The Life of Mahomet and History of Islam, to the Era of the Hegira: With Introductory Chapters on the Original Sources for the Biography of Mahomet, and on the Pre-Islamite History of Arabia, Volume 2

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Smith, Elder, 1861 - 320 pages
 

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Page 185 - And again, when he bringeth in the first-begotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.
Page 36 - Black Stone " ;' it forms a part of the sharp angle of the building at four or five feet above the ground. It is an irregular oval, about seven inches in diameter, with an undulating surface, composed of about a dozen smaller stones of different sizes and shapes, well joined together with a small quantity of cement, and perfectly...
Page 58 - By the declining day I swear ! Verily, man is in the way of ruin ; Excepting such as possess faith, And do the things which be right, And stir up one another to truth and steadfastness.
Page 75 - SAY: — He is GOD alone: GOD the Eternal! He begetteth not, and He is not begotten ; And there is not any like unto Him.
Page 302 - Verily the likeness of Jesus, in the sight of God, is as the likeness of Adam: he created him out of the dust, and then said unto him, Be; and he was. This is the truth from thy Lord; be not therefore one of those who doubt: and whoever shall dispute with thee concerning him...
Page 157 - ... grieve thee: unto us shall they return; then will we declare unto them that which they have done, for GOD knoweth the innermost parts of the breasts of men.
Page 222 - Praise be to Him who carried His servant by night from the sacred temple to the temple that is more remote, whose precincts We have blessed, that We might show him some of our signs ! for He is the Hearer, the Seer.
Page 314 - The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me ; unto him ye shall hearken...
Page 228 - Mahomet thus holding his people at bay ; waiting in the still expectation of victory ; to outward appearance defenceless, and with his little band as it were in the lion's mouth ; yet trusting in His almighty power whose Messenger he believed himself to be, resolute and unmoved; presents a spectacle of sublimity paralleled only by such scenes in the Sacred records as that of the prophet of Israel when he complained to his Master,
Page 271 - ... those that invoke not with God any other God, and slay not a soul that God hath forbidden otherwise than by right -, and commit not fornication...

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