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Who or what is the Holy Spirit? What is the Holy Spirit doing today? In what directions is the Holy Spirit leading? How is the Holy Spirit to be discerned? These are the kinds of questions that Christians the world over are intrigued by and are asking today. Resolutions to these questions are relatively easier to formulate within the confines of the Church. The questions are oftentimes dismisse...

undoubtedly the holy quran is a unique book in arabic language, eloquently and rhetorically. its words are a pure collection of arabic literature. all poets, jurisprudents and philosophers believe it as a master art. it is a permanent treasure of arabic and for it many sciences have been generated. it kept the arabic language active and dynamic during ups and downs of the history. it also conta...

abstractibn teymiyye, to declare his new subjects and controversial judicial decrees (fatwas), had to change the concept of some terms and define them in a way that using those concepts he could issue his desirable judicial decrees based on his ijtihad. the most important term whose meaning was changed by ibn teymiyye is: salaf (all the earl muslims). according to him the term salaf only includ...

interpretations of the qur'an have always been regarded as the most widespread and diverse ground for expression of religious and epistemological thoughts; that is because the understanding of any interpreter of the blessed verses of the revealed book is normally different from his other counterparts. on the other hand, the study of the qur'an's interpretations and the accurate e...

Broadly speaking, the Holy Quran as the most sublime heavenly message is a book of human life. Since, the Life Creator, the sender of this holy book, is the Creator of human body and mind. Human mental activity starts from about 16 weeks of fetal life with the blow of divine spirit into the fetus. At this point, we observe the beginning of mental and psychological activities and the emergence o...

gnosticism and true knowledge are not limited to any special nation or individual. anyone who is created by god has the ability to understand these holy concepts. thus all men of ::::union::::, although they live far away from each other, have the same beloved and therefore the hidden meaning of their expressions is the same. in our literature, molana's mystical poems cannot be challenged ...

This paper investigates John Dee’s relationship with two kinds of alchemist: the authorities whose works he read, and the contemporary practitioners with whom he exchanged texts and ideas. Both strands coincide in the reception of works attributed to the famous English alchemist, George Ripley (d. c. 1490). Dee’s keen interest in Ripley appears from the number of transcriptions he made of ‘Ripl...