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Thus it was that the Hazaras and Shiah inhabitants of the small principalities on the head-waters of the Oxus were sold into Sunni slavery, and the purchase of the Shiah Circassians in the Turkish markets was justified on the same grounds. The bitter experience of ages has taught all Shiahs that, once helplessly at the mercy of the Sunnis, there must be absolute submission on all points.
Accordingly, the reconciliation of Sunni and Shiah has long been a cardinal point of policy with the Porte.
Perhaps in a few days, perhaps in a few weeks, we shall be. A good deal depends on what you can tell me. Sunni looked straight into the Colonel's eyes, a little puzzled. 'How do they get water in Lalpore? asked the Colonel, to begin with. 'There are four wells, said Sunni, 'and two of them have no bottom. 'H'm! And what is that white building with the round roof that we see from here?
In the Súriy-i-Mulúk, addressing the entire company of the ecclesiastical leaders of Sunní Islám in Constantinople, the capital of the Empire and seat of the Caliphate, He has written: “O ye divines of the City! We came to you with the truth, whilst ye were heedless of it. Methinks ye are as dead, wrapt in the coverings of your own selves.
In 1892 a bazaar quarrel in Herat between Sunni and Shiah traders grew to a disturbance, and culminated in some of the latter, Persian subjects, being slain and their goods plundered, the Moullas solemnly pronouncing their judgment that it was 'lawful' for Sunnis to take the lives as well as the property of the heretical Shiahs.
'No, said Sunni, 'I never heard that before, Moti. 'But I say you have! Two hundred times! And look, O thoughtless one, you have gone between me and the sun, so that even now your shadow falls upon my sugar-cake my cake stuffed with almonds, which is the kind I most love, and therefore I cannot eat it. There, cried Moti, contemptuously, 'take it yourself and eat it you have no caste to break.
So weighty a proclamation, at so critical a period, by the Bearer of so sublime a Message, to the kings of the earth, Muslim and Christian alike, to ministers and ambassadors, to the ecclesiastical heads of Sunní Islám, to the wise men and inhabitants of Constantinople—the seat of both the Sultanate and the Caliphate—to the philosophers of the world and the people of Persia, is not to be regarded as the only outstanding event associated with Bahá’u’lláh’s sojourn in Adrianople.
The memsahib had gone in the cart and the chota baba the Sonny Sahib had always had good milk and she had taken none of the memsahib's ornaments, only her little black book with the charm in it. 'The little baby. 'That is true talk, interposed Sunni, 'Tooni's words are all true. Here is the little black book. Colonel Starr had the face of a man in a dream, half conscious and trying to wake up.
To what else could this remarkable prophecy, enshrined in the Lawḥ-i-Burhán, allude if not to the downfall of this crowned overlord of Sunní Muslims? “O concourse of Muslim Divines! This was not all, however.
'Pris'ner were about ten yards off, sir, 'an, as 'e says, Peters MIGHT 'a hit 'im, said Sergeant Jones, with solemn humour, 'but afore he'd made up 'is mind to fire, 'e'd come so close Peters saw 'ow small he was, an' therefore didn't, sir. 'Quite right, remarked Sunni. 'Peters might have killed me. The Colonel nodded. He was looking with absorbed interest into Sunni's eyes.
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