oceedings
preserved in the Traditions is a "fasiq," (sinner), though he remains a
Muslim.

[157] Some commentators make no distinction between the first and second
blast, as only two are distinctly mentioned in the Quran.

[158] Sharh-i-'Aqaid-i-Jami, p. 183.

[159] According to Bukhari and to Muslim, this perspiration will flow to a
distance of seventy yards from, and reach up to the lobe of the ears of
those who perspire.

[160] "That is, they will know the inhabitants of Paradise by their
whiteness, and the people of Hell by the blackness of their faces."

[161] For some curious opinions with regard to the state of the soul there
see Sale's Preliminary Discourse, Section iv., p. 55.

[162] Takmil-ul-Iman, p. 47.

[163] Tafsir-i-Husaini, vol. i. p. 397.

[164] Tafsir-i-Faiz-ul-Karim, p. 25.

[165] Miskat-ul-Musabih, book xxiii. ch. 12.

[166] "Although some Muhammadans, whose understandings are too refined to
admit such gross conceptions, look on their Prophet's description as
parabolical, and are willing to receive them in an allegorical or spiritual
acceptation, yet the general and orthodox doctrine is, that the whole is to
be strictly believed in the obvious and literal acceptance." Sale's
Preliminary Discourse, Section iv. p. 73.

[167] This, the Lauh-ul-Mahfuz, is referred to in Sura lxxxv. 22, as that
on which the Quran is written. In Sura xxxvi. 11, the actions of men are
said to be written in "the clear book of our decrees." This is called the
Imam-ul-Mubin, the clear prototype.

[168] "The Prophet of God said that Adam and Moses (in the world of
Spirits) maintained a debate before God, and Adam got the better of Moses,
who said, "Thou art that Adam, whom God created and breathed into thee His
own Spirit, and made the angels bow down before thee, and placed thee in
Paradise; after which, thou threwest man upon the earth, from the fault
which thou didst commit.' Adam replied, 'Thou art that Moses, whom God
selected for His prophecy and to converse with, and He gave thee twelve
tables, in which are explained everything, and he made thee His confidant
and the bearer of His secrets; then how long was the Bible written before I
was created?' Moses said, 'Forty years.' Then said Adam, 'Didst thou see in
the Bible that Adam disobeyed God?' 'Yes.' 'Dost thou reproach me on a
matter, which God wrote in the Bible forty years before creating me?'"

[169] Ibn Kah, commenting on the verse, "When thy Lord bro