Ilahi [top]

is a genre of spiritual musical poetry or hymns similar to the , expressing love for the Divine through song. RUDN UNIVERSITY SCIENTIFIC PERIODICALS PORTAL 2. Historical Movement: Din-i-Ilahi (1582 CE)

Adherents were expected to practice charity and abstain from worldly desires. is a genre of spiritual musical poetry or

At the bend where the river’s fold grew deep, the water was as black as ink. Ilyas slid a lantern down the side of the boat. The light fell on something like a wheel, great and algae-dressed, set among stones. Gears the size of millstones rose like fossilized suns. The clock’s face was silted; numerals in a script that predated their city were half-buried. great and algae-dressed