THE SOUND OF THE VERY PRESENCE OF GOD! Her god arc is Long Blade Assault (New type). This is the will of God we can disobey and fail to do. So, we can expect the GoW’s new series to be just around the corner. But if you look very closely, you can see that Peeters has included herself in the painting: She’s the tiny figure whose head we see reflected in the pewter lid of the jug in the centre of the painting. Theravādins see faith in the Triple Gem as a protective force in daily life, especially when combined with a moral life. Supreme Court described the “intense hostility of the people of Moslem faith to all other sects, and particularly to Christians.” In 1898, in the introduction to his translation of the “Masnavi,” Sir James Redhouse wrote, “The Masnavi addresses those who leave the world, try to know and be with God, efface their selves and devote themselves to spiritual contemplation.” For those in the West, Rumi and Islam were separated. People of Bangladeshi descent are one of the largest Muslim communities (after Pakistanis), 16.8% of Muslims in England and Wales are of Bangladeshi descent, the ethnic group in the UK with the largest proportion of people following a single religion, being 92% Muslim.

Due to the majority being lascars, the earliest Muslim communities were found in port towns. Pakistanis from Mirpur District were one of the first South Asian Muslim communities to permanently settle in the United Kingdom, arriving in Birmingham and Bradford in the late 1930s. Immigration from Mirpur grew from the late 1950s, accompanied by immigration from other parts of Pakistan especially from Punjab which included cities like Sialkot, Jhelum, Gujar Khan and Gujrat and also from the north-west Punjab including the Chhachhi Pathans from Attock District, and some from villages of Ghazi, Nowshera and Peshawar. Muslim mass immigration to Britain began after World War II, as a result of the destruction and labour shortages caused by the war. In 1873, 3,271 lascars arrived in Britain. By 1842, 3,000 lascars visited the UK annually, and by 1855, 12,000 lascars were arriving annually in British ports. By the 1920s, the British Empire included roughly half of the world’s Muslim population. Majority of these Muslim come from the Sylhet region of Bangladesh, mainly concentrated in London (Tower Hamlets, Newham and Redbridge), Luton, Birmingham and Oldham.

In September 2009, the ONS published information showing that Mohammed (or variations of it) was the third most popular boys’ name in England and Wales, and the most popular name in London. The single largest group of Muslims in England and Wales are of Pakistani descent. Cultural aspects of a ‘Bengali Islam’ are seen as superstition and as un-Islamic. Sunni Islam holds the belief that Abu Bakr, who was Prophet Muhammad’s father-in-law, was the first Caliph contrary to Shias who believed that the first Caliph was Ali ibn Abi Talib who was Prophet Muhammad’s son-in-law and cousin. The most famous of these was the One Thousand and One Nights (Arabian Nights), which was first translated into English in 1706 and has since then had a profound influence on English literature. Besides scientific and philosophical literature, works of Arabic fictional literature were also translated into Latin and English during the 17th and 18th centuries. In 17th-century England, there was a “second wave” of interest in the study of Arabic science and Islamic philosophy. There are also high numbers in High Wycombe, Aylesbury, Slough, Leicester, Manchester and the mill towns of Northern England.

People of Pakistani extraction are particularly notable in West Midlands (Birmingham), West Yorkshire (Bradford), London (Waltham Forest, Newham), Lancashire/Greater Manchester, and several industrial towns like Luton, Slough, High Wycombe and Oxford. These patriarchal cultural assumptions became deeply rooted in ijtihads and Islamic jurisprudence to the point that such patriarchal structures are inaccurately believed to come from the Qur’anic text itself. So from such a point of social evolution we have texts that suggest how Shiva and Shakti were part of an indivisible whole. Most people regard themselves as part of the ummah, and their identity based on their religion rather than their ethnic group. The Bangladeshi Muslim community in London form 24% of the Muslim population, larger than any other ethnic group. There is also a fairly large Pakistani community from Kenya and Uganda found in London. There is one other disease which is called Trichinosis. Various Shia mosques include the Husseini Islamic Centre in Stanmore, Harrow which acts as one of the main Shia Muslim mosques in Britain.