Sabean
Sabean or Sabaean may refer to:
- Sabaeans, ancient people in South Arabia
- Sabaean language, Old South Arabian language
- Sabians, name of a religious group mentioned in the Quran, Surah 22 Al Hajj 17. historically adopted by:
- Mandaean Sabians, Gnostic sect from the marshlands of southern Iraq claiming John the Baptist as their most important prophet
- Sabians of Harran, astral religion from Harran (Upper Mesopotamia) associated with Hermeticism and other forms of pagan philosophy
See also
[edit]- Sabian Cymbals, a Canadian-Armenian cymbal manufacturing company
- Sabian (disambiguation)
- Saba (disambiguation)
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From W. St Clair Tisdall. 2014. the original sources of the Qur'an. Its Origin In Pagan Legends and Mythology. Alev Books. pp 33-34.
"An early Arabic writer, Abu Isa'l Maghribi, is quoted by Abu Fida as giving the following account of them. "The Syrians are the most ancient of nations, and Adam and his sons spoke their language. Their religious community is that of the Sabians, and they relate that they received their religion from Seth and Idris (Enoch). They have a book which they ascribe to Seth, and they style it 'The book of Seth'. In it good ethical precepts are recorded, such as enjoin truth-speaking and courage and giving protection to the stranger and such like: and evil practices are mentioned and commend given to abstain from them. The Sabians had certain religious rites, among which are seven fixed times of prayer, five of which correspond with that of the Muslims. The sixth is the prayer at dawn, and the seventh a prayer, the time for which is at the end of the sixth hour of the night. Their prayer, like that of Muslims, is one which requires real earnestness and that the worshiper should not let his attention wander to anything else when offering it. They prayed over the dead without either bowing down or prostration, and fasted thirty days: and if the month of the new moon were a short one, then they kept the fast for twenty-nine days. In connexion with their fast they observed the festivals of Fitr" (breaking the fast at the end of the month) "and Hilal" (new moon), in such a way that the festival of Fitr occurred when the sun entered Aries. And they used to fast from the fourth quarter of the night until the setting of the disk of the sun. And they had festivals at the time of the descending of the five planets to the mansions of their dignity. The five planets are Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, and Mercury. And they used to honour the House of Mecca" (the Ka'bah). Abu'l Fida, At Tawaricku'l Qadimah (Hist. Ante-Islamica), p 148