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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... "
Ancient Ceylon: An Account of the Aborigines and of Part of the Early ... - Page 576
by Henry Parker - 1909 - 695 pages
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The Evolution of Governments and Laws: Exhibiting the Governmental ..., Volume 1

Stephen Haley Allen - Constitutional history - 1916 - 1264 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 among you by means...
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The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East: With Historical Surveys ...

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,...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...
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Democracy and Prohibition

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...divining arrows are an abomination of the work of Satan ; therefore, avoid them that yea may prosper. Satan seeketh to sow dissensions among you by wine and...
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Cook's Handbook for Egypt and the Egyptian Sūdān: With Chapters on Egyptian ...

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,...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 wine...
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Monthly Bulletin - League of Red Cross Societies, Volumes 4-5

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,...divining arrows are an abomination of the work of Satan; therefore avoid them that ye may prosper ". In cities flee from dwellings \vithout light and air, and...
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Nineteenth Century and After, Volume 22

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...
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Selections from the Koran

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,...divining arrows, are an abomination of the work of Satan ; therefore avoid them, that ye may prosper. Satan seeketh to sow dissen200 THE KORAN sion and hatred...
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Faiths, Fairs & Festivals of India

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...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 of chance ; he...
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Journal, Volume 12

Anthropological Society of Bombay - Anthropology - 1921 - 1116 pages
...See Chap, i ; also Chap, v, 92-3, wherein is said, " O true believers, surely, wine and el tnaisar ' and images, and divining arrows are an abomination of the work of Satan. Therefore avoid them that you may prosper. Satan seeketh to sow dissension and hatred amongst you by...
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The British Quarterly Review, Volume 36

Henry Allon - Christianity - 1862 - 510 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...
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