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to manifest his attributes to his creatures; for instance, that Moses was sent to display more particularly his wonderful providence and clemency, Solomon to exhibit his wisdom and glory, Jesus Christ to manifest his righteousness, and Mohammed to shew forth his power. But the latter, composed principally[1] of the Shiah sect, have not scrupled to assign to Mohammed and his successors, the Imans, more and greater miracles than were performed by Jesus Christ and his Disciples; such as that he stopped the sun in his course; that he cleaved the moon in two; that trees went out to meet him; that water flowed from his fingers; that a beam groaned at
- ↑ Professor Lee notices how nearly the creed of the Shiah agrees with that of the Catholics. Both have their Queen of Heaven; the Catholics in the Virgin, the Shiah in Fatima, the daughter of Mohammed. The saints of both communions can work miracles, Both have their pilgrimages, their purgatory, their reliques, their hermits. The principal thing in which they differ is in the Shiah rejecting the use of images.—Page 349, note.
