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1[5] Except such as repent after that and act aright, for, verily, God is forgiving and compassionate. And those who cast (imputation) on their wives and have no witnesses except themselves, then the testimony of one of them shall be to testify four 74 THE QuR’AN. XXIV, 6-13. times that, by God, he is of those who speak the truth; and the fifth testimony shall be that the curse of God shall be on him if he be of those who lie. ’ And it shall avert the punishment from her if she bears testimony four times that, by God, he is of those who lie; and the fifth that the wrath of God shall be on her if he be of those who speak the truth. [10] And were it not for God’s grace upon you and His mercy, and that God is relenting, wise. . .1 Verily, those who bring forward the lie, a band of you,—reckon it not as an evil for you, nay, it is good for you; every man of them shall have what he has earned of sin; and he of them who managed to aggravate it, for him is mighty woe 2. Why did not, when ye heard it, the believing men and believing women think good in themselves, and say, ‘This is an obvious lie?’ Why did they not bring four witnesses to it? but since they did not bring the witnesses, then they in God’s eyes are 1 He would punish you. 2 This passage and what follows refers to the scandal about Mohammed's favourite wife Ayesha, who, having been accidentally left behind when the prophet and his followers were starting at night on an expedition, in the sixth year of the Higrah, was brought on to the camp in the morning by Zafwan ibn de Mu’ha/fal: this gave rise to rumours derogatory to Ayesha’s character, which these verses are intended to refute. Ayesha never forgave those who credited the reports against her innocence, and ’Ali, who had spoken in a disparaging manner of her on the occasion, so seriously incurred her displeasure that she contrived to bring about the ruin of his family, and the murder of his two sons Hasan and Husein; the principal parties concerned in the actual spread of the calumny were punished with the fourscore stripes above ordained, with the exception of the ringleader, Abdallah ibn Ubbai, who was too important a person to be so treated. XXIV, 13-22. THE CHAPTER OF LIGHT. 75 the liars. And but for God’s grace upon you, and His mercy in this world and the next, there would have touched you, for that which ye spread abroad, mighty woe. When ye reported it with your tongues, and spake with your mouths what ye had no knowledge of, and reckoned it a light thing, while in God's eyes it was grave. [15] And why did ye not say when ye heard it, ‘It is not for us to speak of this ? Celebrated be His praises, this is a mighty calumny!’ God admonishes you that ye return not to the like of it ever, if ye be believers; and God manifests to you the signs, for God is knowing, wise.
2[15] And why did ye not say when ye heard it, ‘It is not for us to speak of this ? Celebrated be His praises, this is a mighty calumny!’ God admonishes you that ye return not to the like of it ever, if ye be believers; and God manifests to you the signs, for God is knowing, wise. Verily, those who love that scandal should go abroad amongst those who believe, for them is grievous woe in this world and the next; for God knows, but ye do not know. [20] And but for God’s grace upon you, and His mercy, and that God is kind and compassionate... .! O ye who believe! follow not the footsteps of Satan, for he who follows the footsteps of Satan, verily, he bids you sin and do wrong; and but for God’s grace upon you and His mercy, not one of you would be ever pure; but God purifies whom He will, for God both hears and knows. And let not those amongst you who have plenty and ample means swear that they will not give aught to their kinsman and the poor! and those who have fled their homes in God’s way, but let them pardon and pass it over. Do ye not like God to forgive you ? and God is forgiving, compassionate. ? Abu bekr had sworn not to do anything more for a relation of his, named Mis/a‘h, who had taken part - spreading the reports against Ayesha, 76 THE QuR’AN. XXIV, 23-31. Verily, those who cast imputations on chaste women who are negligent but believing shall be cursed in this world and the next; and for them is mighty woe. The day when their tongues and hands and feet shall bear witness against them of what they did, on [25] that day God will pay them their just due; and they shall know that God, He is the plain truth. The vile women to the vile men, and the vile men to the vile women; and the good women to the good men, and the good men to the good women : these are clear of what they say to them— forgiveness and a noble provision ! O ye who believe! enter not into houses which are not your own houses, until ye have asked leave and saluted the people thereof, that is better for you; haply ye may be mindful. And if ye find no one therein, then do not enter them until per- -mission is given you, and if it be said to you, ‘Go back!’ then go back, it is purer for you; for God of what ye do doth know. It is no crime against you that ye enter uninhabited houses,—a convenience for you;—and God knows what ye show and what ye hide. [30] Say to the believers that they cast down their looks and guard their private parts; that is purer for them; verily, God is well aware of what they do. And say to the believing women that they cast down their looks and guard their private parts, and display not their ornaments, except those which are outside; and let them pull their kerchiefs over their bosoms and not display their ornaments save to their husbands and fathers, or the fathers of their XXIV, 31-34. THE CHAPTER OF LIGHT. 77
3THE CHAPTER OF LIGHT. 77 husbands, or their sons, or the sons of their husbands, or their brothers, or their brothers’ sons, or their sisters’ sons, or their women, or what their right hands possess, or their male attendants who are incapable’, or to children who do not note women’s nakedness; and that they beat not with their feet that their hidden ornaments may be known? ;—but turn ye all repentant to God, O ye believers! haply ye may prosper. And marry the single amongst you, and the righteous among your servants and your handmaidens. If they be poor, God will enrich them of His grace, for God both comprehends and knows. And let those who cannot find a match, until God enriches them of His grace, keep chaste. And such of those whom your right hands possess as crave a writing®, write it for them, if ye know any good in them, and give them of the wealth of God which He has given you. And do not compel your slave girls to prostitution, if they desire to keep continent, in order to crave the goods of the life of this world; but he who does compel them, then, verily, God after they are compelled is forgiving, compassionate *. Now have we sent down to you manifest signs, and the like of those who have passed away before you °, and as an admonition to those who fear. 1 Or, according to some, of deficient intellect. * T.e. they are not to tinkle their bangles or ankle-rings. 5 T.e. a document allowing them to redeem themselves on payment of a certain sum. * Abdallah ibn Ubbdi, mentioned in Part II, p. 74, note 2, had six slave girls whom he compelled to live by prostitution, One of them complained to Mohammed, whence this passage. 5 T.e. like the stories of Joseph, Part I, p. 221, and the Virgin 78 THE QUR'AN. XXIV, 35-40. [35] God is the light of the heavens and the earth; His light is as a niche in which is a lamp, and the lamp is in a glass, the glass is as though it were a glittering star; it is lit from a blessed tree, an olive neither of the east nor of the west, the oil of which would well-nigh give light though no fire touched it,—light upon light!—God guides to His light whom He pleases; and God strikes out parables for men, and God all things doth know. In the houses God has permitted to be reared and His name to be mentioned therein—His praises - are celebrated therein mornings and evenings. Men whom neither merchandize nor selling divert from the remembrance of God and steadfastness in prayer and giving alms, who fear a day when hearts and eyes shall be upset;—that God may recompense them for the best that they have done, and give them increase of His grace; for God provides whom He pleases without count. But those who misbelieve, their works are like the mirage in a plain, the thirsty counts it water till when he comes to it he finds nothing, but he finds that God is with him; and He will pay him his account, for God is quick to take account.
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[5] Except such as repent after that and act aright, for, verily, God is forgiving and compassionate. And those who cast (imputation) on their wives and have no witnesses except themselves, then the testimony of one of them shall be to testify four 74 THE QuR’AN. XXIV, 6-13. times that, by God, he is of those who speak the truth; and the fifth testimony shall be that the curse of God shall be on him if he be of those who lie. ’ And it shall avert the punishment from her if she bears testimony four times that, by God, he is of those who lie; and the fifth that the wrath of God shall be on her if he be of those who speak the truth. [10] And were it not for God’s grace upon you and His mercy, and that God is relenting, wise. . .1 Verily, those who bring forward the lie, a band of you,—reckon it not as an evil for you, nay, it is good for you; every man of them shall have what he has earned of sin; and he of them who managed to aggravate it, for him is mighty woe 2. Why did not, when ye heard it, the believing men and believing women think good in themselves, and say, ‘This is an obvious lie?’ Why did they not bring four witnesses to it? but since they did not bring the witnesses, then they in God’s eyes are 1 He would punish you. 2 This passage and what follows refers to the scandal about Mohammed's favourite wife Ayesha, who, having been accidentally left behind when the prophet and his followers were starting at night on an expedition, in the sixth year of the Higrah, was brought on to the camp in the morning by Zafwan ibn de Mu’ha/fal: this gave rise to rumours derogatory to Ayesha’s character, which these verses are intended to refute. Ayesha never forgave those who credited the reports against her innocence, and ’Ali, who had spoken in a disparaging manner of her on the occasion, so seriously incurred her displeasure that she contrived to bring about the ruin of his family, and the murder of his two sons Hasan and Husein; the principal parties concerned in the actual spread of the calumny were punished with the fourscore stripes above ordained, with the exception of the ringleader, Abdallah ibn Ubbai, who was too important a person to be so treated. XXIV, 13-22. THE CHAPTER OF LIGHT. 75 the liars. And but for God’s grace upon you, and His mercy in this world and the next, there would have touched you, for that which ye spread abroad, mighty woe. When ye reported it with your tongues, and spake with your mouths what ye had no knowledge of, and reckoned it a light thing, while in God's eyes it was grave. [15] And why did ye not say when ye heard it, ‘It is not for us to speak of this ? Celebrated be His praises, this is a mighty calumny!’ God admonishes you that ye return not to the like of it ever, if ye be believers; and God manifests to you the signs, for God is knowing, wise.
2[15] And why did ye not say when ye heard it, ‘It is not for us to speak of this ? Celebrated be His praises, this is a mighty calumny!’ God admonishes you that ye return not to the like of it ever, if ye be believers; and God manifests to you the signs, for God is knowing, wise. Verily, those who love that scandal should go abroad amongst those who believe, for them is grievous woe in this world and the next; for God knows, but ye do not know. [20] And but for God’s grace upon you, and His mercy, and that God is kind and compassionate... .! O ye who believe! follow not the footsteps of Satan, for he who follows the footsteps of Satan, verily, he bids you sin and do wrong; and but for God’s grace upon you and His mercy, not one of you would be ever pure; but God purifies whom He will, for God both hears and knows. And let not those amongst you who have plenty and ample means swear that they will not give aught to their kinsman and the poor! and those who have fled their homes in God’s way, but let them pardon and pass it over. Do ye not like God to forgive you ? and God is forgiving, compassionate. ? Abu bekr had sworn not to do anything more for a relation of his, named Mis/a‘h, who had taken part - spreading the reports against Ayesha, 76 THE QuR’AN. XXIV, 23-31. Verily, those who cast imputations on chaste women who are negligent but believing shall be cursed in this world and the next; and for them is mighty woe. The day when their tongues and hands and feet shall bear witness against them of what they did, on [25] that day God will pay them their just due; and they shall know that God, He is the plain truth. The vile women to the vile men, and the vile men to the vile women; and the good women to the good men, and the good men to the good women : these are clear of what they say to them— forgiveness and a noble provision ! O ye who believe! enter not into houses which are not your own houses, until ye have asked leave and saluted the people thereof, that is better for you; haply ye may be mindful. And if ye find no one therein, then do not enter them until per- -mission is given you, and if it be said to you, ‘Go back!’ then go back, it is purer for you; for God of what ye do doth know. It is no crime against you that ye enter uninhabited houses,—a convenience for you;—and God knows what ye show and what ye hide. [30] Say to the believers that they cast down their looks and guard their private parts; that is purer for them; verily, God is well aware of what they do. And say to the believing women that they cast down their looks and guard their private parts, and display not their ornaments, except those which are outside; and let them pull their kerchiefs over their bosoms and not display their ornaments save to their husbands and fathers, or the fathers of their XXIV, 31-34. THE CHAPTER OF LIGHT. 77
3THE CHAPTER OF LIGHT. 77 husbands, or their sons, or the sons of their husbands, or their brothers, or their brothers’ sons, or their sisters’ sons, or their women, or what their right hands possess, or their male attendants who are incapable’, or to children who do not note women’s nakedness; and that they beat not with their feet that their hidden ornaments may be known? ;—but turn ye all repentant to God, O ye believers! haply ye may prosper. And marry the single amongst you, and the righteous among your servants and your handmaidens. If they be poor, God will enrich them of His grace, for God both comprehends and knows. And let those who cannot find a match, until God enriches them of His grace, keep chaste. And such of those whom your right hands possess as crave a writing®, write it for them, if ye know any good in them, and give them of the wealth of God which He has given you. And do not compel your slave girls to prostitution, if they desire to keep continent, in order to crave the goods of the life of this world; but he who does compel them, then, verily, God after they are compelled is forgiving, compassionate *. Now have we sent down to you manifest signs, and the like of those who have passed away before you °, and as an admonition to those who fear. 1 Or, according to some, of deficient intellect. * T.e. they are not to tinkle their bangles or ankle-rings. 5 T.e. a document allowing them to redeem themselves on payment of a certain sum. * Abdallah ibn Ubbdi, mentioned in Part II, p. 74, note 2, had six slave girls whom he compelled to live by prostitution, One of them complained to Mohammed, whence this passage. 5 T.e. like the stories of Joseph, Part I, p. 221, and the Virgin 78 THE QUR'AN. XXIV, 35-40. [35] God is the light of the heavens and the earth; His light is as a niche in which is a lamp, and the lamp is in a glass, the glass is as though it were a glittering star; it is lit from a blessed tree, an olive neither of the east nor of the west, the oil of which would well-nigh give light though no fire touched it,—light upon light!—God guides to His light whom He pleases; and God strikes out parables for men, and God all things doth know. In the houses God has permitted to be reared and His name to be mentioned therein—His praises - are celebrated therein mornings and evenings. Men whom neither merchandize nor selling divert from the remembrance of God and steadfastness in prayer and giving alms, who fear a day when hearts and eyes shall be upset;—that God may recompense them for the best that they have done, and give them increase of His grace; for God provides whom He pleases without count. But those who misbelieve, their works are like the mirage in a plain, the thirsty counts it water till when he comes to it he finds nothing, but he finds that God is with him; and He will pay him his account, for God is quick to take account.
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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