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Vade retro satana (Ecclesiastical Latin for "Begone, Satan", "Step back, Satan", or "Back off, Satan"; alternatively spelt vade retro satanas, or sathanas), is a medieval Western Christian formula for exorcism, recorded in a 1415 manuscript found in the Benedictine Metten Abbey in Bavaria; [1] [2] its origin is traditionally associated with the ...
In Islam, the belief that spiritual entities—particularly, jinn—can possess a person, a thing or location, [1] is widespread; as is the belief that the jinn and devils can be expelled from the possessed person (or thing/location) through exorcism.
The full Latin sentence is usually abbreviated into the phrase (De) Mortuis nihil nisi bonum, "Of the dead, [say] nothing but good."; whereas free translations from the Latin function as the English aphorisms: "Speak no ill of the dead," "Of the dead, speak no evil," and "Do not speak ill of the dead."
Appendix Two contains the following (all in Latin): Five collect-style prayers to God. A short litany of invocations of the Holy Trinity. A long litany of invocations of Jesus. Short invocations to the Lord with the sign of the Cross. Invocations of the Blessed Virgin Mary, including the Sub tuum and Memorare. The well-known shorter Prayer to ...
And God revealed: 'We never sent any apostle or prophet before you but that, when he longed, Satan cast into his longing. But God abrogates what Satan casts in, and then God puts His verses in proper order, for God is all-knowing and wise.' [Q.22:52] So God drove out the sadness from His prophet and gave him security against what he feared.
Iblis is part of God's universe and does not form an exterior reality independent of God. He is God's veil, the visible universe itself, which hides the Godhead from the unworthy. [76] [77] 'Ayn al-Quzat links the cosmic structure to the Shahada: "Lā is the circle of negation. One must place his first step within this circle, but he should not ...
Azrael (/ ˈ æ z r i. ə l,-r eɪ-/; Hebrew: עֲזַרְאֵל, romanized: ʿǍzarʾēl, 'God has helped'; [1] Arabic: عزرائيل, romanized: ʿAzrāʾīl or ʿIzrāʾīl) is the canonical angel of death in Islam [2] and appears in the apocryphal text Apocalypse of Peter.
The Mass for the Dead carried out by devotees involves a table with a white cloth, herbs, and pictures of one's deceased relatives. Lit candles will encourage the spirit of the dead ancestor to go on to the afterlife and on occasion, the family will try to commune with the spirit if the spirit has given a family member dreams of wishing to ...