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Old 5th January 2012, 05:11 AM   #1
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It might not be proper to ask Dom's Wife for a translation if it is an Azimat ...
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Old 5th January 2012, 06:44 AM   #2
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Thank you Rick for the advice... I've changed the wording of the request to appeal to any of our Arabic-speaking forumites.
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Old 5th January 2012, 02:42 PM   #3
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It might not be proper to ask Dom's Wife for a translation if it is an Azimat ...
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=14676
... yes, again a "hijab" or "azimat"
talismanic printed papers, old to 50 ± 60 years, where you have;
magic squares, reference to 7 points about Soliman, Koran references, and so ...

dixit my wife, to who I showed these text;
- it's exactly the same printed papers that my wife's mother has hidden
in our apartment in Cairo to fight the "evil eye"

regarding ... "Zulficar" (Dhu-l-Faqar)
I visited Damascus Museum, I met the "curator" of the museum,
she apologized to don't be able to put in display the "Gospel" containing a representation of "Zulficar" ... with Ali ...
I do not remember exactly what the exact reasons she given me,
but, I did not believed her arguments, they was too fantasist
anyway, she did not denied, to have that book
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...light=zulficar

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ps/if this continues,
"Vikingsword Staff" will have to open,
a section about ... talismanic objects, only ... Ethnic of course
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Old 5th January 2012, 04:55 PM   #4
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ps/if this continues,
"Vikingsword Staff" will have to open,
a section about ... talismanic objects, only ... Ethnic of course
Excellent idea, Dom! I vote for this...
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