 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.  Mahometanism - Page 69by John Gibson Cazenove - 1856 - 128 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1867 - 426 pages
...passage of the fifth sura, where it is said, " O true believers ! surely wine and lots [games of chance] and images and divining arrows are an abomination,...Satan ; therefore avoid them, that ye may prosper." But these words are understood by many commentators as applying only to idolatrous images, while others... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland - Anthropology - 1876 - 614 pages
...the chapter which says, " 0, true believers, surely wine, and lots, and images, and clivining-arrows are an abomination of the work of Satan ; therefore avoid them that ye may prosper."! In the preliminary discourse (p. 127) we are told that the arrows used for this purpose were like those... | |
 | Anthropology - 1876 - 606 pages
...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." J In the preliminary discourse (p. 127) we are told that the arrows used for this purpose were like... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1877 - 306 pages
...sometimes used to decide who should pay for flesh to be given to the poor ; but it led to ill-feeling. " O 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. Satan seeketh to sow dissension and... | |
 | James Samuelson - Temperance - 1878 - 336 pages
...forbidden. The interdiction is found in the fifth chapter of the Koran, and runs as follows : — " 0 true believers, surely wine, and lots, and images,...prosper. Satan seeketh to sow dissension and hatred amongst you by means of wiue and lots, and to divert you from remembering God and from prayer; will... | |
 | George Whitefield Samson - Temperance - 1879 - 344 pages
...(Sura v.), Muhammed thus wrote : " O true believers, surely wine, and lots, and idols, and divination are an abomination of the work of Satan ; therefore avoid them that ye may prosper " ; a precept which, from its combination of prohibitions, Sale, the learned English translator and... | |
 | George Whitefield Samson - Temperance - 1879 - 356 pages
...(Sura v.), Muhammcd thus wrote: " O true believers, surely wine, and lots, and idols, and divination are an abomination of the work of Satan; therefore avoid them that ye may prosper"; a precept which, from its combination of prohibitions, Sale, the learned English translator and commentator... | |
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