| Meadows Taylor - India - 1863 - 382 pages
...Ul-humd-ul-illa ! there is good stuff in thee yet, Meah. What sayeth the holy book, chapter forty-seven ? ' When ye encounter the unbelievers, strike off their heads, until ye have made a great slaughter.' Yes, let him die." Afzool Khan mused for a while. The priest's quotation was correct, and his own fanaticism... | |
| Joseph Augustus Seiss - 1865 - 468 pages
...embraced it. It was the command of Mahomet to all his devotees, and delivered in the name of his god: " When ye encounter the unbelievers, strike off their...heads, until ye have made a great slaughter among them. . . As for the infidels, let them perish." (Koran 47.) So they slew 50,000 in one battle, and 150,000... | |
| John Muehleisen Arnold - Christianity and other religions - 1866 - 524 pages
...until there be no more opposition and the religion be wholly God's." In Sura xlvii. 4, we read : " When ye encounter the unbelievers, strike off their heads until ye have made a great slaughter amongst them and bind them in bonds." See also ix. 4, 6. When philo-mohammedan writers endeavour to... | |
| Richard Alfred Davenport - 1867 - 684 pages
...those who believe follow the truth from their LORD. Thus GOD propoundeth unto men their examples, t When ye encounter the unbelievers, strike off their...have made a great slaughter among them ; and bind tJiem in bonds ; and either give them a free dismission afterwards, or exact a ransom ; until the war... | |
| Henry Hart Milman - Papacy - 1867 - 464 pages
...conquests. The vision of the great Arabian empire had dawned upon his mind. p Already, even before the " When ye encounter the unbelievers, strike off their...heads, until ye have made a great slaughter among the war shall have laid down its arms."—ch. xlvii. ii. 376. 0 The instructions of Abubeker to them... | |
| John Joseph Halcombe - 1867 - 496 pages
...the Christians until there be no more opposition, and the religion be wholly God's" (Sur., viii, 3). "When ye encounter the unbelievers, strike off their heads until ye have made * Arnold, 'Nat. Hist, of Islamism.' a great slaughter among them, and bind them in bonds" (Sur. xvii,... | |
| Sir Sayyid Aḥmad Ḵẖāṉ - Arabian Peninsula - 1870 - 546 pages
...that all that can be found in Islam relative to slavery is the following verse of the Koran : — " When ye encounter the unbelievers, strike off their heads, until ye have made a great slaughter, and bind them in bonds, and either give them a free dismission afterwards, or exact a ransom, until... | |
| Sir Sayyid Aḥmad Ḵẖāṉ - Semitskie i͡azyki - 1870 - 542 pages
...that all that can be found in Islam relative to slavery is the following verse of the Koran : — " When ye encounter the unbelievers, strike off their heads, until ye have made a great slaughter, and bind them in bonds, and either give them a free dismission afterwards, or exact a ransom, until... | |
| 1871 - 694 pages
...proponndeth unto men their examples.f When ye encounter the unbelievers, strike off their head?. •mi il ye have made a great slaughter among them ; and bind...in bonds ; and either give them a free dismission afterwards, or exact a ransom ; until the war shall have laid down its arms.1 This shall ye do. Verily... | |
| J. Brown - 1873 - 166 pages
...be questioned, as, in the Koran, and written with his own hand, is this command to his followers, " When ye encounter the unbelievers, strike off their...them in bonds, and either give them a free dismission afterwards, or exact a ransom, until the warriors shall have laid down their arms. This shall ye do."... | |
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