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None of the sarcastic wits are more pointed than the blind mawla Abu
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When the father was not known, they were traced to their mawla.
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"He whose mawla (trustee, helper, lord) I am, 'Ali is his mawla," According to this view, having been attached to the establishment of the Imamate, Imam 'Ali was granted the authority to interpret the Holy Qur'an and to initiate change in society in accordance with these principles adapted to the context of the time.
Ismaili Mail 2008
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"He whose mawla (trustee, helper, lord) I am, 'Ali is his mawla," According to this view, having been attached to the establishment of the Imamate, Imam 'Ali was granted the authority to interpret the Holy Qur'an and to initiate change in society in accordance with these principles adapted to the context of the time.
Ismaili Mail 2008
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Here I am transported to the brilliant poetry of Mulla Ahmad Narraqi in his poetical masterpiece Mathnawiye Taaqdees when speaking about the great spiritual state of annihilation in God (al-fana fi Allah): In fanaaye bande dar mawla buwad (this is the annihilation of the servant in his Master); In fanaa az sad baqaa awla buwad (this annihilation is better than hundred kinds of subsistence); Fahme un khwaahi boro taa Karbala (if you would like to know the reality of this then go to Karbala) Mathnawiye Taaqdees, p.273.
The Ecstatic Dimension of Karbala [Part 2] mkhalfan@gmail.com 2008
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Here I am transported to the brilliant poetry of Mulla Ahmad Narraqi in his poetical masterpiece Mathnawiye Taaqdees when speaking about the great spiritual state of annihilation in God (al-fana fi Allah): In fanaaye bande dar mawla buwad (this is the annihilation of the servant in his Master); In fanaa az sad baqaa awla buwad (this annihilation is better than hundred kinds of subsistence); Fahme un khwaahi boro taa Karbala (if you would like to know the reality of this then go to Karbala) Mathnawiye Taaqdees, p.273.
Archive 2008-02-01 mkhalfan@gmail.com 2008
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He said, "Urwa ibn az-Zubayr informed me that Abu Hudhayfa ibn Utba ibn Rabia, one of the companions of the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, who was present at Badr, adopted Salim (who is called Salim, the mawla of Abu Hudhayfa) as the
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Yahya related to me from Malik from Thawr ibn Zayd ad-Dili from Abu'l-Ghayth Salim, the mawla of ibn Muti that Abu Hurayra said, "We went out with the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, in the year of Khaybar.
Australian Islamist Monitor Circe 2010
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