 | Frederick Walpole (hon.) - 1851
...the same house he found all fighting and quarreling ; so he says in the Koran : " They will ask you concerning wine and lots; answer, in both there is...unto men ; but their sinfulness is greater than their use." Perhaps he saw the actual necessity of this to the existence of a race in such a climate as his... | |
 | Frederick Walpole - 1851
...; so lie says in the Koran ; " They will ask you concerning wine ami lots ; answer, in both tltero is great sin, and also some things of use unto men ; but their sinfulness is greater than their use." Perhaps he saw the actual necessity of this to the existence of a race in such a climate as his... | |
 | Frederick Walpole - 1851
...the same house he found all fighting and quarreling ; so he says in the Koran : " They will ask you concerning wine and lots ; answer, in both there is great sin, and also some things ADDICTION OF PERSIANS TO WINE. 23 of use unto men ; but their sinfulness is greater than their use."... | |
 | 1854
...discourages the taking of intoxicating drinks and gambling. It represents God as saying to Mohammed, "They will ask thee concerning wine and lots : Answer,...unto men : but their sinfulness is greater than their use Surely wine and lots, and images, and diviningarrows, are an abomination of the work of Satan ;... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport, M. Savary (Claude Etienne) - 1856 - 649 páginas
...mercy of GOD ; for GOD is gracious and merciful. They will ask thee concerning wine * and lots : h Answer, In both there is great sin, and also some...men ;' but their sinfulness is greater than their use. They will ask thee also what they shall bestow in alms : Answer, What ye have to spare. Thus GOD... | |
 | George Sale - 1856 - 649 páginas
...mercy of GOD ; for GOD is gracious and merciful. They will ask thee concerning wine t and lots : h Answer, In both there is great sin, and also some...men ; ' but their sinfulness is greater than their use. They will ask thee also what they shall bestow in alms : Answer, What ye have to spare. Thus GOD... | |
 | John Murray Mitchell - 1857 - 200 páginas
...also good nourishment. Verily herein is a sign to people who understand." But in Sura 2nd we read: "They will ask thee concerning wine and lots. Answer, in both there is great sin, and also some thing of use to men, but their sinfulness is greater than their use." And in Sura 5th, " O true believers,... | |
 | John David Macbride - 1857 - 224 páginas
...Will ye not, therefore, abstain ?" In an earlier command (Koran ii. 216.) he had left it doubtful: " They will ask thee concerning wine and lots. Answer, In both there is great sin, and things of use to men, but their sinfulness is greater." The discretion which seemed granted in this... | |
 | 1858
..."They will ask thee concerning wine [interpreted to comprehend all inebriating liquors] and lots vs Answer, In both there is great sin, and also some...men : but" their sinfulness is greater than their use." (Conf. cvp 93.) TJ BUCKTON. Lichfield. Tobacco Smoking — Of an old building at Constantinople,... | |
 | George Bush - 1858 - 261 páginas
...and of games of chance to his followers. " They will ask thee of wine and lots. Answer, In both these there is great sin, and also some things of use unto men ; but their sinfulness is greater than their use."* The occasion of this prohibition seems to have been the prophet's witnessing their bad effects... | |
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They will ask thee concerning wine and lots. Answer, In both there is great sin, and also some things of use unto men; but their sinfulness is greater than their use. 
