 | Thomas Robbins - 1824 - 494 pages
...virtue or vice, will hang the lot of happiness or woe of every individual. To the bridge Al Sirat, finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge of a sword, both the guilty and the virtuous Moslems will then proceed ; the guilty will sink into hell that is... | |
 | 1825 - 538 pages
...bridge, called, in Arabic, al Sirat, which they say is laid over the midst of hell, and describe 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... | |
 | William Henry Neale - 1828 - 300 pages
...The faithful Moslems pass over the bridge Al Sirat, which they say is laid over the midst of Hell, finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge of a sword, the Prophet himself leading the way; while the wicked, from the difficulty of the path, shall miss their... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 440 pages
...bridge called in Arabic al Sirat, which they say is laid over the midst of hell, and describe to be finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge of a sword. The Motazalites reject the account of this bridge as a fable ; though the orthodox think it a sufficient... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1831 - 644 pages
...bridge called in Arabic Al Sirat, which, they say, is laid over the midst of hell, and describe 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 ; ipr which... | |
 | Samuel Astley Dunham - 1832 - 360 pages
...confines.1 When the trials are past, both wicked and righteous must pass At Sirat, the bridge which is finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge of a sword, which is skirted by briars and thorns, and which lies over the abyss of hell. The just shall pass it... | |
 | Jaʻfar Sharīf - 1832 - 646 pages
...Pice or Pysa I— .J — a copper coin, value about two farthings. Pool-surrat o\ja Jj — a bridge, finer than a hair and sharper than the edge of a sword, situated between heaven and hell, on which all mankind will have to go on the resurrection day. The... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - 1834 - 436 pages
...; but both of them must pass the bridge Al Sirat, which is laid over the midst of hell. This bridge is finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge of a sword. The righteous will be enabled to pass over it with ease ; but the wicked will miss their footing, and fall... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - 1834 - 448 pages
...; but both of them must pass the bridge Al Sirat, which is laid over the midst of hell. This bridge is finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge of a sword. The righteous will be enabled to pass over it with ease ; but the wicked will miss their footing, and fall... | |
 | Andrew Crichton - 1834 - 432 pages
...bridge, Al Sirat (or the strait), which spans the dreadful abyss of hell, and is represented to be finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge of a sword. This frightful path is beset with briers and thorns ; but the good will find no impediment ; they will... | |
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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... 
