 | Malta Protestant college - 1854 - 406 pages
...and evil works shall be weighed, and in the bridge Es-Sirat (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. He believes, also, that they... | |
 | Henry Christmas - 1854 - 202 pages
...torture to which they are doomed. This bridge, which is laid over the midst of hell, is said to be finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge of a sword, so that it seems very difficult to imagine how any one can stand upon it ; but yet, though some few... | |
 | George Sale - 1856 - 692 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... | |
 | 1856 - 692 pages
...bridge, called in Arabic, al SiraM, 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... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - 1858 - 358 pages
...left: 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... | |
 | Edward Stanley Poole - 1859 - 596 pages
...The Sirat is the bridge which all must pass on the day of judgment, extending over the midst of Hell, finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge of a sword. NOTE 42. See Note 55 to Chapter Hi. CHAPTER XVI. COMMENCING WITH PART OF THE THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SEVENTH... | |
 | Edward William Lane - 1860 - 656 pages
...evil works shall be weighed, and in the bridge " Es-Sinfy " (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. He believes, also, that they... | |
 | 1879 - 736 pages
...Persians that famous bridge so vividly described in the Koran. t Es-Sirat is the bridge's name. It is finer than a hair and sharper than the edge of a sword, and is, besides, guarded with thorns and briars along all its length. Nevertheless, when, at the last... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1867 - 394 pages
...utterly, and nothing is left. The bridge Es-Sirat, which stretches over the midst of the Moslem hell, finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge of a sword, conveys a similar conception ; and the Jews, too, when they came to believe in immortality, imagined... | |
 | Eugene Rimmel - 1867 - 404 pages
...Koran:— When the day of judgment comes, all men will have to cross a bridge called Al Sirat, which is finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge of a Damascus blade. This bridge is laid over the infernal regions, and however dangerous and difficult... | |
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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... 
