| 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... | |
| 1897 - 506 pages
...those who are destined to hell-fire will take the left ; but both must pass the bridge of Al Sirât, 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... | |
| 1897 - 860 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,... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1898 - 228 pages
...a lunar rainbow." Century Dictionary. 2 This is the bridge al Sirat, laid over the midst of hell, " finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge of a sword." ThU bridge must be passed over by believers and unbelievers alike, and to make the journey still more... | |
| 1901 - 458 pages
...and, as to keep the middle tenor, is very difficult, this has been emblematized by something which is finer than a hair and sharper than the edge of a sword, and by three arches, which indicate the due mixture of three powers, viz, knowledge, courage, and lust.... | |
| 1901 - 948 pages
...hell ; both, however, have first to go over the bridge Al Sirât, 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,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1902 - 436 pages
...bridge called in Arabic Al Sirit, 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... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - 1904 - 618 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. In these mosques order and... | |
| 1905 - 682 pages
...World. 3 The scales of Judgment, one of which hangs over Paradise, and the other over Hell, The Bridge is laid over the midst of Hell, and is finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge of a sword, and those who cannot pass this bridge fall into Hell.— Sale's Prelim. Disc. 4 An Arabian doctor of... | |
| Arthur Naylor Wollaston - 1905 - 578 pages
...bridge, called in Arabic as 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. This bridge... | |
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