Magi

Also there are Magians and Christians and the Polytheists, that is those who associate others with God.

If the world was entirely made up of Magians, I'll tell you what I should do.

contact with Christians and Jews and Magians and pagans of every

In `Mani and the Magians' (CMC 137-40), which was written with his wife Dr Judith M.

If you refuse, then upon you is the sin of the Magians." When Chosroes read this, he tore the letter up, so the Prophet, sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam, said: "May Allah also tear up his kingdom." The Prophet, sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam, also wrote a letter to Heraclius, the ruler of the Byzantine, in which he said: "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.

And when the Jews see how your forehead shines, they'll tell their din's abjurer and denier: "This is the lightning-flash that the Merciful One displayed to His praying prophet-confidant Moses." The Magians see your face's light, and then, above, black hair like darkness motionless, and in between this light and darkness stand the proofs they prep for every challenger; You are their sun, how many bend to you in prayer when darkness falls and bow!

The necks you are striking are those of aggressor Magians, collaborators with the lunatic Khomeini." For its part, Iran portrayed its drive to take Najaf and Karbala, Shiite holy places in central Iraq, as the first stage of a march to Jerusalem to liberate Islam's third-holiest shrine.

So it can be concluded instead that medieval Muslim writers sought to categorize and explain away influences that produced heterodox Muslim communities as coming from al-Majus, "Magians" (the Muslim designation for all Zoroastrians based on the term for their priesthood).

Sunnis are a +1, pagans perhaps a -1, but within this spectrum Magians rank lower than Christians or Jews, and hence, according to most Sunni authorities, Muslims may not marry Zoroastrian women or eat meat slaughtered by them.

The advice that Ibn Hanbal gave his followers, however, allowed them to coexist with Christians, Jews, and Magians, as well as other Muslims who were not able to practice Islamic virtues to the extent that Ibn Hanbal advocated.

177a), but is more probably a collective noun meaning "(the community of) Magians (= Zoroastrian priests)."11

In Surah 22:17 added to the list are the Magians (Zoroastrians) and the Polytheists, and God promises only to decide which of them was in the right on judgment day.

Their function as (fire) priests is clear from the following passages from Kirder's inscription: "the Mazdayasnian religion and the Magians received great honor in the land, and great praise was allotted the gods, the water, and fire, and the cattle in the land....

Then his parents make him a Jew, a Christian or a Magian, just as an animal is born intact.

In 1928 he states that the inner element of religion is known by the unfortunate name of mysticism,9 that Muslim Philosophy was influenced by Greek thought, Muslim theology by Magian culture (which was dualistic in spirit); devotional Sufism alone understood the significance of inner experience as a source of knowledge.10