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Ibn Abbas. ['The prophet said,] "Whoever attains to the knowledge of
astrology for any other explanation than the three aforementioned,
then verily he has attained to a branch of magic. An astrologer is a
magician, and a magician is a necromancer, and a necromancer is an
infidel."'[14]
This work contains the precepts and sayings of Muhammad, as declared
by his companions, who themselves heard them, or by those who heard
them immediately from those companions; and they are considered to be
binding upon the faith and conduct of Musalmans, though not all
delivered from inspiration.
Everything that is written in the Koran itself is supposed to have
been brought direct from God by the angel Gabriel.[15]
Notes:
1. In planting mango groves, it is a rule that they shall be as far
from each other as not to admit of their branches ever meeting.
'Plant trees, but let them not touch' ('_Am lagao, nis lagen nahin_')
is the maxim. [W. H. S.]
2. _Pakka_; the word here means 'cemented with lime mortar', and not
only with mud (_kachcha_).
3. The _chambeli_ is known in science as the _Jasminum grandiflorum_,
and the mango-tree as _Mangifera Indica_.
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