Magi

This group of people is called Al-Qadariyya.

This group or this sect is known as Al-Qadariyya and the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam called them the Magians of this Ummah.

Called them the Magians of this Ummah because they claim that Satan creates evil and harmful things, making Satan a creator besides Allah.

This is the Magian creed and that's why the resemblance to them.

The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam called them the Magians, the Magians Majusu Hadihil Ummah, the Magians of this Ummah.

Second question, does the Duaa supplication to Allah change what is written by Allah? Does the Duaa supplication to Allah change what is written by Allah? There is no doubt that Duaa affects what had been written and ordained, but the change, but the change in what is already written is itself written and ordained.

I will repeat.

Mm.

I always think about that when I think about the story about the Magi who came down, and they were coming to follow the star for the, uh, Emmanuel when he was coming.

And you know, you think about, like, a lot of people do connect that with the Magi in, in Babylon.

Mm.

So I think-

These were priest astronomers.

And that's essentially what Magi means, priests.

You know, that term, I believe, comes from old Phoenician.

And I'm sure it has etymological roots in, you know, even further back.

he essentially takes what was considered, I guess, as a barbarous polytheistic religion, and he turns it into more of a dualistic religion that contains within it not merely this... set of cosmogonical and cosmological myths and formula for worship and tribute of various gods, but a soteriology, you know, a study of salvation.

Um, and, uh, that is very interesting because really, I mean, that is, it's, it's at this time in Zoroastrianism that we find, I think the, the highest, the highest, uh, the most refined, um, version of priesthood, um, and, and, and, and magic, um, really um you know there's a lot of magic that come out of the avestas which are the old sacred texts of that land and the really really interesting thing is that the avestas share uh a lot of etymological root and they use common words that you don't really find in other areas um as the vedas it even sounds like it avesta veda you know it's it's Indian scriptures you know the precursors of you know what we call Hinduism really Sanatana Dharma the eternal Dharma that Buddhism comes out of is a new reinterpretation of I would say that Zoroaster did for Zarathustra did for that religion that area Buddha did for the Far East Yeah.

So, so it's, you know, Magi was, was traditionally a word or Magos was traditionally reserved for a priest class.

And now you find, where do we, we don't really know a hundred percent the, the etymology or somebody might, but the issue is that we have a really hard time communicating with the, the, the historical and academic authorities in, in, Iran, right? It's not like you can just go over there.

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For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Read by Laura Luchsinger The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry One dollar and eighty-seven cents.

That was all.

And sixty cents of it was in pennies.

Eight dollars a week or a million a year.

What is the difference? A mathematician or a wit would give you the wrong answer.

Well, notice in the older sources what they're called.

They're the Magi.

Right.

Which literally means they were Persian Zoroastrian priests.

Eclipses were considered in those days as extraordinary and supernatural omens, and Xerxes was naturally anxious to know what this sudden darkness was meant to portend.

He directed the Magi to consider the subject and to give him their opinion.

Their answer was that as the sun was the guardian divinity of the Greeks and the moon that of the Persians, the meaning of the sudden withdrawal of the light of day doubtless was that heaven was about to withhold its protection from the Greeks in the approaching struggle.

Xerxes was satisfied with this explanation, and the preparations for the march went on.