خلاصه ماشینی:
"The Sunnis interpret this scene as a simple family reunion without any significance, but in the faith of the extreme shi`a, meditating on the simultaneous presence of these five, it is proof that the divine authority becomes manifest to the universe in a fivefold personal embodiment, the thesis of the Mukhammisa, a well known shi`a school which still survives in syria among the Nusayris.
(_) The metaphysical principles of Islam, notably temporal and spatial atomism, which the first theologians of the creed instinctively chose in order to expound rationally the assertions of the Qur''''جn, were also, in their proper structural order, the formative ideas and generating principles of the methods of artistic realization, from architecture to rhetoric(_), even in the converted countries, from Andalusia to Malaya.
A cultural expansion of such extent and such persistence had to depend on some common intellectual, in strument in this case Arabic, and the fact that it was a Semitic language, with very characteristic outlines and contours, determined the form of pre sentation of the idea, which, in turn, exaggerated the distinctive features of Islamic metaphysical imagination.
When Islam conquered Persia politically, the Mazdean cult was the official state religion, and the secular hold that Mazdaism had on Persia was evident in the extent to which the Persian language had, since old Persian, accommodated itself to this system of ideas."