In the name of God, please remain to save me.

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Last year another Pakistani film, In the Name of God, was released to critical acclaim in India, but not at the same time as it was in Pakistan.

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As she showed me how to write a version of the Bismillah - the declaration "In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful" - she revealed something astonishing.

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In the name of God, most merciful, most compassionate.

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In the name of God.

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It is also the very meaning of the name of God in the Old Testament.

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In the Old Testament, God places Adam in the Garden of Eden and has him name the animals, an act of a parent to a child.

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Steam Packet Company bosses picked the name to reflect its Manx heritage - in manx mythology Manannan is god of the sea and protector of the Isle of Man.

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In 1551 the Scottish Parliament banned "sweiring, execrationnis and blasphematioun of the name of God", punishable by a shilling fine or a spell in either prison or the stocks for those who could not pay.

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The 37-year-old is already a household name in India and, thanks to the book, The God of Small Things, she is now well on the way to becoming the talk of the chattering classes in the West.

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The name, an acronym of the founding members'names, ironically means "God" in Sanskrit.

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