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  • or celestial virgins who await the saved in paradise after death; ... Islam teaches that heavenly delights await believers in paradise. ...
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  • bridge that must be crossed to get into paradise, and also a foul-looking ... al-kawthar is said to be a river of paradise (al-Bukhari, book 76, hadith ...
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  • accepted by God will live forever on a paradise earth (an "earthly ... "earthly hope" (to live on a paradise earth). ...
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  • Eden is described as a paradise where the first man and woman lived ... from the Tree of Life, which is in the paradise of God." (Revelation ...
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  • bring with him what will resemble Hell and Paradise, and what he will call Paradise will be actually Hell; so I warn you (against him) as Noah warned ...
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  • known as the Nahr-i-Behisht, or the Stream of Paradise, runs through the center of each pavilion connecting them. The Shah Burj tower, at the northeastern ...
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  • is said in the Hadiths that those destined for paradise are able to cross quickly and safely, seeing it as a thick stone bridge, whereas others fall ...
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  • :The place where I am is paradise. :Because paradise is a place of helplessness. :Because it's one ...
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  • under the influence of John Milton's Paradise Lost with which he became ... invitation from Bodmer, the translator of Paradise Lost, to visit him in Zürich ...
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  • epic poem in the English language, Paradise Lost (1667). An outspoken ... Composed by dictation after Milton became blind, Paradise Lost relates ...
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  • ==The Four Who Entered Paradise== visited the Orchard (that is, pardes or paradise) (Hebrew: ...
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  • In Paradise Lost, John Milton makes use of their very wondrous nature ... feet pursues his way Milton, John. 1667. Paradise Lost. Book II, lines 943-950. ...
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  • she also offered sinners far more hope of Paradise than most other ascetics ... and if I worship You in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise. ...
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  • scholars hold that the idea of an Edenic paradise is of Sumerian origin. It ... of the sacred plants in the Sumerian paradise, after which he is cursed ...
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  • Romantic Egotist. Renamed This Side of Paradise, it was accepted by Scribner ... the comparatively immature This Side of Paradise. The Great Gatsby, which ...
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  • *In his epic poem Paradise Lost, John Milton made Gabriel chief of the angelic guards placed over Paradise. *In the epic poem The Song of Roland ...
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  • Comenius' book, The Labyrinth of the World and the Paradise of ... Labyrinth of the Worlds second part, The Paradise of the Heart, where the ...
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  • the first human couple disobeyed God in paradise, but, like Judaism, denies ... 3:16). The man, rather than living in a paradise of abundant fruit trees ...
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  • This painting depicts paradise with Adam and Eve and many wondrous ... is a moral warning, or a panorama of paradise lost. American writer Peter ...
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  • own depiction of the GDR as a socialist paradise, he failed to develop any ... economy under Honecker as a socialist paradise proved a myth following ...
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  • as reminders of a lost pre-industrial paradise. Environmentalists used ... *Howat, John K. American Paradise: The World of the Hudson River School ...
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  • Bush Petronia (Petronia dentata) and Togo Paradise-whydah (Vidua togoensis). ... *Togo Paradise-whydah (Vidua togoensis) resident 1998 - A3 ...
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  • remarkably translated John Milton's Paradise Lost into Serbo-Croatian. ... * Milton, John, Paradise Lost (from the original English to Serbo ...
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  • Cockaygne, a straightforward parody of a paradise), where the possibility ... :Though Paradise be merry and bright :Cokaygne is of far fairer sight.... ...
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  • should draw an image of the Buddhist paradise. Very often the approach ... *Hall of Paradise (“Kungnakjeon”), dedicated to the Buddha of ...
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  • * Wiebe, Edward, and Milton Bradley. Paradise of Childhood: a Practical Guide to Kindergartners. Kessinger Publishing, 2005. ISBN 1417923245 ...
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  • to earth, to a transformed earth, to paradise; in a body, in a transformed ... with release but with mercy. Islam views paradise as a place of joy and bliss ...
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  • 105 Degrees F with a low of -9 degrees F. Paradise Park, in the Hudsonian Zone ... the average annual precipitation for Paradise Park (at 5,557 feet) is ...
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  • consider him the Amit'abul (Buddha of Western Paradise) that rules over the Paradise World after life. The case is made based on the position of ...
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  • Dante declared him a prophet and placed him in paradise in his Divine ... In The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri placed Joachim in paradise. ...
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  • Mancham was the author of a number of books, among them being Paradise ... *Paradise Raped. 1983. Methuen Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-0413529008 ...
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  • reference to Amida Buddha and the Western paradise, and spent the rest of his ... take all the faithful to the Pure Land or Western Paradise. ...
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  • will be rewarded with their own place in Paradise. While sinners are punished ... eternal abode in a physical and spiritual Paradise. In Islam, Heaven is divided ...
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  • in the eighteenth century as an earthly paradise, has been a magnet for artists ... He described the island as an earthly paradise where men and women live ...
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  • * Paradise and hell only exist on earth; the healthy, rich and happy people live in the earthly paradise, the poor and the sick are in the earthly ...
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  • that, if they wished to return to the paradise they had so recently enjoyed ... in the form of a secret “garden of paradise,” where the fida’is ...
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  • to eat of the tree of life, which is the paradise of God (Revelation 2.7) ... the future and says "Unto you is paradise opened, the tree of life ...
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  • always be followers of God, and that the paradise of heaven was available ... and Eve (Hawwa' حواء,) dwelt in Paradise (الجنة, Al-Jannah) ...
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  • Each group has a title—On Faith, On Paradise, On Virginity, Against Heresies ... * Brock, Sebastian (trans.). Hymns on paradise: St. Ephrem the Syrian ...
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  • When he returned to poetry it was with The Earthly Paradise, a huge ... *The Earthly Paradise (1868–1870) *Love is Enough, or The Freeing ...
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  • would end upon death in the Western Paradise, where Amitabha lived, the ... affairs over the Buddhist focus on paradise after death. Kangsu and ...
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  • Self-Subsisting Buddha of Western Paradise." (The Records of Qing ... Self-Subsisting Buddha of Western Paradise." (The Records of Qing ...
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  • game. He later recalled this place as a paradise that was quickly disappearing ... and Sustainable Development: Who Owns Paradise? |url=http://books.google ...
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  • who ever lived, the leader of all women in Paradise, and the model of female virtue. She was the wife of the first Shi'a Imam, the mother of ...
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  • * Paradise (1999 ISBN 0679433740) * Love (2003 ISBN 0375409440) * A Mercy (2008 ISBN 0307264238) * Home (2012 ISBN 0307594165) * God Help the ...
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  • is meant to reflect the gardens of Paradise (from the Persian paridaeza ... and was meant to be seen as one of the rivers of paradise. ...
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  • Christopher Columbus and the Conquest of Paradise (Tauris Parke Paperbacks ... *Sale, Kirkpatrick. Christopher Columbus and the Conquest of Paradise ...
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  • of the Trinity, the nature of Christ, of Paradise, angels, and humanity. ... In Dante's Paradise (Divine Comedy X.130), he is mentioned among ...
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  • God's ways to man" in Paradise Lost. Empson argues that ... it all. That this searching goes on in Paradise Lost, I submit, is the chief ...
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  • example, the Taoist belief in a spiritual paradise became incorporated into ... example, the Taoist belief in a spiritual paradise became incorporated into ...
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