The Spirit of Islām: A History of the Evolution and Ideals of Islām, with a Life of the Prophet

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Chatto & Windus, 1923 - 514 pages

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Page 46 - Think not that I am come to send peace on earth; I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-inlaw against her mother-in-law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
Page 442 - Cherbury gives an interesting account of the education of a highly-born youth at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century.
Page 81 - The Israelites' sword, in its bloodiest executions, wrought a work of mercy for all the countries of the earth to the very end of the world.
Page 143 - Your God is one God, there is no God but He, the most merciful.
Page 120 - He was the most faithful protector of those he protected, the sweetest and most agreeable in conversation ; those who saw him were suddenly filled with reverence ; those who came near him loved him; they who described him would say, 'I have never seen his like either before or after.
Page 147 - God is the light of the heavens and the earth ; His light is as a niche in which is a lamp, and the lamp is in a glass ; the glass is as though it were a glittering star...
Page 228 - I conceive that marriage, as understood in Christendom, may for this purpose be defined as the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman, to the exclusion of all others.
Page 87 - When you make any covenant, or article, stand to it, and be as good as your word.
Page li - The general and, as it should seem, the unconstrained voice of the fathers accepted the faith and even the anathemas of Cyril; and the heresy of the two natures was formally condemned in the persons and writings of the most learned Orientals. "May those who divide Christ be divided with the sword, may they be hewn in pieces, may they be burned alive!
Page 86 - Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not ; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

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