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1He covers night with the day—it pursues it incessantly—and the sun and the moon and the stars are subject to His bidding. Aye!—His is the creation and the bidding,—blessed be God the Lord of the worlds! Call on your Lord humbly and secretly, verily, He loves not the transgressors. And do not evil in the earth after it has been righted; and call upon Him with fear and earnestness; verily, the mercy of God is nigh unto those who do well. [55] He it is who sends forth the winds as heralds before His mercy; until when they lift the heavy cloud which we drive to a dead land, and send down thereon water, and bring forth therewith every kind of fruit ;—thus do we bring forth the dead; haply ye may remember. And the good land brings forth its vegetation by the permission of its Lord; and that which is vile brings forth naught but scarcity. Thus do we turn about our signs for a people who are grateful. We did send Noah unto his people, and he said, ‘O my people! serve God, ye have no god but Him; verily, I fear for you the torment of the mighty day.’ Said the chiefs of his people, ‘ Verily, } The highest heaven is so called. VII, 58-67. THE CHAPTER OF AL AARAF. 145 we do surely see you in obvious error.’ Said he, ‘O my people! there is no error in me; but I am an apostle from the Lord of the worlds. [60] I preach to you the messages of my Lord, and I give you sincere advice; and I know from God what ye know not. What! do ye wonder that there came to you a reminder from your Lord by a man from amongst yourselves, to warn you, and that ye may fear ? but haply ye may receive mercy.’ But they called him a liar, and we rescued him and those who were with him in the ark; and we drowned those who said our signs were lies, verily, they were a blind people. And unto ‘Ad? (we sent) their brother Hfd?, who said, ‘O my people! serve God, ye have no god save Him; what! will ye not then fear?’ Said the chiefs of those who misbelieved amongst his people, ‘Verily, . we see thee in folly, and, verily, we certainly think thou art of the liars.’ [65] He said, ‘O my people! there is no folly in me; but I am an apostle from the Lord of the worlds; I preach to you the’ messages of your Lord; and, verily, I am to you a faithful adviser. What! do ye then wonder that there comes to you a reminder from your Lord by a man from amongst yourselves, to warn you? remember when He made you vicegerents after Noah’s people and increased you in length of stature; remember, then, the benefits of God,— 1 An extinct tribe of the ancient Arabs, 2? Hfd and Thamfid, both mentioned in the works of Ptolemy, were two tribes of the ancient Arabs, extinct in Mohammed’s time, whose disappearance had been attributed, by popular tradition, to divine vengeance, [6] L 146 THE QUR'AN. VIL, 67-74.
2Hfd and Thamfid, both mentioned in the works of Ptolemy, were two tribes of the ancient Arabs, extinct in Mohammed’s time, whose disappearance had been attributed, by popular tradition, to divine vengeance, [6] L 146 THE QUR'AN. VIL, 67-74. haply ye may prosper!’ They said, ‘Hast thou come to us that we may worship God alone, and leave what our fathers used to worship? then bring us what thou dost threaten us with, if thou art of those who tell the truth!’ He said, ‘There shall fall upon you from your Lord horror and wrath; do ye wrangle with me about names, which ye and your fathers have named yourselves, for which God sent down no power; wait then expectant, and I with you will wait expectant too! [70] But we rescued him and those with him, by mercy from ourselves, and we cut off the hindermost parts of those who said our signs were lies and who were not believers.’ Unto Thamtd (we sent) their brother Zali‘h, who said, ‘O my people! worship God; ye have no god but Him: there has come to you a manifest: sign from your Lord. This she-camel of God’s is a sign for you ; leave her then to eat in the land of God, and touch her not with evil, or there will overtake you grievous woe. And remember how he made you vicegerents after ‘Ad and stablished you in the earth, so that ye took for yourselves castles on its plains and hewed out mountains into houses!; and remember the benefits of God, and waste not the land, despoiling it. Said the chiefs of those who were big with pride from amongst his people to those who were weak,—to those amongst them who believed, ‘Do ye know that Z4lith is sent from his Lord? They said, ‘We do believe in that with which: he is sent.’ Said those who were big with ptide, ‘Verily, in what ye do believe we disbelieve.’ 1 Referring to the numerous. excavated rock-dwellings in Tdumaea. VII, 75,76. THE CHAPTER OF AL AARAF. 147 [75] Then they did hamstring the camel, and rebelled against the bidding of their Lord and said, ‘O Zalith! bring us what thou didst threaten us with, if thou art of those who are sent.’ Then the earthquake took them, and in the morning they lay prone in their dwellings; and he turned away from them and said, ‘O my people! I did preach to you the message of my Lord, and I gave you good advice; but ye love not sincere advisers,’
3I did preach to you the message of my Lord, and I gave you good advice; but ye love not sincere advisers,’ 1 All that has been hitherto written about the legend Zélith and his camel is pure conjecture; the native commentators add nothing but a few marvellous details to the story as given in the Qur’4n, and the European annotators can only suggest possible identifications for Zali‘h himself, such as the Schelah of Gen. xi. 13. My own view of the matter is of course an hypothesis too, but it has at least some circumstantial evidence in its favour; it is embodied in the following extract from my ‘ Desert of the Exodus,’ p. so: ‘Near E] Watfyeh is situated the tomb of Nebi Sdleh, a wretched little building, but accounted by the Bedawin one of the most sacred spots on the Peninsula (of Sinai). Hither they resort in great numbers at certain seasons of the year to perform ceremonies and sacrificial rites. Who and what was Nebi Sdleh, “the Prophet Saleh,” or, as his name implies, “the Righteous Prophet?” A great saint with the Bedawin, perhaps the ancestor of the Saw4liheh tribe, who are named after him ; but this explanation is vague and unsatisfactory, and in the absence of any certain information on the subject I will venture to propound a theory. I must premise that near the summit of Jebel Musa is a peculiar mark in the stone which has a strong resemblance to the imprint of a camel’s foot. It is regarded by the Bedawin with great veneration, and the girls, when tending their flocks on the mountains, often milk their goats into it as a sure means of obtaining increase and prosperity. This mark is called Athar Nagat en Nebf, “the footprint of the Prophet’s She-camel.” It is generally taken for granted that the Prophet in question is Mohammed, but to my mind there are several circumstances which seem to connect the Nebi S4leh of the tomb with the prophet of the legend. A Bedawin’s notions of the separate identity of Moses, Elias, and Sdleh are of the vaguest L2 148 THE QuR’AN, VII, 77-83 And Lot, when he said to his people, ‘Do ye approach an abomination which no one in all the world ever anticipated you in? verily, ye approach men with lust rather than women—nay, ye are a people who exceed.’ [80] But his people’s answer only was to say, ‘Turn them out of your village, verily, they are a people who pretend to purity.’ But we saved him and his people, except his wife, who was of those who lingered; and we rained down upon them a rain;—see then how was the end of the sinners | And unto Midian did we send their brother
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.
1He covers night with the day—it pursues it incessantly—and the sun and the moon and the stars are subject to His bidding. Aye!—His is the creation and the bidding,—blessed be God the Lord of the worlds! Call on your Lord humbly and secretly, verily, He loves not the transgressors. And do not evil in the earth after it has been righted; and call upon Him with fear and earnestness; verily, the mercy of God is nigh unto those who do well. [55] He it is who sends forth the winds as heralds before His mercy; until when they lift the heavy cloud which we drive to a dead land, and send down thereon water, and bring forth therewith every kind of fruit ;—thus do we bring forth the dead; haply ye may remember. And the good land brings forth its vegetation by the permission of its Lord; and that which is vile brings forth naught but scarcity. Thus do we turn about our signs for a people who are grateful. We did send Noah unto his people, and he said, ‘O my people! serve God, ye have no god but Him; verily, I fear for you the torment of the mighty day.’ Said the chiefs of his people, ‘ Verily, } The highest heaven is so called. VII, 58-67. THE CHAPTER OF AL AARAF. 145 we do surely see you in obvious error.’ Said he, ‘O my people! there is no error in me; but I am an apostle from the Lord of the worlds. [60] I preach to you the messages of my Lord, and I give you sincere advice; and I know from God what ye know not. What! do ye wonder that there came to you a reminder from your Lord by a man from amongst yourselves, to warn you, and that ye may fear ? but haply ye may receive mercy.’ But they called him a liar, and we rescued him and those who were with him in the ark; and we drowned those who said our signs were lies, verily, they were a blind people. And unto ‘Ad? (we sent) their brother Hfd?, who said, ‘O my people! serve God, ye have no god save Him; what! will ye not then fear?’ Said the chiefs of those who misbelieved amongst his people, ‘Verily, . we see thee in folly, and, verily, we certainly think thou art of the liars.’ [65] He said, ‘O my people! there is no folly in me; but I am an apostle from the Lord of the worlds; I preach to you the’ messages of your Lord; and, verily, I am to you a faithful adviser. What! do ye then wonder that there comes to you a reminder from your Lord by a man from amongst yourselves, to warn you? remember when He made you vicegerents after Noah’s people and increased you in length of stature; remember, then, the benefits of God,— 1 An extinct tribe of the ancient Arabs, 2? Hfd and Thamfid, both mentioned in the works of Ptolemy, were two tribes of the ancient Arabs, extinct in Mohammed’s time, whose disappearance had been attributed, by popular tradition, to divine vengeance, [6] L 146 THE QUR'AN. VIL, 67-74.
2Hfd and Thamfid, both mentioned in the works of Ptolemy, were two tribes of the ancient Arabs, extinct in Mohammed’s time, whose disappearance had been attributed, by popular tradition, to divine vengeance, [6] L 146 THE QUR'AN. VIL, 67-74. haply ye may prosper!’ They said, ‘Hast thou come to us that we may worship God alone, and leave what our fathers used to worship? then bring us what thou dost threaten us with, if thou art of those who tell the truth!’ He said, ‘There shall fall upon you from your Lord horror and wrath; do ye wrangle with me about names, which ye and your fathers have named yourselves, for which God sent down no power; wait then expectant, and I with you will wait expectant too! [70] But we rescued him and those with him, by mercy from ourselves, and we cut off the hindermost parts of those who said our signs were lies and who were not believers.’ Unto Thamtd (we sent) their brother Zali‘h, who said, ‘O my people! worship God; ye have no god but Him: there has come to you a manifest: sign from your Lord. This she-camel of God’s is a sign for you ; leave her then to eat in the land of God, and touch her not with evil, or there will overtake you grievous woe. And remember how he made you vicegerents after ‘Ad and stablished you in the earth, so that ye took for yourselves castles on its plains and hewed out mountains into houses!; and remember the benefits of God, and waste not the land, despoiling it. Said the chiefs of those who were big with pride from amongst his people to those who were weak,—to those amongst them who believed, ‘Do ye know that Z4lith is sent from his Lord? They said, ‘We do believe in that with which: he is sent.’ Said those who were big with ptide, ‘Verily, in what ye do believe we disbelieve.’ 1 Referring to the numerous. excavated rock-dwellings in Tdumaea. VII, 75,76. THE CHAPTER OF AL AARAF. 147 [75] Then they did hamstring the camel, and rebelled against the bidding of their Lord and said, ‘O Zalith! bring us what thou didst threaten us with, if thou art of those who are sent.’ Then the earthquake took them, and in the morning they lay prone in their dwellings; and he turned away from them and said, ‘O my people! I did preach to you the message of my Lord, and I gave you good advice; but ye love not sincere advisers,’
3I did preach to you the message of my Lord, and I gave you good advice; but ye love not sincere advisers,’ 1 All that has been hitherto written about the legend Zélith and his camel is pure conjecture; the native commentators add nothing but a few marvellous details to the story as given in the Qur’4n, and the European annotators can only suggest possible identifications for Zali‘h himself, such as the Schelah of Gen. xi. 13. My own view of the matter is of course an hypothesis too, but it has at least some circumstantial evidence in its favour; it is embodied in the following extract from my ‘ Desert of the Exodus,’ p. so: ‘Near E] Watfyeh is situated the tomb of Nebi Sdleh, a wretched little building, but accounted by the Bedawin one of the most sacred spots on the Peninsula (of Sinai). Hither they resort in great numbers at certain seasons of the year to perform ceremonies and sacrificial rites. Who and what was Nebi Sdleh, “the Prophet Saleh,” or, as his name implies, “the Righteous Prophet?” A great saint with the Bedawin, perhaps the ancestor of the Saw4liheh tribe, who are named after him ; but this explanation is vague and unsatisfactory, and in the absence of any certain information on the subject I will venture to propound a theory. I must premise that near the summit of Jebel Musa is a peculiar mark in the stone which has a strong resemblance to the imprint of a camel’s foot. It is regarded by the Bedawin with great veneration, and the girls, when tending their flocks on the mountains, often milk their goats into it as a sure means of obtaining increase and prosperity. This mark is called Athar Nagat en Nebf, “the footprint of the Prophet’s She-camel.” It is generally taken for granted that the Prophet in question is Mohammed, but to my mind there are several circumstances which seem to connect the Nebi S4leh of the tomb with the prophet of the legend. A Bedawin’s notions of the separate identity of Moses, Elias, and Sdleh are of the vaguest L2 148 THE QuR’AN, VII, 77-83 And Lot, when he said to his people, ‘Do ye approach an abomination which no one in all the world ever anticipated you in? verily, ye approach men with lust rather than women—nay, ye are a people who exceed.’ [80] But his people’s answer only was to say, ‘Turn them out of your village, verily, they are a people who pretend to purity.’ But we saved him and his people, except his wife, who was of those who lingered; and we rained down upon them a rain;—see then how was the end of the sinners | And unto Midian did we send their brother
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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