The Koran, Commonly Called the Alcoran of MohammedJ. B. Lippincott, 1860 - 802 pages |
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... heaven , and could hear the prayers of his worshippers , should appear from heaven in their sight , and they would then believe him ; the Jews crying out with one voice , " Show us your Christ , alas , and we will become Christians ...
... heaven , and could hear the prayers of his worshippers , should appear from heaven in their sight , and they would then believe him ; the Jews crying out with one voice , " Show us your Christ , alas , and we will become Christians ...
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... heaven , so much spoken of by all that write of him . Dr. Prideaux thinks he invented it either to answer the expectations of those who demanded some miracle as a proof of his mission ; or else , by pretending to have conversed with God ...
... heaven , so much spoken of by all that write of him . Dr. Prideaux thinks he invented it either to answer the expectations of those who demanded some miracle as a proof of his mission ; or else , by pretending to have conversed with God ...
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... heaven , that its place there may be assigned , according to its merit and degree . For they distinguish the souls of the faithful into three classes ; the first of prophets , whose souls are admitted into paradise immediately ; the ...
... heaven , that its place there may be assigned , according to its merit and degree . For they distinguish the souls of the faithful into three classes ; the first of prophets , whose souls are admitted into paradise immediately ; the ...
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imagine they are with Adam , in the lowest heaven ; and also support their opinion by the authority of their prophet , who gave out that in his return from the upper heavens in his pretended night journey , he saw there the souls of ...
imagine they are with Adam , in the lowest heaven ; and also support their opinion by the authority of their prophet , who gave out that in his return from the upper heavens in his pretended night journey , he saw there the souls of ...
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... heavens shall melt , the sun le darkened , the stars fall , on the death of the angels , who as some imagin hold them suspended between heaven and earth , and the sca shall be trou bled and dried up , or , according to others , turned ...
... heavens shall melt , the sun le darkened , the stars fall , on the death of the angels , who as some imagin hold them suspended between heaven and earth , and the sca shall be trou bled and dried up , or , according to others , turned ...
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Abraham Abu Jahl Abulfed Abulfeda according afterwards Al Beidâwi alms angels answered apostle Arabs Beidâwi called cause chap chapter children of Israel Christians command creatures D'Herbel day of resurrection death Disc divine evil faith father favour fear follow genii give God's grievous hath created hearts hell fire honour ibid Idem idolaters idolatry idols infidels inhabitants INTITLED Jallalo'ddin Jesus Jews judgment knoweth Korân Koreish Medina mercy Mohammed Mohammed's Mohammedans Moses Moslems night Noah opinion paradise passage was revealed Pentateuch person Pharaoh pleaseth prayer Prelim pretend prophet punishment received religion REVEALED AT MECCA reward Savary say unto scriptures sect sent down unto servants signifies signs unto soul Spec suppose surely Syria Thamud therein thereof things thou shalt thy LORD tribe true believers truth ubi sup unbelievers unto thee Verily verse Vide Poc wherefore wicked words worship Yahya Zamakh Zamakhshari
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Page 308 - Solomon travelled, the eastern writers say, "he had a carpet of green silk on which his throne was placed, being of a prodigious length and breadth, and sufficient for all his forces to stand upon, the men placing themselves on his right hand and the spirits on his left ; and that when all were in order, the wind, at his command, took up the carpet, and transported it with all that were upon it, wherever he pleased ; the army of birds at the same time flying over their heads, and forming a kind of...
Page 68 - ... enriched with gold and silver, and that the trunks of all its trees are of gold; among which the most remarkable is the tree called Tuba, or the tree of happiness.
Page 98 - I had said so, thou wouldst surely have known it: thou knowest what is in me, but I know not what is in thee; for thou art the knower of secrets. I have not spoken to them any other than what thou didst command me; namely, Worship God, my Lord and your Lord...
Page 492 - READ in the name of thy Lord, who hath created all things; who hath created man of congealed blood. Read, by thy most beneficent Lord; who taught the use of the pen; who teacheth man that which he knoweth not.
Page 9 - Verily they who believe, and those who Judaize, and the Sabians, and the Christians, whoever of them believeth in God and the last day, and doth that which is right, there shall come no fear on them, neither shall they be grieved.
Page 61 - And if a man or woman's substance be inherited by a distant relation, and he or she have a brother or sister ; each of them two shall have a sixth part of the estate. But if there be more than this number, they shall be equal sharers in a third part, after payment of the legacies which shall be bequeathed, and the debts, without prejudice to the heirs.
Page 17 - We believe in God, and that which has been sent down unto us, and that which hath been sent down unto Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the Tribes, and that which was delivered unto Moses and Jesus, and that which was delivered unto the prophets from their Lord; we make no distinction between any of them...
Page 46 - We believe in GOD, and that which hath been sent down unto us, and that which hath been sent down unto ABRAHAM, and ISMAEL, and ISAAC, and JACOB, and the tribes ; and that which was delivered unto MOSES, and JESUS, and that which was delivered unto the prophets from their LORD : we make no distinction between any of them, and to GOD are we resigned.
Page 36 - Oreitah, an idolater whom they had hired for a guide. In this cave they lay hid three days, to avoid the search of their enemies ; which they very narrowly escaped, and not without the assistance of more miracles than one ; for some say that the Koreish were struck with blindness, so that they could not find the cave ; others, that, after Mahomet and his companions were got in, two pigeons laid their eggs at the entrance, and a spider covered the mouth of the cave with her web, which made them look...
Page 57 - They describe this monster, as to her form, to be a compound of various species, having the head of a bull, the eyes of a hog, the ears of an elephant, the horns of a stag, the neck of an ostrich, the breast of a lion, the colour of a tiger, the back of a cat, the tail of a ram, the legs of a camel, and the voice of an ass. Some say...