A Comprehensive Commentary on the Qurán: Comprising Sale's Translation and Preliminary Discourse, with Additional Notes and Emendations; Together with a Complete Index to the Text, Preliminary Discourse, and Notes, Volume 3

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K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, limited, 1896
 

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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 166 - Yet they are not all alike: there are of those who have received the scriptures, upright people; they meditate on the signs of God in the night season, and worship ; they believe in God and the last day; and command that which is just, and forbid that which is unjust, and zealously strive to excel in good works : these are of the righteous.
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 73 - Do they not perceive that God, who created the heavens and the earth, is able to create other bodies, like their present ? And he hath appointed them a limited term; there is no doubt thereof: but the ungodly reject the truth, merely out of unbelief.
Page 344 - ... 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 144 - And in the people's absence he went into the temple where the idols stood, and he brake them all in pieces, except the biggest of them; that they might lay the blame upon that.
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 297 - But if thy parents endeavour to prevail on thee to associate with me that concerning . which thou hast no knowledge, obey them not: bear them company in this world in what shall be reasonable ; but follow the way of him who sincerely turneth unto me.
Page 65 - There is no city but we will destroy the same before the day of resurrection, or we will punish it with a grievous punishment. This is written in the book of our eternal decrees. Nothing hindered us from sending thee with miracles, except that the former nations have charged them with imposture.
Page 198 - And unto such of your slaves™ as desire a written instrument allowing them to redeem themselves on paying a certain sum," write one , if ye know good in them ; • and give them of the riches of GOD, which he hath given you.

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