 | Andrew Crichton - 1868 - 426 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... | |
 | John Christopher Atkinson - 1868 - 750 pages
...well-marked myths of the Old World. Over the midst of the Moslem hell stretches the bridge of Es-Sirat, finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge of a sword. There all souls of the dead must pass along, but while the good reach the other side in safety, the... | |
 | Edward Burnett Tylor - 1870 - 438 pages
...into the accepted belief of Islam. Over the midst of the Moslem Hell stretches the bridge Es-Sirat, finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge of a sword. There all souls of the dead must pass along, but while the good reach the other side in safety, the... | |
 | Edward Burnett Tylor - 1870 - 436 pages
...into the accepted belief of Islam. Over the midst of the Moslem Hell stretches the bridge Es-Sirat, finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge of a sword. There all souls of the dead must pass along, but while the good reach the other side in safety, the... | |
 | Samuel Mosheim Smucker - 1872 - 398 pages
...the bridge called in Arabic, Al Sirat, which is laid over the middle of hell, and is described to be finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge of a sword. The wicked will miss their footing and fall headlong into hell.* In the Koran it is said that hell has... | |
 | John Timbs - 1872 - 408 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... | |
 | Vincent L. Milner - 1872 - 672 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; eo that it seems very difficult to conceive bow any one "hall be able to stand upon it ; for which... | |
 | J. Brown - 1873 - 166 pages
...Mohammedans say that this bridge leads from earth to heaven, and passes over the centre of hell ; it is finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge of a razor ; it is beset on both sides with briers and thorns. Over it the righteous shall pass rapidly... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1875 - 840 pages
...hell. Both, however, have to go over the bridge Al Sirât, which is laid over the midst of hell, which is finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge of a sword, and beset with thorns on either side. This the righteous will cross with ease and swiftness. The wicked... | |
 | Frank Sanford Clifford - 1880 - 386 pages
...' When the day of judgment comes, all men will be obliged 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... 
