| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1875 - 840 páginas
...Both, however, have to go over the bridge Al Sirât, which is laid over the midst of hell, which is finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge of a sword, and beset with thorns on either side. This the righteous will cross with ease and swiftness. The wicked... | |
| James William Hampson Stobart - 1876 - 288 páginas
...to undergo, viz., the passage of the bridge "Al Sirat," which, spanning "the deep abyss of hell," is finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge of a sword. Over it the true Moslems, headed by their prophet, will pass into Paradise, with the fleetness of the... | |
| Victoria Institute (Great Britain) - 1880 - 462 páginas
...into Hell beneath. It is the origin of the Muhammedan bridge Al Sirat, " laid over the midst of hell, finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge of a sword," whence the wicked will fall into the abyss. The root of the idea seems simply to be that Heaven being... | |
| John Aubrey - 1881 - 296 páginas
...great length, I quote it entire. " ' The trials being over, and the assembly dissolved, the Mahommedans hold that those who are to be admitted into paradise...upon it ; for which reason most of the sect of the Motazalites reject it as a fable, though the orthodox think it a sufficient proof of the truth of this... | |
| Samuel Mosheim Smucker - 1881 - 392 páginas
...must first pass the bridge called in Arabic, Al Sirat, which is laid over the middle of hell, and is described to be finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge if a sword. The wicked will miss their footing and fall headlong into hell.* In the Koran it is said... | |
| Mary Elizabeth Braddon - 1881 - 356 páginas
...values, the general idea that one is on that very bridge of Al Sirat, laid over the midst of hell, and finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge of a sword, over which the righteous must pass to Mahomet's paradise. It is the notion of man's audacity in making... | |
| Philip Schaff - 1885 - 826 páginas
...hypocrites). Hell (Jahennern=Gehenna) is beneath the lowest earth and seas of darkness; the bridge over it is finer than a hair and sharper than the edge of a sword ; the pious pass over it in a moment, the wicked fall from it into the abyss. SLAVERY. Slavery is recognized... | |
| Charles Francis Keary - 1882 - 574 páginas
...creed of Islam. Sirat is the name of the bridge so vividly described by Mohammedan writers.2 It is finer than a hair and sharper than the edge of a sword, and is besides guarded with thorns and briars along all its length.. Nevertheless when at the last... | |
| William Wing Loring - 1884 - 590 páginas
...works shall be weighed, and the bridge (El Sirat) which extends over the midst of the dark regions, finer than a hair and sharper than the edge of a sword, and over which all must pass and from which the wicked shall fall. Instruction in these doctrines is... | |
| Arthur Naylor Wollaston - 1886 - 460 páginas
...every 1,000) will take the left ; but both of them must first pass the bridge, called in Arabic as Sirat, which they say is laid over the midst of Hell,...conceive how any one shall be able to stand upon it. This bridge is beset on each side with briers and hooked thorns ; which, however, will be no impediment... | |
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