything added unto the age of him whose life is
prolonged, neither is anything diminished from his age,
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