 | Joseph McCarrell - 1888 - 358 páginas
...and the teaching of the Alcoran, the Bible of the Mussulman. Hearken to its voice. Thus it speaks: " They will ask thee concerning wine and lots. Answer, in both there is grape, which Mr. Pomeroy offers to the churches for communion wine. It certainly is a beautiful and... | |
 | Walter W. Spooner - 1891 - 684 páginas
...translation of the Koran (Warne's ed., London, 1888, pp. 23, 85) we quote: "But they who believe . . . will ask thee concerning wine and lots: Answer, In...unto men; but their sinfulness is greater than their use." " O true believers, surely wine and lots and images and divining arrows' are an abomination of... | |
 | Oriental Translation Fund - 1893 - 432 páginas
...biographers have recorded that the Ghazwah of Dhatu-r-raqaa' took place during the month of Moharram 284 ' They will ask thee concerning wine and lots ; answer, In both there is great sin.' — Qurfin, ch. ii. 216. 'O true believers, surely wine, and lots, and images, and divining arrows,... | |
 | Leonard C. Smithers - 1894 - 440 páginas
...arrows, are an abomination of Satan's work; therefore avoid them that ye may prosper 1 "? .And again, " They will ask thee concerning wine and lots; Answer,...unto men; but their sinfulness is greater than their use. " '' Hence quoth the poet:— 0 bibber of liquor, art not ashamed • To drink what Allah forbade... | |
 | Muḧammad Yüsuf (khān bahādur.) - 1895 - 930 páginas
...and know that unto him ye shall be gathered. 44 (40). No. 218. SIPARA II, CHAPTER II, p. 368, Vol. I. They will ask thee concerning wine and lots : Answer,...sin, and also some things of use unto men ; but their sinf ulness is greater than their use. 45 (41). No. 219. SIPARA II, CHAPTER II, p. 369. They will ask... | |
 | John Ashton - 1898 - 308 páginas
...ship). Mahomet discountenanced gambling, as we find in the Koran (Sale's translation, Lon. 1734), p. 25. "They will ask thee concerning wine and lots. Answer...unto men; but their sinfulness is greater than their use." Sale has explanatory footnotes. He says " Lots. The original word, al Meiser, properly signifies... | |
 | Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - 1901 - 708 páginas
...an abomination of the work of Satan ; therefore avoid ye them, that ye may prosper " ; and again, " They will ask thee concerning wine and lots : Answer,...unto men; but their sinfulness is greater than their use." Strict Muhammadans abjure the use of opium and hashish, or Indian hemp (cannabis Indica), which... | |
 | Robert Elliott Speer - 1902 - 568 páginas
...Islam that it abolished intemperance and the use of wine. This is indeed the doctrine of the Koran. " They will ask thee concerning wine and lots: Answer,...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... | |
 | Charles Turner Gorham - 1904 - 102 páginas
...wine and lois. 1 Sale's Preface, sec. 4. s Ibid, c. ii. 3 Koran, c. xxx. « Ibid, c. ix. he ¿e: 'of i Answer, In both there is great sin, and also some...unto 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... | |
 | William Jennings Bryan - 1907 - 588 páginas
...widow and charity toward the poor. He condemned the use of intoxicating liquor and gambling, saying: "They will ask thee concerning wine and lots; answer,...unto men ; but their sinfulness is greater than their use." As to alms-giving the measure was to be, "what ye have to spare." While plurality of wives was... | |
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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. 
