Henry Frederick Amedroz epub The Eclipse of the Abbasid Caliphate: Original Chronicles of the Fourth Islamic Century, Vol. 4 (Classic Reprint)

The System of I bn A bi l- A zaqir. From Yaqut s Dictionary of Learned Men, i. 301. It was found that he claimed to be the Truth of Truth and the God of Gods ;the First, the A ncient; the Outer, the Inner ;the Creator, the Sustainer; the Perfect, to Whom all notions are entrusted ;he was called The Messiah, even as the Israelites used to call God Almighty the Messiah. He averred that God entered everything according to its capacity, and that He had created the contrar in order that thereby that of which it is the contrary may be indicated ;thus He was revealed in A dam when He created him and in I b Hs(S atan), which are two contraries, indicating each other by virtue of their contrariety in notion. He asserted that the guide to the Truth is superior to the Truth, and that the contrary of a thing is nearer to it than its semblance. That when God enters into a human frame. He displays such miraculous power as proves that it is He ;and that when A dam disappeared the Divinity appeared in five humanities, of which as oft as one disappeared it was replaced by another, and in five I blises their contraries. Then the Divinity was gathered in Idris (E noch) and his I blis, and was afterwards separated as it had been separated after A dam. It was then united in Noah and his I blis, and separated when they disappeared as before. It re-united in 5alif and his I blis, the Slayer of the Camel, and was separated after them ;it re-united in A braham and his I blis, Nimrod, and was separated after them. It re-united in A aron and his Iblis Pharaoh, and was separated again as before. It was re-united in David and his Iblis Goliath, and was separated when they disappeared. It was re-united in Solomon and his I blis, and was separated afterwards as usual. It was re-united in Jesus and His I blis, and separated to be re-united in His Disciples and their I blises. Then it was r(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)