A Comprehensive Commentary on the Qurán, Volume 3Elwood Morris Wherry Trübner & Company, 1885 |
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... Arabs . This verse also justifies the translation of the Qurán from the Arabic . God causeth to err . God is here certainly made the author of sin . The Tafsir - i - Raufi says , " Causing to err and directing aright are the load of his ...
... Arabs . This verse also justifies the translation of the Qurán from the Arabic . God causeth to err . God is here certainly made the author of sin . The Tafsir - i - Raufi says , " Causing to err and directing aright are the load of his ...
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... Arabic . " The commentators , on the authority of tradition , give us the names of a number of Jewish and Christian converts as being here alluded to . We may therefore agree with Muhammad that this foreigner did not write the Qurán ...
... Arabic . " The commentators , on the authority of tradition , give us the names of a number of Jewish and Christian converts as being here alluded to . We may therefore agree with Muhammad that this foreigner did not write the Qurán ...
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... Arabs ; and they often used to put them to death by burying them alive . " - Sale . See on chap . lxxxi . 8 . ( 60 ) His face becometh black . " Clouded with confusion and sorrow . " - Sale . ( 61 ) Bury it in the dust . The allusion is ...
... Arabs ; and they often used to put them to death by burying them alive . " - Sale . See on chap . lxxxi . 8 . ( 60 ) His face becometh black . " Clouded with confusion and sorrow . " - Sale . ( 61 ) Bury it in the dust . The allusion is ...
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... Arabic tongue , and with so great elegance , it is plain this person was no Arabian . The word Ajami , which is here used , signifies any foreign or barbarous language in general , but the Arabs applying it more particularly to the ...
... Arabic tongue , and with so great elegance , it is plain this person was no Arabian . The word Ajami , which is here used , signifies any foreign or barbarous language in general , but the Arabs applying it more particularly to the ...
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... Arabic betrayed a Grecian education . By traffic he acquired con- siderable wealth at Mecca ; but having embraced Islám , and being left by the death of Abdalla without a patron , he suffered much at the hands of the unbelieving Coreish ...
... Arabic betrayed a Grecian education . By traffic he acquired con- siderable wealth at Mecca ; but having embraced Islám , and being left by the death of Abdalla without a patron , he suffered much at the hands of the unbelieving Coreish ...
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A Comprehensive Commentary on the Quran: Comprising Sale's Translation and ... George Sale,E M 1843-1927 Wherry No preview available - 2016 |
COMPREHENSIVE COMMENTARY ON TH George 1697?-1736 Sale,E. M. (Elwood Morris) 1843-1927 Wherry No preview available - 2016 |
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Aaron Abraham Abu Jahl according accused admonition afterwards angels answered apostles Arabs Ayesha Baidhawi battle of Badr bestowed called cause chapter children of Israel Christian command commentators death destroyed devil directed Disc divine Dost thou earth evil faith father favour fear follow former prophets genii give God's Gog and Magog hath created heaven hell Hijra honour idolaters idolatry idols imposture infidels Islám Jalaluddin Jews judgment Kaabah knoweth lest Madian Madína Mahomet mercy miracles Moses Muham Muhammad Muhammadans Muslims Noah note on chap Paradise passage person Pharaoh pleaseth praise prayer preaching Prelim prophets punishment Quraish Qurán receive rejected religion Revealed at Makkah revelation reward righteous Sale Sámirí Satan Scriptures sent servants signs unto soul story suppose surely Tafsir-i-Raufi therein thereof things thou shalt thy LORD tion true believers truth unbelievers unto thee Verily vers verse wherefore wicked words worship Zamakhshari
Popular passages
Page 333 - And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither : so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
Page 326 - ... to their husbands, or their fathers, or their husbands fathers, or their sons or their husbands sons, or their brothers or their brothers sons, or their sisters...
Page 196 - And speak unto the believing women, that they restrain their eyes, and preserve their modesty, and discover not their ornaments, except what necessarily appeareth thereof: and let them throw their veils over their bosoms, and not show their ornaments, unless to their husbands, or their fathers, or tl oir husbands' fathers, or their sons, or their husbands' sons, or their brothers, or their brothers...
Page 179 - And we appointed the son of Mary and his mother for a sign : and we prepared an abode for them in an elevated part of the earth, being a place of quiet and security, and watered with running springs.
Page 344 - ... is with you wheresoever ye be: for God seeth that which ye do. His is the kingdom of heaven and earth; and unto God shall all things return. He causeth the night to succeed the day, and he causeth the day to succeed the night; and he knoweth the innermost part of men's breasts.
Page 195 - The wicked women should be joined to the wicked men, and the wicked men to the wicked women; but the good women should be married to the good men, and the good men to the good women.
Page 295 - Who laid the foundations of the earth, That it should not be moved for ever.
Page 199 - The glass is as it were a shining star. (This lamp is) kindled from a blessed tree, an olive neither of the East nor of the West, whose oil would almost glow forth (of itself) though no fire touched it. Light upon light.
Page 49 - He hath only forbidden you that which dieth of itself, and blood, and swine's flesh, and that which hath been slain in the name of any besides GOD.
Page 60 - And give unto him who is of kin to you his due, and also unto the poor, and the traveller. And waste not thy substance profusely : (29) for the profuse are brethren of the (24) Show kindness unto your parents, &c.