{"product_id":"2940013402812","title":"The Faith as Unfolded by Many Prophets","description":"Scanned, proofed and corrected from the original edition for your reading pleasure.It is also searchable and contains hyper-links to chapters. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Faith as Unfolded by Many Prophets\" is with great propriety, and with great beauty too, couched in a more ornate and oriental phraseology. It consists of a succession of dialogues, and the effect is aimed at by comparing the two religions, as severally regarded by their votaries, and not by the exhibition of a polemical conflict, in which the Christian would, of course, be made the victor. The execution is as happy as the plan is judicious. There are many passages which deserve quotation for their poetical beauty or their argumentative force; but by taking less than an entire section we should do injustice to the Essay, and for so much we have not room. We give the commencement, in order to convey, more distinctly than by our own description, the kind of work which we recommend to the reader's attention :—\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'There was a friendship like that of brothers between Havilah the son of Aram, and a man of another nation, to whom Haviluh gave the name of Eber. Yet Eber was a Christian, while Havilah was a follower of the Prophet. Havilah remembered how his father had early taught him to despise the Jews and Christians, and how he had hated them in his youth; yet he did not repent of his love for Eber.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Eber was not like many persons, whether Musselmen, Jews, or Christians, who having known no men but those of their own country and their own religion, despise or fear all other men. He had left his own country many years before, and had travelled from the sun-setting to the sun-rising; and as his heart was open to every man, there were some found to love him in every land: and among these was Havilah. When Havilah's child was sick, Eber had, by the blessing of God, restored him. When Havilah's wife had died, Eber, wept with the mourner and comforted him. Havilah, in his turn, opened his house and his bosom to the Christian, and made him as his brother.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'It happened, one day, that as the sun drew near its setting, Havilah and Eber went out beneath the shade of spreading trees, where the evening breeze might come to them to refresh them after the heats of the day. While the Christian watched how the sun hastened down the sky, his friend withdrew a little space to repeat his accustomed prayers. When Havilah had returned, and they were both seated beneath a tree, Eber said to him :—\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Though we worship not side by side, nor in the name of the same Prophet, yet we worship together; for we pray to the same God, often at the same time,—and may it not be said in the same spirit?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'So I even believe, my friend. Yet has the Prophet declared that there is much evil in friendship with unbelievers. Listen to what is Mid in the Book: \"O true believers, have no intimate friendship with \"^y besides yourselves: they will not fail to corrupt you.\" \"Behold, ye love them, and they do not love you: ye believe in the Scriptures, and when they meet you, they say, 'We believe;' but when they assemble privately together, they are full of wrath against you*.\" If I had loved a Christian of whom these things were to be believed, I had disobeyed the Prophet; but Mohammed himself would have loved one whose heart is open as the heart of Eber.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Is it not elsewhere told in the Book, Havilah, who are the infidels whose friendship is dangerous? Is it not those \"Who make a laughing-stock and a jest of your religiont;\" who \"when ye call to prayer, make a laughing-stock and a jest of it, because they are a people who do not understand?\" I have never thus jested, nor sought to turn Havilah from his faith.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Never, said Havilah. Yet is Eber among those who do not understand: else, as surely as the thirsty fields drink in the rain, would the heart of Eber receive gladly the wisdom of the Prophet.","brand":"Leila's Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47082699391216,"sku":"2940013402812","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013402812_p0.jpg?v=1763580393","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013402812","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}