 | Frederick Walpole - Assassins (Ismailites) - 1851 - 432 pages
...is beneath the shadow of swords," cried 176 KALED "THE SWOKD OF GOD. the prophet. " A drop of blood shed in the cause of God, a night spent in arms, is of more avail than two months of fasting and of prayer," says the Koran. What precepts for conquest — what maxims to make warriors ! It was one... | |
 | Edward Budge - Biography - 1851 - 326 pages
...martyrs of the faith. " The sword," said Mahomet, " is the key of heaven and of hell : a drop of blood shed in the cause of God ; a night spent in arms, is of more avail than two months of fasting or prayer : whosoever falls in battle, his sins are forgiven; at the day of judgment his wounds shall... | |
 | Albert Barnes - Bible - 1852 - 530 pages
...Mohammed." Ibid. "The sword," says Mohammed, " is the key of heaven and hell : a drop of. blood abed in the cause of God, a night spent in arms, is of more avail than two months of fasting and prayer; whosoever falls in battle, his sins arc forgiven : at the day of judgment his wounds shall be resplendent... | |
 | Charles Greenstreet Addison - 1852 - 346 pages
...the prophet Mahomet, in that remarkable book, " is the key of heaven and of hell ; a drop of blood shed in the cause of God, a night spent in arms, is of more avail than two two months of fasting and of prayer. Whosoever falls in battle, his sins are forgiven him. At the day... | |
 | Gustave Louis M. Strauss - 1854 - 188 pages
...Paradise is prefigured," says Mohammed; " the sword is the key of heaven and of hell: a drop of blood shed in the cause of God, a night spent in arms, is of more avail than two months of fasting or prayer. "Whosoever falls in battle, his sins are forgiven: at the day of judgment his wounds shall... | |
 | Lydia Maria Child - Religions - 1855 - 532 pages
...if they attack you, slay them there." " The sword is the key of heaven and of hell. A drop of blood shed in the cause of God, a night spent in arms, is...more avail than two months of fasting and prayer. Whosoever falls in battle, his sins are forgiven. At the day of judgment, his wounds shall be resplendent... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Caliphs - 1870 - 458 pages
...martyrs of the faith. :The sword," said Mahomet, "is the key of heaven and of hell ; a iop of blood shed in the cause of God, a night spent in arms, is of lore avail than two months of fasting or prayer : whosoever falls in attle, his sins are forgiven :... | |
 | James De Pui - Bible - 1873 - 316 pages
...one that fell in battle. "The sword," says he, " is the key of heaven and of hell; a drop of blood shed in the cause of God, a night spent in arms, is...two months of fasting and prayer. Whoever falls in battle, his sins are forgiven. At the day of judgment his wounds shall be resplendent as vermilion... | |
 | John Ashworth - Athens (Greece) - 1873 - 284 pages
...in paradise. "The sword," says Mahomet in the Koran, "is the key of heaven and hell; a drop of blood shed in the cause of God, a night spent in arms, is of more avail than two months of fasting or prayer ; whosoever falls in battle, his sins are forgiven ; at the day of judgment his wounds shall... | |
 | John Piggot - Iran - 1874 - 352 pages
...successful Persian war, * The Koran says, " The sword is the key of heaven and of hell : a drop of blood shed in the cause of God, a night spent in arms, is of more avail than two months of fasting or prayer : whoever falls in battle his sins are forgiven : at the day of judgment his wounds shall... | |
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is the key of heaven and of hell; a drop of blood shed in the cause of God, a night spent in arms, is of more avail than two months of fasting and prayer; whosoever falls in battle, his sins are forgiven; at the day of judgment his wounds shall be resplendent... 
