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they too, like the Israelites, fell into idolatry and ignorance.
But the light of Islam was never entirely extinguished or sub-
stituted by idolatry. Idols or images, which were considered
as "sacred" and as household gods by the Jews, as well as
their kindred nationalities, and usually called "Traphim"
(Gen. xxxi.) in the Hebrew, were, in my humble opinion of
the same nature and character as the images and idols which
the Orthodox and Catholic Christians keep and worship in
their houses and temples. In those olden times of ignorance
the idols were of the kind of "identity card" or of the nature
of a passport. Is it not remarkable to find that Rachel
(Rahil), the wife of Jacob and the daughter of Laban, should
steal the "traphim" of her father? (Gen. xxxi). Yet Laban
as well as her husband were Muslims, and on the same day
raised the stone "Mispha" and dedicated it to God!
But the light of Islam was never entirely extinguished or sub-
stituted by idolatry. Idols or images, which were considered
as "sacred" and as household gods by the Jews, as well as
their kindred nationalities, and usually called "Traphim"
(Gen. xxxi.) in the Hebrew, were, in my humble opinion of
the same nature and character as the images and idols which
the Orthodox and Catholic Christians keep and worship in
their houses and temples. In those olden times of ignorance
the idols were of the kind of "identity card" or of the nature
of a passport. Is it not remarkable to find that Rachel
(Rahil), the wife of Jacob and the daughter of Laban, should
steal the "traphim" of her father? (Gen. xxxi). Yet Laban
as well as her husband were Muslims, and on the same day
raised the stone "Mispha" and dedicated it to God!