 | Mary Sheldon Barnes - 1885 - 588 pages
...trading during the pilgrimage. . . . " They will ask thee concerning wine and lots [lottery, gaming]. Answer, In both there is great sin, and also some things of use unto men ; but their siuf ulness is greater than their use. They will ask thee also, what they shall bestow in alms. Answer,... | |
 | Mary Sheldon Barnes - 1885 - 612 pages
...trading during the pilgrimage. . . . " They will ask thee concerning wine and lots [lottery, gaming]. Answer, In both there is great sin, and also some things of use unto men ; but then- siufulness is greater than their use. They will ask thee also, what they shall bestow in alms.... | |
 | Mary Sheldon Barnes - 1885 - 580 pages
...They will ask thee concerning wine and lots [lottery, gaming]. Answer, In both there is great siu, and also some things of use unto men ; but their sinfulness is greater than their use. They will ask thee also, what they shall bestow in alms. Answer, What ye have to spare. . . . " On... | |
 | Joseph McCarrell - 1888 - 358 pages
...and the teaching of the Alcoran, the Bible of the Mussulman. Hearken to its voice. Thus it speaks: " They will ask thee concerning wine and lots. Answer, in both there is grape, which Mr. Pomeroy offers to the churches for communion wine. It certainly is a beautiful and... | |
 | Walter W. Spooner - 1891 - 684 pages
...translation of the Koran (Warne's ed., London, 1888, pp. 23, 85) we quote: "But they who believe . . . will ask thee concerning wine and lots: Answer, In...men; but their sinfulness is greater than their use." " O true believers, surely wine and lots and images and divining arrows' are an abomination of the... | |
 | Oriental Translation Fund - 1893 - 432 pages
...biographers have recorded that the Ghazwah of Dhatu-r-raqaa' took place during the month of Moharram 284 ' They will ask thee concerning wine and lots ; answer, In both there is great sin.' — Qurfin, ch. ii. 216. 'O true believers, surely wine, and lots, and images, and divining arrows,... | |
 | Leonard C. Smithers - 1894 - 440 pages
...divining arrows, are an abomination of Satan's work; therefore avoid them that ye may prosper 1 "? .And again, " They will ask thee concerning wine and...men; but their sinfulness is greater than their use. " '' Hence quoth the poet:— 0 bibber of liquor, art not ashamed • To drink what Allah forbade thee... | |
 | Muḧammad Yüsuf (khān bahādur.) - 1895 - 930 pages
...and know that unto him ye shall be gathered. 44 (40). No. 218. SIPARA II, CHAPTER II, p. 368, Vol. I. They will ask thee concerning wine and lots : Answer,...sin, and also some things of use unto men ; but their sinf ulness is greater than their use. 45 (41). No. 219. SIPARA II, CHAPTER II, p. 369. They will ask... | |
 | 1896 - 410 pages
...fight in GOD'S cause, they shall hope for the mercy of GOD; for GOD is gracious and merciful. (218) They will ask thee concerning wine and lots : Answer,...unto men ; but their sinfulness is greater than their was equal to the occasion. He affected displeasure. The booty was put aside without division until... | |
 | John Ashton - 1898 - 308 pages
...ship). Mahomet discountenanced gambling, as we find in the Koran (Sale's translation, Lon. 1734), p. 25. "They will ask thee concerning wine and lots. Answer...men; but their sinfulness is greater than their use." Sale has explanatory footnotes. He says " Lots. The original word, al Meiser, properly signifies a... | |
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They will ask thee concerning wine and lots. Answer, In both there is great sin, and also some things of use unto men; but their sinfulness is greater than their use. 
