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1Do ye not therefore understand?’ Do they not then know that God knoweth what they keep secret and what they make known abroad ? And some of them there are, illiterate folk, that know not the Book, but only idle tales; for they do but fancy. But woe to those who write out the Book with their hands and say ‘this is from’ God; to buy therewith a little price! and woe to them for what their hands have written, and woe to them for what they gain! And then they say, ‘ Hell fire shall not touch us save for a number of days*.”’ Say, ‘ Have ye taken a covenant with God?’ but God breaks not His 1 A constant charge against the Jews is that of having corrupted the Scriptures. 2 A superstition of certain Jews. Il, 75-80. THE CHAPTER OF THE HEIFER. II covenant. Or do ye say of God that which ye do not know ? ~ [75] Yea! whoso gains an evil gain, and is encompassed by his sins, those are the fellows of the Fire, and they shall dwell therein for aye! But such as act aright, those are the fellows of Paradise, and they shall dwell therein for aye! And when we took from the children of Israel a covenant, saying, ‘Serve ye none but God, and to your two parents show kindness, and to your kindred and the orphans and the poor, and speak to men kindly, and be steadfast in prayer, and give alms;’ and then ye turned back, save a few of you, and swerved aside. . And when we took a covenant from you, ‘shed ye not your kinsman’s blood, nor turn your kinsmen out of their homes!:’ then did ye confirm it and were witnesses thereto. Yet ye were those who slay your kinsmen and turn a party out of their homes, and back each other up against them with sin and enmity. But if they come to you as captives ye ransom them !—and yet it is as unlawful for you to turn them out. Do ye then believe in part of the Book and disbelieve in part? But the reward of such among you as do that shall be nought else but disgrace in this worldly life, and on the day of the resurrection shall they be driven to the most grievous torment, for God is not unmindful of what ye do. [80] Those who have bought this worldly life with the Future, the torment shall not be lightened from them nor shall they be helped. 1 Alluding to some quarrels among the Jewish Arabs. 12 THE QUR'AN. II, 81-88. We gave Moses the Book and we followed him up with other apostles, and we gave Jesus the son of Mary manifest signs and aided him with the Holy Spirit. Do ye then, every time an apostle comes to you with what your souls love not, proudly scorn him, and charge a part with lying and slay a part ? They say, ‘Our hearts are uncircumcised;’ nay, God has cursed them in their unbelief, and few it is who do believe. And when a book came down from God confirming what they had with them, though they had before prayed for victory over those who misbelieve, yet when that came to them! which they knew, then they disbelieved it,—God’s curse be on the misbelievers.
2And when a book came down from God confirming what they had with them, though they had before prayed for victory over those who misbelieve, yet when that came to them! which they knew, then they disbelieved it,—God’s curse be on the misbelievers. For a bad bargain have they sold their souls, not to believe in what God has revealed, grudging because God sends down of His grace on whomsoever of His servants He will; and they have brought on themselves wrath after wrath and for the misbelievers is there shameful woe. [85] And when they are told to believe in what God has revealed, they say, ‘We believe in what has been revealed to us;’ but they disbelieve in all beside, although it is the truth confirming what they have. Say, ‘Wherefore did ye kill God’s prophets of yore if ye were true believers ?’ Moses came to you with manifest signs, then ye took up with the calf when he had gone and did so wrong. And when we took a covenant with you and raised the mountain over you, ‘Take what we have given you with resolution and hear;’ 1 The Qur'an, II, 89-96. | THE CHAPTER OF THE HEIFER. 13 they said, ‘We hear but disobey ;’ and they were made to drink the calf down into their hearts for their unbelief?. Say, ‘An evil thing is it which your belief bids you do, if ye be true believers.’ Say, ‘If the abode of the future with God is yours alone and not mankind’s: long for death then if ye speak the truth. But they will never long for it because of what their hands have sent on before; but God is knowing as to the wrong doers. [90] Why, thou wilt find them the greediest of men for life ; and of those who associate others with God one would fain live for a thousand years,—but he will not be reprieved from punishment by being let live, for God seeth what they do. Say, ‘Who is an enemy to Gabriel??’ for he hath revealed to thy heart, with God’s permission, confirmation of what had been before, and a guidance and glad tidings to believers. Who is an enemy to God and His angels and His apostles and Gabriel and Michael ?—Verily, God is an enemy to the unbelievers. We have sent down to thee conspicuous signs, and none will disbelieve therein except the evildoers. Or every time they make a covenant, will a part of them repudiate it? Nay, most of them do not believe. [95] And when there comes to them an apostle confirming what they have, a part of those who have received the Book repudiate God’s book, casting it behind their backs as though they did not 1 Exodus xxxii. 20. * The Jews objected to Mohammed’s assertion that the archangel Gabriel revealed the Qur’4n to him, saying that he was an avenging angel, and that had it been Michael, their own guardian angel (Dan. xii. 1), they would have believed. T4 THE QUR'AN. Il, 97-100.
320. * The Jews objected to Mohammed’s assertion that the archangel Gabriel revealed the Qur’4n to him, saying that he was an avenging angel, and that had it been Michael, their own guardian angel (Dan. xii. 1), they would have believed. T4 THE QUR'AN. Il, 97-100. know. And they follow that, which the devils recited against Solomon’s kingdom ;—it was not Solomon who misbelieved!, but the devils who misbelieved, teaching men sorcery,—and what has been revealed to the two angels at Babylon, Harft and Marit?; yet these taught no one until they said, ‘We are but a temptation, so do not misbelieve.’ Men learn from them only that by which they may part man and wife; but they can harm no one ther€éwith, unless with the permission of God, and they learn what hurts them and profits them not. And yet they knew that he who purchased it would have no portion in the future; but sad is the price at which they have sold their souls, had they but known. But had they believed and feared, a reward from God were better, had they but known. O ye who believe! say not ‘r@hin4, but say ‘un¢kurn43, and hearken; for unto misbelievers shall be grievous woe. They who misbelieve, whether of those who have the Book or of the idolaters, would fain that no good were sent down to you from your Lord; but God specially favours with His mercy whom He will, for God is Lord of mighty grace. ~ [100] Whatever verse we may annul or cause thee 1 Solomon’s acts of disobedience and idolatry are attributed by Muslim tradition to the tricks of devils, who assumed his form. 2 Two angels who having fallen in love with daughters of men (Gen. vi. 2) were condemned to hang in chains in a pit at Babylon, where they teach men magic. 5 The Jewish Arabs used the first of these two words derisively. In Arabic it merely means ‘observe us,’ but the Jews connected it with the Hebrew root rfi‘h4, ‘to be mischievous.” Un/fZurna signifies ‘behold us,’ . II, 101-107. THE CHAPTER OF THE HEIFER. 15 to forget, we will bring a better one than it, or one like it; dost thou not know that God is mighty over all? Dost-thou not know that God’s is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth? nor have ye besides God a patron or a help. Do ye wish to question your apostle as Moses was questioned aforetime? but whoso takes misbelief in exchange for faith has erred from the level road, — Many of those who have the Book would fain turn you back into misbelievers after ye have once believed, through envy from themselves, after the truth has been made manifest to them; but pardon and shun them till God brings His command; verily, God is mighty over all. Be ye steadfast in prayer, and give alms; and whatsoever good ye send before for your own souls, ye shall find it with God, for God in all ye do doth see. [105] They say, ‘None shall enter Paradise save such as be Jews or Christians;’ that is their faith. Say thou, ‘ Bring your proofs, if ye be speaking truth.’
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
Romanised transliteration as printed by the translator, not the original script. This is what we hold.
1Do ye not therefore understand?’ Do they not then know that God knoweth what they keep secret and what they make known abroad ? And some of them there are, illiterate folk, that know not the Book, but only idle tales; for they do but fancy. But woe to those who write out the Book with their hands and say ‘this is from’ God; to buy therewith a little price! and woe to them for what their hands have written, and woe to them for what they gain! And then they say, ‘ Hell fire shall not touch us save for a number of days*.”’ Say, ‘ Have ye taken a covenant with God?’ but God breaks not His 1 A constant charge against the Jews is that of having corrupted the Scriptures. 2 A superstition of certain Jews. Il, 75-80. THE CHAPTER OF THE HEIFER. II covenant. Or do ye say of God that which ye do not know ? ~ [75] Yea! whoso gains an evil gain, and is encompassed by his sins, those are the fellows of the Fire, and they shall dwell therein for aye! But such as act aright, those are the fellows of Paradise, and they shall dwell therein for aye! And when we took from the children of Israel a covenant, saying, ‘Serve ye none but God, and to your two parents show kindness, and to your kindred and the orphans and the poor, and speak to men kindly, and be steadfast in prayer, and give alms;’ and then ye turned back, save a few of you, and swerved aside. . And when we took a covenant from you, ‘shed ye not your kinsman’s blood, nor turn your kinsmen out of their homes!:’ then did ye confirm it and were witnesses thereto. Yet ye were those who slay your kinsmen and turn a party out of their homes, and back each other up against them with sin and enmity. But if they come to you as captives ye ransom them !—and yet it is as unlawful for you to turn them out. Do ye then believe in part of the Book and disbelieve in part? But the reward of such among you as do that shall be nought else but disgrace in this worldly life, and on the day of the resurrection shall they be driven to the most grievous torment, for God is not unmindful of what ye do. [80] Those who have bought this worldly life with the Future, the torment shall not be lightened from them nor shall they be helped. 1 Alluding to some quarrels among the Jewish Arabs. 12 THE QUR'AN. II, 81-88. We gave Moses the Book and we followed him up with other apostles, and we gave Jesus the son of Mary manifest signs and aided him with the Holy Spirit. Do ye then, every time an apostle comes to you with what your souls love not, proudly scorn him, and charge a part with lying and slay a part ? They say, ‘Our hearts are uncircumcised;’ nay, God has cursed them in their unbelief, and few it is who do believe. And when a book came down from God confirming what they had with them, though they had before prayed for victory over those who misbelieve, yet when that came to them! which they knew, then they disbelieved it,—God’s curse be on the misbelievers.
2And when a book came down from God confirming what they had with them, though they had before prayed for victory over those who misbelieve, yet when that came to them! which they knew, then they disbelieved it,—God’s curse be on the misbelievers. For a bad bargain have they sold their souls, not to believe in what God has revealed, grudging because God sends down of His grace on whomsoever of His servants He will; and they have brought on themselves wrath after wrath and for the misbelievers is there shameful woe. [85] And when they are told to believe in what God has revealed, they say, ‘We believe in what has been revealed to us;’ but they disbelieve in all beside, although it is the truth confirming what they have. Say, ‘Wherefore did ye kill God’s prophets of yore if ye were true believers ?’ Moses came to you with manifest signs, then ye took up with the calf when he had gone and did so wrong. And when we took a covenant with you and raised the mountain over you, ‘Take what we have given you with resolution and hear;’ 1 The Qur'an, II, 89-96. | THE CHAPTER OF THE HEIFER. 13 they said, ‘We hear but disobey ;’ and they were made to drink the calf down into their hearts for their unbelief?. Say, ‘An evil thing is it which your belief bids you do, if ye be true believers.’ Say, ‘If the abode of the future with God is yours alone and not mankind’s: long for death then if ye speak the truth. But they will never long for it because of what their hands have sent on before; but God is knowing as to the wrong doers. [90] Why, thou wilt find them the greediest of men for life ; and of those who associate others with God one would fain live for a thousand years,—but he will not be reprieved from punishment by being let live, for God seeth what they do. Say, ‘Who is an enemy to Gabriel??’ for he hath revealed to thy heart, with God’s permission, confirmation of what had been before, and a guidance and glad tidings to believers. Who is an enemy to God and His angels and His apostles and Gabriel and Michael ?—Verily, God is an enemy to the unbelievers. We have sent down to thee conspicuous signs, and none will disbelieve therein except the evildoers. Or every time they make a covenant, will a part of them repudiate it? Nay, most of them do not believe. [95] And when there comes to them an apostle confirming what they have, a part of those who have received the Book repudiate God’s book, casting it behind their backs as though they did not 1 Exodus xxxii. 20. * The Jews objected to Mohammed’s assertion that the archangel Gabriel revealed the Qur’4n to him, saying that he was an avenging angel, and that had it been Michael, their own guardian angel (Dan. xii. 1), they would have believed. T4 THE QUR'AN. Il, 97-100.
320. * The Jews objected to Mohammed’s assertion that the archangel Gabriel revealed the Qur’4n to him, saying that he was an avenging angel, and that had it been Michael, their own guardian angel (Dan. xii. 1), they would have believed. T4 THE QUR'AN. Il, 97-100. know. And they follow that, which the devils recited against Solomon’s kingdom ;—it was not Solomon who misbelieved!, but the devils who misbelieved, teaching men sorcery,—and what has been revealed to the two angels at Babylon, Harft and Marit?; yet these taught no one until they said, ‘We are but a temptation, so do not misbelieve.’ Men learn from them only that by which they may part man and wife; but they can harm no one ther€éwith, unless with the permission of God, and they learn what hurts them and profits them not. And yet they knew that he who purchased it would have no portion in the future; but sad is the price at which they have sold their souls, had they but known. But had they believed and feared, a reward from God were better, had they but known. O ye who believe! say not ‘r@hin4, but say ‘un¢kurn43, and hearken; for unto misbelievers shall be grievous woe. They who misbelieve, whether of those who have the Book or of the idolaters, would fain that no good were sent down to you from your Lord; but God specially favours with His mercy whom He will, for God is Lord of mighty grace. ~ [100] Whatever verse we may annul or cause thee 1 Solomon’s acts of disobedience and idolatry are attributed by Muslim tradition to the tricks of devils, who assumed his form. 2 Two angels who having fallen in love with daughters of men (Gen. vi. 2) were condemned to hang in chains in a pit at Babylon, where they teach men magic. 5 The Jewish Arabs used the first of these two words derisively. In Arabic it merely means ‘observe us,’ but the Jews connected it with the Hebrew root rfi‘h4, ‘to be mischievous.” Un/fZurna signifies ‘behold us,’ . II, 101-107. THE CHAPTER OF THE HEIFER. 15 to forget, we will bring a better one than it, or one like it; dost thou not know that God is mighty over all? Dost-thou not know that God’s is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth? nor have ye besides God a patron or a help. Do ye wish to question your apostle as Moses was questioned aforetime? but whoso takes misbelief in exchange for faith has erred from the level road, — Many of those who have the Book would fain turn you back into misbelievers after ye have once believed, through envy from themselves, after the truth has been made manifest to them; but pardon and shun them till God brings His command; verily, God is mighty over all. Be ye steadfast in prayer, and give alms; and whatsoever good ye send before for your own souls, ye shall find it with God, for God in all ye do doth see. [105] They say, ‘None shall enter Paradise save such as be Jews or Christians;’ that is their faith. Say thou, ‘ Bring your proofs, if ye be speaking truth.’
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
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