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1His word is truth; to Him is the kingdom on the day when the trumpets shall be blown; the knower of the unseen and of the evident ; He is wise and well aware. 124 THE QURAN. — VI, 74-82. When Abraham said to his father Azar?, ‘Dost thou take idols for gods? verily, I see thee and thy people in obvious error. [75] Thus did we show Abraham the kingdom of heaven and of the earth, that he should be of those who are sure. And when the night overshadowed him he saw a star and said, ‘This is my Lord;’ but when it set he said, ‘I love not those that set.’ And when he saw the moon beginning to rise he said, ‘ This is my Lord ;’ but when it set he said, ‘If God my Lord guides me not I shall surely be of the people who err.’ And when he saw the sun beginning to rise he said, ‘This is my Lord, this is greatest of all;’ but when it set he said, ‘O my people! verily, I am clear of what ye associate with God; verily, I have turned my face to him who originated the heaven and the earth, as a ‘Hantf, and I am not of the idolaters,’ [80] And his people disputed with him ;—he said, ‘Do ye dispute with me concerning God, when He has guided me? but I fear not what ye associate with Him unless my Lord should wish for anything. My Lord doth comprehend all things in His knowledge, will ye not then remember? How should I fear what ye associate with Him, when ye yourselves fear not to associate with God what He has sent down to you no power todo? Which then of the two sects is worthier of belief, if indeed ye know ?’ Those who believe and do not obscure their faith with wrong, they are those who shall have security, and they are guided. 1 The Hebrew Terah is in Arabic Tarah. Eusebius gives the form Athar, which may in some measure account for the name here given. VI, 83-91. _THE CHAPTER OF CATTLE, ; 125 _ These are our arguments which we gave to Abraham against his people ;—we raise the rank of whom we will; verily, thy Lord is wise and knowing. And we gave to him Isaac and Jacob, each did we guide. And Noah we guided before and all his seed,— David and Solomon and Job and Joseph and Moses and Aaron,—for thus do we reward those who do good, [85] And Zachariah and John and Jesus and Elias, all righteous ones; and Ishmael and Elisha and Jonas and Lot, each one have we preferred above the worlds; and of their fathers and their seed and brethren; we have chosen them and guided them into a right way. That is God’s guidance; He guides those whom He will of His servants; and if they associate aught with Him,—vain is that which they have worked. It is to these we give the Book and judgment and prophecy; and if these disbelieve therein we have given them in charge to a people who shall not disbelieve. [90] It is these that God hath guided, and by their guidance be thou led. Say, ‘I will not ask you for it a hire: it is naught save a reminder to the worlds.’
2[90] It is these that God hath guided, and by their guidance be thou led. Say, ‘I will not ask you for it a hire: it is naught save a reminder to the worlds.’ They do not prize God at His true worth when they say, ‘God has never revealed to mortal anything.’ Say, ‘Who revealed the Book wherewith Moses came, a light and a guidance unto men? Ye put it on papers which ye show, though ye hide much! ; 1 The Jews are here, as frequently in the Qur'an, accused of suppressing and altering those parts of their scriptures which referred, according to the Mussulman theory, to the mission of Mohammed. 126 THE QUR'AN. VI, 91-94. and ye are taught what ye knew not, neither you nor your fathers.’ Say, ‘God,’ then leave them in their discussion to play. This is the Book which we have revealed, a blessing and a confirmation to those which were before it, and that the mother of cities! may be warned, with those who are round about her. Those who believe in the last day believe therein, and they unto their prayers will keep. Who is more unjust than he who devises against God a lie, or says, ‘I am inspired?,’ when he was not inspired at all? and who says, ‘I will bring down the like of what God has sent down;’ but didst thou see when the unjust are in the floods of death, and the angels stretch forth their hands, ‘Give ye forth your souls; to-day shall ye be recompensed with the torment of disgrace, for that ye did say against God what was not true, and were too proud to hear His signs*. And ye come now single-handed as we created you at first, and ye have left behind your backs that which we granted you; and we see not with you your intercessors whom ye pretended were partners* amongst you; betwixt you have the ties 1 Mecca. 2 This refers to Abdallah ibn Sa’hd ibn Abi Sar‘h, who acted as amanuensis to Mohammed, and when he came to the words ‘ We have created man from an extract of clay...., then we produced it another creation,’ he said, ‘and blessed be God, best of creators,’ and Mohammed told him to write that down too; whereupon he boasted that he also had been inspired with this sentence which Mohammed acknowledged to be part of the Qur’4n. * This word is nearly always used for the verses of the Qur'an. ‘ That is, partners with God, idols; to associate being the usual phrase in the Qur'an for idolatry. VI, 94-100. THE CHAPTER OF CATTLE. 127 been cut asunder ; and strayed away from you is what ye did pretend.’ [95] Verily, God it is who cleaves out the grain and the date-stone; He brings forth the living from the dead, and it is He who brings the dead from the living. There is God! how then can ye be beguiled ? He it is who cleaves out the morning, and makes night a repose, and the sun and the moon two reckonings—that is the decree of the mighty, the wise ! He it is who made for you stars that ye might be guided thereby in the darkness of the land and of the sea. Now have we detailed the signs unto a people who do know.
3He it is who made for you stars that ye might be guided thereby in the darkness of the land and of the sea. Now have we detailed the signs unto a people who do know. He it is who made you spring from one soul, and gave you a settlement and a depository’. Now have we detailed the signs unto a people who discern. He it is who sends down from the heavens water ; _and we bring forth therewith growths of everything; and we bring forth therefrom green things, wherefrom we bring forth grain in full ear; and the palm, from its spathe come clusters within reach; and gardens of grapes and olives and pomegranates, alike and unlike;—behold its fruit when it fruits and ripens! verily, in that ye have a sign for the people who believe. [100] Yet they made the ginn? partners with 1 In the womb. * Supernatural beings created, like the devils, of fire instead of clay, and possessed of miraculous powers. ‘They are devoutly believed in by Muslims, and are supposed to be subject to the same controlling laws as mankind, and to have also had prophets . sent to them. They are probably a survival of some old worship 128 THE QUR'AN. VI, 100-108. God, though He created them! and they ascribed to Him sons and daughters, though they have no knowledge ; celebrated be His praise! and exalted be. He above what they attribute to Him! The inventor | of the heavens and the earth! how can He have a son, when He has no female companion, and when He has created everything, and everything He knows? There is God for you,—your Lord! There is no god but He, the Creator of everything; then worship Him, for He o’er everything keeps guard! Sight perceives Him not, but-He perceives men’s sights; for He is the subtle, the aware. Now has an insight from your Lord come unto you, and he who looks therewith it is for himself; but he who is blind thereto, it is against his soul ; ‘ and I am not your keeper. [105] Thus do we turn about the signs, that they may say, ‘Thou hast studied,’ and that we may explain to those who know. Follow what is revealed to thee from thy Lord ; there is no god but He, and shun the idolaters. But had God pleased, they would not have associated aught with Him; but we have not made thee a keeper over them, nor art thou for them a warder. Do not abuse those who call on other than God, for then they may abuse God openly in their ignorance. So do we make seemly to every nation their work, then unto their Lord is their return, and He will inform them of what they have done. of the powers of nature. The word ginn is the same as that which in the old translation of the Arabian Nights is rendered ‘ je” genie. VI, 109-116. THE CHAPTER OF CATTLE. 129 They swore by God with their most strenuous oath, that if there come to them a sign they will indeed believe therein. Say, ‘Signs are only in God's hands; — but what will make you understand that even when one has come, they will 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.
1His word is truth; to Him is the kingdom on the day when the trumpets shall be blown; the knower of the unseen and of the evident ; He is wise and well aware. 124 THE QURAN. — VI, 74-82. When Abraham said to his father Azar?, ‘Dost thou take idols for gods? verily, I see thee and thy people in obvious error. [75] Thus did we show Abraham the kingdom of heaven and of the earth, that he should be of those who are sure. And when the night overshadowed him he saw a star and said, ‘This is my Lord;’ but when it set he said, ‘I love not those that set.’ And when he saw the moon beginning to rise he said, ‘ This is my Lord ;’ but when it set he said, ‘If God my Lord guides me not I shall surely be of the people who err.’ And when he saw the sun beginning to rise he said, ‘This is my Lord, this is greatest of all;’ but when it set he said, ‘O my people! verily, I am clear of what ye associate with God; verily, I have turned my face to him who originated the heaven and the earth, as a ‘Hantf, and I am not of the idolaters,’ [80] And his people disputed with him ;—he said, ‘Do ye dispute with me concerning God, when He has guided me? but I fear not what ye associate with Him unless my Lord should wish for anything. My Lord doth comprehend all things in His knowledge, will ye not then remember? How should I fear what ye associate with Him, when ye yourselves fear not to associate with God what He has sent down to you no power todo? Which then of the two sects is worthier of belief, if indeed ye know ?’ Those who believe and do not obscure their faith with wrong, they are those who shall have security, and they are guided. 1 The Hebrew Terah is in Arabic Tarah. Eusebius gives the form Athar, which may in some measure account for the name here given. VI, 83-91. _THE CHAPTER OF CATTLE, ; 125 _ These are our arguments which we gave to Abraham against his people ;—we raise the rank of whom we will; verily, thy Lord is wise and knowing. And we gave to him Isaac and Jacob, each did we guide. And Noah we guided before and all his seed,— David and Solomon and Job and Joseph and Moses and Aaron,—for thus do we reward those who do good, [85] And Zachariah and John and Jesus and Elias, all righteous ones; and Ishmael and Elisha and Jonas and Lot, each one have we preferred above the worlds; and of their fathers and their seed and brethren; we have chosen them and guided them into a right way. That is God’s guidance; He guides those whom He will of His servants; and if they associate aught with Him,—vain is that which they have worked. It is to these we give the Book and judgment and prophecy; and if these disbelieve therein we have given them in charge to a people who shall not disbelieve. [90] It is these that God hath guided, and by their guidance be thou led. Say, ‘I will not ask you for it a hire: it is naught save a reminder to the worlds.’
2[90] It is these that God hath guided, and by their guidance be thou led. Say, ‘I will not ask you for it a hire: it is naught save a reminder to the worlds.’ They do not prize God at His true worth when they say, ‘God has never revealed to mortal anything.’ Say, ‘Who revealed the Book wherewith Moses came, a light and a guidance unto men? Ye put it on papers which ye show, though ye hide much! ; 1 The Jews are here, as frequently in the Qur'an, accused of suppressing and altering those parts of their scriptures which referred, according to the Mussulman theory, to the mission of Mohammed. 126 THE QUR'AN. VI, 91-94. and ye are taught what ye knew not, neither you nor your fathers.’ Say, ‘God,’ then leave them in their discussion to play. This is the Book which we have revealed, a blessing and a confirmation to those which were before it, and that the mother of cities! may be warned, with those who are round about her. Those who believe in the last day believe therein, and they unto their prayers will keep. Who is more unjust than he who devises against God a lie, or says, ‘I am inspired?,’ when he was not inspired at all? and who says, ‘I will bring down the like of what God has sent down;’ but didst thou see when the unjust are in the floods of death, and the angels stretch forth their hands, ‘Give ye forth your souls; to-day shall ye be recompensed with the torment of disgrace, for that ye did say against God what was not true, and were too proud to hear His signs*. And ye come now single-handed as we created you at first, and ye have left behind your backs that which we granted you; and we see not with you your intercessors whom ye pretended were partners* amongst you; betwixt you have the ties 1 Mecca. 2 This refers to Abdallah ibn Sa’hd ibn Abi Sar‘h, who acted as amanuensis to Mohammed, and when he came to the words ‘ We have created man from an extract of clay...., then we produced it another creation,’ he said, ‘and blessed be God, best of creators,’ and Mohammed told him to write that down too; whereupon he boasted that he also had been inspired with this sentence which Mohammed acknowledged to be part of the Qur’4n. * This word is nearly always used for the verses of the Qur'an. ‘ That is, partners with God, idols; to associate being the usual phrase in the Qur'an for idolatry. VI, 94-100. THE CHAPTER OF CATTLE. 127 been cut asunder ; and strayed away from you is what ye did pretend.’ [95] Verily, God it is who cleaves out the grain and the date-stone; He brings forth the living from the dead, and it is He who brings the dead from the living. There is God! how then can ye be beguiled ? He it is who cleaves out the morning, and makes night a repose, and the sun and the moon two reckonings—that is the decree of the mighty, the wise ! He it is who made for you stars that ye might be guided thereby in the darkness of the land and of the sea. Now have we detailed the signs unto a people who do know.
3He it is who made for you stars that ye might be guided thereby in the darkness of the land and of the sea. Now have we detailed the signs unto a people who do know. He it is who made you spring from one soul, and gave you a settlement and a depository’. Now have we detailed the signs unto a people who discern. He it is who sends down from the heavens water ; _and we bring forth therewith growths of everything; and we bring forth therefrom green things, wherefrom we bring forth grain in full ear; and the palm, from its spathe come clusters within reach; and gardens of grapes and olives and pomegranates, alike and unlike;—behold its fruit when it fruits and ripens! verily, in that ye have a sign for the people who believe. [100] Yet they made the ginn? partners with 1 In the womb. * Supernatural beings created, like the devils, of fire instead of clay, and possessed of miraculous powers. ‘They are devoutly believed in by Muslims, and are supposed to be subject to the same controlling laws as mankind, and to have also had prophets . sent to them. They are probably a survival of some old worship 128 THE QUR'AN. VI, 100-108. God, though He created them! and they ascribed to Him sons and daughters, though they have no knowledge ; celebrated be His praise! and exalted be. He above what they attribute to Him! The inventor | of the heavens and the earth! how can He have a son, when He has no female companion, and when He has created everything, and everything He knows? There is God for you,—your Lord! There is no god but He, the Creator of everything; then worship Him, for He o’er everything keeps guard! Sight perceives Him not, but-He perceives men’s sights; for He is the subtle, the aware. Now has an insight from your Lord come unto you, and he who looks therewith it is for himself; but he who is blind thereto, it is against his soul ; ‘ and I am not your keeper. [105] Thus do we turn about the signs, that they may say, ‘Thou hast studied,’ and that we may explain to those who know. Follow what is revealed to thee from thy Lord ; there is no god but He, and shun the idolaters. But had God pleased, they would not have associated aught with Him; but we have not made thee a keeper over them, nor art thou for them a warder. Do not abuse those who call on other than God, for then they may abuse God openly in their ignorance. So do we make seemly to every nation their work, then unto their Lord is their return, and He will inform them of what they have done. of the powers of nature. The word ginn is the same as that which in the old translation of the Arabian Nights is rendered ‘ je” genie. VI, 109-116. THE CHAPTER OF CATTLE. 129 They swore by God with their most strenuous oath, that if there come to them a sign they will indeed believe therein. Say, ‘Signs are only in God's hands; — but what will make you understand that even when one has come, they will 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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