Word: seale
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There is a fundamental doctrinal reason for such enmity. Islam proclaims that Muhammad was the "Seal of the Prophets," God's final messenger to mankind. But the Baha'i faith-an offshoot of Shi'ism, which is itself a minority branch of Islam-asserts that two prophets came after Muhammad. To Muslims this constitutes a new, perverted faith. The first prophet was Mirza 'Ali Muhammad, who declared in 1844 that he was the Bab (gate), the pathway to God. He was executed in 1850 as a heretic. When Persian authorities tried to wipe out his disciples...
...will never return; the sublime irresponsibility of the Venturas toward everything but their own wealth and pleasures seems headed toward apotheosis. Some cousins hide in fear, others plot revolution, while others still, in a frenzy they do not understand, tear up the protective fence around Marulanda, breaking the hermetic seal around their lives...
...just six seconds after the ensuing faceoff, the red light flashed on at the other end. Tony Visone took a Brian Busconi feed and slapped one from the point. The puck dribbled over McDonough's stick to seal the Harvard victory...
...11th century; five centuries later the custom developed of holding confession in a booth, with penitent and priest speaking to each other through an opening in a partition. So strict is the privacy that a Catholic priest is forbidden even to reveal knowledge about crimes acquired under the confessional "seal...
...building has already undergone repairs in the last month to seal off exposed asbestos insulation. These repairs followed complaints from some users of the building, who claimed that dangerously high levels of the carcinogenic chemical had created a health hazard...