The Life of Mahomet and History of Islam, to the Era of the Hegira: With Introductory Chapters on the Original Sources for the Biography of Mahomet, and on the Pre-Islamite History of Arabia, Volumen2

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Smith, Elder, 1858 - 320 páginas
 

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Página 58 - By the declining day I swear ! Verily, man is in the way of ruin ; Excepting such as possess faith, And do the things which be right, And stir up one another to truth and steadfastness.
Página 271 - The servants of the Merciful are they that walk upon the earth softly; and when the ignorant speak unto them, they reply. Peace!
Página 36 - Black Stone " ;' it forms a part of the sharp angle of the building at four or five feet above the ground. It is an irregular oval, about seven inches in diameter, with an undulating surface, composed of about a dozen smaller stones of different sizes and shapes, well joined together with a small quantity of cement, and perfectly...
Página 140 - O ye unbelievers ! I worship not that which ye worship. And ye do not worship that which I worship ; I shall never worship that which ye worship, Neither will ye worship that which I worship, To you be your religion ; to me my religion.
Página 70 - By the rising Sunshine ! By the Night when it darkeneth ! Thy Lord hath not removed from thee, neither hath He been displeased. And verily the Future shall be better unto thee than the Past.
Página 314 - The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me ; unto him ye shall hearken...
Página 279 - And mention, in the Book, Mary; when she retired from her family into an eastern place; and she took a veil (to screen herself) from them; and we sent unto her our spirit; and he took for her the semblance of a well-made man. Said she, ' Verily, I take refuge in the Merciful One from thee, if thou art pious.' Said he, 'I am only a messenger of Thy Lord to bestow on thee a pure boy.
Página 294 - salvation" to the followers of Mohammed alone: — To every one have We given a Law and a Way... And if God had pleased. He would have made you all (all mankind) one people (people of one religion). But He hath done otherwise, that He might try you in that which He hath severally given unto you, wherefore press forward in good works. Unto God shall ye return, and He will tell you that concerning which ye disagree.
Página 222 - Praise be to Him who carried His servant by night from the sacred temple to the temple that is more remote, whose precincts We have blessed, that We might show him some of our signs ! for He is the Hearer, the Seer.
Página 228 - Mahomet thus holding his people at bay ; waiting in the still expectation of victory ; to outward appearance defenceless, and with his little band as it were in the lion's mouth ; yet trusting in His almighty power whose Messenger he believed himself to be, resolute and unmoved; presents a spectacle of sublimity paralleled only by such scenes in the Sacred records as that of the prophet of Israel when he complained to his Master,

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