The Speeches & Table-Talk of the Prophet Mohammad

Name: The Speeches & Table-Talk of the Prophet Mohammad
Author: Muhammad, Prophet

Muhammad, Prophet

Muhammad, Prophet, -632 -- Teachings; Religious life -- Islam

The last trump and the gathering of
        mankind to judgment. Description of the torments of Hell and
        the delights of Paradise.
    THE FACT (lvi.)                                                   22
      Signs of the Last Day. The three kinds of men--prophets,
        righteous, and wicked--and the future state of each. The power
        of God shown in creation. The Korān true and sacred. The state
        after death.
    THE MERCIFUL (lv.)                                                27
      A _Benedicite_ reciting the works of God, and the Judgment and
        Paradise and Hell, with a refrain challenging genii and mankind
        to deny His signs.
    THE UNITY (cxii.)                                                 32
      A profession of faith in one God.
    THE FĀTIHAH (i.)                                                  33
      A prayer for guidance and help: the Muslim _Paternoster_.

  THE SPEECHES AT MEKKA
  II.--_THE RHETORICAL PERIOD._ Aet. 44-46, A.D. 613-615              35

    THE KINGDOM (lxvii.)                                              37
      The power of God shown in creation; Hell the reward of those who
        disbelieve in God’s messengers and discredit His signs. None
        but God knows when the Last Day will be.
    THE MOON (liv.)                                                   41
      The Judgment approaches, but men will not heed the warning, and
        call it a lie and magic. Even so did former generations reject
        their apostles: the people of Noah, Ad, Thamūd, Lot, Pharaoh;
        and there came upon all of them a grievous punishment. Neither
        shall the men of Mekka escape. Refrain: the certainty of
        punishment and the heedlessness of man.
    K. (l.)                                                           45
      Why is the Resurrection so incredible? Does not God continually
        create and re-create? Former generations were equally
        incredulous, but they all found the threat of punishment was
        true. So shall it be again. The recording angels shall bear
        witness, and hell shall be filled. Who can escape God, who
        created all things, and to whom all things must one day return?
    Y.S. (xxxvi.)                                                     49
      Mohammad a true messenger from God to warn the people, whose
        ancestors would not be warned. God hardens their hearts so that
        they cannot believe. Everything is written down in the Book
        of God. Just so did the people of Antioch reject the apostles
        of Jesus, and stoned the only convert among themselves; and
        there came a shout from heaven and exterminated them. Why do
        not men reflect on such warnings? Signs of the Resurrection are
        seen in the revival of spring and the growth of plants, and
        the alternations of night and day, and the changes of the sun
        and moon, and the ships that sail on the sea.

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The Speeches & Table-Talk of the Prophet Mohammad

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