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1V, 14-18, THE CHAPTER OF THE TABLE. 99 O ye who believe! remember God's favour towards you, when a people intended to stretch their hands against you, but He withheld their hands from you’; and upon God let believers rely. [15] God did take a compact from the children of Israel, and raised up of them twelve wardens; and God said, ‘ Verily, I am with you, if ye be steadfast in prayer, and give alms, and believe in my apostles, and assist them, and lend to God a goodly loan; then will I cover your offences and make you enter gardens beneath which rivers flow: and whoso disbelieves after that, he hath erred from the level way. And for that they broke their compact, we cursed ‘them, and placed in their hearts hardness, so that they perverted the words from their places, and forgot a portion of what they were reminded of?. But thou wilt not cease to light upon treachery amongst them, save a few of them; but pardon them and shun them; verily, God loves the kind. And of those who say, ‘ Verily, we are Christians,’ we have taken a compact; but they have forgotten a portion of what they were reminded of ; wherefore have we excited amongst them enmity and hatred till the resurrection day; but God will tell them of what they have done. O ye people of the Book! our Apostle has come to you to explain to you much of what ye had hidden of the Book, and to pardon much. There has come to you from God a light, and a perspicuous 1 Various stories are told in explanation of this passage, but they are all obviously apocryphal, the angel Gabriel intervening to prevent some mischief either to the Apostle or his followers. 2 That is, the text foretelling the coming of Mohammed; see Introduction. H2 100 THE QUR'AN. -V, 18-25. Book; God guides thereby those who follow His pleasure to the way of peace, and brings them into a right way. They misbelieve who say, ‘Verily, God is the Messiah the son of Mary;’ say, ‘Who has any hold on God, if he wished to destroy the Messiah the son of Mary, and his mother, and those who are on earth altogether ?’ . [20] God’s is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth and what is between the two; He createth what He will, for God is mighty over all ! But the Jews and the Christians say, ‘We are the sons of God and His beloved.’ Say, ‘Why then does He punish you for your sins ? nay, ye are mortals of those whom He has created! He pardons whom He pleases, and punishes whom He pleases; for God's is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth, and what is between the two, and unto Him the journey is. O people of the Book! our Apostle has come to you, explaining to you the interval of apostles; lest ye say, ‘There came not to us a herald of glad tidings nor a warner.’ But there has come to you now a herald of glad tidings and a warner, and God is mighty over all!
2O people of the Book! our Apostle has come to you, explaining to you the interval of apostles; lest ye say, ‘There came not to us a herald of glad tidings nor a warner.’ But there has come to you now a herald of glad tidings and a warner, and God is mighty over all! When Moses said to his people, ‘O my people! remember the favour of God towards you when He made amongst you prophets, and made for you kings, and brought you what never was brought to anybody in the worlds. O my people! enter the Holy Land which God has prescribed for you; and be ye not thrust back upon your hinder parts and retreat losers, [25] They said,‘O Moses! verily, therein is a people, giants; and we will surely not enter therein V, 25-35- THE CHAPTER OF THE TABLE, IOI until they go out from thence; but if they go out then we will enter in.’ Then said two men of those who fear,—God had been gracious to them both,— ‘Enter ye upon them by the door, and when ye have entered it, verily, ye shall be victorious; and upon God do ye rely if ye be believers.’ They said, ‘O Moses! we shall never enter it so long as they are therein; so, go thou and thy. Lord and fight ye twain; verily, we will sit down here.’ Said he, ‘My Lord, verily, I can control only myself and my brother; therefore part us from these sinful people.’ He said, ‘Then, verily, it is forbidden them; for forty years shall they wander about in the earth ; so vex not thyself for the sinful people.’ [30] Recite to them the story of the two sons of Adam; truly when they offered an offering and it was accepted from one of them, and was not accepted from the other, that one said, ‘I will surely kill thee;’ he said, ‘God only accepts from those who fear. If thou dost stretch forth to me thine hand to kill me, I will not stretch forth mine hand to kill thee; verily, I fear God the Lord of the worlds; verily, I wish that thou mayest draw upon thee my sin and thy sin, and be of the fellows of the Fire, for that is the reward of the unjust.’ But his soul allowed him to slay his brother, and he slew him, and in the morning he was of those who lose. And God sent a crow to scratch in the earth and show him how he might hide his brother’s shame, he said, ‘ Alas, for me! Am I too helpless to become like this crow and hide my brother's shame?’ and in the morning he was of those who did repent. [35] For this cause have we prescribed .to the children of Israel that whoso kills a soul, unless it 102 THE QUR'AN. V, 35-44. be for another soul or for violence in the land, it is as though he had killed men altogether; but whoso | saves one, it is as though he saved men altogether. Our apostles came to them with manifest signs ; then, verily, many of them did after that commit excesses in the earth.
3V, 35-44. be for another soul or for violence in the land, it is as though he had killed men altogether; but whoso | saves one, it is as though he saved men altogether. Our apostles came to them with manifest signs ; then, verily, many of them did after that commit excesses in the earth. The reward of those who make war against God and His Apostle, and strive after violence in the earth, is only that they shall be slaughtered or crucified, or their hands cut off and their feet on alternate sides, or that they shall be banished from the land ;—that is a disgrace for them in this world, and for them in the next is mighty woe; save for those who repent before ye have them in your power, for know ye that God is forgiving, merciful. O ye who believe! fear God and crave the means to approach Him, and be strenuous in His way, haply ye will prosper then. [40] Verily, those who disbelieve, even though they had what is in the earth, all of it, and the like thereof with it, to offer as a ransom from the punishment of the resurrection day, it would not be accepted from them; but for them is grievous woe. They may wish to go forth from the Fire, but they shall not go forth therefrom, for them is lasting woe. - The man thief and the woman thief, cut off the hands of both as a punishment, for that they have erred ;—an example from God, for God is mighty, wise. But whoso turns again after his injustice and acts aright, verily, God will turn to him, for, verily, God is forgiving, merciful. Do ye not know that God, His is the kingdom of V, 44-48. THE CHAPTER OF THE TABLE. 103 the heavens and the earth; He punishes whom He pleases, and forgives whom He pleases, for God is mighty over all ? [45] O thou Apostle! let not those grieve thee who vie in misbelief; or those who say with their mouths ‘ We believe,’ but their hearts do not believe; or of those who are Jews, listeners to a lie,—listeners to other people, but who come not to thee. They pervert the words from their places and say, ‘ If this is what ye are given, take it; but if ye are not given it, then beware!’ but he whom God wishes to mislead, thou canst do nothing with God for him; these are those whose hearts God wishes not to purify, for them in this world is disgrace, and for them in the next is mighty woe,—listeners to a lie, eaters of unlawful things! But if they come to thee, then judge between them or turn aside from them; but if thou turnest aside from them they shall not harm thee at all, but if thou judgest, then judge between them with justice, verily, God loves the just. But how should they make thee their judge, when they have the law wherein is God’s judgment? Yet they turn back after that, for they do not believe.
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.
1V, 14-18, THE CHAPTER OF THE TABLE. 99 O ye who believe! remember God's favour towards you, when a people intended to stretch their hands against you, but He withheld their hands from you’; and upon God let believers rely. [15] God did take a compact from the children of Israel, and raised up of them twelve wardens; and God said, ‘ Verily, I am with you, if ye be steadfast in prayer, and give alms, and believe in my apostles, and assist them, and lend to God a goodly loan; then will I cover your offences and make you enter gardens beneath which rivers flow: and whoso disbelieves after that, he hath erred from the level way. And for that they broke their compact, we cursed ‘them, and placed in their hearts hardness, so that they perverted the words from their places, and forgot a portion of what they were reminded of?. But thou wilt not cease to light upon treachery amongst them, save a few of them; but pardon them and shun them; verily, God loves the kind. And of those who say, ‘ Verily, we are Christians,’ we have taken a compact; but they have forgotten a portion of what they were reminded of ; wherefore have we excited amongst them enmity and hatred till the resurrection day; but God will tell them of what they have done. O ye people of the Book! our Apostle has come to you to explain to you much of what ye had hidden of the Book, and to pardon much. There has come to you from God a light, and a perspicuous 1 Various stories are told in explanation of this passage, but they are all obviously apocryphal, the angel Gabriel intervening to prevent some mischief either to the Apostle or his followers. 2 That is, the text foretelling the coming of Mohammed; see Introduction. H2 100 THE QUR'AN. -V, 18-25. Book; God guides thereby those who follow His pleasure to the way of peace, and brings them into a right way. They misbelieve who say, ‘Verily, God is the Messiah the son of Mary;’ say, ‘Who has any hold on God, if he wished to destroy the Messiah the son of Mary, and his mother, and those who are on earth altogether ?’ . [20] God’s is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth and what is between the two; He createth what He will, for God is mighty over all ! But the Jews and the Christians say, ‘We are the sons of God and His beloved.’ Say, ‘Why then does He punish you for your sins ? nay, ye are mortals of those whom He has created! He pardons whom He pleases, and punishes whom He pleases; for God's is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth, and what is between the two, and unto Him the journey is. O people of the Book! our Apostle has come to you, explaining to you the interval of apostles; lest ye say, ‘There came not to us a herald of glad tidings nor a warner.’ But there has come to you now a herald of glad tidings and a warner, and God is mighty over all!
2O people of the Book! our Apostle has come to you, explaining to you the interval of apostles; lest ye say, ‘There came not to us a herald of glad tidings nor a warner.’ But there has come to you now a herald of glad tidings and a warner, and God is mighty over all! When Moses said to his people, ‘O my people! remember the favour of God towards you when He made amongst you prophets, and made for you kings, and brought you what never was brought to anybody in the worlds. O my people! enter the Holy Land which God has prescribed for you; and be ye not thrust back upon your hinder parts and retreat losers, [25] They said,‘O Moses! verily, therein is a people, giants; and we will surely not enter therein V, 25-35- THE CHAPTER OF THE TABLE, IOI until they go out from thence; but if they go out then we will enter in.’ Then said two men of those who fear,—God had been gracious to them both,— ‘Enter ye upon them by the door, and when ye have entered it, verily, ye shall be victorious; and upon God do ye rely if ye be believers.’ They said, ‘O Moses! we shall never enter it so long as they are therein; so, go thou and thy. Lord and fight ye twain; verily, we will sit down here.’ Said he, ‘My Lord, verily, I can control only myself and my brother; therefore part us from these sinful people.’ He said, ‘Then, verily, it is forbidden them; for forty years shall they wander about in the earth ; so vex not thyself for the sinful people.’ [30] Recite to them the story of the two sons of Adam; truly when they offered an offering and it was accepted from one of them, and was not accepted from the other, that one said, ‘I will surely kill thee;’ he said, ‘God only accepts from those who fear. If thou dost stretch forth to me thine hand to kill me, I will not stretch forth mine hand to kill thee; verily, I fear God the Lord of the worlds; verily, I wish that thou mayest draw upon thee my sin and thy sin, and be of the fellows of the Fire, for that is the reward of the unjust.’ But his soul allowed him to slay his brother, and he slew him, and in the morning he was of those who lose. And God sent a crow to scratch in the earth and show him how he might hide his brother’s shame, he said, ‘ Alas, for me! Am I too helpless to become like this crow and hide my brother's shame?’ and in the morning he was of those who did repent. [35] For this cause have we prescribed .to the children of Israel that whoso kills a soul, unless it 102 THE QUR'AN. V, 35-44. be for another soul or for violence in the land, it is as though he had killed men altogether; but whoso | saves one, it is as though he saved men altogether. Our apostles came to them with manifest signs ; then, verily, many of them did after that commit excesses in the earth.
3V, 35-44. be for another soul or for violence in the land, it is as though he had killed men altogether; but whoso | saves one, it is as though he saved men altogether. Our apostles came to them with manifest signs ; then, verily, many of them did after that commit excesses in the earth. The reward of those who make war against God and His Apostle, and strive after violence in the earth, is only that they shall be slaughtered or crucified, or their hands cut off and their feet on alternate sides, or that they shall be banished from the land ;—that is a disgrace for them in this world, and for them in the next is mighty woe; save for those who repent before ye have them in your power, for know ye that God is forgiving, merciful. O ye who believe! fear God and crave the means to approach Him, and be strenuous in His way, haply ye will prosper then. [40] Verily, those who disbelieve, even though they had what is in the earth, all of it, and the like thereof with it, to offer as a ransom from the punishment of the resurrection day, it would not be accepted from them; but for them is grievous woe. They may wish to go forth from the Fire, but they shall not go forth therefrom, for them is lasting woe. - The man thief and the woman thief, cut off the hands of both as a punishment, for that they have erred ;—an example from God, for God is mighty, wise. But whoso turns again after his injustice and acts aright, verily, God will turn to him, for, verily, God is forgiving, merciful. Do ye not know that God, His is the kingdom of V, 44-48. THE CHAPTER OF THE TABLE. 103 the heavens and the earth; He punishes whom He pleases, and forgives whom He pleases, for God is mighty over all ? [45] O thou Apostle! let not those grieve thee who vie in misbelief; or those who say with their mouths ‘ We believe,’ but their hearts do not believe; or of those who are Jews, listeners to a lie,—listeners to other people, but who come not to thee. They pervert the words from their places and say, ‘ If this is what ye are given, take it; but if ye are not given it, then beware!’ but he whom God wishes to mislead, thou canst do nothing with God for him; these are those whose hearts God wishes not to purify, for them in this world is disgrace, and for them in the next is mighty woe,—listeners to a lie, eaters of unlawful things! But if they come to thee, then judge between them or turn aside from them; but if thou turnest aside from them they shall not harm thee at all, but if thou judgest, then judge between them with justice, verily, God loves the just. But how should they make thee their judge, when they have the law wherein is God’s judgment? Yet they turn back after that, for they do not believe.
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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