THEO 3715 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Barakah, Kaaba, Hajj
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Naf is our lower self that keeps us away from god like our id. His face is drawn in this case because he is not considered part of the prophetic family. Don"t focus on the sadness because it will pass. Don"t focus on the drunkenly high moments either because that too will pass. Mazar place where a friend of god is buried. Wali friend of god ( saint in the catholic church) Visitation gives some sort of healing or barakah (blessing) bc the person was close to. Macabre (macab) poe"s writing on gothic from arabic word qbr tombstone. These sites are bombed often because people want to build more economic businesses and things of such there. Mazar-i sharif one of the 3 places they believe imam ali is buried. Cheik bamba (the half covered, half seen man) in his biography. Something about 30 years until his burial (jesus started his work at 30)