 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
 | John Granville Woolley, William Eugene Johnson - Canada - 1903 - 586 pages
...fifth chapter of the Koran records the injunction mentioned by Sieur de Ryer in these words : " Oh, true believers, surely wine and lots, and images and...abomination of the work of Satan; therefore avoid them that you may prosper. Satan sceketh to sow dissension and hatred amongst you by means of wine and lots,... | |
 | Henry Parker - Ethnology - 1909 - 790 pages
...Castles, Rukh ; and eight Pawns called Piyatha (Persian Piydda, foot-soldier) or Paithal, ' Footman.' 1 ' O true believers, surely wine, and lots, and images,...divining arrows are an abomination of the work of Satan.' Sale's Quran, Chapter v. Sale states that the word ' images ' is believed by commentators to refer... | |
 | Byron Akbar Roloson - Prohibition - 1918 - 78 pages
...company, and neglect or at least indecencies in the performance of religious duties'." Again, from the Koran: "O true believers, surely wine and lots...of the work of Satan ; therefore, avoid them that yea may prosper. Satan seeketh to sow dissensions among you by wine and lots, and to diverting you... | |
 | 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,...abomination of the work of Satan ; therefore avoid ye them, that ye may prosper " ; and again, " They will ask thee concerning wine and lots : Answer,... | |
 | 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,...of Satan; therefore avoid them that ye may prosper ". In cities flee from dwellings \vithout light and air, and narrow streets where the sun enters not,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Mahmoud Ayoub - Religion - 1984 - 308 pages
...it at the time of prayer.' Then was sent, 'Surely wine, gambling [by shuffling arrows], stone idols, and divining arrows are an abomination of the work of Satan; therefore avoid it' [Q. 5:90]. The Apostle of God then said, 'Wine is forbidden'" (Tabari, IV, p. 329; see also p.... | |
 | 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,...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 to refer... | |
 | Robert C. Fuller - Cooking - 1996 - 156 pages
...Quran made this prohibition explicit: "O true believers! Surely wine and gambling and stone pillars and divining arrows are an abomination, of the work...Satan; therefore avoid them, that ye may prosper." The biblical culture of ancient Judaism was, with the exception of its attitudes toward drunkenness,... | |
 | Elwood Morris Wherry - Religion - 2000 - 420 pages
...thanke. (92) О true helievers, surely wine, and lots, and images, and divining arrows are an ahomination of the work of Satan ; therefore avoid them that ye may prosper. (93) Satan seeketh to sow dissension and hatred among you hy means of wine and lots, and to divert... | |
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