The book of exposition = Kitab al-izah fi'ilm al-nikah b-it-tamam w-al-kamal : literally translated from the Arabic with translator's foreword, numerous important notes illustrating the text, and several interesting appendices / by an English bohemian.
- Date:
- 1900
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Credit: The book of exposition = Kitab al-izah fi'ilm al-nikah b-it-tamam w-al-kamal : literally translated from the Arabic with translator's foreword, numerous important notes illustrating the text, and several interesting appendices / by an English bohemian. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![The famous Hyde ') writes: That those sensual pleasures of Paradise are thought by wiser Believers in Islam to be allegorical, that they may be then better conceived by human understanding, just as in the Holy Scriptures many things are said after the manner of man. For writing to the ambassador for Morocco, when I mentioned a garden pleasant like that of Paradise, he checking me, wrote back that Paradise was such a place to which nothing could be likened; such as “neither eye hath seen, ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive.” To this may likewise be added the testimony of the famous Herbelot, who after having shown 3) that Moslems place the chief good in the Communion of God, and the celestial Joys in the fruition of the light of the Divine countenance, which make Paradise wherever it is, writes thus ; — It is not therefore true which many authors who have opposed Islam have asserted—that the Moslems know no other happiness in Heaven but the use of pleasures which affect the senses. From what precedes it follows that much more than is just has been said and written about the sensual character of Mohammad s religion. No doubt, that from a Christian point of view, and taken in the abstract, certain usages of the people of the East present themselves to European criticism as real defects and as great vices, but with a little more of evangelical ]) In his Not: ad Biboi, Turcar Liturg, p. 21. *) In his “ Bibliotheca Orientalis.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24878157_0033.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
