 They will ask thee concerning wine and lots. Answer, In both there is great sin, and also some things of use unto men; but their sinfulness is greater than their use.  Goethe's West-Easterly Divan - Page 247by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1877 - 264 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Elliott Speer - Missions - 1902 - 568 pages
...wine. This is indeed the doctrine of the Koran. " They will ask thee concerning wine and lots: Answer, in both there is great sin and also some things of...; but their sinfulness is greater than their use." (Sura ii, 216.) "O true believers, surely wine, and lots, and images, and divining arrows are an abomination... | |
 | Charles Turner Gorham - Ethics - 1904 - 102 pages
...lois. 1 Sale's Preface, sec. 4. s Ibid, c. ii. 3 Koran, c. xxx. « Ibid, c. ix. he ¿e: 'of i Answer, In both there is great sin, and also some things of...; but their sinfulness is greater than their use. They will- ask thee also what they shall bestow in alms ; answer, What ye have to spare. Thus God showeth... | |
 | William Jennings Bryan - Europe - 1907 - 588 pages
...of intoxicating liquor and gambling, saying: "They will ask thee concerning wine and lots; answer, in both there is great sin, and also some things of...; but their sinfulness is greater than their use." As to alms-giving the measure was to be, "what ye have to spare." While plurality of wives was allowed... | |
 | Frank Sargent Hoffman - Civilization - 1908 - 434 pages
...idolatry is more grievous than to kill." "When they will ask thee concerning wine and lots; answer, In both there is great sin, and also some things of use to men, but their sinfulness is greater than their use." After treating of many other legislative matters... | |
 | Frank Sargent Hoffman - Civilization - 1908 - 420 pages
...idolatry is more grievous than to kill." "When they will ask thee concerning wine and lots; answer, In both there is great sin, and also some things of use to men, but their sinfulness is greater than their use." After treating of many other legislative matters... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1911 - 972 pages
...important are those concerning wine and gambling. "They will ask thee concerning wine and lots ; answer in both there is great sin and also some things of...; but their sinfulness is greater than their use," and suras 2, v. 216; 5, v. 92, treat of the same. These verses are held by the Moslem to be an absolute... | |
 | Pierre Ponafidine - Islam - 1911 - 540 pages
...verse of the 2d Sura the following words : " They will ask thee concerning wine and lots.1 Answer, in both there is great sin, and also some things of...men; but their sinfulness is greater than their use." These are all the commands to be found in the Koran, but on this basis the Shariat has worked out a... | |
 | Charles Francis Horne - English literature - 1917 - 502 pages
...mercy of God; for God is gracious and merciful. They will ask thee concerning wine and lots: Answer, in both there is great sin, and also some things of...men; but their sinfulness is greater than their use. They will ask thee also what they shall bestow in alms: Answer, What ye have to spare. Thus God showeth... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1919 - 960 pages
...important are those concerning wine and gambling. "They will ask thee concerning wine and lots ; answer in both there is great sin and also some things of...men; but their sinfulness is greater than their use," and suras 2, v. 216; S, v. 92, treat of the same. These verses are held by the Moslem to be an absolute... | |
 | Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - Egypt - 1921 - 992 pages
...ye them, that ye may prosper " ; and again, " They will ask thee concerning wine and lots : Answer, in both there is great sin, and also some things of...; but their sinfulness is greater than their use." Strict Muhammadans abjure the use of opium and hashish, or Indian hemp (cannabis Indicci), which when... | |
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