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1* Trailed over an ‘Arfsh, that is, a sort of hut made of boughs. 5 That is, spread out when slaughtered, or from the hides and wool, &c., of which a bed (farsh) is made. 134 THE QUR'AN. VI, 143-148. not the footsteps of Satan; verily, he is to you an open foe. Eight pairs,—of sheep two, and of goats two; say, ‘Are the two males unlawful, or the two females, or what the wombs of the two females contain ? inform me with knowledge if ye tell the truth.’ [145] And of camels two, and cows two; say, ‘Are the two males unlawful, or the two females, or what the wombs of the two females contain? Were ye witnesses when God ordained for you these >—Then who is more unjust than he who devises a lie against God, to lead men astray without knowledge? verily, God guides not the unjust people?.’ Say, ‘I cannot find in what I am inspired with anything unlawful for the taster to taste; unless it be dead (of itself), or blood that has been shed, or the flesh of swine,—for that is a horror—or an abomination that is consecrated to other than God. But he who is forced, not wilfully nor transgressing,—then, verily, thy Lord is forgiving and merciful” > To those who were Jews did we prohibit everything that hath a solid hoof; and of oxen and sheep did we prohibit to them the fat, save what the backs of both do bear, or the inwards, or what is mixed with bone; with that did we recompense them for their rebellion, for, verily, we are true. And if they give thee the lie, say, ‘Your Lord is of ample mercy, nor shall His violence be turned back from the sinful people.’ 1 The Arabs alternately made it unlawful to eat the males, and then the young of these four kinds of cattle. Mohammed in this passage shows the absurdity of their custom by pointing out the difficulty of deciding which is lawful and unlawful in the case of eight pairs. VI, 149-153. THE CHAPTER OF CATTLE. 135 Those who associate others with God will say, ‘Had God pleased, we had not so associated, nor our fathers; nor should we have forbidden aught.’ Thus did they give the lie to those who came before them, until they tasted of our violence! Say, ‘Have ye any knowledge? if so, bring it forth to us: ye only follow suspicion, and ye do but conjecture.’ [150] Say, ‘God’s is the searching argument; and had He pleased He would have guided you all.’ « Say, ‘Come on then with your witnesses, who bear witness that God has prohibited these!’ but if they do bear witness, bear thou not witness with them; nor follow the lust of those who say our ‘signs are lies, and those who do not believe in the last day, or those who for their Lord make peers.
2Say, ‘Come! I will recite what your Lord has forbidden you, that ye may not associate aught with -Him, and (may show) kindness to your parents, and not kill your children through poverty ;—we will provide for you and them ;—and draw not nigh to flagrant sins, either apparent or concealed, and kill not the soul, which God hath forbidden save by right?; that is what God ordains you, haply ye may -understand.’ And draw not nigh unto the wealth of the orphan, ‘save so as to better it, until he reaches full age; and give weight and measure with justice. We do not compel the soul save what it can compass ; and when ye pronounce, then be just, though it be in the case of a relative. And God’s compact fulfil ye; that is what He 1 That is, commit no homicide unless it be by legal execution or the slaying of infidels in war. 136 THE QUR'AN. VI, 154-160. ordained you, haply ye may be mindful. Verily, this is my right way; follow it then, and follow not various paths, to separate yourselves from His way ; that is what He has ordained you, haply ye may fear ! [155] Then we gave Moses the Book, complete for him who acts aright, and a decision and a guidance and a mercy; haply in the meeting of their Lord they will believe. This is the Book which we have sent down; it is a blessing; follow it then and fear; haply ye may obtain mercy. Lest ye say, ‘The Book was only sent down to two sects before us; verily, we, for what they read, care naught.’ Or, lest ye should say, ‘Had we had a book revealed to us we should surely have been more guided than they;’ but there is come to them a manifest sign from their Lord, and a guidance and a mercy; who then is more unjust than he who calls God's signs lies, and turns from them? we will reward those who turn from our signs with an evil punishment for that they turned away. What do they expect but that the angels should come for them, or that thy Lord should come, or that some signs? of thy Lord should come? On the day when some signs do come, its faith shall profit no soul which did not believe before, unless it has earned some good by its faith. Say, ‘Wait ye expectant, then we wait expectant too.’ [160] Verily, those who divided their religion and became sects, thou hast not to do with them, their 1 Signs of the approach of the day of judgment. VI, 160-168. | THE CHAPTER OF CATTLE. 137 matter is in God’s hands, He will yet inform them of that which they have done. He who brings a good work shall have ten like it; but he who brings a bad work shall be recompensed only with the like thereof, for they shall not be wronged. Say, ‘As for me, my Lord has guided me to the right way, a right religion,—the faith of Abraham the ‘Hanif, for he was not of the idolaters.’ Say, ‘ Verily, my prayers and my devotion and my life and my death belong to God, the Lord of the worlds. He has no partner; that is what I am bidden ; for I am first of those who are resigned.’
3He has no partner; that is what I am bidden ; for I am first of those who are resigned.’ Say, ‘Other than God shall I crave for a Lord when He is Lord of all?’ but no soul shall earn aught save against itself!; nor shall one bearing a burden bear the burden of another; and then unto your Lord is your return, and He will inform you concerning that whereon ye do dispute. [165] Heit is who made you vicegerents, and raised some of you above others in degree, to try you by that which he has brought you ;—verily, thy Lord is swift to punish, but, verily, He is forgiving and merciful. 1 Not receive the recompense of other than persons’ evil actions. 138 THE QUR'AN. VIL, rrr. THe CHAPTER OF AL AARAF}. (VII. Mecca.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God. A.L.M.S. A book revealed to thee,—so let there be no straitness in thy breast, that thou mayest warn thereby,—and a reminder to the believers. Follow what has been revealed to you from your Lord, and follow not beside Him patrons; little is it that ye mind. Yet how many a town have we destroyed, and our violence came upon it by night,.or while they slept at noon; and their cry, when our violence came upon them, was only to say, ‘Verily, we were unjust!’ [5] But we will of a surety question those to whom the prophets were sent, and we will narrate to them with knowledge, for we were not absent. The balance on that day is true, and whosesoever scales are heavy, they are prosperous; but whosesoever scales are light, they it is who lose themselves, for that they did act unjustly by our signs. We have established you in the earth, and we have made for you therein livelihoods; little is it that ye thank; [10] and we created you, then we fashioned you, then we said unto the angels, ‘Adore Adam,’ and they adored, save Iblis, who was not of those who did adore. Said He, ‘What hinders thee from adoring when 1 The name of the bridge between heaven and hell described in this chapter. VII, 11-23. THE CHAPTER OF AL AARAF, 139 I order thee?’ he said, ‘I am better than he; Thou hast created me from fire, and him Thou hast created out of clay.’ Said He, ‘Then go down therefrom; what ails thee that thou shouldst be big with pride therein? go forth! verily, thou art of the little ones.’ He said, ‘Respite me until the day when they shall be raised.’ He said, ‘Verily, thou art of the respited ;’ [15] said he, ‘For that Thou hast led me into error, I will lie in wait for them in Thy straight path ; then I will surely come to them, from before them and from behind them; and most of them Thou shalt not find thankful.’ He said, ‘Go forth therefrom, despised, expelled; whoso follows thee, I will surely fill hell with you altogether. But, O Adam, dwell thou and thy wife in Paradise and eat from whence ye will, but draw not nigh unto this tree or ye will be of the unjust.’
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.
1* Trailed over an ‘Arfsh, that is, a sort of hut made of boughs. 5 That is, spread out when slaughtered, or from the hides and wool, &c., of which a bed (farsh) is made. 134 THE QUR'AN. VI, 143-148. not the footsteps of Satan; verily, he is to you an open foe. Eight pairs,—of sheep two, and of goats two; say, ‘Are the two males unlawful, or the two females, or what the wombs of the two females contain ? inform me with knowledge if ye tell the truth.’ [145] And of camels two, and cows two; say, ‘Are the two males unlawful, or the two females, or what the wombs of the two females contain? Were ye witnesses when God ordained for you these >—Then who is more unjust than he who devises a lie against God, to lead men astray without knowledge? verily, God guides not the unjust people?.’ Say, ‘I cannot find in what I am inspired with anything unlawful for the taster to taste; unless it be dead (of itself), or blood that has been shed, or the flesh of swine,—for that is a horror—or an abomination that is consecrated to other than God. But he who is forced, not wilfully nor transgressing,—then, verily, thy Lord is forgiving and merciful” > To those who were Jews did we prohibit everything that hath a solid hoof; and of oxen and sheep did we prohibit to them the fat, save what the backs of both do bear, or the inwards, or what is mixed with bone; with that did we recompense them for their rebellion, for, verily, we are true. And if they give thee the lie, say, ‘Your Lord is of ample mercy, nor shall His violence be turned back from the sinful people.’ 1 The Arabs alternately made it unlawful to eat the males, and then the young of these four kinds of cattle. Mohammed in this passage shows the absurdity of their custom by pointing out the difficulty of deciding which is lawful and unlawful in the case of eight pairs. VI, 149-153. THE CHAPTER OF CATTLE. 135 Those who associate others with God will say, ‘Had God pleased, we had not so associated, nor our fathers; nor should we have forbidden aught.’ Thus did they give the lie to those who came before them, until they tasted of our violence! Say, ‘Have ye any knowledge? if so, bring it forth to us: ye only follow suspicion, and ye do but conjecture.’ [150] Say, ‘God’s is the searching argument; and had He pleased He would have guided you all.’ « Say, ‘Come on then with your witnesses, who bear witness that God has prohibited these!’ but if they do bear witness, bear thou not witness with them; nor follow the lust of those who say our ‘signs are lies, and those who do not believe in the last day, or those who for their Lord make peers.
2Say, ‘Come! I will recite what your Lord has forbidden you, that ye may not associate aught with -Him, and (may show) kindness to your parents, and not kill your children through poverty ;—we will provide for you and them ;—and draw not nigh to flagrant sins, either apparent or concealed, and kill not the soul, which God hath forbidden save by right?; that is what God ordains you, haply ye may -understand.’ And draw not nigh unto the wealth of the orphan, ‘save so as to better it, until he reaches full age; and give weight and measure with justice. We do not compel the soul save what it can compass ; and when ye pronounce, then be just, though it be in the case of a relative. And God’s compact fulfil ye; that is what He 1 That is, commit no homicide unless it be by legal execution or the slaying of infidels in war. 136 THE QUR'AN. VI, 154-160. ordained you, haply ye may be mindful. Verily, this is my right way; follow it then, and follow not various paths, to separate yourselves from His way ; that is what He has ordained you, haply ye may fear ! [155] Then we gave Moses the Book, complete for him who acts aright, and a decision and a guidance and a mercy; haply in the meeting of their Lord they will believe. This is the Book which we have sent down; it is a blessing; follow it then and fear; haply ye may obtain mercy. Lest ye say, ‘The Book was only sent down to two sects before us; verily, we, for what they read, care naught.’ Or, lest ye should say, ‘Had we had a book revealed to us we should surely have been more guided than they;’ but there is come to them a manifest sign from their Lord, and a guidance and a mercy; who then is more unjust than he who calls God's signs lies, and turns from them? we will reward those who turn from our signs with an evil punishment for that they turned away. What do they expect but that the angels should come for them, or that thy Lord should come, or that some signs? of thy Lord should come? On the day when some signs do come, its faith shall profit no soul which did not believe before, unless it has earned some good by its faith. Say, ‘Wait ye expectant, then we wait expectant too.’ [160] Verily, those who divided their religion and became sects, thou hast not to do with them, their 1 Signs of the approach of the day of judgment. VI, 160-168. | THE CHAPTER OF CATTLE. 137 matter is in God’s hands, He will yet inform them of that which they have done. He who brings a good work shall have ten like it; but he who brings a bad work shall be recompensed only with the like thereof, for they shall not be wronged. Say, ‘As for me, my Lord has guided me to the right way, a right religion,—the faith of Abraham the ‘Hanif, for he was not of the idolaters.’ Say, ‘ Verily, my prayers and my devotion and my life and my death belong to God, the Lord of the worlds. He has no partner; that is what I am bidden ; for I am first of those who are resigned.’
3He has no partner; that is what I am bidden ; for I am first of those who are resigned.’ Say, ‘Other than God shall I crave for a Lord when He is Lord of all?’ but no soul shall earn aught save against itself!; nor shall one bearing a burden bear the burden of another; and then unto your Lord is your return, and He will inform you concerning that whereon ye do dispute. [165] Heit is who made you vicegerents, and raised some of you above others in degree, to try you by that which he has brought you ;—verily, thy Lord is swift to punish, but, verily, He is forgiving and merciful. 1 Not receive the recompense of other than persons’ evil actions. 138 THE QUR'AN. VIL, rrr. THe CHAPTER OF AL AARAF}. (VII. Mecca.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God. A.L.M.S. A book revealed to thee,—so let there be no straitness in thy breast, that thou mayest warn thereby,—and a reminder to the believers. Follow what has been revealed to you from your Lord, and follow not beside Him patrons; little is it that ye mind. Yet how many a town have we destroyed, and our violence came upon it by night,.or while they slept at noon; and their cry, when our violence came upon them, was only to say, ‘Verily, we were unjust!’ [5] But we will of a surety question those to whom the prophets were sent, and we will narrate to them with knowledge, for we were not absent. The balance on that day is true, and whosesoever scales are heavy, they are prosperous; but whosesoever scales are light, they it is who lose themselves, for that they did act unjustly by our signs. We have established you in the earth, and we have made for you therein livelihoods; little is it that ye thank; [10] and we created you, then we fashioned you, then we said unto the angels, ‘Adore Adam,’ and they adored, save Iblis, who was not of those who did adore. Said He, ‘What hinders thee from adoring when 1 The name of the bridge between heaven and hell described in this chapter. VII, 11-23. THE CHAPTER OF AL AARAF, 139 I order thee?’ he said, ‘I am better than he; Thou hast created me from fire, and him Thou hast created out of clay.’ Said He, ‘Then go down therefrom; what ails thee that thou shouldst be big with pride therein? go forth! verily, thou art of the little ones.’ He said, ‘Respite me until the day when they shall be raised.’ He said, ‘Verily, thou art of the respited ;’ [15] said he, ‘For that Thou hast led me into error, I will lie in wait for them in Thy straight path ; then I will surely come to them, from before them and from behind them; and most of them Thou shalt not find thankful.’ He said, ‘Go forth therefrom, despised, expelled; whoso follows thee, I will surely fill hell with you altogether. But, O Adam, dwell thou and thy wife in Paradise and eat from whence ye will, but draw not nigh unto this tree or ye will be of the unjust.’
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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