A dictionary of Islam : being a cyclopaedia of the doctrines, rites, ceremonies, and customs, together with the technical and theological terms, of the Muhammadan religion / by Thomas Patrick Hughes.

  • Thomas Patrick Hughes
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1885
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    She said, Alas! shall I bear a child when I am an old woman of nine and ninety years, and when this my husband is an old man of a hundred or a hundred and twenty years ? Verily this [would be] a wonderful thing.— They said, Dost thou wonder at the com- mand of God? The mercy of God and His blossings be on you, 0 people of the house (of Abraham)! for He is praiseworthy, glorious. —And when tho terror had departed from Abraham, and the good tidings had come unto him, he disputed with Us (that is, with Our messengers) respecting the people of Lot; for Abraham was gontlo, compassionate, repentant. And he said unto them, Will ye destroy a city wherein are three, hundred be- lievers ? They answered, No. He said, And will ye destroy a city wherein are two hundred believers? 'They answered, No. He said, And will ye destroy a city wherein are forty believers? They answered, No. He said, And will ye destroy a city wherein are fourteen believers? They answered, No. He said, And tell me, if there be. in it one believer? They answered, No. He said, Verily in it is Lot. They replied, We knoxv best who is in it. And when their dispute had become, tedious, they said, 0 Abraham, abstain from this disputa- tion ; for the command of thy Lord hath come for their destruction, and a punishment not [to be] averted is coming upon them.” (Surah xi. 72-78.) “And when Our decree for the destruction of the people of Lot camo [to be executed], We turned them (that is, their cities) upside- down ; for Gabriel raised them to heaven, and let them fall upside-down to the earth ; and We rained upon them stones of baked clay, sent one after another, marked with thy Lord, each with the name of him upon whom it should be cast: and they [are] not far distant from tho offenders ; that is, the stones are not, or the cities of the people of Lot were not, far distant from the. people, of Meklceh.” (Surah xi. 84.) “ And [Abraham] said [after his cscapo from Nimrod], Verily I am going unto my Lord, who will direct me unto the place whither He hath commanded me to go, namely, Syria. And when he had arrived at the Holy Land, he said, 0 my Lord, give me a son [who shall bo one] of the righteous. Where- upon We gave him tho glad tidings of a mild youth. And whon he had attained to the age when ho could work with him (as some say, seven years; and some, thirteen), ho said, 0 my child, verily I have seen in a dream that 1 should sacrifice thee (and the dreams of pro- phets are true; and their actions, by the com- mand of God); therefore consider what thou seest advisable for me to do. He replied, 0 my father, do what thou art commanded: thou shalt find me, if God please, [of the number] of the patient. And when they had resigned themselves, and he had laid him down on his temple, in [tho valley of] Mina, and had drawn the. knife across his throat (but it produced no effect, by reason of an obstacle interposed by the divine power), We called unto him, 0 Abraham, thou hast verified the vision. Verily thus do We reward the well- I doers. Verily this was the manifest trial. And We ransomod him whom he had been com- manded to sacrifice (and he was Jshmael or Isaac; for there are two opinions) with an excellent victim, a rain from Paradise, the same that Abel had offered: Gabriel (on whom be peace!) brought it, and the lord Abraham sacrificed it, saying, God is most great! And We left this salutation [to be bestowed] on him by the latter generations, Peace [be] on Abraham! Thus do We reward tho well- doers : for he was of Our believing servants.” (Surah xxxvii. 97-111.) “ Remember when Abraham said, 0 my Lord, show me how Thou will i-aise to life the dead.—Ho said, Hast thou not believed ? He answered, Yea: but I have asked Thee that my heart may be at ease. Ho replied, Then take four birds and draw them towards thee, and cut them in pieces and mingle together their flesh and their feathers; then place upon each mountain of thy land a portion of them, then call them unto thee: they shall come unto thee quickly; and know thou that God is mighty [and] wise.—And he took a peacock and a vulture and a raven and a code, and did with them as hath been described, and kept their heads with him, and called them; whereupon the portions flew about, one to another, until they became complete: then they came to their heads.” (Surah ii. 202.) “ Remember, when his Lord had tried Abra- ham by [certain] words, commands and prohi- bitions, and ho fulfilled them, God said unto him, I constitute thee a model of religion unto men. He roplied, And of my offspring con- stitute models of reliyion. [God] said, My covenant doth not apply to the offenders, the unbelievers among them.—And when We ap- pointed the houso (that is, the Ka‘bah) to be a place for tho resort of men, and a place of security (a man would meet the stayer of his father there and he woidd not provoke him [to revenge],) and [said], Take, 0 men, tho sta- tion of Abraham (the stone upon which he stood at the time of building the House) as a placo of prayer, that ye may perform behind it the prayers of the two rukHihs [which are or- dained to be performed after the ceremony] of the circuiting [of the Ka‘bali],—And We commanded Abraham and Islimael. [saying], Purify my House (rid it of the idols) for those who shall compass [it], and those who shall abide there, and those who shall bow down and prostrate themselves.—And when Abra- ham said, O my Lord, make this place a secure territory (and God hath answered his jirayer, and made it a sacred place, wherein the blood of man is not shed, nor is any one op- pressed in it, nor is its game hunted [or shot], nor are its plants cut or pulled up), and supply its inhabitants with fruits (which hath been done by the transporting of at-faif from Syria, thither, when it [that is, the territory of Makkah] was desert, without sown land or water, such of them as shall believe in God and the last day.—He mentioned them pecu- liarly in the. prayer agreeably with the saying of God, My covenant doth not apply to the offenders.— God replied, And I will supply
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