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God and physics: Talking with a Muslim physicist at Oxford University

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Iblis, the Devil, Is a Gin Created From Fire

The coranic cosmology presupposes continuous interaction between the natural causal world and the supernatural realm of occult causality. By the ay, the word o cult causali ath he cult means hidden. We can't perceive it. The gin, elemental spirits found in the intricate nexus of arabic poetry, possession and madness, are integral to the pre islamic outlook and remain part of modern islam. Indeed, iblis, the devil, is a gin created from fire. His arrogant free will led him to freely reject god's rule. Won't submit. He is an actively malicious agent in human history. God, too, is active. Each day is a fresh resurrection of

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