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1and cast it; for thus my soul induced me.’ 1 A handful of dust from the footprint of the angel Gabriel’s 42 THE QUR'AN. XX, 97-108. Said he, ‘Then get thee gone; verily, it shall be thine in life to say, “Touch me not?!” and, verily, for thee there is a threat which thou shalt surely never alter. But look at thy god to which thou wert just now devout ; we will surely burn it, and then we ___-will scatter it in scattered pieces in the sea. \ ‘Your God is only God who,—there is no god but He,—He embraceth everything in His knowledge.’ Thus do we narrate to thee the history of what has gone before, and we have brought thee a reminder from us. [100] Whoso turns therefrom, verily, he shall bear on the resurrection day a burden:—for them to bear for aye, and evil for them on the resurrection day will it be to bear. . On the day when the trumpet shall be blown, and we will gather the sinners in that day blueeyed *, They shall whisper to each other, ‘ Ye have only tarried ten days.’ We know best what they say, when the most exemplary of them in his way shall say, ‘ Ye have only tarried a day.’ [105] They will ask thee about the mountains; horse, which, being cast into the calf, caused it to become animated and to low. * The idea conveyed seems to be that he should be regarded as a leper, and obliged to warn people from coming near him. The reference is no doubt to the light in which the Samaritans (see Part II, p. 40, note 1) were regarded by the Jews. * Because ‘blue eyes’ were especially detested by the Arabs as being characteristic of their greatest enemies, the Greeks. So they speak of an enemy as ‘black-livered,’ ‘red-whiskered,’ and ‘blueeyed.” The word in the text may also mean ‘blear-eyed,’ or ‘ blind.’ XX, rog-11g. THE CHAPTER OF 7. H. 43 say, ‘My Lord will scatter them in scattered pieces, and He will leave them a level plain, thou wilt see therein no crookedness or inequality.’ On that day they shall follow the caller in whom is no crookedness !; and the voices shall be hushed before the Merciful, and thou shalt hear naught but a shuffling. On that day shall no intercession be of any avail, save from such as the Merciful permits, and who is acceptable to Him in speech. He knows what is before them and what is behind them, but they do not comprehend knowledge of Him. [110] Faces shall be humbled before the Living, the Self-subsistent; and he who bears injustice is ever lost. But he who does righteous acts and is a believer, he shall fear neither wrong nor diminution. Thus have we sent it down an Arabic “Our An ; and we have turned about in it the threat,— haply they may fear, or it may cause them to remember, Exalted then be God, the king, the truth! Hasten not the Qur’4n before its inspiration is decided for thee; but say, ‘O Lord! increase me in knowledge 2%’ We did make a covenant with Adam of yore, but he forgot it, and we found no firm purpose in him. [115] And when we said to the angels, ‘Adore
2Hasten not the Qur’4n before its inspiration is decided for thee; but say, ‘O Lord! increase me in knowledge 2%’ We did make a covenant with Adam of yore, but he forgot it, and we found no firm purpose in him. [115] And when we said to the angels, ‘Adore 1 That is, the angel who is to summon them to judgment, and from whom none can escape, or who marches straight on. * Cf. Part II, p. 16, note 2. 44 THE Qur’AN, XX, r1g-128. Adam,’ they adored, save Iblis, who refused. And we said, ‘O Adam! verily, this is a foe to thee and to thy wife; never then let him drive you twain forth from the garden or thou wilt be wretched. Verily, thou hast not to be hungry there, nor naked! and, verily, thou shalt not thirst therein, nor feel the noonday heat !’ But the devil whispered to him. Said he, ‘O Adam! shall I guide thee to the tree of immortality, and a kingdom that shall not wane ?’ And they eat therefrom, and their shame became apparent to them; and they began to stitch upon themselves some leaves of the garden ; and Adam rebelled against his Lord, and went astray. [120] Then his Lord chose him, and relented towards him, and guided him. Said he, ‘Go down, ye twain, therefrom altogether, some of you foes to the other. And if there should come to you from me a guidance; then whoso follows my guidance shall neither err nor be wretched. But he ‘who turns away from my reminder, verily, for him shall be a straitened livelihood ; and we will gather him on the resurrection day blind!’ [125] He shall say, ‘My Lord! wherefore hast Thou gathered me blind when I used to see?’ He shall say, ‘Our signs came to thee, and thou didst forget them ; thus to-day art thou forgotten!’ Thus do we recompense him who is extravagant and believes not in the signs of his Lord; and the torment of the hereafter is keener and more lasting ! Does it not occur to them! how many generations 1 The Meccans, XX, 128-135. THE CHAPTER OF 7. H. 45 we have destroyed before them ?—they walk in their very dwelling-places ; verily, in that are signs to those endued with intelligence. And had it not been for thy Lord’s word already passed (the punishment) would have been inevitable and (at) an appointed time. [130] Bear patiently then what they say, and celebrate the praises of thy Lord before the rising of the sun, and before its setting, and at times in the night celebrate them; and at the ends of the day ; haply thou mayest please (Him). And do not strain after what we have provided a few! of them with—the flourish of the life of this world, to try them by; but the provision of thy Lord is better and more lasting. Bid thy people prayer, and persevere in it; we do not ask thee to provide. We will provide, and the issue shall be to piety. They say, ‘ Unless he bring us a sign from his Lord —What! has there not come to them the manifest sign of what was in the pages of yore ?’
3Bid thy people prayer, and persevere in it; we do not ask thee to provide. We will provide, and the issue shall be to piety. They say, ‘ Unless he bring us a sign from his Lord —What! has there not come to them the manifest sign of what was in the pages of yore ?’ But had we destroyed them with torment before it, they would have said, ‘Unless Thou hadst sent to us an apostle, that we might follow Thy signs before we were abased and put to shame.’ [135] Say, ‘Each one has to wait, so wait ye! but in the end ye shall know who are the fellows of the level way, and who are guided!’ 1 Literally, ‘ pairs.’ 46 THE QUR'AN, XXI, 1-13. Tue CHAPTER OF THE PROPHETS. (XXI. Mecca.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God. Their reckoning draws nigh to men, yet in heedlessness they turn aside. No reminder comes to them from their Lord of late, but they listen while they mock, and their hearts make sport thereof! And those who do wrong discourse secretly (saying), ‘Is this man aught but a mortal like yourselves? will ye accede to magic, while ye can see ?’ Say, ‘My Lord knows what is said in the heavens and the earth, He hears and knows!’ [5] ‘Nay!’ they say, ‘— a jumble of dreams; nay! he has forged it; nay! he is a poet; but let him bring us a sign as those of yore were sent.’ No city before them which we destroyed believed—how will they believe? Nor did we send before them any but men whom we inspired? Ask ye the people of the Scriptures if ye do not know. Nor did we make them bodies not to eat food, nor were they immortal. Yet we made our promise to them good, and we saved them and whom we pleased; but we destroyed those who committed excesses. . [10] We have sent down to you a book in which is a reminder for you; have ye then no sense ? How many a city which had done wrong have we broken up, and raised up after it another people! And when they perceived our violence they ran away from it. ‘Run not away, but return to what XXI, 13-26. THE CHAPTER OF THE PROPHETS. 47 ye delighted in, and to your. dwellings! haply ye will be questioned.’ Said they, ‘O woe is us! verily, we were wrong-doers.’ [15] And that ceased not to be their cry until we made them mown down,—smouldering out! We did not create the heaven and the earth and what is between the two in play. Had we wished to take to a sport, we would have taken to one from before ourselves; had we been bent on doing so. Nay, we hurl the truth against falsehood and it crashes into it, and lo! it vanishes, but woe to you for what ye attribute (to God)! His are whosoever are in the heavens and the earth, and those who are with Him are not too big with pride for His service, nor do they weary. [20] They celebrate His praises by night and day without intermission. Or have they taken gods from the earth who can raise up (the dead) ?
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.
1and cast it; for thus my soul induced me.’ 1 A handful of dust from the footprint of the angel Gabriel’s 42 THE QUR'AN. XX, 97-108. Said he, ‘Then get thee gone; verily, it shall be thine in life to say, “Touch me not?!” and, verily, for thee there is a threat which thou shalt surely never alter. But look at thy god to which thou wert just now devout ; we will surely burn it, and then we ___-will scatter it in scattered pieces in the sea. \ ‘Your God is only God who,—there is no god but He,—He embraceth everything in His knowledge.’ Thus do we narrate to thee the history of what has gone before, and we have brought thee a reminder from us. [100] Whoso turns therefrom, verily, he shall bear on the resurrection day a burden:—for them to bear for aye, and evil for them on the resurrection day will it be to bear. . On the day when the trumpet shall be blown, and we will gather the sinners in that day blueeyed *, They shall whisper to each other, ‘ Ye have only tarried ten days.’ We know best what they say, when the most exemplary of them in his way shall say, ‘ Ye have only tarried a day.’ [105] They will ask thee about the mountains; horse, which, being cast into the calf, caused it to become animated and to low. * The idea conveyed seems to be that he should be regarded as a leper, and obliged to warn people from coming near him. The reference is no doubt to the light in which the Samaritans (see Part II, p. 40, note 1) were regarded by the Jews. * Because ‘blue eyes’ were especially detested by the Arabs as being characteristic of their greatest enemies, the Greeks. So they speak of an enemy as ‘black-livered,’ ‘red-whiskered,’ and ‘blueeyed.” The word in the text may also mean ‘blear-eyed,’ or ‘ blind.’ XX, rog-11g. THE CHAPTER OF 7. H. 43 say, ‘My Lord will scatter them in scattered pieces, and He will leave them a level plain, thou wilt see therein no crookedness or inequality.’ On that day they shall follow the caller in whom is no crookedness !; and the voices shall be hushed before the Merciful, and thou shalt hear naught but a shuffling. On that day shall no intercession be of any avail, save from such as the Merciful permits, and who is acceptable to Him in speech. He knows what is before them and what is behind them, but they do not comprehend knowledge of Him. [110] Faces shall be humbled before the Living, the Self-subsistent; and he who bears injustice is ever lost. But he who does righteous acts and is a believer, he shall fear neither wrong nor diminution. Thus have we sent it down an Arabic “Our An ; and we have turned about in it the threat,— haply they may fear, or it may cause them to remember, Exalted then be God, the king, the truth! Hasten not the Qur’4n before its inspiration is decided for thee; but say, ‘O Lord! increase me in knowledge 2%’ We did make a covenant with Adam of yore, but he forgot it, and we found no firm purpose in him. [115] And when we said to the angels, ‘Adore
2Hasten not the Qur’4n before its inspiration is decided for thee; but say, ‘O Lord! increase me in knowledge 2%’ We did make a covenant with Adam of yore, but he forgot it, and we found no firm purpose in him. [115] And when we said to the angels, ‘Adore 1 That is, the angel who is to summon them to judgment, and from whom none can escape, or who marches straight on. * Cf. Part II, p. 16, note 2. 44 THE Qur’AN, XX, r1g-128. Adam,’ they adored, save Iblis, who refused. And we said, ‘O Adam! verily, this is a foe to thee and to thy wife; never then let him drive you twain forth from the garden or thou wilt be wretched. Verily, thou hast not to be hungry there, nor naked! and, verily, thou shalt not thirst therein, nor feel the noonday heat !’ But the devil whispered to him. Said he, ‘O Adam! shall I guide thee to the tree of immortality, and a kingdom that shall not wane ?’ And they eat therefrom, and their shame became apparent to them; and they began to stitch upon themselves some leaves of the garden ; and Adam rebelled against his Lord, and went astray. [120] Then his Lord chose him, and relented towards him, and guided him. Said he, ‘Go down, ye twain, therefrom altogether, some of you foes to the other. And if there should come to you from me a guidance; then whoso follows my guidance shall neither err nor be wretched. But he ‘who turns away from my reminder, verily, for him shall be a straitened livelihood ; and we will gather him on the resurrection day blind!’ [125] He shall say, ‘My Lord! wherefore hast Thou gathered me blind when I used to see?’ He shall say, ‘Our signs came to thee, and thou didst forget them ; thus to-day art thou forgotten!’ Thus do we recompense him who is extravagant and believes not in the signs of his Lord; and the torment of the hereafter is keener and more lasting ! Does it not occur to them! how many generations 1 The Meccans, XX, 128-135. THE CHAPTER OF 7. H. 45 we have destroyed before them ?—they walk in their very dwelling-places ; verily, in that are signs to those endued with intelligence. And had it not been for thy Lord’s word already passed (the punishment) would have been inevitable and (at) an appointed time. [130] Bear patiently then what they say, and celebrate the praises of thy Lord before the rising of the sun, and before its setting, and at times in the night celebrate them; and at the ends of the day ; haply thou mayest please (Him). And do not strain after what we have provided a few! of them with—the flourish of the life of this world, to try them by; but the provision of thy Lord is better and more lasting. Bid thy people prayer, and persevere in it; we do not ask thee to provide. We will provide, and the issue shall be to piety. They say, ‘ Unless he bring us a sign from his Lord —What! has there not come to them the manifest sign of what was in the pages of yore ?’
3Bid thy people prayer, and persevere in it; we do not ask thee to provide. We will provide, and the issue shall be to piety. They say, ‘ Unless he bring us a sign from his Lord —What! has there not come to them the manifest sign of what was in the pages of yore ?’ But had we destroyed them with torment before it, they would have said, ‘Unless Thou hadst sent to us an apostle, that we might follow Thy signs before we were abased and put to shame.’ [135] Say, ‘Each one has to wait, so wait ye! but in the end ye shall know who are the fellows of the level way, and who are guided!’ 1 Literally, ‘ pairs.’ 46 THE QUR'AN, XXI, 1-13. Tue CHAPTER OF THE PROPHETS. (XXI. Mecca.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God. Their reckoning draws nigh to men, yet in heedlessness they turn aside. No reminder comes to them from their Lord of late, but they listen while they mock, and their hearts make sport thereof! And those who do wrong discourse secretly (saying), ‘Is this man aught but a mortal like yourselves? will ye accede to magic, while ye can see ?’ Say, ‘My Lord knows what is said in the heavens and the earth, He hears and knows!’ [5] ‘Nay!’ they say, ‘— a jumble of dreams; nay! he has forged it; nay! he is a poet; but let him bring us a sign as those of yore were sent.’ No city before them which we destroyed believed—how will they believe? Nor did we send before them any but men whom we inspired? Ask ye the people of the Scriptures if ye do not know. Nor did we make them bodies not to eat food, nor were they immortal. Yet we made our promise to them good, and we saved them and whom we pleased; but we destroyed those who committed excesses. . [10] We have sent down to you a book in which is a reminder for you; have ye then no sense ? How many a city which had done wrong have we broken up, and raised up after it another people! And when they perceived our violence they ran away from it. ‘Run not away, but return to what XXI, 13-26. THE CHAPTER OF THE PROPHETS. 47 ye delighted in, and to your. dwellings! haply ye will be questioned.’ Said they, ‘O woe is us! verily, we were wrong-doers.’ [15] And that ceased not to be their cry until we made them mown down,—smouldering out! We did not create the heaven and the earth and what is between the two in play. Had we wished to take to a sport, we would have taken to one from before ourselves; had we been bent on doing so. Nay, we hurl the truth against falsehood and it crashes into it, and lo! it vanishes, but woe to you for what ye attribute (to God)! His are whosoever are in the heavens and the earth, and those who are with Him are not too big with pride for His service, nor do they weary. [20] They celebrate His praises by night and day without intermission. Or have they taken gods from the earth who can raise up (the dead) ?
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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