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1Whosoever shall wish for the life of this world and its ornaments, we will pay them their works therein, and they shall not be cheated. These are those for whom there is nothing in the hereafter save the Fire; and void is what they made therein, and vain what they were doing! [20] Is he (like them) who stands upon a manifest sign from his Lord, which is a witness from Him, and recites it, with the book of Moses before him for a model and a mercy? These believe in it; and XI, 20-29. THE CHAPTER OF HOD. 207 whosoever of the crews! disbelieves in him, the Fire is his promise. Be not thou in doubt about it; verily, it is truth from thy Lord, though most men do not believe. Who is more unjust than he who forges against God a lie? they shall be set before their Lord, and the witnesses shall say, ‘ These it is who lied against their Lord.’ Aye! God’s curse is on the unjust who turn men away from the path, and crave to make it crooked, and in the hereafter disbelieve! They cannot make Him helpless in the earth, nor have they other than God for patrons. Doubled for them is the torment. They could not hear, nor did they see! Those it is who lose themselves; and that which they did devise has strayed away from them. No doubt but that in the hereafter these are those who lose ! [25] Verily, those who believe and do what is right, and humble themselves to their Lord, they are the fellows of Paradise ; they shall dwell therein for aye. The two parties’ likeness is as the blind and the deaf, and the seeing and the hearing; shall they two be equal in likeness? will ye not mind ? We did send Noah unto his people, ‘ Verily, I am to you an obvious warner; that ye should not worship any save God. Verily, I fear for you the torment of the grievous day. But the chiefs of those who misbelieved amongst his people said, ‘We only see in thee a mortal like ourselves ; nor do we see that any follow thee except the reprobates amongst us by a rash judgment; nor do we see that you have any preference over us; nay more, 1 That is, of the idolater, 208 THE QUR'AN. XI, 29-38. we think you liars!’ [30] He said, ‘O my people! let us see! if I stand upon a manifest sign from my Lord, and there come to me mercy from him, and ye are blinded to it; shall we force you to it while ye are averse therefrom ? , ‘O my people! I do not ask you for wealth in return for it ; my hire is only from God; nor do I repulse those who believe; verily, they shall meet their Lord. But I see you, a people who are ignorant. O my people! who will help me against God, were I to repulse you? do ye not then mind? I do not say that I have the treasures of God; nor do I know the unseen; nor do I say, “ Verily, I am an angel;” nor do I say of those whom your eyes despise, “ God will never give them any good !”—God knows best what is in their souls—verily, then should I be of the unjust.’
2do ye not then mind? I do not say that I have the treasures of God; nor do I know the unseen; nor do I say, “ Verily, I am an angel;” nor do I say of those whom your eyes despise, “ God will never give them any good !”—God knows best what is in their souls—verily, then should I be of the unjust.’ They said, ‘O Noah! thou hast wrangled with us, and hast multiplied wranglings with us; bring us then what thou hast threatened us with, if thou art of those who tell the truth.’ [35] Said he, ‘God will only bring it on you if He pleases, nor can ye make Him helpless; nor will my advice profit you, should I wish to advise you, if God wish to lead you into error. He is your Lord, and unto Him shall ye be returned.’ Do they say, ‘He has devised it!?’ Say, ‘If I have devised it, then on me be my sin. But I am clear of that wherein ye sin.’ And Noah was inspired, ‘None shall surely believe amongst thy people but those who have believed already; take not then ill that which they 1 The Qur'an, n XI, 38-46. THE CHAPTER OF HOD. 209 do. . And make the ark under our eyes, and at our inspiration; and plead not with me for those who have done wrong ; verily, they shall be drowned.’ [40] So he made the ark, and every time the chiefs of his people passed by him they jested at him. Said he, ‘ If ye jest at us, verily, we shall jest at you even as ye are jesting, and ye shall surely know. ‘He to whom a torment comes, it shall shame him, and there shall light upon him lasting torment.’ Until at length when our order came, and the oven boiled!, we said, ‘ Load therein of every kind two, and likewise thy family,—save those on whom the sentence has already been passed—likewise those who believe;’ but there believed not with him save a few. And he said, ‘ Ride ye therein ; in the name of God is its course, and its mooring. Verily, my Lord is forgiving and merciful.’ ” And it floated on with them mid waves like mountains; and Noah cried to his son who had gone aside, ‘O my boy! ride with us and be not with the misbelievers.’ [45] Said he, ‘I will betake me to a mountain that shall save me from the water.’ Said he, ‘There is none to save to-day from the command of God, except for him on whom He may have mercy.’ And the wave came between them, and he was amongst the drowned 2. . And it was said, ‘O earth! swallow down thy 1 Tannfr (oven) signifies also a reservoir of water. Its use in this passage has, however, given rise to some ridiculous superstitions amongst the Mohammedans as to the origin of the deluge. * This story and the further allusion to Noah’s son in the next page were probably suggested by Genesis ix. 20-25. [6] P 210 THE QUR'AN. XI, 46-53. water!’ and, ‘O heaven! hold!’ and the water abated ; and the affair was decided, and it? settled on Gidi?, and it was said, ‘ Away with the people who are evildoers!’
320-25. [6] P 210 THE QUR'AN. XI, 46-53. water!’ and, ‘O heaven! hold!’ and the water abated ; and the affair was decided, and it? settled on Gidi?, and it was said, ‘ Away with the people who are evildoers!’ And Noah went unto his Lord and said, ‘My Lord, verily, my son is. of my people, and, verily, — Thy promise is true, and Thou art the justest of judges. He said, ‘O Noah! he is not of thy people ; verily, it is a work that is not right. Then, ask me not for that of which thou knowest naught. Verily, I admonish thee that thou shouldst not be of the ignorant.’ He said, ‘ My Lord, verily, I seek refuge in Thee from asking Thee for aught of which I know nothing; and, unless Thou dost forgive me and have mercy on: me, I shall be of thase who lose.’ [50] It was said, ‘O Noah:! descend in safety from us, and blessings upon thee and upon (some) nations of those who are with thee’; but (some) nations we will allow to enjoy prosperity and then there shall touch them from us grievous woe.’ These are stories of the unseen which we reveal to thee; thou didst not know them, thou nor thy people before this. Be patient, then; verily, the issue is for those who fear. And unto. ‘Ad (we sent) their brother Had; he said, ‘O my people! serve God; ye have no god but Him. Ye do but devise a lie. O my people! I do not ask you for hire in return; my hire is ? The ark. * GAdi is a corruption apparently for Mount Giordi, the Gordyzi of the Greeks, situated between Armenia and Mesopotamia. 5 I.e. upon some of the nations who are to form the posterity of thyself and the members of thy family saved with thee. XI, 53-64. THE CHAPTER OF HOD. 211 only from Him who created me: have ye then no sense ? ‘O my people! ask pardon of your Lord; then turn to Him; He will send the skies down on you in torrents; [55] and He will add strength to your . strength: do not then turn back sinners.’ They said, ‘O Hfd! thou hast not come to us with a manifest sign; nor will we leave our gods at thy word; nor will we believe in thee. We can only say that some of our gods have attacked thee with evil.’ Said he, ‘Verily, I call God to witness, and do ye bear witness too, that I am free from that which ye associate beside Him. ‘ Plot then against me altogether, and give me no delay. Verily, I rely upon God, my Lord and your Lord. There is no beast that walks, but He taketh it by its forelock. Verily, my Lord is on the right way | [60] ‘But if ye turn your backs,—then I have conveyed to you what I was sent to you with; and my Lord will make another people your successors. Ye cannot harm Him at all; verily, my Lord is guardian over all!’
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.
1Whosoever shall wish for the life of this world and its ornaments, we will pay them their works therein, and they shall not be cheated. These are those for whom there is nothing in the hereafter save the Fire; and void is what they made therein, and vain what they were doing! [20] Is he (like them) who stands upon a manifest sign from his Lord, which is a witness from Him, and recites it, with the book of Moses before him for a model and a mercy? These believe in it; and XI, 20-29. THE CHAPTER OF HOD. 207 whosoever of the crews! disbelieves in him, the Fire is his promise. Be not thou in doubt about it; verily, it is truth from thy Lord, though most men do not believe. Who is more unjust than he who forges against God a lie? they shall be set before their Lord, and the witnesses shall say, ‘ These it is who lied against their Lord.’ Aye! God’s curse is on the unjust who turn men away from the path, and crave to make it crooked, and in the hereafter disbelieve! They cannot make Him helpless in the earth, nor have they other than God for patrons. Doubled for them is the torment. They could not hear, nor did they see! Those it is who lose themselves; and that which they did devise has strayed away from them. No doubt but that in the hereafter these are those who lose ! [25] Verily, those who believe and do what is right, and humble themselves to their Lord, they are the fellows of Paradise ; they shall dwell therein for aye. The two parties’ likeness is as the blind and the deaf, and the seeing and the hearing; shall they two be equal in likeness? will ye not mind ? We did send Noah unto his people, ‘ Verily, I am to you an obvious warner; that ye should not worship any save God. Verily, I fear for you the torment of the grievous day. But the chiefs of those who misbelieved amongst his people said, ‘We only see in thee a mortal like ourselves ; nor do we see that any follow thee except the reprobates amongst us by a rash judgment; nor do we see that you have any preference over us; nay more, 1 That is, of the idolater, 208 THE QUR'AN. XI, 29-38. we think you liars!’ [30] He said, ‘O my people! let us see! if I stand upon a manifest sign from my Lord, and there come to me mercy from him, and ye are blinded to it; shall we force you to it while ye are averse therefrom ? , ‘O my people! I do not ask you for wealth in return for it ; my hire is only from God; nor do I repulse those who believe; verily, they shall meet their Lord. But I see you, a people who are ignorant. O my people! who will help me against God, were I to repulse you? do ye not then mind? I do not say that I have the treasures of God; nor do I know the unseen; nor do I say, “ Verily, I am an angel;” nor do I say of those whom your eyes despise, “ God will never give them any good !”—God knows best what is in their souls—verily, then should I be of the unjust.’
2do ye not then mind? I do not say that I have the treasures of God; nor do I know the unseen; nor do I say, “ Verily, I am an angel;” nor do I say of those whom your eyes despise, “ God will never give them any good !”—God knows best what is in their souls—verily, then should I be of the unjust.’ They said, ‘O Noah! thou hast wrangled with us, and hast multiplied wranglings with us; bring us then what thou hast threatened us with, if thou art of those who tell the truth.’ [35] Said he, ‘God will only bring it on you if He pleases, nor can ye make Him helpless; nor will my advice profit you, should I wish to advise you, if God wish to lead you into error. He is your Lord, and unto Him shall ye be returned.’ Do they say, ‘He has devised it!?’ Say, ‘If I have devised it, then on me be my sin. But I am clear of that wherein ye sin.’ And Noah was inspired, ‘None shall surely believe amongst thy people but those who have believed already; take not then ill that which they 1 The Qur'an, n XI, 38-46. THE CHAPTER OF HOD. 209 do. . And make the ark under our eyes, and at our inspiration; and plead not with me for those who have done wrong ; verily, they shall be drowned.’ [40] So he made the ark, and every time the chiefs of his people passed by him they jested at him. Said he, ‘ If ye jest at us, verily, we shall jest at you even as ye are jesting, and ye shall surely know. ‘He to whom a torment comes, it shall shame him, and there shall light upon him lasting torment.’ Until at length when our order came, and the oven boiled!, we said, ‘ Load therein of every kind two, and likewise thy family,—save those on whom the sentence has already been passed—likewise those who believe;’ but there believed not with him save a few. And he said, ‘ Ride ye therein ; in the name of God is its course, and its mooring. Verily, my Lord is forgiving and merciful.’ ” And it floated on with them mid waves like mountains; and Noah cried to his son who had gone aside, ‘O my boy! ride with us and be not with the misbelievers.’ [45] Said he, ‘I will betake me to a mountain that shall save me from the water.’ Said he, ‘There is none to save to-day from the command of God, except for him on whom He may have mercy.’ And the wave came between them, and he was amongst the drowned 2. . And it was said, ‘O earth! swallow down thy 1 Tannfr (oven) signifies also a reservoir of water. Its use in this passage has, however, given rise to some ridiculous superstitions amongst the Mohammedans as to the origin of the deluge. * This story and the further allusion to Noah’s son in the next page were probably suggested by Genesis ix. 20-25. [6] P 210 THE QUR'AN. XI, 46-53. water!’ and, ‘O heaven! hold!’ and the water abated ; and the affair was decided, and it? settled on Gidi?, and it was said, ‘ Away with the people who are evildoers!’
320-25. [6] P 210 THE QUR'AN. XI, 46-53. water!’ and, ‘O heaven! hold!’ and the water abated ; and the affair was decided, and it? settled on Gidi?, and it was said, ‘ Away with the people who are evildoers!’ And Noah went unto his Lord and said, ‘My Lord, verily, my son is. of my people, and, verily, — Thy promise is true, and Thou art the justest of judges. He said, ‘O Noah! he is not of thy people ; verily, it is a work that is not right. Then, ask me not for that of which thou knowest naught. Verily, I admonish thee that thou shouldst not be of the ignorant.’ He said, ‘ My Lord, verily, I seek refuge in Thee from asking Thee for aught of which I know nothing; and, unless Thou dost forgive me and have mercy on: me, I shall be of thase who lose.’ [50] It was said, ‘O Noah:! descend in safety from us, and blessings upon thee and upon (some) nations of those who are with thee’; but (some) nations we will allow to enjoy prosperity and then there shall touch them from us grievous woe.’ These are stories of the unseen which we reveal to thee; thou didst not know them, thou nor thy people before this. Be patient, then; verily, the issue is for those who fear. And unto. ‘Ad (we sent) their brother Had; he said, ‘O my people! serve God; ye have no god but Him. Ye do but devise a lie. O my people! I do not ask you for hire in return; my hire is ? The ark. * GAdi is a corruption apparently for Mount Giordi, the Gordyzi of the Greeks, situated between Armenia and Mesopotamia. 5 I.e. upon some of the nations who are to form the posterity of thyself and the members of thy family saved with thee. XI, 53-64. THE CHAPTER OF HOD. 211 only from Him who created me: have ye then no sense ? ‘O my people! ask pardon of your Lord; then turn to Him; He will send the skies down on you in torrents; [55] and He will add strength to your . strength: do not then turn back sinners.’ They said, ‘O Hfd! thou hast not come to us with a manifest sign; nor will we leave our gods at thy word; nor will we believe in thee. We can only say that some of our gods have attacked thee with evil.’ Said he, ‘Verily, I call God to witness, and do ye bear witness too, that I am free from that which ye associate beside Him. ‘ Plot then against me altogether, and give me no delay. Verily, I rely upon God, my Lord and your Lord. There is no beast that walks, but He taketh it by its forelock. Verily, my Lord is on the right way | [60] ‘But if ye turn your backs,—then I have conveyed to you what I was sent to you with; and my Lord will make another people your successors. Ye cannot harm Him at all; verily, my Lord is guardian over all!’
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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