The city of brass
Describe how God is portrayed in “The City of Brass”?
God is described as the almighty being who created the Daeva, who were once the most powerful creatures on earth and could be anything they wanted. They didn’t like humans and saw them as weak playthings, messing with them.
What does the Dahish’s, the Jinn, story want to convey about idols?
There exists a world parallel to our own. This world is commonly referred to as the spirit world, and almost every set of people have some concept of one. With some people, these spirits are no more then the souls of dead people- or ghosts. With others, spirits are either the forces of good or the forces of evil – both battling against one another to gain influence over humanity. Like every other way, Islam also claims to explain this realm of the unseen. It is from this realm that Islam teaches to us about the world of the Jinn. The Islamic explanation of the Jinn provides us with so many answers to modem day mysteries. Without the knowledge of this world, the Muslims would become like the non-Muslims and be running around looking for any old solution to come their way.
Describe the time when faith seems to help a character in the story?
During the zar, Nahri decides randomly to sing one of the songs in her natural language, one she’s never heard another person speak. This gets an odd reaction from Baseema, the girl who’s supposedly possessed. Nahri heads home, Baseema, who seems to be possed follows her and seems to know who/what Nahri is, talking about testing her blood, and then confused when Nahri doesn’t seem to understand what she’s talking about. She mentions the marid. As Baseema gets aggressive, a mysterious warrior appears out of nowhere, speaking Nahri’s native tongue, which we learn is called Divasti, and he calls her a shafit. He also sees her heal herself where she got scraped by an arrow. We learn Nahri unknowingly called him when she sang the song in Divasti during the zar.
What is the primary human difficulty described by the poetry of the abandoned palace and the city of brass?
There exists a kind of racism in Daevabad between the shafit rebels mad about how they are treated as less than, with women being forced to have sex and men being blinded for perceived slights, Daeva was split by a human prophet king Suleiman into six tribes so they would fight each other and leave humans alone, and Ali’s parents are royalty from two tribes. The shafit half casts of humans and Daeva. There is no harmony to co-exist since the struggles and divisions brought about by rulers From 1,400 years ago, when the Geziri, another Daeva tribe that was much more open to mixing with humans, revolted against the Deava tribe and overthrew the Nahids, taking power, and setting up the current king, Prince Ali’s father.
Does the story offer any insights into a solution to the difficulty in question?
Some deals are made, and she’s given over to her mother’s old assistant, Nisreen, who will train her to be a healer. Dara goes off on an expedition with Muntadhir to track the ifrit hunting them. King wants to arrange a marriage between Nahri and Muntadhir, so he tries to point her to Jamshid, a Daeva who’s the son of the wazir and guard to Muntadhir. With this wedding, there shall be peace in the city again.
How does the story describe the typical religious response of humanity to God?
The ideal response to God is to find a balance for co-existence between different races. The djin and ifrit the representation of evil even though they all began as good beings.