Questions

This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.

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53684Was he not wasting his life? 53684 What more delightful than to stand in the moonlighted garden and pluck the velvet leaves?"
53684Seest thou this tiny vial?
53684So many pilgrims sought him to beg his wizard touch, that the question,"Where is the house of Omar?"
53684What opportunity was the desert offering him greater than kings''houses could give?"
22337Their death is eternal, why pray for them?
22337At each blow inflicted by the redoubtable follower of the Prophet, Remain cried out,"Do you then wish to kill me?"
22337Does a Mohammedan suffer by calamity?
22337How, then, can we give alms?
22337How, then, can we make the prescribed ablutions?
22337Is he plundered or ruined?
22337The fast of Ramadan is a useless command to persons who fast all the year round; and, if God be everywhere, why should we go to Mecca to adore him?"
22337Who is not familiar with the Alif lita wa lilin, or the thousand and one tales, commonly known as the Arabian Nights''Entertainment?
22337{ 256} Indeed, what superstitious, enthusiastic people has ever neglected these?
41771Consequently, will you kindly grant me three days?
41771He asked them,"Why do you wish to fight a Mohammedan who is coming to live with you?"
41771To what extent should Spain exercise this right?
41771When he arrived near the latter place he met some people and asked them:"Where is your town and where is your place of worship?"
41771[ 82] A place in Sumatra(?)
62937Ehkäpä perästäkin, hän sanoi itsekseen,"kristittyjen Jumala on totinen Jumala?
62937Entä tuo toinen linna tuolla toisella kunnaalla?
62937Jätätkö minut?
62937Kuinka minua sitte rakastaisit, jos olisit Aabenserraagi?
62937Mikä siis on päätöksesi?
62937Mitä muuten sinulla on pojista, joita et saa nähdä ja jotka eivät urhoollisuudessa ole sinun vertaisiasi? 62937 Mitä sanot?"
62937Mutta oletteko ajatelleet, että olette uskoton, Maurilainen, vihollinen, ja että minä taas olen kristitty ja Espanjalainen?
62937Näenkö sinua enää milloinkaan?
62937Oi kuninkaani, hän huudahti,"mihinkä sinäkin olet joutunut?
62937Onko sisaresi käskenyt, Aaben- Haamet vastasi,"sinua vaatimaan minulta takaisin ne valat, jotka hän on minulle tehnyt?"
62937Onneton Blanca, hän sanoi,"mihin sinut vielä vie tuo rakkautesi?
62937Rakastatte siis minua?
62937--"Paljonko luulette", sanoi Blanca keskeyttäen hänet,"minun luottavan sellaisen miehen sanoihin, joka vainoo minun Jumalaani?
62937Aaben- Haamet huudahti syöksähtäen istuimeltaan, jossa hän oli ollut puoleksi pitkällään,"luetko sinä Cidin esi- isiesi joukkoon?"
62937Etkö havaitse, että terveyteni huononee?
62937Ja kuinka äiti pusersi Meit''iloisna Poveensa vasten, hymyili Ja riemuitsi?
62937Ja oletteko sitä paitsi varma siitä, että teitä rakastan?
62937Ja vanhaa Mauren tornia, Joss''ilmottaa Ain''kello päivän tuloa Jok''aamuna?
62937Kentiesi teitä ilahuttaa käydä katsomassa entisten kuninkaittenne palatsia?
62937Mikä on antanut teille rohkeutta puhua minulle sillä tavoin?"
62937Mistä löytäisin sinut autiosta Alhambrastasi?"
62937Mitä torneja ovat nuot, jotka välkkyvät kuin tähdet yli vehreän metsän?"
62937Muistaako hän vielä onnetonta Arapialaista, joka ei lakannut häntä rakastamasta istuessaan erämaan palmupuun varjossa?
62937Muistatko linnaa korkeaa, Mi Doren luona kohoaa?
62937Muistatko, kuin kiis''pääskynen Pinnalla lammen tyvenen, Kuin tuuli taipuun kaislikon Sai kevyen, Kuin valo sammui auringon Taa vuoriston?
62937Muistatko, kuinka kotona Uinuimme äidin rinnoilla?
62937Mutta voiko Aaben- Haamet toivoa saavansa sinun sydäntäsi?
62937Niinköhän oli hänen loppu- ikänsäkin kuluva?
62937Odottaakohan Blanca rannalla?
62937Olette kaiketi eksyksissä?"
62937Rakastatko minua yhä edelleenkin?"
13127I see,said the Syaad to the purchaser,"that your station is superior to your circumstances!--How is this?"
13127Our King, the Protector of the World, commands Shah ood Dowlah''s attendance?
13127What is all this?
13127What is this you require of me? 13127 What is this?"
13127''"And pray,"said the leader, rising haughtily,"who gave you leave to suggest or recommend to your superiors in knowledge and virtue?
13127''"Do you know that I am permitted to have power to destroy you in this fire?"
13127''"Friend,"said the King,"when this thine ass was young and healthy, strong and lusty, didst thou not derive benefits from his services?
13127''"How am I to know you are what you represent yourself to be?"
13127''"I remember well my desire to visit you, but why was I deterred from my purpose?"
13127''"What do you know of the powerful prayer of the Soofie?"
13127''"What means the old fool?"
13127''"Who are you?"
13127''"Why, Sahib,"replied the man,"what will you do with the creatures?
13127''Another of the party was sent to the outer house; and, again I inquired,"What is in this person''s hand?"
13127''Do you decide on having Mugganee[9] performed?''
13127''Drawing near to Saadie, the Jew accosted him with,"Who are you, friend,--and whence do you come?"
13127''Exercise your reason-- is she not a human being like ourselves?
13127''To whom shall I go?''
13127''Why do the people fatigue themselves, who can so well afford to hire dancers for their amusement?''
13127''Will my son return from his travels during my lifetime?''
13127--"But how is it, reverend Sir,"rejoined the student,"that your actions and your precepts are at variance?
13127--"In this apartment,"he was answered.--"How am I to get near him?
13127--''How do they look in the ground?''
13127--''Is it my worldly goods I am to defend?
13127--''What benefit do you propose to yourself by this measure?''
13127--''When was your child attacked?''
13127--''Where shall I meet a home like my master''s house?''
13127--''You can not enumerate them?
13127--The Durweish, looking up at the summoner, inquired,"Where is the King?"
13127Answer me now, to what sect of people did you belong?"
13127Ask him, why he should delay performing so important a duty at this ceremony, when his own daughter''s interest and welfare are at stake?"
13127Do ye conceal them and give them to the poor?
13127Everything was arranged when,"Who will be lowered first?"
13127From whose bounty have I received them?
13127I asked,"What is enclosed in my clenched hand?"
13127I asked,"What is your belief?"
13127I demanded,"Why have you dared to return to this poor creature?
13127I have often heard them say,''My trust is not resting on a morsel of steel, but on the great mercy of my God''.--''What shall I defend?
13127Is not the great Giver able to defend His gifts?
13127Is there any thing difficult with God?
13127Is there any thing too great for His power?
13127Is this your love for Syaad Harshim?"
13127It has always been described to me by those Natives, as the sacred burbut,[24]--why?
13127Know ye not that this is a mosque, holy, and erected wherein to do service to the great and only God?
13127May I not again be thrown into similar scenes to those your generosity has been exercised to release me from?
13127Now when the two angels come unto thee, who are the Maccurrub[19]( messengers) from thy great and mighty God, they will ask of thee,"Who is thy Lord?
13127On one occasion I asked him what views he entertained of the Source from whence all good proceeds-- whether he believed in God?
13127The Durweish Shah Sherif ood deen, was asked by some one why he had selected the bazaar sweetmeats as a remedy in the Pattaan''s case?
13127The Mussulmauns say,''All power belongs to God.--Who would dare dispute the miracle of Christ''s birth?
13127The poet inquired"Who is it that disturbs my repose, at this hour, when all good subjects of the King should be at rest?"
13127They inquired of him, what had been the state of his feelings during the time he was in that insensible state from which he was now happily relieved?
13127They will often ask with wonder--''How do these things grow?''
13127Thinkest thou I would pay more deference to my fellow- man than I have done to my God?
13127What is thy faith?
13127What remedy do you propose for the suffering Pattaan?''
13127Where is the arm that can assault me without the permission of my God; if He ordains it, should I murmur, or ward off the blow?''
13127Where is thy Kiblaah?
13127Which is thy book?
13127Who but yourself and my own dear uncle could ever feel that lively interest for my preservation?"
13127Who is thy Prophet?
13127Who then could be ambitious, vain, or proud, after viewing this striking contrast to the grave of Shah Nizaam?
13127Would Sheikh Suddoo add to his enormities by forcing the house of God from its foundation?
13127Zechareah asked, Whence had ye these precious gifts?
13127[ 1]''Whatsoever alms ye shall give, of a truth God knoweth it.... Give ye your alms openly?
13127[ 20] Who is thy Leader?"
13127[ 29] May not this be a poetical symbol, similar to the scythe?
13127[ 8]''Who gave them this order in their flight?''
13127and by what means you have become so enlightened in the ways pleasing to God?"
13127and if satisfied, why should they seek for other knowledge than that book contained?
13127art thou mad, to ask thy wife a request so unheard of?"
13127art thou mad?--or has the study of philosophy drawn thee from thy former self, whilst yet thine hairs are jet with youth?
13127cried the villagers in a breath;"who would ever think of eating without sharing his meal with men or with animals?
13127do you doubt my ability to destroy you?"
13127my life?
13127said the Snake,"I am only imitating the way of the world; who ever thinks of returning good for good?
13127so common to us in England?
13127then, is it too much to be probable that God''s mercy should have been graciously extended to the children of Ishmael?
13127they replied,"it is your friends and associates, your favourites!--have you forgotten our enjoyments and this season of bliss?
13127was asked by some;"does he make his ass a relation?"
13127would you poison your wife, O Syaad Harshim, with the filth from your skin, the accumulation of many days''labour in the jungles?