The People of PersiaReligious Tract Society, 1799 - 192 pages |
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... worship always must become . About ten o'clock , a servant announces that supper ( shamee ) is ready . At the same time , he brings with him an ewer and basin , and in the fashion so often indicated in Scripture , he " pours water upon ...
... worship always must become . About ten o'clock , a servant announces that supper ( shamee ) is ready . At the same time , he brings with him an ewer and basin , and in the fashion so often indicated in Scripture , he " pours water upon ...
Page 68
... worship . This superstition is not extinct . It is still cherished by those descendants of the ancient Persians who retained the old religion , and of whom almost two thousand families still linger in the country , under the name of ...
... worship . This superstition is not extinct . It is still cherished by those descendants of the ancient Persians who retained the old religion , and of whom almost two thousand families still linger in the country , under the name of ...
Page 95
... worship , of which Ali became , in some sort , the object ; and the force of that vigorous hate with which they had so long been accustomed to regard the Sunnees , in the course of time settled into fixed habits and conclusions , the ...
... worship , of which Ali became , in some sort , the object ; and the force of that vigorous hate with which they had so long been accustomed to regard the Sunnees , in the course of time settled into fixed habits and conclusions , the ...
Page 99
... worship . In fact , the Mohammedan declaration of faith , " There is no God but God , who neither begetteth , nor is begotten , " is , and was designed to be , a standing protest of Islam against this most essential doctrine of the ...
... worship . In fact , the Mohammedan declaration of faith , " There is no God but God , who neither begetteth , nor is begotten , " is , and was designed to be , a standing protest of Islam against this most essential doctrine of the ...
Page 100
... worship , was sanctioned by the law of Moses , from which indeed the Moslem practice seems to have been borrowed . But the tendency of the mind to rest upon external observances has here , as among the Jews , been manifested in the ...
... worship , was sanctioned by the law of Moses , from which indeed the Moslem practice seems to have been borrowed . But the tendency of the mind to rest upon external observances has here , as among the Jews , been manifested in the ...
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Abraham Abubekr Amer ancient appear Arabian Arabic Armenians Baghdad believe British and Foreign caliph caliphat called carpets Caspian Sea chief Christ Christian claims courts death declare descendants dish Divine doctrine dove's dung earth Euphrates European faith favour give gospel habit hand Harro Hassan honour Hossein houses imaum inhabitants Isfahan Islam Jews Justin Perkins Kerbelah Koran Kufah learned Lord Martyn matter Mecca medan Meerza ment Meshid missionaries Mohammed Mohammedan mollah Moses Moslem Moslem doctors mosques Nadir Shah nations observed occasion Omar peculiar Persian language Persians person pilgrimage plastered prayers present priest prince principles prophet racter Ramazan received regard religion religious respect Romanist roof sacred says scarcely Scott Waring Scripture sect servant Shah Sheahs sheikh-ul-islam Shiraz Sooffeeism Sooffees successor Sunnees supposed thee tion translation truth Turkey Turks unclean unto usually walls whole words worship Yezid
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Page 58 - And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron, and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.
Page 179 - And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.
Page 178 - And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee : Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly ; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.
Page 57 - I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
Page 179 - I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth. and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.
Page 42 - And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves: because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews; for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians.
Page 58 - Nay, my lord, hear me : the field give I thee, and the cave that is therein, I give it thee ; in the presence of the sons of my people give I it thee: bury thy dead.
Page 155 - Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked. And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.
Page 130 - Come, let us meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief. 3 And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst 1 leave it, and come down to you?
Page 58 - My lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.