 | Charles Francis Horne - English literature - 1917 - 508 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; therefore avoid them, that ye may prosper. Satan seeketh to sow dissension and hatred... | |
 | Byron Akbar Roloson - Prohibition - 1918 - 78 pages
...and neglect or at least indecencies in the performance of religious duties'." Again, from 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 yea may prosper. Satan seeketh to sow dissensions among... | |
 | Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - Egypt - 1921 - 992 pages
...whatever. The Kur'an prohibits the drinking of wine and all intoxicating liquors in these words : — " O true believers, surely wine, and lots, and images, and divining arrows are an abomination of the work of Satan ; therefore avoid ye them, that ye may prosper " ; and again, " They will ask thee concerning... | |
 | Red Cross and Red Crescent - 1923 - 878 pages
...swine, ruin his purse and his health and endanger his offspring. Has not the One and Only God said : " 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 ". In cities flee from dwellings \vithout light... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1887 - 924 pages
...innumerable other crimes and miseries which follow in its train.1 ' 0 true believers ! ' said Mohammed, ' surely wine, and lots, and images, and divining arrows are an abomination and the work of Satan ; therefore avoid them that ye may prosper. Satan seeketh to sow dissension and... | |
 | Henry Parker - History - 1981 - 766 pages
...Kukh ; and eight Pawns called Piyatha (Persian Piyuda, foot-soldier) or Paithal, ' Footman.' 1 ' () true believers, surely wine, and lots, and images, and divining arrows are an abomination of the work of Satan.' Sale's Qutan. Chapter v. Sale states th;it the word ' images ' is believed by commentators... | |
 | Jack Goody - Cooking - 1998 - 328 pages
...pleasurable substance tends to loss of control. 'O true believers! surely wine and maisirznd stone pillars and divining arrows are an abomination, of the works of Satan; therefore avoid them, that ye may prosper' (Surah v: 90). Once again wine is associated with false gods and hence forbidden.... | |
 | Religion - 2003 - 214 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 ; therefore avoid them, that ye may prosper. Satan seeketh to sow dissen200 THE KORAN... | |
 | Cecil Henry Buck - History - 1977 - 282 pages
...the majority of Muslims are remarkably free. In the chapter entitled " The Table " it is written : " 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." The pious Muslim does not play any game... | |
 | 1881 - 644 pages
...eschewed by the Faithful, his words being — " O, true believers, surely wine, and lots, and 'imagen, and divining arrows, are an abomination of the works of Satan, therefore avoid ye them, that yo may prosper." According to Mussulman commentators, by " wine and lots " are meant all kinds of intoxicating... | |
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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... 
