Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" 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
Full view - About this book

The British Quarterly Review, Volume 36

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...
Full view - About this book

The Koran, Commonly Called The Alcoran of Mohammed

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...
Full view - About this book

Radical Discourses on Religious Subjects: Delivered in Music Hall, Boston, Mass

William Denton - Free thought - 1872 - 348 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....
Full view - About this book

Translations from the Hakayit Abdulla, with comments by J.T. Thomson

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....
Full view - About this book

Mohammed and Mohammedanism: Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution of ...

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,...
Full view - About this book

Goethe's West-Easterly Divan

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...
Full view - About this book

The History of Drink: A Review, Social, Scientific, and Political

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...
Full view - About this book

The Bakhtyar nameh, or, Story of prince Bakhtyar and the ten viziers [tr. 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...
Full view - About this book

The Bakhtyār Nāma: A Persian Romance

William Alexander Clouston - 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...
Full view - About this book

The American Library of Art, Literature and Song, Volume 2

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...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF