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 BELIEVER (xl.)                                                75
      The revelation is from God. Former generations rejected their
        apostles and were punished. The angels praise God. The despair
        of the damned. The great tryst: the judgment of God is
        unerring. The generations of yore were greater than those of
        to-day: yet nothing could save them from God. The history of
        Moses and Pharaoh and the Egyptian convert, and the evil fate
        of the infidels. The proud shall not win in the end. Praise
        of God in His attributes. Hell is the goal of idolaters and
        polytheists. Patience enjoined upon Mohammad. The signs of
        God’s might and the dire consequences of doubting it.
    JONAH (x.)                                                        87
      Repudiation of sorcery. Signs of God’s power, and the
        consequences of believing and disbelieving them. Insincerity
        of man: but former generations were destroyed for unbelief.
        Mohammad has no power to speak the Korān save as God reveals
        it. Idolatry ridiculed. Miracles disclaimed. Man believes when
        he is in danger, and disbelieves when he is rescued. The life
        of this world like grass that will be mown to-morrow. The
        reward of well and evil doing and the judgment of idolaters.
        God’s might in creation. The Korān no forgery, as will be
        plainly seen one day. Every nation has its apostle and its
        appointed term, which cannot be hastened or retarded. Now the
        people are warned, and all they do is seen of God. God’s power:
        He has no Son. The story of Noah and the ark, and Moses and the
        magicians, and the passage of the Red Sea, and the establishing
        of the Children of Israel. The people of Jonah. God compels
        unbelief or belief as He pleases, and none can believe without
        His permission. The signs of God are in the heavens and the
        earth. True worship.
    THUNDER (xiii.)                                                  104
      The mighty works of God. The punishment of unbelief. Miracles
        disclaimed. The omniscience and unvariableness of God, the
        hurler of thunder and lightning and the giver of rain. The
        reward of the faithful; the torment of apostates. God misleads
        whom He will, and, if He pleased, could guide all mankind
        aright. Apostles have been mocked at before: and the mockers
        were punished. Paradise. Mohammad’s task is only to warn: it is
        God’s business to punish.

  SPEECHES OF MEDINA
  _THE PERIOD OF HARANGUE._ Aet. 53-63, A.D. 622-632                 113

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The Speeches & Table-Talk of the Prophet Mohammad

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