Prophet
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The book opens with the reluctant
prophet
in a particularly compromising position: “Francis Marion Tarwater’s uncle had been dead for only half a day when the boy got too drunk to finish digging his grave.”
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The universe is much bigger than our
prophet
said, grander, more subtle, more elegant'?
Ironic, and it's also, I think, quite telling, because the Kaaba and the rituals around it are relics from the earliest phase of Islam, that of
prophet
Muhammad.
What you're looking at is Rembrandt's painting, now in the National Gallery in London, illustrating the text from the
prophet
Daniel in the Hebrew scriptures.
They don't have to struggle for it like Jacob wrestling through the night with the angel, or like Jesus in his 40 days and nights in the wilderness, or like Muhammad, not only that night on the mountain, but throughout his years as a prophet, with the Koran constantly urging him not to despair, and condemning those who most loudly proclaim that they know everything there is to know and that they and they alone are right.
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