Epistle to the Son of the Wolf
Preface
Meccans, he refused to recant his faith in
Islám. Later he was freed, and although he stammered
Muḥammad appointed him the first
Mu’aẓẓin. The reference on
p. 76 is to the fact that because of his affliction he pronounced the letters “sh” as “s.”
“Remnant of the Prophet” on
p. 80 refers to the fact that the martyred brothers were descendants of Muḥammad.
To “rend the Veil of Divinity,”
p. 83, means to perpetrate an act of sacrilege, symbolized by tearing the veil of the tabernacle in which was the
Shekinah,—the Dwelling, the Glory of God—emblem of the Divine Presence. The hamstringing of the She-Camel goes back to
Qur’án 7:73;
11:64;
54:27, etc. The She-Camel was a sign of God, the proof of the Prophet
Ṣáliḥ’s mission. The reference again is to an act of blasphemy.
“Verses concerning the Divine Presence,” referred to on
p. 115 and elsewhere, are numerous in the Qur’án. Among them are these:
Súrih 39:69: “And the earth shall shine with the light [núr] of her Lord, and the Book shall be set, and the prophets shall be brought up, and the witnesses ... and none shall be wronged.”
89:21-22: “... when the earth shall be crushed with crushing, crushing, And thy Lord
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