 | 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... | |
 | 1870 - 482 pages
...inadvertently. Therefore keep your oaths. Thus GOD declareth unto you his signs, that ye may give thanks. 0 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... | |
 | William Denton - Free thought - 1872 - 332 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.... | |
 | Reginald Bosworth Smith - Christianity and other religions - 1876 - 416 pages
...my Second Lecture, among the darling practices of the Arabs : how did the Prophet deal with them ? ' 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,... | |
 | 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,...divining arrows, are an abomination of the work of Satan; therefore avoid them that ye may prosper. Satan seeketh to sow dissension and hatred amongst you by... | |
 | prince Bakhtiyâr - 1883 - 302 pages
...planted a fig-tree. t Compare Scott : "When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! " wine, and lots, and images, and divining arrows are an abomination of the work of the Devil ; therefore avoid them that ye may prosper " (ch. v, 92). — Mills was certainly in error... | |
 | William Alexander Clouston - Persian literature - 1883 - 296 pages
...the well-known tale of the emperor Hadrian and the old man who planted a fig-tree, t Compart Scott : wine, and lots, and images, and divining arrows are an abomination of the work of the Devil ; therefore avoid them that ye may prosper " (ch. v, 92). — Mills was certainly in error... | |
 | Literature - 1886 - 552 pages
...desire a reconciliation, God will cause them to agree; for God is knowing and wise. WINE FORBIDDEN. 0 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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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... 
