| Henry Addison Nelson, Albert B. Robinson - Presbyterian Church - 1889 - 588 pages
...Jews and Moslems alike. The use of wine by Moslems is forbidden by the Koran in these words : " О 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 secketh to sow dissension and hatred... | |
| Anne Walbank Buckland - Anthropology - 1891 - 324 pages
...without trying this mode of divination." The Koran probably refers to this in the chapter which says — "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." l In the preliminary discourse (p. 1 27),... | |
| Walter W. Spooner - Drinking of alcoholic beverages - 1891 - 684 pages
...great sin, and also some things of use unto men; but their sinfulness is greater than their use." " 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 among you... | |
| Anne Walbank Buckland - Anthropology - 1891 - 444 pages
...trying this mode of divination." The Koran probably refers to this in the chapter which says — " 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."1 In the preliminary discourse (p. 127),... | |
| Ḥāfiẓ - 1891 - 548 pages
..." Wine is the source of more evil than profit." ii. 216. " O ye who have become believers ! verily wine, and lots and images and divining arrows are an abomination of the work of the devil. Therefore avoid them that ye may prosper." v. 92. See the Kuran, iv. 46 ; Leviticus,... | |
| Oriental Translation Fund - Oriental literature - 1893 - 432 pages
...will ask thee concerning wine and lots ; answer, In both there is great sin.' — Qurfin, ch. ii. 216. 'O true believers, surely wine, and lots, and images, and divining arrows, are an abomination and the work of Satan,' etc.— Ibid., ch. v. 92. in this year in consequence of the information brought... | |
| Muḧammad Yüsuf (khān bahādur.) - Divorce - 1895 - 930 pages
...you his signs, that ye may give thanks. 174 (170). No. 92. SIPARA VII, CHAPTEE V, p. 148, Vol. II. 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. 175 (171). No. 93. SIPAEA VII, CHAPTER V,... | |
| Sir William Muir - Islam - 1895 - 264 pages
...games of chance and other " works of Satan " : — • 0 Believers ! verily wine, and the casting of lots, and images and divining arrows, are an abomination of the works of Satan. Shun them, therefore, that ye may prosper. Satan seeketh to sow dissension and hatred among you by... | |
| Henry Coppée - Literature - 1895 - 552 pages
...desire a reconciliation, God will cause them to agree ; for God is knowing and wise. WINE FORBIDDEN. 0 true believers, surely wine, and lots, and images, and divining arrows, are an AL KORAN. abomination of the work of Satan ; therefore avoid them that ye may prosper. Satan seeketh... | |
| 1896 - 422 pages
...inadvertently. Therefore keep your oaths. Thus GOD declareth unto you his signs, that ye may give thanks. (92) 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. (93) Satan seeketh to sow dissension and... | |
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