...g safe, lower crime rates, better medical care and more time with a happy family rate high. ―Some countries are beginning to study what pe... ... limits of any paths to happiness. Was it money, God, philanthropy, fame, family, self realization or any of the other human goals and endeavors? ... ...entered reason—to go to heaven or as revenge for the death of a friend or family member. He might do it because he believes that God wants to kill t... ...n the Red Sea, or the remains of Noah‘s ark. We can be quite certain that Muhammad and Paul lived and the historian Josephus mentions several Jesuse... ...them earlier. ―The Qur‘an, the revelation by the angel Gabriel to Muhammad, was revealed in the early seventh century but the earliest parti... ...irst fully written Qur‘an dates to the Sixteenth Century, 900 years after Muhammad lived. ―But historic lapses don‘t matter, our God, if m... ... Aquinas.‖ —―Well let me put on my scriptural cap. In 2 Kings 2:11 Elijah is taken up to heaven in a horse drawn chariot of fire. Or in Revel... ... to live!‘ He repeated the same request to God on the next day. ―Elijah, too, asked that God take him in First Kings 19:4, after he had exec...

... The Spoils 96 47 Muhammad 97 3 The Family of Imran 9... ... Muhammad 97 3 The Family of Imran 98 61 Battle Array 99 ... ...here any authentic tra- dition to shew that it rests upon the authority of Muhammad himself. The scattered fragments of the Koran were in the first in... ...hâbit, a native of Medina, and one of the Ansars, or helpers, who had been Muhammad’s amanuensis, was the person fixed upon to carry out the task, and... ...presents him, a holy teacher, who, like the patriarch Enoch or the prophet Elijah, had been miraculously taken from the earth. But, in all other respe... ...ts, the sober and matter-of-fact statements of the Ko- ran relative to the family and history of Jesus, are altogether opposed to the wild and fantast... ...“Peace!” he replied, “Peace:–they are strangers.” And he went apart to his family, and brought a fatted calf, And set it before them. He said, “Eat ye...