The third earth is called Arqa, wherein dwell mulelike eagles with spearlike tails | [Great Books of the Islamic World, Inc |
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It is they who will be given dominion over Gog and Magog, who will be destroyed by them | There dwells a nation called Tamis, whose food is their own flesh and whose drink is their own blood |
8-9 Well, the Quran has a few words that hardly seem to occur elsewhere in Arabic literature, like sijjin, for example, and throughout history, Muslim exegetes have attempted to decipher such cryptic references by drawing from pre-Islamic traditions.
28" Tales of the Prophets-Qisas al-anbiya, trans | |
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The fourth earth is called Haraba, wherein dwell the snakes of Hell, which are as large as mountains | The seventh earth is called Ajiba and is the habitation of Iblis |
The inhabitants of this earth are a nation called Jilla, and they have no eyes, hands or feet but have wings like bats and die only of old age.
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