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11 According to some, the soul generally; but according to others, and more probably, the angel Gabriel as the agent of revelation. XVII, 92-101. THE CHAPTER OF THE NIGHT JOURNEY. II And they say, ‘ We will by no means believe in thee, until there gush forth for thee a fountain from the earth ; or there be made for thee a garden of palms and grapes, and rivers come gushing out amidst them; or thou make the sky to fall down upon us in pieces; or thou bring us God and the angels before us; [95] or there be made for thee a house of gold; or thou climb up into the heaven; and even then we will not believe in thy climbing there, until thou send down on us a book that we may read!’ Say, ‘Celebrated be the praises of my Lord! was © I aught but a mortal apostle ?’ Naught prohibited men from believing when the guidance came to them, save their saying, ‘God has sent a mortal for an apostle.’ ‘Say, ‘Were there angels on the earth walking in quiet, we had surely sent them an angel as an apostle.’ Say, ‘God is witness enough between me and you; verily, He is ever of His servants well aware, and sees.’ He whom God guides, he is guided indeed ; and he whom God leads astray, thou shalt never find patrons for them beside Him; and we will gather them upon the resurrection day upon their faces, ‘ blind, and dumb, and deaf; their resort is hell ; whenever it grows dull we will give them another blaze ! [100] That is their reward for that they disbelieved in our signs, and said, ‘What! when we are bones and rubbish, shall we then be raised up a new creation ?’ Could they not see that God who created the 12 THE QuR’AN. XVII, 101-108. heavens and the earth is able to create the like of them, and to set for them an appointed time ; there is no doubt therein, yet the wrong-doers refuse to accept it, save ungratefully ! Say, ‘Did ye control the treasuries of the mercy of my Lord, then ye would hold them through fear of expending ; for man is ever niggardly !’ And we did bring Moses nine manifest signs ; then ask the children of Israel (about) when he came to them, and Pharaoh said to him, ‘Verily, I think thee, O Moses! enchanted.’ ’ He said, ‘Well didst thou know that none sent down these save the Lord of the heavens and the earth as visible signs; and, verily, I think thee, O Pharaoh! ruined.’ [105] And he desired to drive them out of the land ; but we drowned him and those with him, one and all. And after him we said to the children of Israel, ‘ Dwell ye in the land; and when the promise of the hereafter comes to pass, we will bring you in a mixed crowd (to judgment). ‘In truth have we sent it down, and in ‘truth has it come down; and we have not sent thee as aught but a herald of glad tidings and a warner. ‘And a Qur’4n which we have divided, that thou mayst read it to mankind leisurely, and we sent it down, sending it down?’
2‘In truth have we sent it down, and in ‘truth has it come down; and we have not sent thee as aught but a herald of glad tidings and a warner. ‘And a Qur’4n which we have divided, that thou mayst read it to mankind leisurely, and we sent it down, sending it down?’ Say, ‘Believe ye therein, or believe not; verily, those who were given the knowledge before it, when it is read to them fall down upon their beards adoring! and they say, “Celebrated be the praises - 1 As occasion required. XVII, 108—XVIII, 2. THE CHAPTER OF THE CAVE. 13 of our Lord! verily, the promise of our Lord is ever fulfilled”—they fall down upon their beards weeping, and it increases their humility.’ [110] Say, ‘ Call on God, or call on the Merciful One, whichever ye may call on Him by ; for His are the best of names?’ And do not say thy prayers openly, nor yet murmur them, but seek a way between these. “And say, ‘Praise belongs to God, who has not taken to Himself a son, and has not had a partner in His kingdom, nor had a patron against (such) abasement.’ And magnify Him greatly?! Tue CHAPTER OF THE (XVIII. Mecca.) a veel In the name of the merciful and compassionate God. Praise belongs to God, who sent down to His servant the Book, and put no crookedness therein, —straight, to give warning of keen violence from Him; and to give the glad tidings to the believers, who do what is right, that for them is a goodly reward wherein they shall abide for ever and for 1 The Arabs whom Mohammed addressed seem to have imagined that he meant by Allah and Ar-ra‘hmén (the Merciful One) two separate deities. The various epithets which are applied to God in the Qur’4n, such as ‘kind,’ ‘seeing,’ ‘knowing,’ &c., are called by the Muslims al ’asm4’u Thusné, ‘the best of names,’ and are repeated in telling the beads of their rosary. ? This command is obeyed by the Muslims frequently pronouncing the phrase Allahu akbar, especially as an expression of astonishment. It is the same expression as that used by the Egyptian women concerning Joseph, in Chapter XII, verse 31. 14 THE QuR’AN. XVIII, 2-13. aye; and to give warning to those who say, ‘God hath taken to Himself a son.’ They have no knowledge thereof, nor their fathers; a serious word it is that comes forth from their mouths! verily, they only speak a lie! [5] Haply thou wilt grieve thyself to death for sorrow after them, if they believe not in this new revelation. Verily, we have made what is on the earth an ornament thereof, to try them, which of them is best in works; but, verily, we are going to make what is thereon bare soil. Hast thou reckoned that the Fellows of the Cave and Er-raqim were a wonder amongst our signs?! ?’ When the youths resorted to the cave and said, ‘O our Lord! bring us mercy from Thee, and dispose for us our affair aright!’
3Hast thou reckoned that the Fellows of the Cave and Er-raqim were a wonder amongst our signs?! ?’ When the youths resorted to the cave and said, ‘O our Lord! bring us mercy from Thee, and dispose for us our affair aright!’ [10] And we struck their ears (with deafness) in the cave for a number of years. Then we raised them up again, that we might know which of the two crews? could best calculate the time of their tarrying. We will narrate to thee their story in truth. Verily, they were youths who believed in their Lord, and we added to their guidance, and we braced up their hearts, when they stood up and said, ‘Our Lord is the Lord of the heavens and the earth, we will not call upon any god beside Him, for then we should have said an extravagant thing. 1 This is the well-known story of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus. What is meant by Er-raqim no one knows. The most generally accepted Mohammedan theory is that it was a dog belonging to the party; though some commentators take it to be the name of the valley or mountain in which the cave was situated ; others again say that it was a metal plate inscribed with the name of the Sleepers. * That is, the youths themselves or the people they met on their awakening. XVIII, 14-19. THE CHAPTER OF THE CAVE, 15 These people of ours have taken to other gods beside Him. Though they do not bring any manifest authority for them. And who is more unjust than he who forges against God a lie? [15] ‘So when ye have gone apart from them and what they serve other than God, then resort ye to the cave. Our Lord will unfold His mercy to you, and will dispose for you your affair advantageously.’ And thou mightst have seen the sun when it rose decline from their cave towards the right hand, and when it set leave them on the left hand, while they were in the spacious part thereof. That is one of the signs of God. Whom God guides he is guided indeed, and whom He leads astray thou shalt surely find for him no patron to guide aright. Thou mightst have reckoned them waking though they were sleeping, as we turned them towards the right and towards the left; and their dog spreading out his fore-paws on the threshold. Hadst thou come suddenly upon them thou wouldst surely have turned and fled away from them, and wouldst surely have been filled by them with dread. Thus did we raise them up that they might question each other. Spake a speaker amongst them, ‘How long have ye tarried?’ They said, ‘We have tarried a day or part of a day.’ They said, ‘Your Lord knows best your tarrying; so send one of you with this coin of yours to the city, and let him look which of them has purest food, and let him bring you provision thereof; and let him be subtle and not let any one perceive you. Verily, they—should they perceive -you— would stone you, or would force you back again unto their faith, and ye would never prosper then.’ _ 16 THE QuR’AN. ‘XVIII, 20-25.
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.
11 According to some, the soul generally; but according to others, and more probably, the angel Gabriel as the agent of revelation. XVII, 92-101. THE CHAPTER OF THE NIGHT JOURNEY. II And they say, ‘ We will by no means believe in thee, until there gush forth for thee a fountain from the earth ; or there be made for thee a garden of palms and grapes, and rivers come gushing out amidst them; or thou make the sky to fall down upon us in pieces; or thou bring us God and the angels before us; [95] or there be made for thee a house of gold; or thou climb up into the heaven; and even then we will not believe in thy climbing there, until thou send down on us a book that we may read!’ Say, ‘Celebrated be the praises of my Lord! was © I aught but a mortal apostle ?’ Naught prohibited men from believing when the guidance came to them, save their saying, ‘God has sent a mortal for an apostle.’ ‘Say, ‘Were there angels on the earth walking in quiet, we had surely sent them an angel as an apostle.’ Say, ‘God is witness enough between me and you; verily, He is ever of His servants well aware, and sees.’ He whom God guides, he is guided indeed ; and he whom God leads astray, thou shalt never find patrons for them beside Him; and we will gather them upon the resurrection day upon their faces, ‘ blind, and dumb, and deaf; their resort is hell ; whenever it grows dull we will give them another blaze ! [100] That is their reward for that they disbelieved in our signs, and said, ‘What! when we are bones and rubbish, shall we then be raised up a new creation ?’ Could they not see that God who created the 12 THE QuR’AN. XVII, 101-108. heavens and the earth is able to create the like of them, and to set for them an appointed time ; there is no doubt therein, yet the wrong-doers refuse to accept it, save ungratefully ! Say, ‘Did ye control the treasuries of the mercy of my Lord, then ye would hold them through fear of expending ; for man is ever niggardly !’ And we did bring Moses nine manifest signs ; then ask the children of Israel (about) when he came to them, and Pharaoh said to him, ‘Verily, I think thee, O Moses! enchanted.’ ’ He said, ‘Well didst thou know that none sent down these save the Lord of the heavens and the earth as visible signs; and, verily, I think thee, O Pharaoh! ruined.’ [105] And he desired to drive them out of the land ; but we drowned him and those with him, one and all. And after him we said to the children of Israel, ‘ Dwell ye in the land; and when the promise of the hereafter comes to pass, we will bring you in a mixed crowd (to judgment). ‘In truth have we sent it down, and in ‘truth has it come down; and we have not sent thee as aught but a herald of glad tidings and a warner. ‘And a Qur’4n which we have divided, that thou mayst read it to mankind leisurely, and we sent it down, sending it down?’
2‘In truth have we sent it down, and in ‘truth has it come down; and we have not sent thee as aught but a herald of glad tidings and a warner. ‘And a Qur’4n which we have divided, that thou mayst read it to mankind leisurely, and we sent it down, sending it down?’ Say, ‘Believe ye therein, or believe not; verily, those who were given the knowledge before it, when it is read to them fall down upon their beards adoring! and they say, “Celebrated be the praises - 1 As occasion required. XVII, 108—XVIII, 2. THE CHAPTER OF THE CAVE. 13 of our Lord! verily, the promise of our Lord is ever fulfilled”—they fall down upon their beards weeping, and it increases their humility.’ [110] Say, ‘ Call on God, or call on the Merciful One, whichever ye may call on Him by ; for His are the best of names?’ And do not say thy prayers openly, nor yet murmur them, but seek a way between these. “And say, ‘Praise belongs to God, who has not taken to Himself a son, and has not had a partner in His kingdom, nor had a patron against (such) abasement.’ And magnify Him greatly?! Tue CHAPTER OF THE (XVIII. Mecca.) a veel In the name of the merciful and compassionate God. Praise belongs to God, who sent down to His servant the Book, and put no crookedness therein, —straight, to give warning of keen violence from Him; and to give the glad tidings to the believers, who do what is right, that for them is a goodly reward wherein they shall abide for ever and for 1 The Arabs whom Mohammed addressed seem to have imagined that he meant by Allah and Ar-ra‘hmén (the Merciful One) two separate deities. The various epithets which are applied to God in the Qur’4n, such as ‘kind,’ ‘seeing,’ ‘knowing,’ &c., are called by the Muslims al ’asm4’u Thusné, ‘the best of names,’ and are repeated in telling the beads of their rosary. ? This command is obeyed by the Muslims frequently pronouncing the phrase Allahu akbar, especially as an expression of astonishment. It is the same expression as that used by the Egyptian women concerning Joseph, in Chapter XII, verse 31. 14 THE QuR’AN. XVIII, 2-13. aye; and to give warning to those who say, ‘God hath taken to Himself a son.’ They have no knowledge thereof, nor their fathers; a serious word it is that comes forth from their mouths! verily, they only speak a lie! [5] Haply thou wilt grieve thyself to death for sorrow after them, if they believe not in this new revelation. Verily, we have made what is on the earth an ornament thereof, to try them, which of them is best in works; but, verily, we are going to make what is thereon bare soil. Hast thou reckoned that the Fellows of the Cave and Er-raqim were a wonder amongst our signs?! ?’ When the youths resorted to the cave and said, ‘O our Lord! bring us mercy from Thee, and dispose for us our affair aright!’
3Hast thou reckoned that the Fellows of the Cave and Er-raqim were a wonder amongst our signs?! ?’ When the youths resorted to the cave and said, ‘O our Lord! bring us mercy from Thee, and dispose for us our affair aright!’ [10] And we struck their ears (with deafness) in the cave for a number of years. Then we raised them up again, that we might know which of the two crews? could best calculate the time of their tarrying. We will narrate to thee their story in truth. Verily, they were youths who believed in their Lord, and we added to their guidance, and we braced up their hearts, when they stood up and said, ‘Our Lord is the Lord of the heavens and the earth, we will not call upon any god beside Him, for then we should have said an extravagant thing. 1 This is the well-known story of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus. What is meant by Er-raqim no one knows. The most generally accepted Mohammedan theory is that it was a dog belonging to the party; though some commentators take it to be the name of the valley or mountain in which the cave was situated ; others again say that it was a metal plate inscribed with the name of the Sleepers. * That is, the youths themselves or the people they met on their awakening. XVIII, 14-19. THE CHAPTER OF THE CAVE, 15 These people of ours have taken to other gods beside Him. Though they do not bring any manifest authority for them. And who is more unjust than he who forges against God a lie? [15] ‘So when ye have gone apart from them and what they serve other than God, then resort ye to the cave. Our Lord will unfold His mercy to you, and will dispose for you your affair advantageously.’ And thou mightst have seen the sun when it rose decline from their cave towards the right hand, and when it set leave them on the left hand, while they were in the spacious part thereof. That is one of the signs of God. Whom God guides he is guided indeed, and whom He leads astray thou shalt surely find for him no patron to guide aright. Thou mightst have reckoned them waking though they were sleeping, as we turned them towards the right and towards the left; and their dog spreading out his fore-paws on the threshold. Hadst thou come suddenly upon them thou wouldst surely have turned and fled away from them, and wouldst surely have been filled by them with dread. Thus did we raise them up that they might question each other. Spake a speaker amongst them, ‘How long have ye tarried?’ They said, ‘We have tarried a day or part of a day.’ They said, ‘Your Lord knows best your tarrying; so send one of you with this coin of yours to the city, and let him look which of them has purest food, and let him bring you provision thereof; and let him be subtle and not let any one perceive you. Verily, they—should they perceive -you— would stone you, or would force you back again unto their faith, and ye would never prosper then.’ _ 16 THE QuR’AN. ‘XVIII, 20-25.
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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