{The Seven Spheres}[11th April 1991]

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‘Often the world is conceived as a succession of seven heavens and seven earths, and a popular tradition says that the earth is on water, on a rock, on the back of a bull, on a kamkam (meaning unknown), on a fish, on water, on the wind, on the veil of darkness – hence the Persian expression az māh tā, māhī, from the moon to the fish, ie throughout the whole world.’

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‘Muhammad rode the winged horse Burāq in the company of the angel Gabriel through the seven spheres, meeting the other prophets there, until he reached the divine presence, alone, without even the angel of inspiration.’

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*– ibid. [Encyclopaedia Britannica 22:40]

**– ibid. [Encyclopaedia Britannica 22:] 41

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