Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
_GOD! THERE IS NO GOD BUT HE, THE LIVING, THE STEADFAST! SLUMBER SEIZETH HIM NOT, NOR SLEEP. WHATSOEVER IS IN THE HEAVENS, AND WHATSOEVER IS IN THE EARTH, IS HIS. WHO IS THERE THAT SHALL PLEAD WITH HIM SAVE BY HIS LEAVE? HE KNOWETH WHAT WAS BEFORE THEM AND WHAT SHALL COME AFTE...
_GOD! THERE IS NO GOD BUT HE, THE LIVING, THE STEADFAST! SLUMBER SEIZETH HIM NOT, NOR SLEEP. WHATSOEVER IS IN THE HEAVENS, AND WHATSOEVER IS IN THE EARTH, IS HIS. WHO IS THERE T...
2. Part 2The religion of the ancient Arabs, little as we know of it, is especially interesting inasmuch as the Arabs longest retained the original Semitic character, and hence probably t...
3. Part 3The high poetic fervour of the first group of Mekka speeches is to some extent lost in the Second, and still more in the Third period, corresponding to the fifth and sixth years...
4. Part 4THE NIGHT (xcii.) 3 The difference between the good and the wicked in their lives and their future states; warning of hell and promise of heaven. THE COUNTRY (xc) 5 The steep ro...
5. Part 5Lo! the Day of Decision is appointed-- The day when there shall be a blowing of the trumpet, and ye shall come in troops, And the heavens shall be opened, and be full of gates,...
6. Part 6Y. S. By the wise Korān! Verily thou art of the Messengers Upon the straight way. A revelation of the Mighty, the Merciful:-- To warn a people whose fathers were not warned, and...
7. Part 7Heretofore We brought to Moses nine evident signs: Ask then the Children of Israel [the story]--when he came unto them, and Pharaoh said unto him, “Verily I consider thee to be...
8. Part 8And on a day He will gather them, as though they had tarried but an hour of the day: they shall know one another! They are lost who denied the meeting with God and were not guid...
9. Part 9Believe in God and His apostle, and give alms of what He hath made you to inherit; for to those of you who believe and give alms shall be a great reward. What aileth you that ye...
10. Part 10God ordereth you concerning your children: for a male, the equal of the portion of two females, and if there be more than two women, let them have two-thirds of what [the deceas...
11. Part 11That is the best of men who disliketh power. Beware! ye are all guardians; and ye will be asked about your subjects: then the leader is the guardian of the subject, and he will...
12. Part 12P. 26. _Preserved Book._--Mohammad taught that every “revelation” in the Korān was but a transcript from the pages of a great book, known as the “_Mother of the Book_,” “preserv...