 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - Egypt - 1921 - 994 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Cecil Henry Buck - FESTIVALS - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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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