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Rh at Medina, viited by the Mahometans, purely out,of curioty and reverence to his memory. Mot of his followers carry their veneration for the upreme Being o far, as not only, never go mention the word, Alla or Gpdtojn any common occaion, but think it in ome degrge blafphcmous to mnife; or dev fine a Being, whom they conider as o infinitely trancendent to all praie, definition or, comprehenion. Thus, they carry their crupurloity to uch a length, as not even to approve of calling him good, righteous, or merciful, from their thinking uch epithets uperfluous and impertinent; as if one were emphatically to ay of a man that he had a head, or any other member