THE TURKO-RUSSIAN WAR.

Dunstan Times, Issue 795, 13 July 1877, Page 3

THE TURKO-RUSSIAN WAR.

The throat made by the Suit,Hi to unfurl the standard of the Prophet, created considerable ' excitement, on account of the religious fanaticism which would bo thereby evoked. From a correspondence which Ims been recently carried on in a Northern con temporary we obtain the following extracts from the Koran, which explain why so much uneasiness was caused by the Sultan’s threat: —ln the Koran, chap. ix. (Sale’s translation), we read, “The Christians say, Christ is the son of God. May God resist them ? how they are infatuated !” “They are inf dels who say God is Christ” (chnp.v.) “As for the infidels, let them perish, because they have rejected with abhorrence that which God hath revealed’ (chap. xvii.) “ Strike off their heads, and Strike off all the ends of their fingers” (chap, xiii.) “Ye Christian dogs, you know your option, the Koran, the tribute, or the sword.” Mahomet makes God declare—- “ They who have been slain in battle, verily, I will expiate their evil deeds from them, and 1 will surely bring them into gardens watered by rivers” (chap, iii.) “ Go forth to battle, 0 true believers, both light and heavy, for tho advancement of God’s religion” (chap, ix.) “It hath not been granted unto any prophet that ho should possess captives until ho had made a great daughter of mfidds. 0, Prophet, stir up the faithful to war : if twenty persevere with constancy, they shall overcome two hundred of those who believe not” (chap, viii.) “O, true believers! wage war against such of the infidels as arc near you” (chap. ix.)