George Sale

George Sale (1697 – 13 November 1736) was a British Orientalist scholar and practising solicitor, best known for his 1734 translation of the Quran into English.

Quotes

Wheresoever ye be, death will overtake you, although ye be in lofty towers.

The Koran (1734)

The Koran, commonly called The Alcoran of Mohammed. London: C. Ackers

• Turn, therefore, thy face towards the holy temple of Mecca, and wherever ye be, turn your faces towards that place.
  • Chapter 2

• Wherever ye be, God will bring you all back at the resurrection.
  • Chapter 2

• As for him who voluntarily performeth a good work, verily God is grateful and knowing.
  • Chapter 2

• Your God is one God, there is no God but He, the most merciful.
  • Chapter 2

• O true believers, take your necessary precautions against your enemies, and either go forth to war in separate parties, or go forth all together in a body.
  • Chapter 4

• Fight for the religion of God.
  • Chapter 4

• O men, ... respect women who have borne you.
  • Chapter 4

• Wheresoever ye be, death will overtake you, although ye be in lofty towers.
  • Chapter 4

• Whosoever flieth from his country for the sake of God’s true religion, shall find in the earth many forced to do the same, and plenty of provisions.
  • Chapter 4

• God loveth not the speaking ill of any one in public.
  • Chapter 4

• Let not thy hand be tied up to thy neck, neither open it with an unbounded expansion, lest thou become worthy of reprehension, and be reduced to poverty.
  • Chapter 17

• Of his mercy he hath made for you the night and the day, that ye may rest in the one, and may seek to obtain provision for yourself of his abundance, by your industry, in the other.
  • Chapter 28

• If God should punish men according to what they deserve, he would not leave on the back of the earth so much as a beast.
  • Chapter 35

• God obligeth no man to more than he hath given him ability to perform.
  • Chapter 65

• Woe be unto those who pray, and who are negligent at their prayer who play the hypocrites, and deny necessaries to the needy.
  • Chapter 107

• O unbelievers, I will not worship that which ye worship, nor will ye worship that which I worship. ... Ye have your religion, and I my religion.
  • Chapter 109