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The Mohammedan Paradise is stated by the followers of the false prophet to be situated above the seven heavens (or in the seventh heaven), and next under the throne of God. The description of it is rich and dazzling. The very stones are pearls and jacinths, the walls of its buildings are of gold and silver, and the trunks of all its trees are of gold. The pebbles in the rivers of Paradise are rubies and emeralds; the fruits on the trees are pearls and emeralds. Besides sensual gratifications such as Mohammed alone could describe for his followers, each one admitted to Paradise will have a tent erected for him of pearls, jacinths, and emeralds, of a very large extent. They will be adorned with bracelets of gold and precious stones, and crowns set with pearls of incomparable lustre.
The Mohammedans say that the Archangel Gabriel revealed the Koran to Mohammed by parcels--some at Mecca and some at Medina--at different times during the space of twenty-three years, as the exigencies of affairs required; giving him the consolation, however, to show him the whole (which they say was bound in silk, and adorned with gold and precious stones of Paradise) once a year. In the Talmud it is said that Noah had no other light in the Ark than that furnished by precious stones. So Abraham, who was very jealous of his numerous wives, and kept them shut up in an iron city, which he built for that purpose, with walls so high as to exclude the light of day, but the whole city was illuminated by a great bowl full of jewels. |
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