The words and deeds of Muhammad and the imams are a guide and model for the community to follow; as a result, they must be free from error and sin, and must be chosen by divine decree, or " nass ", through Muhammad.
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Genesis in today's Torah and various Bibles, reflects a Creation Story, the Noah story, then the stories of the Patriarchs including Abraham, Isaac and Jacob ( and related ideas around Sodom and Gomorrah and Nimrod ) and the creation of a nation ordained to be great by Divine Decree.
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To avoid such a claim of truth by different groups of religious followers, it is necessary to hold a constructive dialogs by performing a religious and intellectual pilgrimage ( " crossing over " ) to broaden one's horizon of understanding and enable one to understand the universal message contained in a divine decree.
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"I will ponder with great affection how much God our Lord has done for me, and how much He has given me of what He possesses, and finally, how much, as far as He can, the same Lord desires to give Himself to me according to His divine decrees ."
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It goes on further to say how the jinn used to take stations in the skies to listen to divine decrees passed down through the ranks of the angels ( Sura al Jinn verse 9 ), but those who attempt to listen now ( during and after the revelation of the Qur?an ) shall find fiery sentinels awaiting them.
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In the winter of 8, after receiving a false prophecy written by the hoodlum Ai Zhang ( �T�z ) which pretended to be a divine decree from Emperor Gaozu ( Liu Bang ) stating that the throne should be given to Wang, and that Grand Empress Dowager Wang should follow this divine will, Wang issued a decree accepting the position of emperor, establishing the Xin Dynasty.
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McConkie extended the analysis to conclude that God had established a caste system that proscribed intermarriage of other races with the " negro race, " which McConkie believed to be descended from Cain, the murderer of Abel : " In a broad general sense, caste systems have their root and origin in the gospel itself, and when they operate according to the divine decree, the resultant restrictions and segregation are right and proper and have the approval of the Lord.
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Ibn Abbas narrates that the Angel Jibril once asked the Prophet : " Tell me what is Iman ? " The Prophet replied : " Iman is to believe in Allah, the Day of Judgment, His ( Allah's ) Angels, Books and Prophets and to believe in life after death; and to believe in Paradise and the Fire, and the setting up of the Mizan ( scales ) to weigh the deeds; and to believe in the Divine Decree, the good and the bad of it ( all ).
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It may seem that Twisse was performing double-talk at this point as a supralapsarian, but Twisse himself maintained that not one of our divines, that I know, doth maintaine that God did ever purpose to inflict damnation, but for sin . " What needs to be made clear at this point is that Twisse did not separate the object decreed from how it is that it comes to pass ( modus res ) and on the flip side, that the one divine decree had several elements each with its own integrity.
