ATDTDA 753

[Ya Sam]

ATDTDA 753
 
“crossing from world to world” Isn’t that one of the major leitmotifs of ATD?
 
Charjui 
This city in Turkmenistan was renamed as Leninsk in 1924-1927.
 
“the Mahommedan community there believed the railroad to be an instrument of Satan”
Not only they!
 
“Like damned Stanley and Livingstone all over again”
“Dr Livingstone, I presume?” 
These were the first words spoken by a white man that the famous British explorer David Livingstone had heard in five years. For four years, in fact, Livingstone had been feared dead. But, on November 13th, 1871 an expedition led by a New York Times journalist by the name of Henry Morton Stanley found Livingstone, frail and short of supplies, but alive, at Ujiji, on the edge of Lake Tanganyika, Central Africa. Livingstone’s response to Stanley’s question was, “You have brought me new life.” 
http://www.essortment.com/davidlivingston_rhif.htm
 
Hotel Tarim
The Tarim River is an oasis that waters a strip 300 miles (500 km) long, running through China’s largest and driest desert, the Taklimakan. In the local Uygur language, tarim means "converging of waters." Among braided channels of water, forests of poplar stabilize the sand and moderate the climate. Much of this habitat, however, has been converted to agriculture, with native poplars planted as windbreaks along the edges of fields.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/pa/pa0442.html
 
gazelle-eyed young women
 
51-57] The God-fearing shall be in a secure place,40 in the gardens and springs, dressed in silk and brocade,41 sitting face to face. Such will be their station! And We shall wed to them fair-complexioned, gazelle-eyed women.42 There, in full peace, they shall ask for all kinds of tasty things.43 There they shall never taste death, after their fast death in the world, and Allah by His grace will protect them from the torment of Hell.44 This is the supreme success!
 
http://www.searchtruth.com/tafsir/Quran/44/index.html
 
Houri
also spelled  huri , Arabic  Hawra' , plural  Hur  in Islam, a beautiful maiden who awaits the devout Muslim in paradise. The Arabic word hawra' signifies the contrast of the clear white of the eye to the blackness of the iris.
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9041193/houri
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