The Qur'ān, Volume 6Clarendon Press, 1880 - Sacred books of the East |
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Abraham adore Allâh amongst angels Apostle Arabs aught bidden bidding Book bring called CHAPTER children of Israel Christians dost dwell therein earth evil faith father favours fear fight fire follow forgiving and merciful Gannat ginns give glad tidings God's grievous woe guided haply ye hears and knows hearts heavens hell hypocrites idolaters idolatry idols infidels Islâm Jews judgment day Kaabah kill last day liars manifest signs Mecca Medînah Midian mighty misbelieve Mohammed Mohammed's Moses Mosque Muslims Noah Paradise pardon patron Pharaoh pilgrimage prophet punishment qiblah Qur'ân Qurâis religion resurrection day revealed reward sacred Sacred Mosque Satan sent soul Spiritus asper steadfast in prayer Sûrahs surely Thamûd thee therein for aye thereof things thou art thou hast thy Lord torment tribes truth turn unjust unto verily warning whoso whosoever witness women word worship wrong YaTHrib ye who believe
Popular passages
Page 192 - Verily your Lord is God, who created the heavens and the earth in six days...
Page 75 - ... mothers, and your daughters-in-law which are under your tuition, born of your wives unto whom ye have gone in (but if ye have not gone in unto them, it shall be no sin in you to marry them), and the wives of your sons who proceed out of your loins; and ye...
Page 72 - Men should have a portion of what their parents and kindred leave, and women should have a portion of what their parents and kindred leave, whether it be little or much, a determined portion.
Page 175 - God, with their wealth and with their persons, are highest in rank with God, and these it is who are happy. Their Lord gives them glad tidings of mercy from Himself...
Page 19 - We believe in God, and what has been revealed to thee, and what was revealed to Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the tribes, and what was given to Moses, and Jesus, and the prophets from their Lord,- we will make no distinction between any of them,- and we are unto Him resigned.
Page xiii - And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillow, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.
Page 49 - House, to be a station for men, and the sacred month, and the offering and its neck garland ; this is that ye may know that God knows what is in the heavens and what is in the earth, and that God knows all things. Know that God is keen to punish, but that God is forgiving, merciful.
Page 47 - But they whose hearts are given to err, follow its figures, craving discord, craving an interpretation; yet none knoweth its interpretation but God. And the stable in knowledge say, " We believe in it: it is all from our Lord.
Page 177 - He it is who sent His Apostle with guidance and the religion of truth, to make it prevail over every other religion, averse although idolaters may be!
Page 3 - When they meet those who believe, they say, We do believe : but when they retire privately to their devils...