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1[45] And remember our servants Abraham and the signet into the sea, where it was swallowed by a fish, which was afterwards caught and brought to Solomon, who by this means recovered his kingdom and power. 1 The Mohammedan legend is that when Job was undergoing his trials, the devil appeared to his wife and promised, if she would worship him, to restore their former prosperity; this she asked her husband to allow her to do. Job was so enraged at her conduct that he swore if he recovered to give her a hundred stripes. When Job had uttered the prayer recorded on page 52, line 19, Gabriel appeared and bade him in the words of the text to strike the ground with his feet. A fountain at once gushed forth, in which he washed and was healed, his wife also becoming young and beautiful again. In order not to break his oath he was commanded to strike her with a bundle of palm leaves, giving her a hundred painless blows at once. N 2 180 THE QUR'AN. XXXVIII, 45-65. Isaac and Jacob, endowed with might and sight; verily, we made them sincere by a sincere quality —the remembrance of the abode ; and, verily, they were with us of the elect, the best. And remember Ishmael and Elisha and Duu-lkifl, for each was of the righteous’. This is a reminder! verily, for the pious is there an excellent resort,—_{50] gardens of Eden with the doors open to them ;—reclining therein; calling therein for much fruit and drink ; and beside them maids of modest glance, of their own age,—‘ This is what ye were promised for the day of reckoning !’—‘ This is surely our provision, it is never spent!’ [55] This !—and, verily, for the rebellious is there an evil resort,—hell ; they shall broil therein, and an ill couch shall it be! This,—so let them taste it! —hot water, and pus, and other kinds of the same sort! ‘This is an army plunged in with you! there is no welcome for them! verily, they are going to broil in the fire!’ [60] They shall say, ‘Nay, for you too is there no welcome! it was ye who prepared it beforehand for us, and an ill resting-place it is!’ They shall say, ‘Our Lord! whoso prepared this beforehand for us, give him double torment in the fire!’ And they shall say, ‘What ails us that we do not see men whom we used to think amongst the wicked? whom we used to take for mockery? have our eyes escaped them ?’ Verily, that is the truth; the contention of the people of the fire. [65] Say, ‘I am only a warner; and there is no 1 See page 53. XXXVIIL 65-87. THE CHAPTER OF S, 181 god but God, the one, the victorious, the Lord of the heavens and the earth, and what is between the two, the mighty, the forgiving!’ Say, ‘It is a grand story, and yet ye turn from it!’ I had no knowledge of the exalted chiefs when they contended.
2XXXVIIL 65-87. THE CHAPTER OF S, 181 god but God, the one, the victorious, the Lord of the heavens and the earth, and what is between the two, the mighty, the forgiving!’ Say, ‘It is a grand story, and yet ye turn from it!’ I had no knowledge of the exalted chiefs when they contended. [70] I am only inspired that I am a plain warner. When thy Lord said to the angels, ‘Verily, I am about to create a mortal out of clay; and when I have fashioned him, and breathed into him of my spirit, then fall ye down before him adoring.’ And the angels adored all of them, save Iblis, who was too big with pride, and was of the misbelievers. [75] Said He, ‘O Iblis! what prevents thee from adoring what I have created with my two hands? art thou too big with pride? or art thou amongst the exalted?’ Said he, ‘I am better than he, Thou hast created me from fire, and him Thou hast created from clay.’ Said He, ‘ Then go forth therefrom, for, verily, thou art pelted, and, verily, upon thee is my curse unto the day of judgment.’ [80] Said he,‘ My Lord! then respite me until the day when they are raised.’ Said He, ‘hen thou art amongst the respited until the day of the stated time.’ Said he, ‘Then, by Thy might! I will surely seduce them all together, except Thy servants amongst them who are sincere!’ [85] Said He, ‘It is the truth, and the truth I speak; I will surely fill hell with thee and with those who follow thee amongst them all together.’ Say, ‘1 do not ask thee for it any hire, nor am I of those who take too much upon myself. It is but a reminder to the servants, and ye shall surely know its story after a time.’ 182 THE QUR'AN. XXXIX, 1-8. Tue CHAPTER OF THE FROOPS. (XXXIX. Mecca.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God. The sending down of the Book from God, the mighty, the wise. Verily, we have sent down to thee the Book in truth, then serve God, being sincere in religion unto Him. Aye! God’s is the sincere religion: and those who take beside Him patrons ‘We do not serve them save that they may bring us near to God Verily, God will judge between them concerning that whereon they do dispute. [5] Verily, God guides not him who is a misbelieving liar. Had God wished to take to Himself a child, He would have chosen what He pleased from what He creates;—celebrated be His praises! He is God, the one, the victorious. He created the heavens and the earth in truth! It is He who clothes the day with night; and clothes the night with day; and subjects the sun and the moon, each one runs on to an appointed time; aye! He is the mighty, the forgiving! He created you from one soul; then He made from it its mate; and He sent down upon you of the cattle four pairs}! He creates you in the bellies of your mothers,— creation after creation, in three darknesses*, That is God for you! His is the kingdom, there is no god but He; how then can ye be turned away ? * Camel, oxen, sheep, and goats. ? Te. the belly, the womb, and the placenta.
3He creates you in the bellies of your mothers,— creation after creation, in three darknesses*, That is God for you! His is the kingdom, there is no god but He; how then can ye be turned away ? * Camel, oxen, sheep, and goats. ? Te. the belly, the womb, and the placenta. XXXIX, 9-17. THE CHAPTER OF THE TROOPS. 183 If ye be thankless, yet is God independent of you. He is not pleased with ingratitude in His servants ; but if ye give thanks, He is pleased with that in you. But no burdened soul shall bear the burden of another; then unto your Lord is your return, and He’ will inform you of that which ye have done. [10] Verily, He knows the natures of men’s breasts! And when distress touches a man he calls his Lord, turning repentant to Him; then when He confers on him a favour from Himself he forgets what he had called upon Him for before, and makes peers for God to lead astray from His way! Say, ‘Enjoy thyself in thy misbelief a little, verily, thou art of the fellows of the Fire.’ Shall he who is devout throughout the night, adoring and standing, cautious. concerning the hereafter, and hoping for the mercy of his Lord...? Say, ‘Shall those who know be deemed equal with those who know not? only those will remember, who are endowed with minds!” Say, ‘O my servants who believe! fear your Lord! for those who do well in this world is good, and God’s earth is spacious; verily, the patient shall be paid their hire without count !’ Say, ‘Verily, I am bidden to serve God, being sincere in religion to Him; and I am bidden that I be the first of those resigned.” {15] Say, ‘Verily, I fear, if I rebel against my Lord, the torment of a mighty day.’ Say, ‘God do I serve, being sincere in my religion to Him; serve then what ye will beside Him!’ Say, ‘ Verily, the losers are those who lose themselves and their families on the resurrection day. Aye, that is the obvious loss.’ 184 THE QUR'AN. XXXIX, 18-24. They shall have over them shades of fire, and under them shades; with that does God frighten His servants: O my servants! then fear me. But those who avoid 74ghit! and serve them not, but turn repentant unto God, for them shall be glad tidings. Then give glad tidings to my servants who listen to the word and follow the best thereof: they it is whom God guides, and they it is who are endowed with minds. [20] Him against whom the word of torment is due,—canst thou rescue him from the fire? But for those who fear their Lord for them are upper chambers, and upper chambers above them built, beneath which rivers flow; God’s promise ! God does not fail in His promise. Hast thou not seen that God sends down from the heaven water, and conducts it into springs in the earth? then He brings forth therewith corn varied in kind, then it dries up, and ye see it grow yellow ; then He makes it grit ;—verily, in that is a reminder for those endowed with minds,
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[45] And remember our servants Abraham and the signet into the sea, where it was swallowed by a fish, which was afterwards caught and brought to Solomon, who by this means recovered his kingdom and power. 1 The Mohammedan legend is that when Job was undergoing his trials, the devil appeared to his wife and promised, if she would worship him, to restore their former prosperity; this she asked her husband to allow her to do. Job was so enraged at her conduct that he swore if he recovered to give her a hundred stripes. When Job had uttered the prayer recorded on page 52, line 19, Gabriel appeared and bade him in the words of the text to strike the ground with his feet. A fountain at once gushed forth, in which he washed and was healed, his wife also becoming young and beautiful again. In order not to break his oath he was commanded to strike her with a bundle of palm leaves, giving her a hundred painless blows at once. N 2 180 THE QUR'AN. XXXVIII, 45-65. Isaac and Jacob, endowed with might and sight; verily, we made them sincere by a sincere quality —the remembrance of the abode ; and, verily, they were with us of the elect, the best. And remember Ishmael and Elisha and Duu-lkifl, for each was of the righteous’. This is a reminder! verily, for the pious is there an excellent resort,—_{50] gardens of Eden with the doors open to them ;—reclining therein; calling therein for much fruit and drink ; and beside them maids of modest glance, of their own age,—‘ This is what ye were promised for the day of reckoning !’—‘ This is surely our provision, it is never spent!’ [55] This !—and, verily, for the rebellious is there an evil resort,—hell ; they shall broil therein, and an ill couch shall it be! This,—so let them taste it! —hot water, and pus, and other kinds of the same sort! ‘This is an army plunged in with you! there is no welcome for them! verily, they are going to broil in the fire!’ [60] They shall say, ‘Nay, for you too is there no welcome! it was ye who prepared it beforehand for us, and an ill resting-place it is!’ They shall say, ‘Our Lord! whoso prepared this beforehand for us, give him double torment in the fire!’ And they shall say, ‘What ails us that we do not see men whom we used to think amongst the wicked? whom we used to take for mockery? have our eyes escaped them ?’ Verily, that is the truth; the contention of the people of the fire. [65] Say, ‘I am only a warner; and there is no 1 See page 53. XXXVIIL 65-87. THE CHAPTER OF S, 181 god but God, the one, the victorious, the Lord of the heavens and the earth, and what is between the two, the mighty, the forgiving!’ Say, ‘It is a grand story, and yet ye turn from it!’ I had no knowledge of the exalted chiefs when they contended.
2XXXVIIL 65-87. THE CHAPTER OF S, 181 god but God, the one, the victorious, the Lord of the heavens and the earth, and what is between the two, the mighty, the forgiving!’ Say, ‘It is a grand story, and yet ye turn from it!’ I had no knowledge of the exalted chiefs when they contended. [70] I am only inspired that I am a plain warner. When thy Lord said to the angels, ‘Verily, I am about to create a mortal out of clay; and when I have fashioned him, and breathed into him of my spirit, then fall ye down before him adoring.’ And the angels adored all of them, save Iblis, who was too big with pride, and was of the misbelievers. [75] Said He, ‘O Iblis! what prevents thee from adoring what I have created with my two hands? art thou too big with pride? or art thou amongst the exalted?’ Said he, ‘I am better than he, Thou hast created me from fire, and him Thou hast created from clay.’ Said He, ‘ Then go forth therefrom, for, verily, thou art pelted, and, verily, upon thee is my curse unto the day of judgment.’ [80] Said he,‘ My Lord! then respite me until the day when they are raised.’ Said He, ‘hen thou art amongst the respited until the day of the stated time.’ Said he, ‘Then, by Thy might! I will surely seduce them all together, except Thy servants amongst them who are sincere!’ [85] Said He, ‘It is the truth, and the truth I speak; I will surely fill hell with thee and with those who follow thee amongst them all together.’ Say, ‘1 do not ask thee for it any hire, nor am I of those who take too much upon myself. It is but a reminder to the servants, and ye shall surely know its story after a time.’ 182 THE QUR'AN. XXXIX, 1-8. Tue CHAPTER OF THE FROOPS. (XXXIX. Mecca.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God. The sending down of the Book from God, the mighty, the wise. Verily, we have sent down to thee the Book in truth, then serve God, being sincere in religion unto Him. Aye! God’s is the sincere religion: and those who take beside Him patrons ‘We do not serve them save that they may bring us near to God Verily, God will judge between them concerning that whereon they do dispute. [5] Verily, God guides not him who is a misbelieving liar. Had God wished to take to Himself a child, He would have chosen what He pleased from what He creates;—celebrated be His praises! He is God, the one, the victorious. He created the heavens and the earth in truth! It is He who clothes the day with night; and clothes the night with day; and subjects the sun and the moon, each one runs on to an appointed time; aye! He is the mighty, the forgiving! He created you from one soul; then He made from it its mate; and He sent down upon you of the cattle four pairs}! He creates you in the bellies of your mothers,— creation after creation, in three darknesses*, That is God for you! His is the kingdom, there is no god but He; how then can ye be turned away ? * Camel, oxen, sheep, and goats. ? Te. the belly, the womb, and the placenta.
3He creates you in the bellies of your mothers,— creation after creation, in three darknesses*, That is God for you! His is the kingdom, there is no god but He; how then can ye be turned away ? * Camel, oxen, sheep, and goats. ? Te. the belly, the womb, and the placenta. XXXIX, 9-17. THE CHAPTER OF THE TROOPS. 183 If ye be thankless, yet is God independent of you. He is not pleased with ingratitude in His servants ; but if ye give thanks, He is pleased with that in you. But no burdened soul shall bear the burden of another; then unto your Lord is your return, and He’ will inform you of that which ye have done. [10] Verily, He knows the natures of men’s breasts! And when distress touches a man he calls his Lord, turning repentant to Him; then when He confers on him a favour from Himself he forgets what he had called upon Him for before, and makes peers for God to lead astray from His way! Say, ‘Enjoy thyself in thy misbelief a little, verily, thou art of the fellows of the Fire.’ Shall he who is devout throughout the night, adoring and standing, cautious. concerning the hereafter, and hoping for the mercy of his Lord...? Say, ‘Shall those who know be deemed equal with those who know not? only those will remember, who are endowed with minds!” Say, ‘O my servants who believe! fear your Lord! for those who do well in this world is good, and God’s earth is spacious; verily, the patient shall be paid their hire without count !’ Say, ‘Verily, I am bidden to serve God, being sincere in religion to Him; and I am bidden that I be the first of those resigned.” {15] Say, ‘Verily, I fear, if I rebel against my Lord, the torment of a mighty day.’ Say, ‘God do I serve, being sincere in my religion to Him; serve then what ye will beside Him!’ Say, ‘ Verily, the losers are those who lose themselves and their families on the resurrection day. Aye, that is the obvious loss.’ 184 THE QUR'AN. XXXIX, 18-24. They shall have over them shades of fire, and under them shades; with that does God frighten His servants: O my servants! then fear me. But those who avoid 74ghit! and serve them not, but turn repentant unto God, for them shall be glad tidings. Then give glad tidings to my servants who listen to the word and follow the best thereof: they it is whom God guides, and they it is who are endowed with minds. [20] Him against whom the word of torment is due,—canst thou rescue him from the fire? But for those who fear their Lord for them are upper chambers, and upper chambers above them built, beneath which rivers flow; God’s promise ! God does not fail in His promise. Hast thou not seen that God sends down from the heaven water, and conducts it into springs in the earth? then He brings forth therewith corn varied in kind, then it dries up, and ye see it grow yellow ; then He makes it grit ;—verily, in that is a reminder for those endowed with minds,
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