 | Alfred Colbeck - Black Sea region - 1887 - 444 pages
...sacrifice—these are the ambition of a Moslem's heart, and by the help of these he hopes to walk over the path, finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge of a sword, into the delights of Paradise. Islam lays other restrictions upon its adherents. Games of chance are... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1891 - 1590 pages
...into hell ; both, however, have first to go over the bridge Al Sirat, laid over the midst of hell, and finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge of a sword, and beset with thorns on either side. The righteous will proceed on their path with ease and swiftness,... | |
 | Charles De Berard Mills - Folklore - 1889 - 296 pages
...the boiling gulf below. Corresponding to this is the idea among the Moslems of the Bridge Es-Sirat, finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge of a sword, — the Bridge Chinavat of the Parsis, — which all souls must pass, but from which the wicked, attacked and... | |
 | Charles Francis Keary - Archaeology - 1889 - 396 pages
...get the same notion, which is embodied in the Koran. There the Bridge of Death is called Es-Sirat. It is finer than a hair and sharper than the edge of a sword, along which, nevertheless, the soul of the good Moslem will be snatched across like lightning or like... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 992 pages
...into hell; both, however, have first to go over the bridge Al Sirflt, laid over the midst of hell, and finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge of a sword, and beset with thorns on either side. The righteous will proceed on their path with ease and swiftness,... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1892 - 1088 pages
...hell, but tradition has converted the road into a bridge stretching from earth to paradise across hell, finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge of a sword, beset, moreover, on both sides with briars and hooks and thorns. And so, what with the extreme tenuity... | |
 | Israel Smith Clare - World history - 1893 - 766 pages
...those who are destined to hell-fire will take the left; but both must pass the bridge of Al Sir&t, which is laid over the midst of hell, and is finer than a hair and sharper than the edge of a sword, while being also beset with briers and hooked thorns. The righteous shall pass over this bridge with... | |
 | Nicholas Belfield Dennys - Ethnology - 1894 - 468 pages
...the bridge Al Sirat which spans (according to the Koran) the abyss of Hell, and is represented to be finer than a hair and sharper than the edge of a sword. The path, though beset with many obstacles, will be crossed over with ease and safety by the faithful,... | |
 | Methodism - 1893 - 692 pages
...day when feet shall slip upon it. ' ' Es Sirat ' is the bridge which extends over the midst of hell, finer than a hair and sharper than the edge of a sword, over which all must pass, and from which the wicked shall fall into hell." The bowings, bendings and... | |
 | 1896 - 410 pages
...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 of a sword, so that it seems very difficult to conceive how any one shall be able to stand upon it,; for which... | |
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Sirat. which they say is laid over the midst of hell, and described to be finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge of a sword... 
