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Red and purple.

As languages add colour words to their lexicon, the colours a word refers to can get shifted around. Portuguese roxo, related to the same Proto-Indo European (PIE) word reudh, used to mean red and red-related colours, including pink, orange, and purple. When the bright red pigment vermilion was imported from China, Portuguese began using vermelho to refer to red, and pushed roxo aside to refer exclusively to purple. (here)

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Orange. “When oranges (the fruit) were exported from India, the word for them was exported too. Sanskrit narangah, or "orange tree," was borrowed into Persian as narang, "orange (fruit)," which was borrowed into Arabic as naranj, into Italian as arancia, into French as orange, and eventually into English as orange. The color of the fruit was so striking that after borrowing the word and the crop, English speakers eventually began referring to the color by this word as well. Before oranges were imported in the 1500s, the English word for orange (the color) was geoluhread (literally, "yellow-red").” (here) “The Persian word from which "orange" is derived did not refer to the colour of the fruit, but to the bitterness of its skin.” (here)

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"The day of Mohammad's greatest triumph over his enemies was also the day of his grandest victory over himself. He freely forgave the Koraysh all the years of sorrow and cruel scorn in which they had afflicted him and gave an amnesty to the whole population of Mekka... The army followed his example, and entered quietly and peacefully: no house was robbed, no women insulted... Through all the annals of conquest there is no triumphant entry comparable to this one." --- Stanley Lane-Poole, The Speeches and Table-Talk of the Prophet Mohammad, London 1882, Introduction, pp. 46,47

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"When we contemplate the duration of the universe, we see it limited to the present moment, which is nothing more but the point which separates two infinities of time. The past and the future are as meaningless as if they did not exist. Is anyone more misguided than the man who barters an eternal future for a moment which passes quicker than the blink of an eye?" --- Ibn Hazm Al Andalusi, 994-1064 A.D., Al Akhlaq wa’l Siyar

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"But Islam has a still further service to render to the cause of humanity. [...] it possesses a magnificent tradition of inter-racial understanding and cooperation. No other society has such a record of success uniting in an equality of status, of opportunity, and of endeavours so many and so various races of mankind. [...] Islam has still the power to reconcile apparently irreconcilable elements of race and tradition." --- H. A. R. Gibb, Whither Islam, 1932

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