The miracle play of Hasan and Husain: collected from the oral traditionW. H. Allen, 1879 |
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The Miracle Play of Hasan and Husain, Volumen2 Sir Lewis Pelly,Arthur Naylor Wollaston Vista completa - 1879 |
Términos y frases comunes
Abbás afflicted Alí Akbar army art thou Asghar behold beloved blood body bride captive child companions creature cruel cruelly dagger Damascus daughter Day of Judgment Day of Resurrection dear aunt dear brother death destitute didst distressed dost thou dust enemy eyes fatherless Fátimah friends Gabriel garments girl God's grief groans Hasan hast thou heart heaven Husain Husain.-O Ibn Sa'd Imám kainah Kásim killed king Kúfah Kulsúm lady lament let me kiss Lord Madínah martyr mercy miserable mother mourning Muhammad niece nightingale oppressed orphan Paradise plain of Karbalá poor Prophet ransom for thy Rukayyah sacrifice for thy sake Shahrbánú Shi'ahs Shimar shouldst sighs sister slain sorrow soul Sukainah Sukainah.-O sword Syria tears tell thee thine thirst thou art thou hast throat thy father thy head thy majesty thyself to-day trouble unto weep wilt women wretch Yazid youth Zainab Zainab.-O Zú'l
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Página 237 - Allah is the light of the heavens and the earth. The similitude of His light is as a niche wherein is a lamp.
Página 253 - But all these glories will be eclipsed by the resplendent and ravishing girls of paradise, called, from their large black eyes, Hur al oyun, the enjoyment of whose company will be a principal felicity of the faithful. These, they say, are created, not of clay, as mortal women are, but of pure musk; being, as their prophet often affirms in his Koran, free from all natural impurities, defects, and inconveniences incident to the sex, of the strictest modesty, and secluded from public view in pavilions...
Página 233 - What is meant by this word the commentators cannot agree. Some will have it to be the name of the mountain or the valley wherein the cave was ; some say it was the name of their dog ; and others (who seem to come nearest the true signification...
Página 233 - And they said the one were three men who were driven by ill weather into a cave for shelter, and were shut in there by the falling down of a vast stone, which stopped the cave's mouth ; but on their begging God's mercy, and their relating each of them a meritorious action which they hoped might entitle them to it, were miraculously delivered by the rock's rending in sunder to give them passage.
Página 117 - Hasan, to behold sorrow and mirth in one and the same place, at one and the same time.
Página 35 - Kulsum. He came, dear brother, but he seemed to have lost himself; he had received many arrows in different parts of the body. He fell from time to time on the centre of the army, every now and then saying, " Where is my brother? " Hoseyn, who has been desperately seeking for his brother over the plain, now comes back, and learns from Kulsum that 'Abbas, not having found him at the camp, had gone back once more to the battle. Hoseyn again follows him, and rushes among the enemy. Shemmar tells him...
Página 82 - on these lips have I seen the lips of the apostle of God!" In a distant age and climate the tragic scene of the death of Hosein will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader.
Página i - Pelly (Sir Lewis). The Miracle Play of Hasan and Husain. Collected from Oral Tradition by Colonel Sir LEWIS PELLY, KCB, KCSI, formerly serving in Persia as Secretary of Legation, and Political Resident in the Persian Gulf. Revised, with Explanatory Notes, by ABTHTJR N.
Página 81 - Hosein to be murdered before his eyes; a tear trickled down his venerable beard; and the boldest of his soldiers fell back on every side as the dying hero threw himself among them. The remorseless Shamer, a name detested by the faithful, reproached their cowardice; and the grandson of Mahomet was slain with three and thirty strokes of lances and swords. After they had trampled on his body, they carried his head to the castle of Cufa, and the inhuman Obeidollah struck him on the mouth with a cane....
Página 325 - God who made the dayspring from on high to visit his people, that they, being delivered out of the hand of their enemies, might serve him without fear.