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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 02 (of 10)

Note 416 — TALE OF KING OMAR BIN AL-NU'UMAN AND HIS SONS SHARRKAN AND ZAU AL-MAKAN, AND WHAT BEFEL THEM OF THINGS SELD-SEEN AND PEREGRINE.[138] (continued 4)

Richard Francis Burton translation

Kirámat, a sign, a prodigy, opposed to Mu'ujizah, a miracle wrought by a prophet. The Súfis explain this thaumaturgy by Allah changing something of Nature's ordinary course in favour of an especial worshipper; and, after a fashion, this is Catholic doctrine (See Dabistan, iii. 173).

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