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1Verily, 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!’ And when our order came we saved Hid, and those who believed with him, by mercy from us; and we saved them from harsh torment. That (tribe of) ‘Ad denied the signs of their Lord, and rebelled against His apostles, and followed the bidding of every headstrong tyrant. They were followed in this world by a curse, and on the resurrection day—‘ Did not ‘Ad disbelieve their Lord? Aye! away with ‘Ad the people of Hfid!’ And unto Thamid (we sent) their brother Z4li‘h ; said he, ‘O my people! worship God; ye have no . P 2 212 THE QUR'AN. XI, 64-72. god but Him. He it is that produced you from the earth, and made you live therein! Then ask pardon of Him; then turn again to Him: verily, my Lord is nigh and answers !’ [65] They said, ‘O Z4lith! thou wert amongst us one we hoped in before this: dost thou forbid | us to worship what our fathers worshipped ? verily, we are in hesitating doubt as to that to which thou callest us.’ He said, ‘O my people! let us see; if I stand upon a manifest sign from my Lord, and there come from Him mercy, who will help me against God if I rebel against Him? Ye will add only to my loss. ‘O my people! this she-camel! of God is a sign for you; leave her, then, to feed in God's earth, and touch her not with evil, or there will catch you torment that is nigh.’ But they did hamstring her, and he said, ‘Enjoy yourselves in your houses for three days ;—that is the promise that shall not be belied.’ And when our order came we saved ZAli‘h, and those who believed with him, by our mercy, from disgrace upon that day. Verily, thy Lord He is powerful and mighty. [70] And the noise caught those who had done wrong; and on the morrow they were lying corpses in their houses, as though they had never dwelt therein. Did not Thamfd indeed disbelieve in their Lord? Aye! away with Thamdd! Our messengers did come to Abraham with glad tidings; they said, ‘Peace!’ He said, ‘ Peace be 1 See note, p. 107. XI, 72-82. THE CHAPTER OF HOD. 213 it!’ nor did he delay to bring the roasted calf. But ° when he saw that their hands reached not thereto, he could not understand them, and harboured fear of them. They said, ‘Fear not. Verily, we are sent unto the people of Lot.’ And his wife was standing by, laughing ; and we gave her the glad tidings of Isaac, and of Jacob after Isaac. [75] Said she, ‘ Alas for me! shall I bear a son when I am an old woman, and this husband of mine an old man? Verily, this is a wonderful thing!’ They said,‘ Dost thou wonder at the bidding of God? God’s mercy and blessings upon you, ye people of the house! Verily, He is to be praised and glorified.’
2shall I bear a son when I am an old woman, and this husband of mine an old man? Verily, this is a wonderful thing!’ They said,‘ Dost thou wonder at the bidding of God? God’s mercy and blessings upon you, ye people of the house! Verily, He is to be praised and glorified.’ And when his terror left Abraham, and the glad tidings came to him, he wrangled with us about the people of Lot; verily, Abraham was clement, pitiful, relenting. ‘O Abraham! avoid this; verily, the bidding of thy Lord has come; verily, there is coming to them torment that cannot be put off.’ (80] And when our messengers came to Lot, he’ was grieved for them ; but his arm was straitened for them?, and he said, ‘This is a troublesome day!’ And his people came to him, rushing at him, for before that they used to work evil. He said, ‘O my people! here are my daughters, they are purer for you; then, fear God, and do not disgrace me through my guests ;—is there not among you one right-thinking man ?’ They said, ‘Thou knowest that we have no claim on thy daughters; verily, thou knowest what we want!’ He said, ‘Had I but power over you; or 2 Ie. he was powerless to help them. 214 THE QUR'AN. XI, 82-87. * could I but resort to some strong column!....!’ (The angels) said, ‘O Lot! verily, we are the messengers of thy Lord, they shall certainly not reach thee; then travel with thy people in the darkness of the night, and let none of you look round except thy wife: verily, there shall befall her what befalls them. Verily, their appointment is for the morning! and is not the morning nigh ?’ ‘And when our bidding came, we made their high parts their low parts*. And we rained down upon them stones and baked clay® one after another, marked‘, from thy -Lord, and these are not so far from the unjust®! [85] -And unto Midian (we sent) their brother Sho’haib*®. He said, ‘O my people! serve God; ye have no god but Him, and give not short measure and weight. Verily, I see you well off; but, verily, I fear for you the torments of an encompassing day. O my people! give measure and weight fairly, and defraud not men of their things; and wreak not wrong in the earth, corrupting it. God’s residue’ 1 I. e. some support, such as a powerful clan or chieftain. 2 That is, overturned the cities of the plain. 8 The Abyssinians, who had invaded Mecca some years before, are mentioned in the Chapter of the Elephant (CV) as being destroyed in a similar manner by flocks of birds, who threw down such missiles upon them. * The legend is that they each contained the name of the person for whom they were destined ; so the old saying, ‘every bullet has its billet.’ 5 I.e. the same punishment is likely to overtake other wrongdoers, the threat being especially directed against the unbelieving inhabitants of Mecca. 6 See Chapter VII. " A little which God leaves you after paying every one his due. XI, 87-96. THE CHAPTER OF HOD. 215 is better for you if ye be believers. But I am not a guardian over you.’
36 See Chapter VII. " A little which God leaves you after paying every one his due. XI, 87-96. THE CHAPTER OF HOD. 215 is better for you if ye be believers. But I am not a guardian over you.’ They said,‘O Sho’haib! Do thy prayers bid thee that we should forsake what our fathers served, -or that we should not do as we please with our wealth? Thou art, forsooth, the clement and straightforward one!’ [90] He said, ‘O my people! Do ye see? If I stand upon a manifest sign from my Lord; and He provides me from Himself with a goodly provision, and I consent not with you to that which I forbid you, I only wish to better you so far as I can,—nor comes my grace through any one but God; on Him do I rely, and unto ‘Him I turn. O my people! let not a breach with me make you so sin that there befall you the like of that which befel the people of Noah, or the people of Hfd, or the people of Zali‘h—nor are the people of Lot so far from you! Ask pardon, then, from your Lord, then turn to Him; verily, my Lord is merciful, loving!’ They said, ‘O Shohaib! we-do not understand much of what thou sayest, and we see that thou art weak amongst us; and were it not for thy family we would stone thee, nor couldst thou be powerful over us,’ He said, ‘O my people! are my family more esteemed by you than God ? ‘or have you taken Him as something to cast behind your backs? Verily, my Lord, whate’er ye do, doth comprehend. [95] O my people! act according to your power; verily, I too will act, and ye at length shall know! To whomsoever torment comes it shall disgrace him, and him who is a liar. Watch then; verily, I with you am watching too!’ 216 THE QUR'AN. XI, 97-105. And when our bidding came we saved Sho’haib, and those who believed with him, by our mercy; and the noise caught those who had done wrong, and on the morrow they were in their houses prone, as though they had not dwelt therein. Aye! ‘Away with Midian!’ as it was, ‘Away with Thamfd!’ And we sent Moses with our signs and with obvious power unto Pharaoh and his chiefs; but they followed Pharaoh’s bidding, and Pharaoh’s bidding was not straightforward. [100] He shall approach his people on the resurrection day, and take them down to water! at the Fire,—an evil watering-place to water at! In this (world) were they followed by a curse ; and on the resurrection day evil shall be the aid they are aided with! That is one of the stories of the cities which we recite to thee—some of them are standing now and some mown down! We did not wrong them, but they wronged themselves. Their gods availed them naught, on which they called instead of God, when once the bidding of thy Lord had come; nor did they add save to their downfall! Thus is thy Lord’s overtaking when He overtakes the cities that have done wrong; verily, His overtaking is grievous, keen. [105] Verily, in that is a sign to him who fears the torment of the last day ;—that is a day unto which men shall be gathered ;—that is a witnessed day!
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.
1Verily, 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!’ And when our order came we saved Hid, and those who believed with him, by mercy from us; and we saved them from harsh torment. That (tribe of) ‘Ad denied the signs of their Lord, and rebelled against His apostles, and followed the bidding of every headstrong tyrant. They were followed in this world by a curse, and on the resurrection day—‘ Did not ‘Ad disbelieve their Lord? Aye! away with ‘Ad the people of Hfid!’ And unto Thamid (we sent) their brother Z4li‘h ; said he, ‘O my people! worship God; ye have no . P 2 212 THE QUR'AN. XI, 64-72. god but Him. He it is that produced you from the earth, and made you live therein! Then ask pardon of Him; then turn again to Him: verily, my Lord is nigh and answers !’ [65] They said, ‘O Z4lith! thou wert amongst us one we hoped in before this: dost thou forbid | us to worship what our fathers worshipped ? verily, we are in hesitating doubt as to that to which thou callest us.’ He said, ‘O my people! let us see; if I stand upon a manifest sign from my Lord, and there come from Him mercy, who will help me against God if I rebel against Him? Ye will add only to my loss. ‘O my people! this she-camel! of God is a sign for you; leave her, then, to feed in God's earth, and touch her not with evil, or there will catch you torment that is nigh.’ But they did hamstring her, and he said, ‘Enjoy yourselves in your houses for three days ;—that is the promise that shall not be belied.’ And when our order came we saved ZAli‘h, and those who believed with him, by our mercy, from disgrace upon that day. Verily, thy Lord He is powerful and mighty. [70] And the noise caught those who had done wrong; and on the morrow they were lying corpses in their houses, as though they had never dwelt therein. Did not Thamfd indeed disbelieve in their Lord? Aye! away with Thamdd! Our messengers did come to Abraham with glad tidings; they said, ‘Peace!’ He said, ‘ Peace be 1 See note, p. 107. XI, 72-82. THE CHAPTER OF HOD. 213 it!’ nor did he delay to bring the roasted calf. But ° when he saw that their hands reached not thereto, he could not understand them, and harboured fear of them. They said, ‘Fear not. Verily, we are sent unto the people of Lot.’ And his wife was standing by, laughing ; and we gave her the glad tidings of Isaac, and of Jacob after Isaac. [75] Said she, ‘ Alas for me! shall I bear a son when I am an old woman, and this husband of mine an old man? Verily, this is a wonderful thing!’ They said,‘ Dost thou wonder at the bidding of God? God’s mercy and blessings upon you, ye people of the house! Verily, He is to be praised and glorified.’
2shall I bear a son when I am an old woman, and this husband of mine an old man? Verily, this is a wonderful thing!’ They said,‘ Dost thou wonder at the bidding of God? God’s mercy and blessings upon you, ye people of the house! Verily, He is to be praised and glorified.’ And when his terror left Abraham, and the glad tidings came to him, he wrangled with us about the people of Lot; verily, Abraham was clement, pitiful, relenting. ‘O Abraham! avoid this; verily, the bidding of thy Lord has come; verily, there is coming to them torment that cannot be put off.’ (80] And when our messengers came to Lot, he’ was grieved for them ; but his arm was straitened for them?, and he said, ‘This is a troublesome day!’ And his people came to him, rushing at him, for before that they used to work evil. He said, ‘O my people! here are my daughters, they are purer for you; then, fear God, and do not disgrace me through my guests ;—is there not among you one right-thinking man ?’ They said, ‘Thou knowest that we have no claim on thy daughters; verily, thou knowest what we want!’ He said, ‘Had I but power over you; or 2 Ie. he was powerless to help them. 214 THE QUR'AN. XI, 82-87. * could I but resort to some strong column!....!’ (The angels) said, ‘O Lot! verily, we are the messengers of thy Lord, they shall certainly not reach thee; then travel with thy people in the darkness of the night, and let none of you look round except thy wife: verily, there shall befall her what befalls them. Verily, their appointment is for the morning! and is not the morning nigh ?’ ‘And when our bidding came, we made their high parts their low parts*. And we rained down upon them stones and baked clay® one after another, marked‘, from thy -Lord, and these are not so far from the unjust®! [85] -And unto Midian (we sent) their brother Sho’haib*®. He said, ‘O my people! serve God; ye have no god but Him, and give not short measure and weight. Verily, I see you well off; but, verily, I fear for you the torments of an encompassing day. O my people! give measure and weight fairly, and defraud not men of their things; and wreak not wrong in the earth, corrupting it. God’s residue’ 1 I. e. some support, such as a powerful clan or chieftain. 2 That is, overturned the cities of the plain. 8 The Abyssinians, who had invaded Mecca some years before, are mentioned in the Chapter of the Elephant (CV) as being destroyed in a similar manner by flocks of birds, who threw down such missiles upon them. * The legend is that they each contained the name of the person for whom they were destined ; so the old saying, ‘every bullet has its billet.’ 5 I.e. the same punishment is likely to overtake other wrongdoers, the threat being especially directed against the unbelieving inhabitants of Mecca. 6 See Chapter VII. " A little which God leaves you after paying every one his due. XI, 87-96. THE CHAPTER OF HOD. 215 is better for you if ye be believers. But I am not a guardian over you.’
36 See Chapter VII. " A little which God leaves you after paying every one his due. XI, 87-96. THE CHAPTER OF HOD. 215 is better for you if ye be believers. But I am not a guardian over you.’ They said,‘O Sho’haib! Do thy prayers bid thee that we should forsake what our fathers served, -or that we should not do as we please with our wealth? Thou art, forsooth, the clement and straightforward one!’ [90] He said, ‘O my people! Do ye see? If I stand upon a manifest sign from my Lord; and He provides me from Himself with a goodly provision, and I consent not with you to that which I forbid you, I only wish to better you so far as I can,—nor comes my grace through any one but God; on Him do I rely, and unto ‘Him I turn. O my people! let not a breach with me make you so sin that there befall you the like of that which befel the people of Noah, or the people of Hfd, or the people of Zali‘h—nor are the people of Lot so far from you! Ask pardon, then, from your Lord, then turn to Him; verily, my Lord is merciful, loving!’ They said, ‘O Shohaib! we-do not understand much of what thou sayest, and we see that thou art weak amongst us; and were it not for thy family we would stone thee, nor couldst thou be powerful over us,’ He said, ‘O my people! are my family more esteemed by you than God ? ‘or have you taken Him as something to cast behind your backs? Verily, my Lord, whate’er ye do, doth comprehend. [95] O my people! act according to your power; verily, I too will act, and ye at length shall know! To whomsoever torment comes it shall disgrace him, and him who is a liar. Watch then; verily, I with you am watching too!’ 216 THE QUR'AN. XI, 97-105. And when our bidding came we saved Sho’haib, and those who believed with him, by our mercy; and the noise caught those who had done wrong, and on the morrow they were in their houses prone, as though they had not dwelt therein. Aye! ‘Away with Midian!’ as it was, ‘Away with Thamfd!’ And we sent Moses with our signs and with obvious power unto Pharaoh and his chiefs; but they followed Pharaoh’s bidding, and Pharaoh’s bidding was not straightforward. [100] He shall approach his people on the resurrection day, and take them down to water! at the Fire,—an evil watering-place to water at! In this (world) were they followed by a curse ; and on the resurrection day evil shall be the aid they are aided with! That is one of the stories of the cities which we recite to thee—some of them are standing now and some mown down! We did not wrong them, but they wronged themselves. Their gods availed them naught, on which they called instead of God, when once the bidding of thy Lord had come; nor did they add save to their downfall! Thus is thy Lord’s overtaking when He overtakes the cities that have done wrong; verily, His overtaking is grievous, keen. [105] Verily, in that is a sign to him who fears the torment of the last day ;—that is a day unto which men shall be gathered ;—that is a witnessed day!
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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