Islam, a challenge to faith; studies on the Mohammedan religion and the needs and opportunities of the Mohammedan world from the standpoint of Christian missions . nd, at times,highly poetical ideas are clothed in sublime first chapter and the so-called verse of the Throneare striking examples: THE OPENING CHAPTER In the name of God, the Compassionate, the be to God, Lord of the worlds!The Compassionate, the Merciful!King of the Day of Judgment! Thee do we worship, and to Thee do we cry for help!Guide Thou us on the right path!The path of those to whom Thou art gra
Islam, a challenge to faith; studies on the Mohammedan religion and the needs and opportunities of the Mohammedan world from the standpoint of Christian missions . nd, at times,highly poetical ideas are clothed in sublime first chapter and the so-called verse of the Throneare striking examples: THE OPENING CHAPTER In the name of God, the Compassionate, the be to God, Lord of the worlds!The Compassionate, the Merciful!King of the Day of Judgment! Thee do we worship, and to Thee do we cry for help!Guide Thou us on the right path!The path of those to whom Thou art gracious !Not of those with whom Thou art angered, nor of those who goastray. THE VERSE OF THE THRONE. God! there is no God but He; the living, the doth not overtake Him, neither Him belongeth whatsoever is in heaven and on the shall intercede with Him except by His permission? He knows what is between their hands and behind them;And they can not encompass aught of His knowledge except as He please. His throne is as wide as the heavens and the preservation of both is no weariness unto is the high, the O trt O O s: 6 («? — c X > i; ^ 2 9 *^ .7: THE FAITH OF ISLAM 9I The great bulk of the Koran is either legislative orlegendary; the book consists of laws and stories. Theformer relate entirely to subjects which engrossed theArabs of Mohammeds day—the laws of inheritance, therelation of the sexes, the law of retaliation, etc.—andthis part of the book has a local character. The stories,on the other hand, go back to Adam and the patriarchs,take in several unknown Arabian prophets or leaders, tellof Jesus Christ, Moses and Solomon, and do not venturebeyond Jewish territory, except to mention Alexanderthe Great and Lokman (.^sop). The defects of its teaching are many: (a) It is fullof historical errors; (b) it contains monstrous fables;(c) it teaches a false cosmogony; (d) it is full of su-perstitions; (e) it perpetuat
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