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, Volum 4

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Smith, Elder & Company, 1861
 

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Side 236 - Lord hath ordained to every man the share of his inheritance ; a testament is not lawful to the prejudice of heirs. The child belongeth to the parent, and the violator of wedlock shall be stoned. Ye people, ye have rights demandable of your wives, and they have rights demandable of you.
Side 44 - But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.
Side 210 - Sura ix day, and who forbid not that which God hath forbidden, and profess not the true religion, — those, namely, who have received the Scriptures (that is both Jews and Christians) until they pay tribute with the hand, and are humbled. The Jews say that Ezra is the Son of God, and the Christians that the Messiah is the Son of God. This is their saying, with their mouths. They imitate the saying of the Unbelievers before them. God destroy them ! How have they devised lying vanities ! They take...
Side 43 - ... with God, nor steal, nor commit fornication, nor kill their children, nor come with a calumny which they have forged between their hands and their feet...
Side 151 - Medina,! it hath been reported to me that ye are disconcerted, because I have given unto these chiefs largesses, and have given nothing unto you. Now speak unto me. Did I not come unto you whilst ye were wandering, and the Lord gave you the right Direction? — needy, and he enriched you; — at enmity amongst yourselves, and he hath filled your hearts with love and unity?" He paused for a reply. " Indeed, it is even as thou sayest," they answered ; " to the Lord and to his Prophet belong benevolence...
Side 323 - Moses and all the prophets, and miracles of the merciful and beneficent kind, open the eyes of the blind and the ears of the deaf...
Side 210 - God's true religion, denounce a grievous punishment. On the day of judgment their treasures shall be intensely heated in the fire of hell, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be stigmatized therewith; and their tormentors shall say, This is what ye have treasured up for your souls; taste therefore that which ye have treasured up.
Side 210 - They who hoard up gold and silver and spend it not in the way of Allah, unto them give tidings (O Muhammad) of a painful doom.
Side 207 - A declaration of immunity from God and his apostle, unto the idolaters with whom ye have entered into league. Go to and fro in the earth securely four months; and know that ye shall not weaken God, and that God will disgrace the unbelievers.
Side 320 - Mahomet were first tinged, and then gradually debased by a half unconscious self-deception ; and how in this process truth merged into falsehood, sincerity into guile, — these opposite principles often co-existing even as active agencies in his conduct. The reader will observe that simultaneously with the anxious desire to extinguish idolatry, and to promote religion and virtue in the world, there was nurtured by the Prophet in his own heart, a licentious self-indulgence ; till in the end, assuming...

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