17 Metaphors for mahomet

"You may all see," said he, "what must be my opinion; and as you insist that I should speak out plainly, I must declare that your Mahomet is the son of perdition, and is in hell with his father the devil.

exclaimed he; "there is no god but God, and Mahomet is his prophet!

Later, he seems to have attained a more important position, mainly, one would imagine, through the lion courage and unfaltering faith in the Prophet of his son, the mighty warrior Ali, of whom it is written, "Mahomet is the City of Knowledge, and Ali is the Gate thereof."

Mahomet, the outcast, the despised, was now lord of the whole splendid city that stretched before his eyes.

Mahomet, heretofore religious visionary and teacher, became the temporal head of a community, and in time the leader of a political State.

Mahomet was content that he had staved off immediate attack, and set to work to complete his defences and strengthen his fighting force, when grave news reached him from the immediate environs of the city.

But Mahomet was naturally an affectionate child, and was equally attached to his uncle as he had been to his grandfather.

This power was the Turknot merely a single nation, but a whole group of peoples clustered round a nation, inspired by one single idea which urged them ever forward"There is no god but God, and Mahomet is the apostle of God.

Mahomet was the instigator of all this absorbing activity, although he never calculated the extent of his political impulse.

Mahomet was inevitably the leader of the city in spite of the bad feeling between himself and certain sections within it.

It was intrinsically an error that notion of Mahomet's, of his supreme Prophethood; and has come down to us inextricably involved in error to this day; dragging along with it such a coil of fables, impurities, intolerances, as makes it a questionable step for me here and now to say, as I have done, that Mahomet was a true Speaker at all, and not rather an ambitious charlatan, perversity and simulacrum; no Speaker, but a Babbler!

This Vie de Mahomet was as a matter of fact an anti-clerical romance, the material of which was supplied by a superficial knowledge of Islâm drawn from secondary sources.

No other religious leader has ever bound his creed so closely to definite political conceptions, Mahomet was not only the instrument of divine revelation, but he was also at the end of his life the head of a temporal state with minutest laws and regulationschaotic it may be, but still binding so that Islamic influence extended over the whole of the lives of its adherents.

The Prophet Mahomet is at once the glory and bane of his people, the source of their strength and the mainspring of their weakness.

O de grand Bayaret de Mahomet, de grand Turgur, be garr.

" But if Mahomet was superstitiousif he felt that fate had doomed him, and that resistance would be uselesshe resolved not to fall ignobly.

Mahomet, it was said, had been thither; it was thence, indeed, that he had started on his nocturnal ascent to heaven.

17 Metaphors for  mahomet