Half Hours with Muhammad ...: Together with a Short Synopsis of the Religion He FoundedW.H. Allen & Company, 1886 - 324 pages |
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... Quran . His power was not at first considerable , but the events of the year had added to the number of his followers , and now ( A.D. 632 ) he began to be so formidable an opponent , that it became necessary to despatch a body of ...
... Quran . His power was not at first considerable , but the events of the year had added to the number of his followers , and now ( A.D. 632 ) he began to be so formidable an opponent , that it became necessary to despatch a body of ...
Page 90
... Quran ; but the faithless scribe corrupting the text , fled to Mecca , where , thinking himself secure , he was imprudent enough to ridicule the work which he had been commissioned to engross ; the capture , however , of the sacred city ...
... Quran ; but the faithless scribe corrupting the text , fled to Mecca , where , thinking himself secure , he was imprudent enough to ridicule the work which he had been commissioned to engross ; the capture , however , of the sacred city ...
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... Quran ; and what the Quran approveth stand to , and what it disapproveth reject . Delight in God for your Lord , and in Islam for your religion , and in Mu- hammad for your prophet , and in the Quran for your Guide and Director . " The ...
... Quran ; and what the Quran approveth stand to , and what it disapproveth reject . Delight in God for your Lord , and in Islam for your religion , and in Mu- hammad for your prophet , and in the Quran for your Guide and Director . " The ...
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... Quran came down from Heaven , and Isa ( Jesus ) upon whom be peace , was lifted up to Heaven , and in which Joshua the son of Nun was killed ; by God ! none of his predecessors exceeded him , nor will any of his successors eyer be equal ...
... Quran came down from Heaven , and Isa ( Jesus ) upon whom be peace , was lifted up to Heaven , and in which Joshua the son of Nun was killed ; by God ! none of his predecessors exceeded him , nor will any of his successors eyer be equal ...
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... QURAN . THE word Quran signifies in Arabic " the reading , " or rather , " that which ought to be read . " The syllable Al is only the Arabic article signifying the , and therefore ought to be omitted when the ... QURAN CHAPTER V THE QURAN.
... QURAN . THE word Quran signifies in Arabic " the reading , " or rather , " that which ought to be read . " The syllable Al is only the Arabic article signifying the , and therefore ought to be omitted when the ... QURAN CHAPTER V THE QURAN.
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Abdu'l Muttalib Abu Bakr Abu Hanifa Allah amongst angels Apostle Arabs Arafat army Ayisha Bani battle Black Stone body called camels caravan Christian circumstance command corpse Damascus daughter death descendants desert divine doctrine earth Egypt enemies faith father favour feet followers Ghassanide Hajj hand hapless Hasan Hashim head heaven Hijaz Hijra Holy City honour Husain Ihram Imam Ishmael Islam Jedda Jews journey Kaba Karbala Khalif Kiswa Kufa latter Lord Madina Mahmil month Mosque Mount Arafat Muawiya Muhammad Muhammadans Muslim Musulman night occasion Omar Othman Paradise passed performed Persians person pilgrimage pilgrims pious prayer Prophet of Arabia Quraish Quran Qussai received religion repaired Riza sacred Saracens sect sent Shias soul spot supposed sword Syria Tawaf temple of Mecca thee thou tion tomb town traditions tribe Umra venerated verily votary warriors whereupon wife women words worship Yaman Yazid Zu'l Hijja
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Page 148 - Thou art, of what sort the eternal life of the saints was to be, which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive.
Page 67 - If these writings of the Greeks agree with the book of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved: if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed.
Page 141 - ... will take the left, but both of them must first pass the bridge, called in Arabic, al Sirat. which they say is laid over the midst of hell, and described to be finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge of a sword...
Page 136 - David, and preten'd he is to come in the last days, and to be lord both of land and sea, and that he will restore the kingdom to them. According to the traditions of...
Page 68 - Syene to the sea is a month's journey for an horseman. Along the valley descends a river, on which the blessing of the Most High reposes both in the evening and morning, and which rises and falls with the revolutions of the sun and moon. When the...
Page 219 - Mecca; but generally in divination they made use of three only, on one of which was written, My Lord hath commanded me: on another My Lord hath forbidden me; and the third was blank.
Page 149 - GOD having secretly predetermined not only the adverse and prosperous fortune of every person in this world, in the most minute particulars, but also his faith or infidelity, his obedience or disobedience, and consequently his everlasting happiness or misery after death ; which fate...
Page 140 - As to the genii, many Mahometans are of opinion that such of them as are true believers will undergo the same fate as the irrational animals, and have no other reward than the favour of being converted into dust : and for this they quote the authority of their prophet.
Page 140 - ... part of the good works of him who offered the injury, and adding it to those of him who suffered it. Which being done, if the angels (by whose ministry this is to be performed) say, " Lord, we have given to every one his due ; and there rcmaineth of this person's good works so much as equalleth the weight of an ant...