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1we have seen and we have heard; send us back then and we will do right. Verily, we are sure!’ Had we pleased we would have given to everything its guidance; but the sentence was due from me ;—I will surely fill hell with the ginns and with men all together: ‘So taste ye, for that ye forgat the meeting of this day of yours,—verily, we have forgotten you! and taste ye the torment of eternity for that which ye have done!’ [15] They only believe in our signs who when they are reminded of them fall down adoring and celebrate the praises of their Lord, and are not too big with pride. As their sides forsake their beds, they call upon their Lord with fear and hope; and of what we have bestowed upon them do they give alms. No soul knows what is reserved for them of cheerfulness for eye, as a reward for that which they have done! Is he who is a believer like him who is a sinner? they shall not be held equal. As for those who believe and do right, for them XXXII, 19-26. THE CHAPTER OF ADORATION. 137 are the gardens of resort, an entertainment for that which they have done! [20] But as for those who commit abomination there resort is the Fire. Every time that they desire to go forth therefrom, we will send them back therein, and it will be said to them, ‘ Taste ye the torment of the fire which ye did call a lie!’ and we will surely make them taste of the torment of the nearer torment beside the greater torment 1,—haply they may yet return. Who is more unjust than he who is reminded of the signs of his Lord, and then turns away from them ? Verily, we will take vengeance on the sinners! And we did give Moses the Book; be not then in doubt concerning the meeting with him ? ; and we made it a guidance to the children of Israel. And we made amongst them high priests who guided by our bidding, since they were patient and were sure of our signs. [25] Verily, thy Lord, he shall decide between them on the resurrection day concerning that whereon they do dispute. Is it not conspicuous to them how many generations we have destroyed before them? they walk 1 Te. the torment of this world as well as that of the next. ? This may refer to the alleged meeting of Mohammed and Moses in heaven during the ‘night journey;’ or it may be translated, ‘the reception of it,’ i.e. the Qur’4n, the expression in Chapter XXVII, 6, being derived from the same root in Arabic, which means ‘to meet.’ The native commentators are divided in opinion as to these two interpretations, It is quite possible, however, that it may mean, ‘be not in doubt as to a meeting with Him,’ and be a mere reiteration of the sentiment so often expressed, that Muslims are to be certain of a meeting with their Lord. 138 THE QUR'AN. XXXII, 26-XXXIII, 4. over their dwellings! verily, in that are signs: do they not then hear? Have they not seen that we drive the water to the sterile land, and bring forth thereby corn from which their cattle and themselves do eat ? do they not then see?
2138 THE QUR'AN. XXXII, 26-XXXIII, 4. over their dwellings! verily, in that are signs: do they not then hear? Have they not seen that we drive the water to the sterile land, and bring forth thereby corn from which their cattle and themselves do eat ? do they not then see? And they say, ‘When shall this decision come if ye do tell the truth ?’ Say, ‘On the day of the decision their faith shall not profit those who misbelieved, nor shall they be respited ;’ [30] turn then from them and wait ; verily, they are waiting too! Tue CHAPTER OF THE CONFEDERATES}. (XXXII. Medinah.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God. O thou prophet! fear God and obey not the misbelievers and hypocrites; verily, God is ever knowing, wise! But follow what thou art inspired with from thy Lord; verily, God of what you do is ever well aware. And rely upon God, for God is guardian enough. God has not made for any man two hearts in his inside; nor has He made your wives,—whom you back away from,—your real mothers?; nor has He ? When this sGrah was written Medinah was besieged by a confederation of the Jewish tribes with the Arabs of Mecca, Negd and Tehamah, at the instigation of the Jewish tribe of NadAftr, whom Mohammed had expelled from Mecca the year before. The event took place in the fifth year of the Higrah. ? The Arabs were in the habit of divorcing their wives on certain occasions with the words, ‘Thy back is to me as my XXXIII, 4-9. THE CHAPTER OF THE CONFEDERATES. 139 made your adopted sons your real sons. That is what ye speak with your mouths; but God speaks the truth and He guides to the path! [5] Call them by their fathers’ names; that is more just in God’s sight; but if ye know not their fathers, then they are your brothers in religion and your clients. There is no crime against you for what mistakes ye make therein; but what your hearts do purposely—but God is ever forgiving and merciful. The prophet is nearer of kin to the believers than themselves, and his wives are their mothers. And blood relations are nearer in kin to each other by the Book of God than the believers and those who fled’; only your doing kindness to your kindred, that is traced in the Book. And when we took of the prophets their compact’, from thee and from Noah, and Abraham, and Moses, and Jesus the son of Mary, and took of them a rigid compact, that He might ask the truth-tellers of their truth. But He has prepared for those who misbelieve a grievous woe. O ye who believe! remember God’s favours towards you when hosts came to you and we sent against them a wind and hosts® that ye could not see ;—and God knew what ye were doing.
3But He has prepared for those who misbelieve a grievous woe. O ye who believe! remember God’s favours towards you when hosts came to you and we sent against them a wind and hosts® that ye could not see ;—and God knew what ye were doing. mother’s back,’ after which they considered it as unnatural to approach them as though they were their real mothers. This practice Mohammed here forbids. They used also to consider their adopted children in the same light as real children of their body ; in forbidding this practice also, Mohammed legalised his marriage with Zainab, the divorced wife of his freedman ZAid, who was also his adopted son. 1 The Muhégerin. 7 See Part I, p. 57, note 1. 5 Of angels. 140 THE QUR'AN. XXXIII, 10-14. [10] When they came upon you from above you and from below! you, and when your eyesights were distracted and your hearts came up into your throats, and ye suspected God with certain suspicions. There were the believers tried and were made to quake with a severe quaking. And when the hypocrites and those in whose hearts was sickness said, ‘God and His Apostle have only promised us deceitfully.. And when a party of them said, ‘O people of Yathreb?; there is no place for you (here) *, return then (to the city).’ And a part of them asked leave of the prophet (to return), saying, ‘ Verily, our houses are defenceless ;’ but they were not defenceless, they only wished for flight. But had they been entered upon from its environs and then been asked to show treason they would have done so; but they would only have tarried there a little while‘. * On the approach of the confederate army, to the number of 12,000, Mohammed, by the advice of Selman the Persian, ordered a deep trench to be dug round Medinah, and himself went out to defend it with 3,000 men. The two forces remained for nearly a month in their respective camps without coming to an actual conflict: until one night a piercing east wind blew so violently, and made such disorder in the camp of the besiegers, that a panic seized upon them, and they retired precipitately. Some of them had been encamped on the heights to the east of the town, the others in the lower part of the valley. ® The ancient name of the city; it was only called ’El Medtfnah, ‘the city,’ after it had become famous by giving shelter to Mohammed. 5 Jn the trenches. ‘ Ie. if the confederates had effected an entry, these half-hearted persons would have listened to their proposals, and have deserted the prophet. XXNXIII,15-23. THE CHAPTER OF THE CONFEDERATES. I41 [15] They had covenanted with God before, that they would not turn their backs; and God’s covenant shall be enquired of. Say, ‘Flight shall avail you naught; if ye fly from death or slaughter, even then ye shall be granted enjoyment only for a little!’ Say, ‘Who is it that can save you from God, if He wish you evil, or wish you mercy?’ but they will not find beside God a patron or a helper.
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.
1we have seen and we have heard; send us back then and we will do right. Verily, we are sure!’ Had we pleased we would have given to everything its guidance; but the sentence was due from me ;—I will surely fill hell with the ginns and with men all together: ‘So taste ye, for that ye forgat the meeting of this day of yours,—verily, we have forgotten you! and taste ye the torment of eternity for that which ye have done!’ [15] They only believe in our signs who when they are reminded of them fall down adoring and celebrate the praises of their Lord, and are not too big with pride. As their sides forsake their beds, they call upon their Lord with fear and hope; and of what we have bestowed upon them do they give alms. No soul knows what is reserved for them of cheerfulness for eye, as a reward for that which they have done! Is he who is a believer like him who is a sinner? they shall not be held equal. As for those who believe and do right, for them XXXII, 19-26. THE CHAPTER OF ADORATION. 137 are the gardens of resort, an entertainment for that which they have done! [20] But as for those who commit abomination there resort is the Fire. Every time that they desire to go forth therefrom, we will send them back therein, and it will be said to them, ‘ Taste ye the torment of the fire which ye did call a lie!’ and we will surely make them taste of the torment of the nearer torment beside the greater torment 1,—haply they may yet return. Who is more unjust than he who is reminded of the signs of his Lord, and then turns away from them ? Verily, we will take vengeance on the sinners! And we did give Moses the Book; be not then in doubt concerning the meeting with him ? ; and we made it a guidance to the children of Israel. And we made amongst them high priests who guided by our bidding, since they were patient and were sure of our signs. [25] Verily, thy Lord, he shall decide between them on the resurrection day concerning that whereon they do dispute. Is it not conspicuous to them how many generations we have destroyed before them? they walk 1 Te. the torment of this world as well as that of the next. ? This may refer to the alleged meeting of Mohammed and Moses in heaven during the ‘night journey;’ or it may be translated, ‘the reception of it,’ i.e. the Qur’4n, the expression in Chapter XXVII, 6, being derived from the same root in Arabic, which means ‘to meet.’ The native commentators are divided in opinion as to these two interpretations, It is quite possible, however, that it may mean, ‘be not in doubt as to a meeting with Him,’ and be a mere reiteration of the sentiment so often expressed, that Muslims are to be certain of a meeting with their Lord. 138 THE QUR'AN. XXXII, 26-XXXIII, 4. over their dwellings! verily, in that are signs: do they not then hear? Have they not seen that we drive the water to the sterile land, and bring forth thereby corn from which their cattle and themselves do eat ? do they not then see?
2138 THE QUR'AN. XXXII, 26-XXXIII, 4. over their dwellings! verily, in that are signs: do they not then hear? Have they not seen that we drive the water to the sterile land, and bring forth thereby corn from which their cattle and themselves do eat ? do they not then see? And they say, ‘When shall this decision come if ye do tell the truth ?’ Say, ‘On the day of the decision their faith shall not profit those who misbelieved, nor shall they be respited ;’ [30] turn then from them and wait ; verily, they are waiting too! Tue CHAPTER OF THE CONFEDERATES}. (XXXII. Medinah.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God. O thou prophet! fear God and obey not the misbelievers and hypocrites; verily, God is ever knowing, wise! But follow what thou art inspired with from thy Lord; verily, God of what you do is ever well aware. And rely upon God, for God is guardian enough. God has not made for any man two hearts in his inside; nor has He made your wives,—whom you back away from,—your real mothers?; nor has He ? When this sGrah was written Medinah was besieged by a confederation of the Jewish tribes with the Arabs of Mecca, Negd and Tehamah, at the instigation of the Jewish tribe of NadAftr, whom Mohammed had expelled from Mecca the year before. The event took place in the fifth year of the Higrah. ? The Arabs were in the habit of divorcing their wives on certain occasions with the words, ‘Thy back is to me as my XXXIII, 4-9. THE CHAPTER OF THE CONFEDERATES. 139 made your adopted sons your real sons. That is what ye speak with your mouths; but God speaks the truth and He guides to the path! [5] Call them by their fathers’ names; that is more just in God’s sight; but if ye know not their fathers, then they are your brothers in religion and your clients. There is no crime against you for what mistakes ye make therein; but what your hearts do purposely—but God is ever forgiving and merciful. The prophet is nearer of kin to the believers than themselves, and his wives are their mothers. And blood relations are nearer in kin to each other by the Book of God than the believers and those who fled’; only your doing kindness to your kindred, that is traced in the Book. And when we took of the prophets their compact’, from thee and from Noah, and Abraham, and Moses, and Jesus the son of Mary, and took of them a rigid compact, that He might ask the truth-tellers of their truth. But He has prepared for those who misbelieve a grievous woe. O ye who believe! remember God’s favours towards you when hosts came to you and we sent against them a wind and hosts® that ye could not see ;—and God knew what ye were doing.
3But He has prepared for those who misbelieve a grievous woe. O ye who believe! remember God’s favours towards you when hosts came to you and we sent against them a wind and hosts® that ye could not see ;—and God knew what ye were doing. mother’s back,’ after which they considered it as unnatural to approach them as though they were their real mothers. This practice Mohammed here forbids. They used also to consider their adopted children in the same light as real children of their body ; in forbidding this practice also, Mohammed legalised his marriage with Zainab, the divorced wife of his freedman ZAid, who was also his adopted son. 1 The Muhégerin. 7 See Part I, p. 57, note 1. 5 Of angels. 140 THE QUR'AN. XXXIII, 10-14. [10] When they came upon you from above you and from below! you, and when your eyesights were distracted and your hearts came up into your throats, and ye suspected God with certain suspicions. There were the believers tried and were made to quake with a severe quaking. And when the hypocrites and those in whose hearts was sickness said, ‘God and His Apostle have only promised us deceitfully.. And when a party of them said, ‘O people of Yathreb?; there is no place for you (here) *, return then (to the city).’ And a part of them asked leave of the prophet (to return), saying, ‘ Verily, our houses are defenceless ;’ but they were not defenceless, they only wished for flight. But had they been entered upon from its environs and then been asked to show treason they would have done so; but they would only have tarried there a little while‘. * On the approach of the confederate army, to the number of 12,000, Mohammed, by the advice of Selman the Persian, ordered a deep trench to be dug round Medinah, and himself went out to defend it with 3,000 men. The two forces remained for nearly a month in their respective camps without coming to an actual conflict: until one night a piercing east wind blew so violently, and made such disorder in the camp of the besiegers, that a panic seized upon them, and they retired precipitately. Some of them had been encamped on the heights to the east of the town, the others in the lower part of the valley. ® The ancient name of the city; it was only called ’El Medtfnah, ‘the city,’ after it had become famous by giving shelter to Mohammed. 5 Jn the trenches. ‘ Ie. if the confederates had effected an entry, these half-hearted persons would have listened to their proposals, and have deserted the prophet. XXNXIII,15-23. THE CHAPTER OF THE CONFEDERATES. I41 [15] They had covenanted with God before, that they would not turn their backs; and God’s covenant shall be enquired of. Say, ‘Flight shall avail you naught; if ye fly from death or slaughter, even then ye shall be granted enjoyment only for a little!’ Say, ‘Who is it that can save you from God, if He wish you evil, or wish you mercy?’ but they will not find beside God a patron or a helper.
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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