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From: Joe Dewald <>
Subject: Sheik Joseph, "holiest of all the holy men"
Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 07:46:10 -0800
References: <200111031442.fA3Eg3kn007965@wind.lantic.net>


Calling Sheik Joseph the "holiest" of all the holy men seems like
gilding the lily.

"Holy" means spiritually perfect or pure; untainted by evil or sin;
sinless; saintly. One is either perfect or imperfect, pure or impure,
tainted or untainted, sinless or sinful, saintly or not saintly.

One might liken the condition of "holy" to "pregnant." One is either
pregnant or not pregnant. One would not call a woman the "pregnantist"
of all the pregnant women.

Joe
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Steve Hayes wrote:
>
> On 3 Nov 01, at 21:25, Don.MacLeod wrote:
>
> > Excuse my ignorance/lack of Afrikaans knowledge but am reading a book ....
> >
> > Mostert's Bay was a Malay fishing village, peopled by followers of the
> > great Sheik Joseph, holiest of all the holy men who were exiled at the
> > Cape late in the 17th century, and whose kramat stands at Fature....
> >
> > Is it a statue/monument?
>
> It's a tomb, at Macassar Beach. The actual tomb is covered with silk
> cloths.
>
> Steve Hayes
> E-mail:
> Web: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7734/steve.htm

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