| 1855 - 528 pages
...Ubicini, pp 502, 603. ' We have not space for a description of this mode of divination, but the fol' 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 seeketb to sow dissension and hatred... | |
| John Gibson Cazenove - Islam - 1856 - 140 pages
...in every emergency by the countrymen of Mahomet.2 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 of Satan ; therefore avoid them, that ye may prosper. Satan seeketh to sow dissension and hatred... | |
| John Murray Mitchell - Apologetics - 1857 - 224 pages
...also some thing of use to men, but their sinfulness is greater than their use." And in Sura 5th, " O true believers, surely wine, and lots, and images, and divining arrows, are an abomination of the work of Satan." Here the earlier chapters are held to abrogate the later. ,11 It is possible that,... | |
| George Sale - 1860 - 692 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,* and divining arrows,' are an abomination of the work of Satan j therefore avoid them that ye may prosper. Satan seeketh to sow dissension and hatred... | |
| John Mair - Temperance - 1861 - 322 pages
...sin, and some things of use unto men, but their 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 of Satan ; therefore, avoid them, that ye may prosper. Satan seeketh to sow dissension and hatred... | |
| Baptists - 1863 - 734 pages
...men ; but their sinfulness is greater than their 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 of Satan ; therefore avoid them, that ye may prosper. Satan seeketh to sow dissension and hatred... | |
| Henry Allon - Christianity - 1862 - 538 pages
...forbade all three ; made abstinence from strong drink an essential part of piety, and declared to the believers, 'Surely wine, and lots, and images, and divining arrows, are an abomination, [are] of the work of Satan. . . . Satan seeketh to sow dissension and hatred amongst you by means of... | |
| 1870 - 484 pages
...inadvertently. Therefore keep your oaths. Thus GOD declareth unto you his signs, that ye may give thanks. 0 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... | |
| William Denton - Free thought - 1872 - 348 pages
...not," he replies, turning over the leaves of the Koran, and reading to us the following passage : ' 0 true believers ! surely wine and lots and images and divining arrows are an abomination, and of the work of Satan ; therefore avoid them that ye may prosper/ " That is sufficient/' he says.... | |
| ʿAbd Allah b. ʿAbd al-ḳâdir (Munshî.) - 1874 - 418 pages
...believe in God and the last day, and doth that which ia right, etc. Chap. v. 33. Idolatry, etc. 0, true believers, surely wine, and lots, and images, and divining arrows, are an abomination, the work of Satan ; therefore avoid them, that ye may prosper. Chap. v. 34. Personification of Satan.... | |
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