 Hedjra, the most sacred place of the mosque, is a place called El Rodha, or the Garden, pointed out by Mohammed in the words : ' Between my tomb and my pulpit is a garden of the gardens of Paradise.' Excepting as regards the flowers painted upon the columns...  Chambers's Pocket Miscellany - Page 1541854Full view - About this book
 | John Lewis Burckhardt - Arabian Peninsula - 1829 - 454 pages
...Rodha, ie a garden, or the Garden of the Faithful; a name bestowed upon it by Mohammed, who said: " Between my tomb and my pulpit is a garden of the gardens of Paradise." The pulpit of the mosque stands close to this partition, about midway between the Hedjra and the west... | |
 | John Lewis Burckhardt - Arabian Peninsula - 1829 - 522 pages
...Rodha, ie a garden, or the Garden of the Faithful; a name bestowed upon it by Mohammed, who said: " Between my tomb and my pulpit is a garden of the gardens of Paradise." The pulpit of the mosque stands close to this partition, about midway between the Hedjra and the west... | |
 | John Lewis Burckhardt - Arabian Peninsula - 1829 - 476 pages
...Rodha, ie a garden, or the (Jarden of the Faithful; a name bestowed upon it by Mohammed, who said: " Between my tomb and my pulpit is a garden of the gardens of Paradise." The pulpit of the mosque stands close to this partition, about midway between the Hedjra and the west... | |
 | 1841 - 794 pages
...given to a part of the southern portico of the great mosque of El-Medeeneh, because the Prophet said, " Between my tomb and my pulpit is a garden of the gardens of Paradise."—See Burckhardt's Arabia, page 337. Or doth the remembrance of a beauteous damsel, who... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1846 - 934 pages
...from a holy place called El Rodha, or the Garden—a name bestowed upon it by Mohammed, who said, " Between my tomb and my pulpit is a g-arden of the gardens of paradise." The pulpit of the mosque stands close to this partition, and the name of Rodha belongs strictly to... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1853 - 398 pages
...the other domes y, and ornamented with a large globe and a both said to be of pure gold. Ke^t to tha Hedjra, the most sacred place of the mosque, is a...regards the flowers painted upon the columns of the liodha, there is no other trace of a garden about it. ' The entrance to the Rodha, near Bab-es-Salam,... | |
 | 1855 - 554 pages
...we entered the celebrated spot called El Rauzah, or the Garden, after a saying of tlie Prophet's, ' between my Tomb and my Pulpit is a Garden of the Gardens of Paradise.' On the north and west sides it is not divided from the rest of the portico ; on the south lies the... | |
 | Sir Richard Francis Burton - Arabian Peninsula - 1856 - 514 pages
...again, " between my house and my pulpit is a Garden of the Gardens of Paradise." A third tradition—" Between my tomb and my pulpit is a Garden of the Gardens of Paradise, and verily my pulpit is in my Full Cistern." Tara, or " upon a Full Cistern of the Cisterns of Paradise,"... | |
 | Sir Richard Francis Burton - Arabian Peninsula - 1857 - 470 pages
...we entered the eelebrated spot called Kl Ilauzah, or the Garden, after a saying of the Prophet's, " Between my Tomb and my Pulpit is a Garden of the Gardens of Paradise." * On the north and west sides it is not divided from the rest of the portico; on the south lies the... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1872 - 284 pages
...from a holy place called El Rodha, or the Garden—a name bestowed upon it by Mohammed, who said: ' Between my tomb and my pulpit is a garden of the gardens of paradise.' The pulpit of the mosque stands close to this partition, and the name of Rodha belongs strictly to... | |
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