And the sea set aflame.

When the oceans are set aflame.

When the oceans are set aflame.

into scalding waters and then set aflame in the Fire.

into scalding waters and then set aflame in the Fire.

He said, My Lord, my bones have become feeble, and my hair is aflame with gray, and never, Lord, have I been disappointed in my prayer to you.

He said, My Lord, my bones have become feeble, and my hair is aflame with gray, and never, Lord, have I been disappointed in my prayer to you.

saying, 'O my Lord, behold the bones within me are feeble and my head is all aflame with hoariness. And in calling on Thee, my Lord, I have never been hitherto unprosperous.

saying, 'O my Lord, behold the bones within me are feeble and my head is all aflame with hoariness. And in calling on Thee, my Lord, I have never been hitherto unprosperous.

At a time when the Middle East is aflame with sectarian strife, the observance of the Christian holiday is a sad reminder that the region s distinctive religious, ethnic, and cultural diversity is rapidly disappearing. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Christians made up roughly 20 of the Arab world.

In the Middle East in 2011, change came after a humiliated Tunisian fruit vendor set himself alight in protest in a matter of weeks, the region was aflame. In seventeenth century Europe, a local religious uprising by Bohemian Protestants against the Catholic Habsburg Emperor Ferdinand II triggered that era s conflagration.

Kenya is aflame after a presidential election on December 27 widely believed to have been rigged to secure the re election of Mwai Kibaki. Kibaki s opponents took to the streets, the government issued shoot to kill orders, and hundreds have died at the hands of the police as well as from gang rampages and inter ethnic violence.