 | Arthur Naylor Wollaston - 1905 - 1256 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... | |
 | Martha Pike Conant - 1908 - 352 pages
...would go, for they are drawn from the Mahometan tradition of the bridge "Al Sirat," laid across hell, "finer than a hair and sharper than the edge of a sword," over which the souls of men pass, — the good to the Mahometan paradise, the wicked to hell, which... | |
 | Édouard Laboulaye - 1910 - 232 pages
...cross this gulf which separated earth and heaven there was only a great arch made of a blade of steel finer than a hair and sharper than the edge of a sword. Though seized with despair, he felt himself sustained and urged forward by invisible hands. Hafiz and... | |
 | Alexandre Moret - 1912 - 356 pages
...bridge (called in Arabic al Sirat) , which they say is laid over the midst of hell, is described to be "finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge of a sword ; . . . the good shall pass with wonderful ease and swiftness like lightning or the wind; whereas the wicked . . . fall... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, John William Cunliffe, Ashley Horace Thorndike, Harry Morgan Ayres, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer - 1917 - 816 pages
...over Paradise, and the other over hell. . . . The Bridge, called in Arabic al Sirdt, is, they say, 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. tThe four Khalifs next... | |
 | Arthur Naylor Wollaston - 1917 - 80 pages
...cross a bridge which is said to be laid over the midst of the infernal regions, and described to be finer than a hair and sharper than the edge of a sword : it is also beset on each side with briers and thorns, so that unless directed and supported by the... | |
 | Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - 1921 - 992 pages
...and those of the bad to a road on the left. All will, however, have to pass over the bridge As-Sirat, which is laid over the midst of hell, and is finer...their doom in Gehenna, which is divided into seven storeys, one below the other. Between hell and paradise is a partition or gulf which is not, however,... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1922 - 310 pages
...a reminiscence of Al Serat, the ordeal bridge of the Mohammedans, spanning the abyss of Gehenna. It is finer than a hair and sharper than the edge of a sword. The faithful cross in safety, sinners fall headlong down. Compare the " Brigg o' Dread " in the afterworld... | |
 | Ganga Prasad Upadhyaya - 1927 - 290 pages
...bridge called by Mahomed Al Sirat. This bridge is thrown over the abyss of hell, and is said to be finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge of a sword. Over this bridge the Muslims will easily pass led by Mahomed ; whereas the wicked will soon miss their... | |
 | United States National Museum - 1922 - 754 pages
...tmrth. The bridge which is laid over hell, and named by the Mohammedans Clrut (properly, road, path). Is finer than a hair and sharper than the edge of a razor and beset on each side with briars and hooked thorns. The good will pass with wonderful ease... | |
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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... 
