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  • Then he draped the body in the traditional seven white linen shrouds, called the _kafan_.

    The Autobiography of Malcolm X X, Malcolm, 1925-1965 1964

  • Taleban nahi, school chayain (No to Taleban, we want schools), Humein kafan nahi, aman chayain

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  • Taleban nahi, school chayain (No to Taleban, we want schools), Humein kafan nahi, aman chayain

    WN.com - Photown News 2010

  • Taleban nahi, school chayain (No to Taleban, we want schools), Humein kafan nahi, aman chayain

    WN.com - Photown News 2010

  • The slogans such as Pakistan Zindabad (Long live Pakistan), Hamein bombs nahi, rotee chayain (We dont want bombs, we want food), Taleban nahi, school chayain (No to Taleban, we want schools), Humein kafan nahi, aman chayain (No death-shroud, we want peace) being shouted on loud-speakers; the outspoken anti-terrorism and anti-war sentiment; the people marching are becoming a daily phenomenon in the country.

    WN.com - Photown News 2010

  • The slogans such as Pakistan Zindabad (Long live Pakistan), Hamein bombs nahi, rotee chayain (We dont want bombs, we want food), Taleban nahi, school chayain (No to Taleban, we want schools), Humein kafan nahi, aman chayain (No death-shroud, we want peace) being shouted on loud-speakers; the outspoken anti-terrorism and anti-war sentiment; the people marching are becoming a daily phenomenon in the country.

    WN.com - Photown News 2010

  • The slogans such as Pakistan Zindabad (Long live Pakistan), Hamein bombs nahi, rotee chayain (We dont want bombs, we want food), Taleban nahi, school chayain (No to Taleban, we want schools), Humein kafan nahi, aman chayain (No death-shroud, we want peace) being shouted on loud-speakers; the outspoken anti-terrorism and anti-war sentiment; the people marching are becoming a daily phenomenon in the country.

    WN.com - Photown News 2010

  • The cloth of 'Ihram is, therefore, the anti-thesis to that "individualism"; it is the kafan (or burial shroud).

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  • Then he tells Muhammad bin Ibrahim to convey his salams to Shutayta and gives him a bag of 40 dirhams for her as well as a piece of cloth among the pieces of clothes of his kafan which his noble sister Halima bint Imam al-Sadiq ‘A had spun.

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  • Then he tells Muhammad bin Ibrahim to convey his salams to Shutayta and gives him a bag of 40 dirhams for her as well as a piece of cloth among the pieces of clothes of his kafan which his noble sister Halima bint Imam al-Sadiq ‘A had spun.

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