 | Elwood Morris Wherry - 1896 - 424 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... | |
 | John Ashton - 1898 - 308 pages
...games whatsoever, which are subject to chance or hazard, as dice, cards, &c." And, again, on p. 94. "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." A propos of this denunciation of gambling... | |
 | Epiphanius Wilson - 1900 - 482 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... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1900 - 588 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,... | |
 | Epiphanius Wilson - 1900 - 502 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, arc an abomination of the work of Satan ; therefore avoid them, that ye may prosper. Satan sceketh... | |
 | Robert Elliott Speer - 1902 - 568 pages
...also some things of use unto men ; but their sinfulness is greater than their use." (Sura ii, 216.) "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." (Sura v. 92.) And yet some Moslems do not... | |
 | John Granville Woolley, William Eugene Johnson - 1903 - 586 pages
...fifth chapter of the Koran records the injunction mentioned by Sieur de Ryer in these words : " Oh, true believers, surely wine and lots, and images and divining arrows are an abomination of the work of Satan; therefore avoid them that you may prosper. Satan sceketh to sow dissension and hatred... | |
 | Henry Parker - 1909 - 790 pages
...Castles, Rukh ; and eight Pawns called Piyatha (Persian Piydda, foot-soldier) or Paithal, ' Footman.' 1 ' O true believers, surely wine, and lots, and images, and divining arrows are an abomination of the work of Satan.' Sale's Quran, Chapter v. Sale states that the word ' images ' is believed by commentators... | |
 | Harold James Ruthven Murray - 1913 - 966 pages
...— 0 true believers, surely wine and lots (maislr) and images ('ansab) and diviningarrows (Jaxldm) * are an abomination of the works of Satan, therefore avoid ye them that ye may prosper. It is by extending the condemnation of lots — maifir — and images 'amah — that the attempt... | |
 | Stephen Haley Allen - 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... | |
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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... 
