 | 1791 - 618 pages
...Eaft. It is exprefsly forbidden in В the the Koran, chap. v. 0 true believers, furely wine, ana /oís, images, and divining arrows are an abomination of the work of Satan. The learned reader will find a particular and latisfa£lory account of this prañice, among the idolatrous... | |
 | 1855 - 528 pages
...Ubicini, pp 502, 603. ' We have not space for a description of this mode of divination, but the fol' 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 seeketb to sow dissension and hatred nmong you by... | |
 | John Gibson Cazenove - Islam - 1856 - 140 pages
...in every emergency by the countrymen of Mahomet.2 Yet how are these things treated in 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 ye may prosper. Satan seeketh to sow dissension and hatred among you by... | |
 | John Murray Mitchell - Apologetics - 1857 - 222 pages
...also some thing of use to men, but their sinfulness is greater than their use." And in Sura 5th, " O true believers, surely wine, and lots, and images,...arrows, are an abomination of the work of Satan." Here the earlier chapters are held to abrogate the later. ,11 It is possible that, in regard to any... | |
 | 1860 - 692 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 j therefore avoid them that ye may prosper. Satan seeketh to sow dissension and hatred among you, by... | |
 | Duncan Forbes - Chess - 1860 - 398 pages
...place among sundry abominations to be carefully eschewed by "the Faithful" iu general. His words are, " O true believers, surely wine, and lots, and images, and divining arrows, are an abomination of the works of Satan, therefore avoid ye them, that ye may prosper."1 Now, all the eminent Musalnian commentators... | |
 | John Mair - Temperance - 1861 - 322 pages
...sin, and some things of use unto men, but their sinfulness is greater than their, use."* Again, " 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,... | |
 | Baptists - 1863 - 734 pages
...men ; but their sinfulness is greater than their use." Again (ch. v.) he takes stronger ground : " 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... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1867 - 412 pages
...passage of the fifth sura, where it is said, " O true believers ! surely wine and lots [games of chance] and images and divining arrows are an abomination, of the work of Satan ; therefore avoid them, that ye may prosper." But these words are understood by many commentators as... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1867 - 426 pages
...passage of the fifth sura, where it is said, " O true believers ! surely wine and lots [games of chance] and images and divining arrows are an abomination, of the work of Satan ; therefore avoid them, that ye may prosper." But these words are understood by many commentators as... | |
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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... 
