OUTLAWS. (1) An Apostate, if he escapes to another country, is an outlaw. (2) A fornicator should be expelled from his country and be an outlaw for a whole year.
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PAIG͟HĀMBAR (پيغامبر). The Persian and Hindustānī translation of the Arabic Rasūl (رسول), and Nabī (نبى). [[PROPHET].]
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PARADISE. The Muḥammadan Paradise is called al-Jannah (الجنة), “the garden,” pl. jannāt, in Arabic; and Bihisht (بهشت), in Persian; the word al-Firdaus (الفردوس), or Paradise, being restricted to one region in the celestial abodes of bliss. There are eight heavens or paradises mentioned in the Qurʾān, and although they appear to be but eight different names for the place of bliss, Muḥammadan divines have held them to be eight different stages.
They are as follows (see G͟hiyās̤u ʾl-Lug͟hah):—
1. Jannatu ʾl-K͟huld (Sūratu ʾl-Furqān, [xxv. 16]), The Garden of Eternity.
2. Dāru ʾs-Salām (Sūratu ʾl-Anʿām, [vi. 127]), The Dwelling of Peace.
3. Dāru ʾl-Qarār (Sūratu ʾl-Muʾmin, [xl. 42]), The Dwelling which abideth.
4. Jannātu ʾl-ʿAdn (Sūratu ʾl-Barāʾah, [ix. 73]), The Gardens of Eden.