Darkness and Daybreak: Personal Experiences, Manners, Customs, Habits, Religious and Social Life in Persia

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Dickinson Bros., 1898 - 229 σελίδες
 

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Σελίδα 164 - Thus saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him ; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the twoleaved gates ; and the gates shall not be shut...
Σελίδα 142 - God is most great ! God is most great ! God is most great ! God is most great ! I testify that there is no god but God...
Σελίδα 132 - Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
Σελίδα 140 - Islam is that thou shalt bear witness, that there is no God but God and that Mohammed is the apostle of God...
Σελίδα 182 - II repent, of all the faults that might have originated with me, whether they refer to thoughts, words, or deeds, whether they appertain to my body or soul, whether they be in connection with the material world or spiritual.
Σελίδα 113 - And when the months wherein ye are not allowed to attack them shall be past, kill the idolaters wheresoever ye shall find them/ and take them prisoners, and besiege them, and lay wait for them in every convenient place.
Σελίδα 183 - It is after this investiture with the sacred shirt and thread that the general education of a child generally begins. The Parsee books speak of the necessity of educating all children, whether male or female. Thus female education claims as much attention among the Parsees as male education. Physical education is as much spoken of in the Zoroastrian books as mental and moral education. The health of the body is considered the first requisite for the health of the soul. That the physical education...
Σελίδα 114 - Ye are also forbidden to take to wife free women who are married, except those women whom your right hands shall possess as slaves.
Σελίδα 184 - Not only is the commission of a fault of this kind sin, but also the omission, when one sees such a pollution, of taking proper means to remove it. On the domestic and social life of the Parsees we find that, according to the teachings of the Parsee books, a husband is the king and the wife the queen of the household. On the husband devolves the duty of maintaining his wife and children; on the wife that of making the home comfortable and cheerful. The qualifications of a good husband, from a Zoroastrian...
Σελίδα 113 - War is enjoined you against the Infidels ; but this is hateful unto you : yet perchance ye hate a thing which is better for you, and perchance ye love a thing which is worse for you : but GOD knoweth and ye know not.

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