Dying Message
The clue of the dying message, usually the written or spoken words of a murder victim just before death, has been a staple of mystery fiction for more than a ...
Dying Message Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing
...the dying message in Christie's Why Didn't They Ask Evans? ( 1934 ), and it is an extremely clever one. The dying message is used, as a major or minor plot element, in novels as different from one another as Christie's The Big Four ( 1927 ), Dashiell Hammett 's Red Harvest ( 1929 ), Nicholas Blake 's The Whisper in the Gloom ( 1954 ), and John Dickson Carr 's Patrick Butler for the Defense ( 1956 ). By its very nature, the dying message is seldom enough to carry an entire novel. For this reason, some of the best examples of the dying message are...
Dying Message
Message Not Government, Religion Not State Reference library
‘Ali ‘Abd al-Raziq
Liberal Islam: A Sourcebook
...his communication with the other world. The Message requires its carrier to enjoy considerable social distinction among his people; and as it has been said: “God does not raise a prophet unless he is loved by his people, and unless he commands authority over his clan.” 5 The Message also requires its carrier to have the kind of strength which will prepare him to influence the minds of people so that they will heed his call. For God, may He be elevated, does not take the Message lightly and does not raise a messenger of righteousness unless...
The Second Message of Islam Reference library
Mahmoud Mohamed Taha
Liberal Islam: A Sourcebook
...an atom's weight of evil will also see it” (Sura 99, Verse 8) . . . . The Second Message of Islam The Second Message is Islam. The Prophet himself imparted this Second Message without elaboration or detail, except for such overlaps between the First Message and the Second Message as ‘ibadat and hudud [worship practices and the specified penalties]. God says: “Today I have perfected your religion for you, completed My grace upon you, and...
Politics and the Muslim Woman Reference library
Benazir Bhutto
Liberal Islam: A Sourcebook
...man-made law. It comes from the fact that soon after the Prophet died, it was not the Islam of the Prophet that remained. What took place was the emergence or the reassertiveness of the patriarchal society, and religion was taken over to justify the norms of the tribal society, rather than the point that the Prophet had made in replacing the tribal society with a religion that aimed to cut across narrow loyalties and sought to create a new community, or umma , on the basis of Islam and the message of God. Now there are certain interpretations within...
2 Peter Reference library
Jeremy Duff and Jeremy Duff
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...independent of the Synoptics). The second proof is the ‘prophetic message’ (i.e. OT) which also speaks of an eschatological denouement ( 1:19 can be translated as either ‘the prophetic message more confirmed’ (i.e. the prophecies are confirmed by the transfiguration) or ‘the very reliable prophetic message’ (i.e. they are independent confirmation)). Furthermore, these prophecies were truly from God and not man's invention ( vv. 20–1 ). The light (i.e. revelation) provided by the prophetic message is vital but only partial—‘a lamp…in a dark place’. Eventually,...
Revelation Reference library
Richard Bauckham and R. N. Whybray
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...( 1:9–3:22 ) John's Vision and Commission ( 1:9–20 ) The Message to Ephesus ( 2:1–7 ) The Message to Smyrna ( 2:8–11 ) The Message to Pergamum ( 2:12–17 ) The Message to Thyatira ( 2:18–29 ) The Message to Sardis ( 3:1–6 ) The Message to Philadelphia ( 3:7–13 ) The Message to Laodicea ( 3:14–22 ) Inaugural Vision of Heaven ( 4:1–5:14 ) God on the Throne ( 4:1–11 ) The Lamb on the Throne ( 5:1–14 ) The Seven Seals ( 6:1–8:5 ) The First Four Seals ( 6:1–8 ) The Fifth Seal ( 6:9–11 ) The Sixth Seal ( 6:12–17 ) Interlude: The Sealing of the Elect (...
2 The Sacred Book Reference library
Carl Olson
The Oxford Companion to the Book
...believe to be divine or human. When a collection of messages is considered sacred, it is set apart from other types of literature, which are often considered profane or mundane. A sacred book is complete and does not need to be complemented by anything else, although it may invite a commentary to expound its inner meaning. By its very nature, a sacred book represents order, unity, and perfection. A sacred book is also powerful because it can overawe, overwhelm, or inspire a reader or hearer with its message. Although such power is ambivalent because it is both...
Jihad Reference library
Islam in Transition: Muslim Perspectives (2 ed.)
...be upon him, in Al-Hudaybyah; this was also the case of the expedition of Tabûk and other expeditions. It also cleared the obstacles placed in the path of Islam by enabling the Muslims to leave Madînah and spread the call to Islam all over the world because Islam is a universal message. Since Jihad was legalized in Islam and the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said that he was sent by Allah to wage war against disbelief and that his sustenance was “tied” to his spear, as related by Ahmad on the authority of Ibn ‘Umar, then we have to understand that...
Human History as Divine Revelation: A Dialogue Reference library
Mazrui Ali A.
Islam in Transition: Muslim Perspectives (2 ed.)
...precisely what I am recommending—reinterpreting Qur'anic verses in ways which would give them a timeless relevance. The Sudanese theologian Mahmood Muhammad Taha had argued about the two messages of Islam—the time-specific message and the eternal. The Nimeiry Government executed the old man in 1985 in the name of Islamic hudud . Please read Taha's book, The Second Message of Islam (Northwestern University Press—originally written in Arabic). If God has been teaching human beings in installments about crime and punishment, and if there were no police, prisons...
Jeremiah Reference library
Kathleen M. O'Connor and Kathleen M. O'Connor
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...and address disputes over which prophetic vision of the future will ensure the nation's survival message is true. Ch. 26 defends Jeremiah as the true prophet whose credentials are reaffirmed in the face of rejection and threats upon his life. Chs. 27–8 make the same point through Jeremiah's confrontations with lying prophets, and ch. 29 affirms Jeremiah's advice to the exiles over that of lying prophets. Hananiah, Ahab, Zedekiah, and Shemaiah die for their false prophecy. By contrast, Jeremiah's mysterious escapes from death ( 26:24; 36:26 ) witness...
Habakkuk Reference library
Donald E. Gowan and Donald E. Gowan
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...Isa 8:1; 30:8; Jer 36 ). ‘So that a runner may read it’ (NRSV and most trs.) suggests a message written large, but the Hebrew literally says ‘so that one who reads it may run’. Royal messengers normally carried a written copy of the text they were to declare, and since the prophets functioned as messengers of God (cf. the frequent occurrence of the ‘messenger formula’: ‘Thus says the Lord’; Westermann 1967 : 98–128 ) this may be an allusion to the delivery of God's message by his prophet. 2:4 is the thematic centre of the book, but the first half of the verse...
Antony and Cleopatra Reference library
Michael Dobson and Anthony Davies
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2 ed.)
...all is lost when Mardian brings his message. Antony instructs Eros to help him unarm and, reconciled to Cleopatra, whom he longs to join in death, orders Eros to kill him with his own sword. Eros, however, kills himself instead, and the wound Antony then inflicts upon himself is not immediately fatal. The guards who arrive also refuse to kill him: when news comes that Cleopatra is not really dead, the dying Antony is carried off towards her monument. 4.16 Cleopatra, Charmian, and Iras hoist Antony up into the monument: dying, after a final kiss, he urges her to...
Micah Reference library
H. G. M. Williamson and H. G. M. Williamson
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...Micah H. G. M. Williamson Introduction A. The Man and his Message. 1. Very little can be deduced from the book of Micah about the man who stands behind it. There is no account of a ‘call’, and at 3:5–8 he even seems to deny to himself the title of prophet. From the few details at 1:1 (see Commentary) and elsewhere we may surmise that he spoke on behalf of his fellow landowners and elders of a typical country town against the excessive burdens which the centralized militarizing policy of the Jerusalem establishment was imposing upon the people. Against...
Jonah Reference library
Peter J. M. Southwell and Peter J. M. Southwell
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...I had acted ignorantly in unbelief’), and implied in Ezek 18:28 ‘because they considered and turned away from all the transgressions that they had committed, they shall surely live; they shall not die’, where the word ‘considered’ implies seeing the truth of the situation at last. The prophet's task, as that of all God's people, is simply to speak his message wherever he may be sent. The outcome, so the book of Jonah is telling its readers, is God's responsibility, and his alone. As another Jewish writer with a similar theological problem was led to...
Reflections on Islam and the West: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow Reference library
Hossein Nasr Seyyed
Islam in Transition: Muslim Perspectives (2 ed.)
...of old, but as it has been practiced by Western Christian missionaries since the colonial period and to this day. Both Christianity and Islam are traveling religions that claim to bear a global message, and neither religion can demand from the other that it discontinue “preaching unto the nations.” In the days of old, the material power behind the religious message of the two religions was more or less the same, in total contrast to what one observes today, where Western Christian missionary activity in the Islamic world is accompanied often, but not always...
Extremism Reference library
Yusuf Al-Qaradawi
Liberal Islam: A Sourcebook
... 9. Reported by [Abu Bakr Muhammad] al-Bazzaz [died 965], on the authority of Jabir [ibn ‘Abdallah, Companion of the Prophet, died 697], with a weak isnad [authentic oral history]. 10. Reported by al-Bukhari and al-Nasa’i on the authority of Abu Hurayra [Companion of the Prophet, died 678]. Explained by [‘Abd al-Ra’uf ibn Taj al-‘Arifin] al-Munawi [died 1621]. 11. Reported by al-Bukhari. ...
Islam and Humanism Reference library
Mamadiou Dia
Liberal Islam: A Sourcebook
...on the contrary, on a living God, present in heaven and on earth. Islam is a gift of God, a guide-book, a light on behalf of man. It is God going towards His creature, responding to its anguish; it is word, message of benevolence directed towards all of humanity. Fidelity to Islam is thus, first of all, fidelity to the word of God, fidelity to the Messages which must be attested to by the institutions, the rules of life conforming to His directive. That is to say, by its temporal and spiritual manifestation on earth, Islam cannot be anything but the creation...
Hosea Reference library
John Day and John Day
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...1–2, 4–6, 12–13 ) and concluding with a declaration of judgement ( vv. 3, 7–8, 14–16 ). To the second oracle is appended a mocking condemnation of the monarchy ( vv. 9–11 ). The statement in v. 1 that Israel ‘incurred guilt through Baal and died’ is ironical. Baal was a dying and rising fertility god, and Israel has died through worshipping him (to be followed, after repentance in ch. 14 , by resurrection). The current ‘death’ probably alludes to Tiglath-pileser III's exile of part of the northern kingdom in 733. The end of v. 2 is a little uncertain: NRSV...
Islam and the Challenge of the Modern World Reference library
Shabbir Akhtar
Liberal Islam: A Sourcebook
...the noisy turbulence of the vicinity drowns out the entire recited sequence; the partial segment reaches the alert ear. But it has to be an attentive intelligence, given to what the Qur'an calls reflection ( tadabbur ). Equally, one might say, it has to be a message worthy of our attention, couched in a relevant idiom, voiced in an appropriately attractive way. The Qur'an, like proper Christian preaching, has an exceptionally intelligent earnestness at its core. The art of beautiful recitation of the Qur'an is a mature and extensively...
