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1On the day when God shall assemble the apostles and shall say, ‘How were ye answered ?’ they will say, ‘We have no knowledge; verily, thou art He who knoweth the unseen.’ When God said, ‘O Jesus, son of Mary! remember my favours towards thee and towards thy mother, when I aided thee with the Holy Ghost, till thou didst speak to men in the cradle and when grown up. [110] ‘And when I taught thee the Book and wisdom and the law and the gospel ; when thou didst create of clay, as it were, the likeness of a bird, by my power, and didst blow thereon, it became a bird; and thou didst heal the blind from birth, and the leprous by my permission; and when thou didst bring forth the dead by my permission; and when I did ward off the children of Israel from thee, when thou didst come to them with manifest signs, and those who (6] I 114 THE QuR’AN. V, 110-116. misbelieved amongst them said, “ This is naught but obvious magic.” ‘And when I inspired the apostles that they should believe in him and in my Apostle, they said, “We believe; do thou bear witness that we are resigned.”’ When the apostles said, ‘O Jesus, son of Mary! is thy Lord able to send down to usa table from heaven ?’ he said, ‘Fear God, if ye be believers ;’ and they said, ‘ We desire to eat therefrom that our ‘hearts may be at rest, and that we may know that what thou hast told us is the truth, and that we may be thereby amongst the witnesses.’ Said Jesus the son of Mary, ‘O God, our Lord! send down to us a table from heaven to be to us as a festival,—to the first of us and to the last, and a sign from Thee,—and grant us provision, for Thou art the best of providers.’ [115] God said, ‘Verily, I am about to send it down to you; but whoso disbelieves amongst you after that, verily, I will torment him with the torment which I have not tormented any one with in all the worlds.’ And when God said, ‘O Jesus, son of Mary! is it thou who didst say to men, take me and my mother for two gods, beside God?’ He said, ‘I celebrate Thy praise! what ails me that I should say what I have no right to? If I had said it, Thou wouldst have known it; Thou knowest what is in my soul, but I know not what is in Thy soul; verily, Thou art one who knoweth the unseen. I never told them save what Thou didst bid me,—“ Worship God, my Lord and your Lord,” and I was a witness against them so long as I was amongst them; but when Thou didst take me away to thyself Thou wert the watcher over them, for Thou art witness over all. If V, 117-VI, 3. THE CHAPTER OF CATTLE. 115 Thou shouldst punish them, verily, they are Thy servants; if Thou shouldst forgive them, verily, Thou art the mighty and the wise.’ God said, ‘This is the day when their confession shall profit the confessors, for them are gardens beneath which rivers flow, to dwell therein for ever and for aye.’ God is well pleased with them, and they well pleased with Him; that is the mighty happiness.
2[120] God’s is the kingdom of the heavens, and the earth, and all that is therein, and He is mighty over all. Tue CwHapTer oF CATTLE). (VI. Mecca.) - In the name of the merciful and compassionate God! Praise belongs to God who created the heavens and the earth, and brought into being the darkness and the light. Yet do those who misbelieve hold Him to have peers. He it is who created you from clay; then He decreed a term,—a term? ordained with Him. And yet ye doubt thereof. He is God in the heavens and the earth. He knows your secret conduct and your plain, and He knows what ye earn‘, * So called from the mention which it contains of the superstitious customs of the Arabs with regard to their cattle. * Said to be a protest against the dualistic doctrine that Light and Darkness were two co-eternal principles. * I.e. a term for your life and another for your resurrection. * By good or evil works. I2 116 THE QUR'AN. . VI, 4-12. There came not to them any sign of the signs of their Lord, but they turned away ; [5] and they have called the truth a lie now that it has come to them, but there shall come to them the message of that at which they mocked. Do not they see how many a generation we have destroyed before them, whom we had settled in the earth as we have not settled for you, and sent the rain of heaven upon them in copious showers, and made the waters flow beneath them? Then we destroyed them in their sins, and raised up other generations after them. Had we sent down to thee a book on paper, and they had touched it with their hands, still those who misbelieve would have said,‘This is naught but obvious‘magic.’ They say, ‘Why has not an angel been sent down to him?’ but if we had sent down an angel, the affair would have been decided, and then they would have had no respite. And had we made him! an angel, we should have made him as a man too; and we would have made perplexing for them that which they deem perplexing now. [10] There have been prophets before thee mocked at, but that encompassed them which the scoffers among them mocked at. Say, ‘Go about in the earth, then wilt thou see how has been the end of those who called them liars.’ Say, ‘Whose is what is in the heavens and the earth ?’ Say, ‘God’s, who has imposed mercy on himself.’ 1 Te. the prophet. VI, 12-21. THE CHAPTER OF CATTLE. 117 He will surely gather you together for the resurrection day. There is no doubt in that, but those who waste their souls! will not believe. His is whatsoever dwells in the night or in the day, He both hears and knows. Say, ‘Other than God shall I take for a patron, the Originator of the heavens and the earth? He feedeth men, but is not fed.’ Say, ‘I am bidden to be the first of those resigned ;’ and it was said to me, ‘ Be not thou of the idolaters.’ [15] Say, ‘I fear, if I rebel against my Lord, the torment of the mighty day.’ Whomsoever it is averted from on that day, God will have had mercy on; and that is obvious happiness.
3And if God touch thee with harm, there is none to take it off but He; and if He touch thee with good, He is mighty over all. He is sovereign over His servants, He is the wise, the aware! Say, ‘What is the greatest witness?’ Say, ‘God is witness between you and me.’ This Qur’4n was inspired to me to warn you and those it reaches. Do ye really bear witness that with God are other gods? Say, ‘I bear not witness thereto:’ say, ‘He is but one God, and I am clear of your associating (gods with him).’ [20] Those to whom we have brought the Book know him? as they know their sons;—those who lose their souls do not believe. Who is more unjust than he who forges against God a lie, or says His signs are lies? verily, the unjust shall not prosper. 1 [.e. their innate propensities to good and their reason. 2 Mohammed. 118 THE Qur’AN. VI, 22-31. On the day when we shall gather them all together, then shall we say to those who have associated others with ourself, ‘Where are your associates whom ye did pretend?’ Then they will have no excuse but to say, ‘ By God our Lord, we did not associate (others with thee)!’ See how they lie against themselves, and how what they did forge deserts them! [25] And they are some who listen unto thee, but we have placed a veil upon their hearts lest they _should understand it, and in their ears is dulness of hearing; and though they saw each sign they would not believe therein; until when they come to thee to wrangle with thee, the unbelievers say, ‘ These are but old folks’ tales.’ They forbid it and they avoid it;—but they destroy none but themselves; yet they do not perceive. But couldst thou see when they are set over the fire and say, ‘Would that we were sent back! we would not call our Lord’s signs lies, but we would be of the believers?’ Nay! now is shown to them what they did hide before; and could they be sent back, they would return to that they were forbidden, for they are very liars. They say there is naught but this life of ours in the world and we shall not be raised. [30] But couldst thou see when they are set before their Lord; he says, ‘Is not this the truth?’ They say, ‘Yea, by our Lord!’ he says, ‘Then taste the torment, for that ye did misbelieve !’ Losers are they who disbelieved in meeting God, until when the hour comes suddenly upon them they say, ‘Woe is us for our neglect thereof!’ for they VI, 31-41. THE CHAPTER OF CATTLE. II9 shall bear their burdens on their backs, evil is what they bear. The life of this world is nothing but a game and a sport, and surely the next abode were better for those who fear. What! do they not understand ?
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.
1On the day when God shall assemble the apostles and shall say, ‘How were ye answered ?’ they will say, ‘We have no knowledge; verily, thou art He who knoweth the unseen.’ When God said, ‘O Jesus, son of Mary! remember my favours towards thee and towards thy mother, when I aided thee with the Holy Ghost, till thou didst speak to men in the cradle and when grown up. [110] ‘And when I taught thee the Book and wisdom and the law and the gospel ; when thou didst create of clay, as it were, the likeness of a bird, by my power, and didst blow thereon, it became a bird; and thou didst heal the blind from birth, and the leprous by my permission; and when thou didst bring forth the dead by my permission; and when I did ward off the children of Israel from thee, when thou didst come to them with manifest signs, and those who (6] I 114 THE QuR’AN. V, 110-116. misbelieved amongst them said, “ This is naught but obvious magic.” ‘And when I inspired the apostles that they should believe in him and in my Apostle, they said, “We believe; do thou bear witness that we are resigned.”’ When the apostles said, ‘O Jesus, son of Mary! is thy Lord able to send down to usa table from heaven ?’ he said, ‘Fear God, if ye be believers ;’ and they said, ‘ We desire to eat therefrom that our ‘hearts may be at rest, and that we may know that what thou hast told us is the truth, and that we may be thereby amongst the witnesses.’ Said Jesus the son of Mary, ‘O God, our Lord! send down to us a table from heaven to be to us as a festival,—to the first of us and to the last, and a sign from Thee,—and grant us provision, for Thou art the best of providers.’ [115] God said, ‘Verily, I am about to send it down to you; but whoso disbelieves amongst you after that, verily, I will torment him with the torment which I have not tormented any one with in all the worlds.’ And when God said, ‘O Jesus, son of Mary! is it thou who didst say to men, take me and my mother for two gods, beside God?’ He said, ‘I celebrate Thy praise! what ails me that I should say what I have no right to? If I had said it, Thou wouldst have known it; Thou knowest what is in my soul, but I know not what is in Thy soul; verily, Thou art one who knoweth the unseen. I never told them save what Thou didst bid me,—“ Worship God, my Lord and your Lord,” and I was a witness against them so long as I was amongst them; but when Thou didst take me away to thyself Thou wert the watcher over them, for Thou art witness over all. If V, 117-VI, 3. THE CHAPTER OF CATTLE. 115 Thou shouldst punish them, verily, they are Thy servants; if Thou shouldst forgive them, verily, Thou art the mighty and the wise.’ God said, ‘This is the day when their confession shall profit the confessors, for them are gardens beneath which rivers flow, to dwell therein for ever and for aye.’ God is well pleased with them, and they well pleased with Him; that is the mighty happiness.
2[120] God’s is the kingdom of the heavens, and the earth, and all that is therein, and He is mighty over all. Tue CwHapTer oF CATTLE). (VI. Mecca.) - In the name of the merciful and compassionate God! Praise belongs to God who created the heavens and the earth, and brought into being the darkness and the light. Yet do those who misbelieve hold Him to have peers. He it is who created you from clay; then He decreed a term,—a term? ordained with Him. And yet ye doubt thereof. He is God in the heavens and the earth. He knows your secret conduct and your plain, and He knows what ye earn‘, * So called from the mention which it contains of the superstitious customs of the Arabs with regard to their cattle. * Said to be a protest against the dualistic doctrine that Light and Darkness were two co-eternal principles. * I.e. a term for your life and another for your resurrection. * By good or evil works. I2 116 THE QUR'AN. . VI, 4-12. There came not to them any sign of the signs of their Lord, but they turned away ; [5] and they have called the truth a lie now that it has come to them, but there shall come to them the message of that at which they mocked. Do not they see how many a generation we have destroyed before them, whom we had settled in the earth as we have not settled for you, and sent the rain of heaven upon them in copious showers, and made the waters flow beneath them? Then we destroyed them in their sins, and raised up other generations after them. Had we sent down to thee a book on paper, and they had touched it with their hands, still those who misbelieve would have said,‘This is naught but obvious‘magic.’ They say, ‘Why has not an angel been sent down to him?’ but if we had sent down an angel, the affair would have been decided, and then they would have had no respite. And had we made him! an angel, we should have made him as a man too; and we would have made perplexing for them that which they deem perplexing now. [10] There have been prophets before thee mocked at, but that encompassed them which the scoffers among them mocked at. Say, ‘Go about in the earth, then wilt thou see how has been the end of those who called them liars.’ Say, ‘Whose is what is in the heavens and the earth ?’ Say, ‘God’s, who has imposed mercy on himself.’ 1 Te. the prophet. VI, 12-21. THE CHAPTER OF CATTLE. 117 He will surely gather you together for the resurrection day. There is no doubt in that, but those who waste their souls! will not believe. His is whatsoever dwells in the night or in the day, He both hears and knows. Say, ‘Other than God shall I take for a patron, the Originator of the heavens and the earth? He feedeth men, but is not fed.’ Say, ‘I am bidden to be the first of those resigned ;’ and it was said to me, ‘ Be not thou of the idolaters.’ [15] Say, ‘I fear, if I rebel against my Lord, the torment of the mighty day.’ Whomsoever it is averted from on that day, God will have had mercy on; and that is obvious happiness.
3And if God touch thee with harm, there is none to take it off but He; and if He touch thee with good, He is mighty over all. He is sovereign over His servants, He is the wise, the aware! Say, ‘What is the greatest witness?’ Say, ‘God is witness between you and me.’ This Qur’4n was inspired to me to warn you and those it reaches. Do ye really bear witness that with God are other gods? Say, ‘I bear not witness thereto:’ say, ‘He is but one God, and I am clear of your associating (gods with him).’ [20] Those to whom we have brought the Book know him? as they know their sons;—those who lose their souls do not believe. Who is more unjust than he who forges against God a lie, or says His signs are lies? verily, the unjust shall not prosper. 1 [.e. their innate propensities to good and their reason. 2 Mohammed. 118 THE Qur’AN. VI, 22-31. On the day when we shall gather them all together, then shall we say to those who have associated others with ourself, ‘Where are your associates whom ye did pretend?’ Then they will have no excuse but to say, ‘ By God our Lord, we did not associate (others with thee)!’ See how they lie against themselves, and how what they did forge deserts them! [25] And they are some who listen unto thee, but we have placed a veil upon their hearts lest they _should understand it, and in their ears is dulness of hearing; and though they saw each sign they would not believe therein; until when they come to thee to wrangle with thee, the unbelievers say, ‘ These are but old folks’ tales.’ They forbid it and they avoid it;—but they destroy none but themselves; yet they do not perceive. But couldst thou see when they are set over the fire and say, ‘Would that we were sent back! we would not call our Lord’s signs lies, but we would be of the believers?’ Nay! now is shown to them what they did hide before; and could they be sent back, they would return to that they were forbidden, for they are very liars. They say there is naught but this life of ours in the world and we shall not be raised. [30] But couldst thou see when they are set before their Lord; he says, ‘Is not this the truth?’ They say, ‘Yea, by our Lord!’ he says, ‘Then taste the torment, for that ye did misbelieve !’ Losers are they who disbelieved in meeting God, until when the hour comes suddenly upon them they say, ‘Woe is us for our neglect thereof!’ for they VI, 31-41. THE CHAPTER OF CATTLE. II9 shall bear their burdens on their backs, evil is what they bear. The life of this world is nothing but a game and a sport, and surely the next abode were better for those who fear. What! do they not understand ?
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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