| Richard Alfred Davenport - 1867 - 684 páginas
...the bridge, called in Arabic, al Sirat, which they say is laid over the midst of hell, and described to be finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge...upon it : for which reason most of the sect of the M6tazalites reject it as a fable, though the orthodox think it a sufficient proof of the truth of this... | |
| Friedrich Max Müller - 1867 - 394 páginas
...utterly, and nothing is left. The bridge Es-Sirat, which stretches over the midst of the Moslem hell, finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge of a sword, conveys a similar conception ; and the Jews, too, when they came to believe in immortality, imagined... | |
| Andrew Crichton - 1868 - 426 páginas
...famous bridge, Al Sirat (or the strait), which spans the dreadful abyss of hell, and is represented to be finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge of a sword This frightful path is beset with briers and thorns ; but the good will find no impediment ; they will... | |
| John Christopher Atkinson - 1868 - 750 páginas
...well-marked myths of the Old World. Over the midst of the Moslem hell stretches the bridge of Es-Sirat, finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge of a sword. There all souls of the dead must pass along, but while the good reach the other side in safety, the... | |
| Edward Burnett Tylor - 1870 - 438 páginas
...into the accepted belief of Islam. Over the midst of the Moslem Hell stretches the bridge Es-Sirat, finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge of a sword. There all souls of the dead must pass along, but while the good reach the other side in safety, the... | |
| Edward Burnett Tylor - 1870 - 436 páginas
...into the accepted belief of Islam. Over the midst of the Moslem Hell stretches the bridge Es-Sirat, finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge of a sword. There all souls of the dead must pass along, but while the good reach the other side in safety, the... | |
| Vincent L. Milner - 1872 - 672 páginas
...to be admitted into Paradise will take the right hand way, and those who are destined into hell fire will take the left ; but both of them must first pass...than a hair, and sharper than the edge of a sword; eo that it seems very difficult to conceive bow any one "hall be able to stand upon it ; for which... | |
| Samuel Mosheim Smucker - 1872 - 398 páginas
...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 of a sword. The wicked will miss their footing and fall headlong into hell.* In the Koran it is said that hell... | |
| John Timbs - 1872 - 408 páginas
...utterly, and nothing is left. The bridge Es Sirat, which stretches over the midst of the Moslem hell, finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge of a sword, conveys a similar conception ; and the Jews, too, when they came to believe in immortality, imagined... | |
| 1873 - 548 páginas
...bridge of the Mahometans, called in the Arabic Al Sirât, said to be laid over the midst of Hell, and to be finer than a hair and sharper than the edge of a scimitar, an idea probably borrowed from the religion of Zoroaster, where the bridge is called Pûl... | |
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