...into the accepted belief of Islam. Over the midst of the Moslem Hell stretches the bridge Es-Sirat, finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge of a sword. There all souls of the dead must pass along, but while the good reach the other side in safety, the...

...utterly, and nothing is left. The bridge Es Sirat, which stretches over the midst of the Moslem hell, finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge of a sword, conveys a similar conception ; and the Jews, too, when they came to believe in immortality, imagined...

...bridge called in Arabic Al Sirat, which, they say, is laid over the midst of hell, and describe to be finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge of a sword; eo that it seems very difficult to conceive bow any one "hall be able to stand upon it ; for which...

...the bridge called in Arabic, Al Sirat, which is laid over the middle of hell, and is described to be finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge of a sword. The wicked will miss their footing and fall headlong into hell.* In the Koran it is said that hell...

...Both, however, have to go over the bridge Al Sirât, which is laid over the midst of hell, which is finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge of a sword, and beset with thorns on either side. This the righteous will cross with ease and swiftness. The wicked will fall from it into hell, and...

...to undergo, viz., the passage of the bridge "Al Sirat," which, spanning "the deep abyss of hell," is finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge of a sword. Over it the true Moslems, headed by their prophet, will pass into Paradise, with the fleetness of the...

...into Hell beneath. It is the origin of the Muhammedan bridge Al Sirat, " laid over the midst of hell, finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge of a sword," whence the wicked will fall into the abyss. The root of the idea seems simply to be that Heaven being...

...bridge is. It is the effect one values, the general idea that one is on that very bridge of Al Sirat, laid over the midst of hell, and finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge of a sword, over which the righteous must pass to Mahomet's paradise. It is the notion of man's audacity in making...

...bridge, called in Arabic al Sirat, which they say is laid over the midst of hell, and described to be finer than a hair and sharper than the edge of a sword, so that it seems very difficult to conceive how any one shall be able to stand upon it ; for which...

...creed of Islam. Sirat is the name of the bridge so vividly described by Mohammedan writers.2 It is finer than a hair and sharper than the edge of a sword, and is besides guarded with thorns and briars along all its length.. Nevertheless when at the last day...