The Life of Mahomet: From Original Sources

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Smith, Elder, 1878 - 624 pages
 

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Page 380 - If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.
Page 128 - Praise be to Him who carried His servant by night from the sacred Temple to the farther Temple the environs of which We have blessed, that We might show him some of
Page 242 - received the prisoners, and treated them with much consideration. ' Blessings be on the men of Medina ! ' said one of these prisoners in later days : ' they made us ride, while they themselves walked : they gave us wheaten bread to eat when there was little of it, contenting themselves with dates.' It is not surprising that when, some time
Page 350 - Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife after that she is defiled ; for that
Page xvi - ground Mahomet took his stand, and proclaimed to his people a new and a spiritual system, in accents to which all Arabia could respond. The rites of the Káaba were retained, but stripped by him of every idolatrous tendency ; and they still hang, a strange unmeaning shroud, around the living theism of Islam.
Page 484 - each of you unto the other, until ye meet your Lord. ' Let him that is present, tell it unto him that is absent. Haply, he that shall be told, may remember better than he who hath heard it.
Page 172 - The servants of the Merciful are they that walk upon the earth softly ; and, when the ignorant speak unto them, they reply, PEACE ! They that spend the night worshipping; their Lord, prostrate and standing ;— And who say,—' O our Lord ! turn away from us the torment of hell;
Page 459 - the seacoast. Whoso contraveneth this treaty, his wealth shall not save him ; it shall be the fair prize of him that taketh it. Now it shall not be lawful to hinder the men of Ayla from any springs which they have been in the habit of frequenting, nor from any
Page 49 - brought from his Master this memorable behest :— RECITE in the name of the Lord who created,— Created Man from nought but congealed blood ;— RECITE ! For thy Lord is beneficent. It is He who hath taught (to record revelation) with the pen;— Hath taught man that which he knoweth not. Nay, verily,
Page 106 - unto the heavens and the earth and the mountains ; but they refused to undertake the same, and were afraid thereof. But Man undertook it

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