 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1821 - 402 pages
...world, concerning the journey of Mahomet tg heaven. The chapter begins thus : " Praise be unto him who transported his servant by night from the sacred...blessed, that we might show him some of our signs, for God is he who heareth and seeth ; and he gave unto Moses the book of the law, &c." Now it is certainly... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1821 - 398 pages
...world, concerning the journey of Mahomet to heaven. The chapter begins thus : " Praise be unto bim who transported his servant by night from the sacred...blessed, that we might show him some of our signs, for God is he who heareth and seeth; and he gave unto Moses the book of the law, &c." Now it is certainly... | |
 | 1821 - 400 pages
...world, concerning the journey of Mahomet to heaven. The chapter begins thus : " Praise be unto him who transported his servant by night from the sacred...blessed, that we might show him some of our signs, for God is he who heareth and seeth ; and he gave unto Moses the book of the law, &c." Now it is certainly... | |
 | 1821 - 398 pages
...world, concerning the journey of Mahomet to heaven. The chapter begins thus : " Praise be unto him who transported his servant by night from the sacred...blessed, that we might show him some of our signs, for God is he who heareth and seeth ; and he gave unto Moses the book of the law, &c." Now it is certainly... | |
 | 1821 - 560 pages
...Night-Journey b ; revealed at MECCA". In the name of the most merciful GOD. [*XV.] -T RAISE be unto him who transported his servant by night from the sacred temple of MECCA b The reason of this inscription appears in the first words ; Some intitle the chapter, The children... | |
 | 1832 - 280 pages
...allusion to this the seventeenth chapter of the Koran Commences thus :— •-" Praise be unto him who transported his servant by night from the sacred...circuit of which we have blessed, that we might show some of our signs ; for God is he who heareth and seeth." This idle and extravagant tale, which is... | |
 | 1833 - 564 pages
...doubt whether it was a fact or a fancy. Thus in the seventeenth chapter he says : " Praise be unto him who transported his servant by night from the sacred...blessed, that we might show him some of our signs ; for God is he who heareth and seeth." Again, in the fifty-third chapter : — " One mighty in power (Gabriel),... | |
 | George Bush - 1833 - 288 pages
...In allusion to this the seventeenth chapter of the Koran commences thus : — " Praise be unto him who transported his servant by night from the sacred...circuit of which we have blessed, that we might show some of our signs ; for God is he who heareth and seeth." This idle and extravagant tale, which is... | |
 | Samuel Green - 1840 - 430 pages
...absurd, perhaps more so, is however dwelt upon by Moslem writers, in a manner sufficiently indicative of their anxiety, to have their faith sustained by miraculous...indebted chiefly to the Moslem writers after his time. At the time this wonderful excursion commenced, Mahomet is represented as sleeping soundly between... | |
 | Muḥammad (the prophet.) - 1799 - 202 pages
...referred to, with the artfulness of a grand deceiver, in the following passages : — " Praise be to him who transported his servant by night from the sacred temple of Mecca to the very remote temple of Jerusalem, the circuit of which we have blessed, that we might show him some... | |
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Praise be unto him, who transported his servant by night, from the sacred temple of Mecca to the farther temple of Jerusalem,1 the circuit of which we have blessed, that we might show him some of our signs ; for God is he who heareth and seeth. 
