FORBIDDEN FOOD

Ye are forbidden to eat that which dies of itself, blood, swine’s flesh, and that on which the name of any other god than Allah has been invoked;[31] that which has been strangled, or killed by a blow, or by a fall, or what has been gored to death, and whatever has been sacrificed to idols. (5.)

DIVINATION BY ARROWS CONDEMNED

It is not allowed you to make division by casting lots with arrows.

DENIAL OF THE DIVINITY OF CHRIST AND THE TRINITY

Those are unbelievers who say that God is the Christ [lit., Messiah], Son of Mary.  Nay, this Christ Himself said, “O Israelites, worship God, My Lord and yours!” He who associates with God any companion His equal shall be excluded from Paradise, and have his place in Hell fire. (5.)

Jesus Denies that He and His Mother were Gods

At the last day God will say unto Isa, “O Isa, Son of Mary, didst Thou say unto men, ’Take Me and My Mother for two Gods in addition to Allah’?” And He shall answer, “Praise be unto Thee.  Thou knowest all things, and Thou knowest that I commanded men to worship Allah alone.”

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CARDINAL NEWMAN

APOLOGIA PRO VITa SUA

That most remarkable ecclesiastic of the nineteenth century, John Henry Newman, born in London on February 21, 1801, was of Dutch extraction, but the name itself, at one time spelt “Newmann,” suggests Hebrew origin.  His mother came of a Huguenot family, long established in England as engravers and paper manufacturers.  His early education he obtained at a school at Ealing, where he distinguished himself by diligence and good conduct, as also by a certain aloofness and shyness.  The only important incident Newman connects with this period is his “conversion,” an incident more certain to him “than that he had hands and feet.”  In 1820 he graduated at Trinity College, Oxford.  The various phases of his religious career are amply set forth in his famous “Apologia pro Vita Sua” ("Apology for His Life"), afterwards called “A History of my Religious Opinions.”  The work was called out by an attack, in January, 1864, by Charles Kingsley, in a review of Froude’s “History of England.”  Kingsley wrote:  “Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy.  Father Newman informs us that it need not, and, on the whole, ought not to be.”  Challenged to withdraw or substantiate this charge, Kingsley did neither, whereupon Newman, after much correspondence, wrote his “Apologia,” which was published in bi-monthly parts.  Newman died on August 11, 1890.

I.—­HISTORY OF MY RELIGIOUS OPINIONS TO 1833