Pan-Islamism

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Lusac and Company, 1908 - 76 sider
 

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Side 65 - Remember also, when we accepted the covenant of the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall not worship any other except GOD, and ye shall show kindness to your parents and kindred, and to orphans, and to the poor, and speak that which is good unto men, and be constant at prayer, and give alms.
Side 66 - But he who shall mediate with an evil mediation shall reap the fruit of it. And God keepeth watch over everything." * " O ye Moslems ! stand fast to justice, when ye bear witness before God, though it be against yourselves, or your parents or your kindred, whether the party be rich or poor. God is nearer than you to both. Therefore follow not passion, lest ye swerve from truth.
Side 63 - Acquire knowledge. because he who acquires it in the way of the Lord performs an act of piety; who speaks of it. praises the Lord: who seeks it. adores God: who dispenses instruction in it. bestows alms; and who imparts it to its fitting objects. performs an act of devotion to God.
Side 34 - True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven : It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly ; It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead desire it doth not die ; It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind.
Side 66 - Verily, God bids you do justice and good, and give to kindred (their due), and He forbids you to sin, and do wrong, and oppress; He admonishes you, haply ye may be mindful!
Side 66 - ... those that invoke not with God any other God and slay not a soul that God hath forbidden otherwise than by right, and commit not fornication...
Side 66 - The servants of the Merciful are they that walk upon the earth softly; and when the ignorant speak unto them, they reply. Peace! They that spend the night worshipping their Lord, prostrate and standing: — "And that say, — Oh, our Lord!
Side 66 - Thus do we distinctly explain our signs unto people who understand. Say, Verily my LORD hath forbidden filthy actions, both that which is discovered thereof, and that which is concealed, and also iniquity, and unjust violence ; and hath forbidden you to associate with GOD that concerning which he hath sent you down no authority, or to speak of GOD that which ye know not.
Side 65 - Afterwards ye were they who slew one another, and turned several of your brethren out of their houses, mutually assisting each other against them with injustice and enmity; but if they come captives unto you, ye redeem them: yet it is equally unlawful for you to dispossess them. Do ye therefore believe in part of the book of the law, and reject other part thereof?
Side 61 - Both Byzantium and Persia had at their command genuine soldiers regularly armed and disciplined. The traditions of Roman warfare were not yet entirely lost, and the Persians still possessed their dreaded cuirassiers, before whom, in better times, even the armies of Rome had often fled. . . . The Emperor Heraclius was certainly the greatest man who had held the empire since Constantine and Julian.

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