 | 1856 - 692 pages
...GOD declareth unto you his signs, that ye may give thanks. O true believers, surely wine, and lots,0 and images,d and divining arrows," are an abomination...remembering Taleb, who fled to that country in the first flight,4 read the 29th and 30th, and afterwards the 18th and 19th chapters of the Koran ; on hearing... | |
 | John Gibson Cazenove - 1856 - 140 pages
...Yet how are these things treated in the Koran? ' O true believers, surely wine, and lots, and images, and divining arrows, are an abomination of the work...wine and lots, and to divert you from remembering God and from prayer ; will ye not, therefore, abstain from them ? Obey God, and obey the apostle, and... | |
 | John David Macbride - 1857 - 308 pages
...53: "O, true believers, surely wine, and lots, and images (supposed by commentators to be chessmen), and divining arrows, are an abomination of the work of Satan: therefore avoid them, that you may prosper. Satan seeketh to sow dissension and hatred among you, by means of wine and lots, and... | |
 | George Bush - 1858 - 278 pages
...effects in producing discord and broils among his disciples. " O true believers, wine and games of chance are an abomination, of the work of Satan ; therefore...wine and lots, and to divert you from remembering God, and from prayer ; will ye not, therefore, abstain from them ?" The sins of the past, arising from... | |
 | 1860 - 692 pages
...surely wine, and lots," and images,* and divining arrows,' are an abomination of the work of Satan j therefore avoid them that ye may prosper. Satan seeketh...remembering Taleb, who fled to that country in the first flight,4 read the 29th and 30th, and afterwards the 18th and 19th chapters of the Koran ; on hearing... | |
 | 1860 - 688 pages
...inadvertently. Therefore keep your oaths. Thus GOD declareth unto you his signs, that ye may give thanks. O true believers, surely wine, and lots," and images,d...; therefore avoid them that ye may prosper. Satan sceketh to sow dissension and hatred among you, by means of wine and lots, and to divert you from remembering... | |
 | John Mair - 1861 - 322 pages
...sinfulness is greater than their, use."* Again, " 0 true believers, surely wine, and lots, and images, and divining arrows, are an abomination of the work...wine and lots, and to divert you from remembering God and your prayers. Will you not, therefore, abstain from thcm?"t Who, after this information and... | |
 | 1863 - 734 pages
...use." Again (ch. v.) he takes stronger ground : " 0 true believers, surely wine, and lots, and images and divining arrows,* are an abomination of the work...wine and lots, and to divert you from remembering God, and from prayer : Will ye not then abstain from them. Obey God; and obey the apostle ; and take... | |
 | 1867 - 412 pages
...fifth sura, where it is said, " O true believers ! surely wine and lots [games of chance] and images and divining arrows are an abomination, of the work...Satan ; therefore avoid them, that ye may prosper." But these words are understood by many commentators as applying only to idolatrous images, while others... | |
 | 1867 - 426 pages
...fifth sura, where it is said, " O true believers ! surely wine and lots [games of chance] and images and divining arrows are an abomination, of the work...Satan ; therefore avoid them, that ye may prosper." But these words are understood by many commentators as applying only to idolatrous images, while others... | |
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O true believers, surely wine, and lots, and images, and divining arrows, are an abomination of the work of Satan ; therefore avoid them, that ye may prosper. Satan seeketh to sow dissension and hatred among you, by means of wine and lots, and to divert... 
