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RESIDENCY AND MUSCAT POLITICAL AGENCY FOR 1830-31. M

i El-Jamal.* From the '/companions/' such as 'Ammrfr-bin-Ydsir,
2:"1^70vnich-bi n -TMhit, Tln-Shahadctcin, Mohammed and 'Abdallah,
the two sons of B«leyl-bin-Wsirk£-cl-Khaz£-i, 'Abdallah-bin-Mes'ud,
llidifch-bin-el-Yeman, Ma-'Ath-bin-IIebl, Abd-er-Rehm<4n-bin-'Owf,
Sehnan, the Persian, Bill'd, the Abyssinian, Salrib, the Greek, and 'Aisheh,
mother* of the faithful. Also from the accepted and well-approved
KI»:difelis Abu Bckr and 'Oinar, the companions of the flight, and the
Ansars, or co-adjutors, may God be pleased with them all.
'Alxlallah-bin-Ibfulhi confuted the several fallacies in the doctrines
of the various heretical sects, which have been shown in a previous part
of this work. He taught that faith (Iman) consists both in word and
docd,t and in following the precepts of traditional law.
slrficles of belief.—In this religion there is no sanction excusing
any shortcoming in respect of it; nor is it permitted falsely to avow it;
nor to give way to the passions. For this religiou requires that the
paths of righteousness be followed, and also belief in the following, viz.—
In God and his Angels; in His Scriptures and Prophets; in Para­
dise and Hell; in Uis Promises and Warnings; in the Resurrection and
the Judgment and the Last Day; in the messages brought by the Pro-
pluts from their Lord. It is also necessary to believe that the Kor/tn
is the word of God sent down to His Apostle Mohammed; that Ilis
rewards are unrivalled, as Hi; puuishmcnts are unequalled, and that the
mercies He vouchsafes are great, even as the trials lie imposes arc great.
Also that God is the Creator of all things; there is none other than
He; IIis promises arc not broken, nor His threats unfulfilled, for His
word is true. That all that has becu revealed through Mohammed-biu-
Abdallah is manifest truth.
The Most High God: eyes perceive Him not, but He compre-
I.cndeth the visionHe is all-knowing, all-wise; the limits of the
heavens contain Him not; He is God. There is none other God than
IK*, the Oue, the Mighty; He is the Creator who maketh all things
and giveth form thereto; who raiseth up and finally disposeth of all;
life is Ilis gift and lie causcth to die; He is the living who dieth not,
all-powerful; one and everlasting unbegotten and uubegetting; all-
1-uworful to do that He willeth; imagination comprchendeth Him not,
nur do created forms resemble Him; neither movement nor repose can
be attributed to Him; all in earth and heaven is His, and that which is
* tween; lie knoweth all things before they exist; time changeth Him
not; possessor of might, majesty and power; undying, without com-
lH!Vr» c®rapauion, or offspring; His word goeth forth and what He
"illcth is; praise be to Him in whose baud is power over* all things to
"bom all things revert.

* 'Here All encountered Au’heb.
t that wlut is confessed in-words as right mast also be acted on.
u»tar«.^0ran *03. The mental perception attains not to tbt knowledge of bis