The Miracle Play of Hasan and Husain, Volumen2

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Sir Lewis Pelly, Arthur Naylor Wollaston
W. H. Allen, 1879
 

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Página 169 - Irak, whom took he with him, and how great an army had he ? Which of the ladies of the family accompanied him ? and which were left behind at Madinah ? say that the Jews give him the name of Messiah ben David, and pretend he is to come in the last days, and to be lord both of land and sea, and that he will restore the kingdom to them. According to the traditions of Mohammed he is to appear first between Irak and Syria, or, according to others, in the province of...
Página 251 - But all these glories will be eclipsed by the resplendent and ravishing girls of paradise, called, from their large black eyes, Hur al oyun, the enjoyment of whose company will be a principal felicity of the faithful. These, they say, are created, not of clay, as mortal women are, but of pure musk; being, as their prophet often affirms in his Koran, free from all natural impurities, defects, and inconveniences incident to the sex, of the strictest modesty, and secluded from public view in pavilions...
Página 231 - What is meant by this word the commentators cannot agree. Some will have it to be the name of the mountain or the valley wherein the cave was ; some say it was the name of their dog ; and others (who seem to come nearest the true signification...
Página 328 - Heber6) to preach to and reclaim them. But they refusing to acknowledge his mission, or to obey him, GOD sent a hot and suffocating wind, which blew seven nights and eight days together...
Página 327 - The descendants of Ad, in process of time, falling, from the worship of the true God, into idolatry, God sent the prophet Hud (who is generally agreed to be Heber, whom the Jews acknowledge to have been a great prophet) to preach to and reclaim them.
Página 231 - And they said the one were three men who were driven by ill weather into a cave for shelter, and were shut in there by the falling down of a vast stone, which stopped the cave's mouth ; but on their begging God's mercy, and their relating each of them a meritorious action which they hoped might entitle them to it, were miraculously delivered by the rock's rending in sunder to give them passage.
Página 115 - Hasan, to behold sorrow and mir.th in one and the same place, at one and the same time.
Página 80 - on these lips have I seen the lips of the apostle of God!" In a distant age and climate the tragic scene of the death of Hosein will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader.
Página 79 - Hosein to be murdered before his eyes; a tear trickled down his venerable beard; and the boldest of his soldiers fell back on every side as the dying hero threw himself among them. The remorseless Shamer, a name detested by the faithful, reproached their cowardice; and the grandson of Mahomet was slain with three and thirty strokes of lances and swords. After they had trampled on his body, they carried his head to the castle of Cufa, and the inhuman Obeidollah struck him on the mouth with a cane....
Página 327 - It was from this gross idolatry, or the worship of inferior deities, or companions of GOD, as the Arabs continue to call them, that Mohammed reclaimed his countrymen, establishing the sole worship of the true GOD among them; so that how much soever the Mohammedans are to blame in other points, they are far from being idolaters, as some ignorant writers have pretended.

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