Zend Avesta Part 01

SR No.: 007671
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Darmesteter
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1895
Total Pages: 2695
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

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XVII, 92-101. THE CHAPTER OF THE NIGHT JOURNEY. II
And they say, 'We will by no means believe in thee, until there gush forth for thee a fountain from the earth ; or there be made for thee a garden of palms and grapes, and rivers come gushing out amidst them; or thou make the sky to fall down upon us in pieces; or thou bring us God and the angels before us; [95] or there be made for thee a house of gold; or thou climb up into the heaven; and even then we will not believe in thy climbing there, until thou send down on us a book that we may read!'
Say, 'Celebrated be the praises of my Lord! was I aught but a mortal apostle ?'
Naught prohibited men from believing when the guidance came to them, save their saying, 'God has sent a mortal for an apostle.
Say, "Were there angels on the earth walking in quiet, we had surely sent them an angel as an apostle.'
Say, 'God is witness enough between me and you; verily, He is ever of His servants well aware, and sees.'
He whom God guides, he is guided indeed ; and he whom God leads astray, thou shalt never find patrons for them beside Him; and we will gather them upon the resurrection day upon their faces, blind, and dumb, and deaf; their resort is hell ; whenever it grows dull we will give them another blaze!
[100] That is their reward for that they disbelieved in our signs, and said, 'What! when we are bones and rubbish, shall we then be raised up a new creation ?
Could they not see that God who created the
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