...The Chief Holy. Thus (chap, xvii.) the " Night Journey," opens: " Praise be unto him who transported his servant by night, from the sacred temple of Mecca to the farther temple of Jerusalem, the circuit of which we have blessed, that we might show some of our signs;...

...which the Koran contains some obscure intimation in Chapter * The passage is as follows : " Praise be to Him who carried his servant by night from the Sacred Temple to the farther Temple, the environs of The account, as given by the prophet, was, that one night as...

...quoting such passsages of the Holy Koran as relate thereto. Second : " Praise be unto him who transported his servant, by night, from the sacred temple of Mecca to the farther temple of Jerusalem, the circuit of which we have blessed that we might show some of our signs...

..." Have we not opened thy breast? " (chap. xciv. 1). 2 Second : " Praise be unto him who transported his servant, by night, from the sacred temple of Mecca to the farther temple of Jerusalem, the circuit of which we have blessed that we might show some of our signs...

...REVEALED AT MECCA.* IN THE NAME OF TUB MOST MERCIFUL «OD. • [XV.] PRAISE be unto him who transported his servant by night, from the sacred temple of Mecca to the farther temple of Jerusalem f the circuit 1 These were ihe Jews ; who, being ordered by Moses to set...

...traditionists. They have woven beautiful and gorgeous legends round the simple words of the Koran : " Praise be to Him who carried His servant "by night from the sacred temple to the temple "that is more remote, whose precincts we have "blessed, that we might show him some of...

...traditionists. They have woven beautiful and gorgeous legends round the simple words of the Koran : " Praise be to Him who carried His servant "by night from the sacred temple to the temple "that is more remote, whose precincts we have "blessed, that we might show him some of...

...the Glory of Him who transported his servant by night* from the sacred temple at Mecca to the temple3 that is more remote, whose precinct We have blessed, that We might show him of our Signs ! He verily is the Hearer, the Beholder. And4 We gave the Book to Moses, and ordained it for guidance...

...it is written : " Glory be to Him, who carried his servant hy night from the sacred temple of Mekka, to the temple that is more remote, whose precinct...have blessed, that we might show him of our signs." The Prophet, in all probability, alluded here to some dream that he had had ; but upon this narrow...

..." Night Journey " which occurs in the Koran is contained in the first verse of the 17th Sura — " Glory be to Him who carried His servant by night from the sacred temple of Mekka to the temple that is more remote, whose precinct we have blessed, that we might show him of...