| Reginald Bosworth Smith - 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, 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... | |
| 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 - 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, 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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, 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... | |
| Elwood Morris Wherry - 1884 - 426 pages
...inadvertently. Therefore keep your oaths. Thus GOD declareth unto you his signs, that ye may give thanks. (92) 0 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. (93) Satan seeketh to sow dissension and... | |
| Joseph McCarrell - 1888 - 358 pages
...Koran, chap. 2, p. 39. Hear it again, as the pretended inspiration becomes more distinct and decided: " O 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 ; Satan seeketh to sow dissension... | |
| 1888 - 1004 pages
...innumerable other crimes and miseries which follow in its train.* "O 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... | |
| 1888 - 632 pages
...innumerable other crimes and miseries which follow in its train. "O true believers!" said Mohammed, " surely wine, and lots, and images, and divining arrows are an abomination and the work of Satan; tiierefore avoid them that ye may prosper. Satan seeketh to sow dissension and... | |
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