Down this slope it was hurled headlong by the establishment of monkery. |
Thus in the early days the sect defied their Prophet's condemnation of monkery by building an abode for members of the order. |
Unquestionably the monkery of the middle ages was better ordered than that of the Nicene. |
The Holy Qur'ân does not endorse monkery for yet another reason: Some moral qualities are left unhewn if one does not become a part of the society. |
But who can reckon on the honesty of a woman where bribery and monkery reign! |
Have you not seen enough of monkery this afternoon, that you must try still to make that poor girl even such a one as yourselves? |