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1perfect for us our light and forgive us; verily, Thou art mighty over all!’ U2 292 THE QURAN. LXVI, 9-LXVII, 4. O thou prophet! fight strenuously against the misbelievers and hypocrites and be stern towards them; for their resort is hell, and an evil journey shall it be! [10] God strikes out a parable to those who misbelieve: the wife of Noah and the wife of Lot; they were under two of our righteous servants, but they betrayed them : and they availed them nothing against God; and it was said, ‘ Enter the fire with those who enter.’ And God strikes out a parable for those who believe: the wife of Pharaoh, when she said, ‘My Lord, build for me a house with Thee in Paradise, and save me from Pharaoh and his works, and save me from the unjust people!’ And Mary, daughter of Imr4n, who guarded her private parts, and we breathed therein of our spirit and she verified the words of her Lord and His books, and was of the devout. Tue CHAPTER OF THE KINGDOM. (LXVII. Mecca.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God. Blessed be He in whose hand is the kingdom, for He is mighty over all! Who created death and life, to try you, which of you does best; for He is the mighty, the forgiving! Who created seven heavens in stories; thou canst not see any discordance in the creation of the Merciful ! Why, look again! canst thou see a flaw? Then LXVII, 4-15. THE CHAPTER OF THE KINGDOM. 293 look again twice !—thy look shall return to thee driven back and dulled! [5] And we have adorned the lower heaven with lamps; and set them to pelt the devils with’; and we have prepared for them the torment of the blaze ! And for those who disbelieve in their Lord is the torment of hell, and an evil journey shall it be! When they shall be cast therein they shall hear its braying? as it boils—it will well-nigh burst for rage! Whenever a troop of them is thrown in, its treasurers shall ask them, ‘Did not a warner come to you ?’ They shall say, ‘Yea! a warner came to us, and we called him liar, and said, “God has not sent down aught ; ye are but in great error!” [10] And they shall say, ‘Had we but listened or had sense we had not been amongst the fellows of the blaze!’ And théy will confess their sins; but ‘Avaunt to the fellows of the blaze!’ Verily, those who fear their Lord in seeret, for them is forgiveness and a great hire! Speak ye secretly or openly, verily, He knows the nature of men’s breasts ! Ay! He knows who created! for He is the subtle, the well-aware ! [15] He it is who made the earth flat for you; so walk in the spacious sides thereof and eat of His provision ; for unto Him the resurrection is! 1 See Part I, pp. 50, 51, note 2. 2 Cf. Chapters XXV, verse 12, and XXXI, verse 18. 294 THE QURAN, LXVII, 16-28. Are ye sure that He who is in the heaven will not cleave the earth with you, and that it then shall quake ?
21 See Part I, pp. 50, 51, note 2. 2 Cf. Chapters XXV, verse 12, and XXXI, verse 18. 294 THE QURAN, LXVII, 16-28. Are ye sure that He who is in the heaven will not cleave the earth with you, and that it then shall quake ? Or are ye sure that He who is in the heaven will not send against you a heavy sand storm, and that ye then shall know how the warning was ? But those before them did call the apostles liars, and what a change it was! Or have they not looked at the birds above them expanding their wings or closing them ?—none holds them in except the Merciful One ; for He on everything doth look. [20] Or who is this who will be a host for you, to help you against the Merciful ?—the misbelievers are only in delusion! Or who is this who will provide you if He hold back His provision ?— Nay, but they persist in perverseness and aversion! Is he who walks prone upon his face more guided than he who walks upright upon a straight path ? Say, ‘It is He who produced you and made for you hearing and sight and hearts’—little is it that ye give thanks. Say, ‘It is He who sowed you in the earth, and unto Him shall ye be gathered!’ [25] They say, ‘When shall this threat be, if ye do speak the truth ?’ Say, ‘The knowledge is only with God; and I am but a plain warner!’ And when they see it nigh, sorry shall be the faces of those who misbelieve ; and it shall be said, ‘This is that for which ye used to call!’ Say, ‘Have ye considered, whether God destroy me and those with me, or whether we obtain mercy, LXVII, 28-LXVIII, 11. THE CHAPTER OF THE PEN. 295 yet who will protect the misbelievers from grievous torment ?’ Say, ‘ He is the Merciful; we believe in Him, and upon Him do we rely; and ye shall shortly know who it is that is in obvious error !’ [30] Say, ‘Have ye considered if your waters on the morrow should have sunk, who is to bring you flowing water ?’ THe CHAPTER OF THE PEN. (LXVIII. Mecca.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God. __N.! By the pen, and what they write, thou art not, by God's grace, mad! and, verily, thine is a hire that is not grudged! [5] and, verily, thou art of a grand nature? ! But thou shalt see and they shall see which of you is the infatuated. Verily, thy Lord He knows best who errs from His way; and He knows best those who are guided. Then obey not those who call thee liar; they would fain that thou shouldst be smooth with them, then would they be smooth with thee! [10] And obey not any mean swearer®, a back- 1 The Arabic name of the letter nfin signifies both ‘a fish’ and ‘an inkstand ;’ the symbol is by some supposed to refer to Jonah, mentioned in verse 48, and by others to writing on the eternal tablets (see Part I, p. 2, note 2), to which the first words of the chapter apply. 2 For bearing so meekly the insults of the misbelievers. 5 The person meant is, probably, Walid ibn MugAdirah, the inveterate enemy of the prophet. 296 THE QuR’AN. LXVIII, 11-32.
32, note 2), to which the first words of the chapter apply. 2 For bearing so meekly the insults of the misbelievers. 5 The person meant is, probably, Walid ibn MugAdirah, the inveterate enemy of the prophet. 296 THE QuR’AN. LXVIII, 11-32. biter, a walker about with slander; a forbidder of good, a transgressor, a sinner; rude, and base-born too; though he have wealth and sons ! [15] When our signs are recited to him he says, ‘Old folks’ tales !’ We will brand him on the snout ! Verily, we have tried them as we tried the fellows of the garden when they swore, ‘We will cut its fruit at morn!’ But they made not the exception’; and there came round about it an encompassing calamity from thy Lord the while they slept; [20] and on the morrow it was as one the fruit of which is cut. And they cried to each other in the morning, ‘Go early to your tilth if ye would cut it!’ So they set off, saying privily to each other, ‘There shall surely enter it to-day unto you no poor person!’ [25] And they went early deciding to be stingy”. And when they saw it they said, ‘ Verily, we have erred! Nay, we are forbidden (its fruit) !’ Said the most moderate of them, ‘Said I not to you, “unless ye celebrate God’s praises!”’ Said they, ‘Celebrated be the praises of our Lord! verily, we were unjust!’ [30] And they approached each other with mutual blame. Said they, ‘O woe to us! verily, we have been outrageous! Haply our Lord may give us instead a _ better than it; verily, we unto our Lord do yearn.’ 1 T.e. they did not add, ‘If God please !’ ? Or, according to another interpretation, ‘with a determined purpose.’ LXVIII, 33-48. THE CHAPTER OF THE PEN. 297 Thus is the torment, but, verily, the torment of the hereafter is greater, if ye did but know! Verily, for the pious with their Lord are gardens of pleasure ! [35] Shall we then make the Muslims like the sinners ? What ails you? how ye judge! Or have ye a book in which ye can study, that ye are surely to have what ye may choose ? Or have ye oaths binding on us until the judgment day that ye are surely to have what ye may judge? [40] Ask them, which of them will vouch for this ? Or have they partners, then let them bring their partners if they do speak the truth ? On the day when the leg shall be bared’; and they shall be called to adore and shall not be able! Lowering their looks, abasement shall attack them, for they were called to adore while yet they were safe! . But let me alone with him who calls this new discourse a lie. We will surely bring them down by degrées from whence they do not know. [45] And I will let them have their way! for my device is sure. Or dost thou ask them a hire for it while they are burdened with debts ? Or have they the knowledge of the unseen, so that they write ? But wait patiently for the judgment of thy Lord, and be not like the fellow of the fish 2, when he cried out as he was choking with rage.
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.
1perfect for us our light and forgive us; verily, Thou art mighty over all!’ U2 292 THE QURAN. LXVI, 9-LXVII, 4. O thou prophet! fight strenuously against the misbelievers and hypocrites and be stern towards them; for their resort is hell, and an evil journey shall it be! [10] God strikes out a parable to those who misbelieve: the wife of Noah and the wife of Lot; they were under two of our righteous servants, but they betrayed them : and they availed them nothing against God; and it was said, ‘ Enter the fire with those who enter.’ And God strikes out a parable for those who believe: the wife of Pharaoh, when she said, ‘My Lord, build for me a house with Thee in Paradise, and save me from Pharaoh and his works, and save me from the unjust people!’ And Mary, daughter of Imr4n, who guarded her private parts, and we breathed therein of our spirit and she verified the words of her Lord and His books, and was of the devout. Tue CHAPTER OF THE KINGDOM. (LXVII. Mecca.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God. Blessed be He in whose hand is the kingdom, for He is mighty over all! Who created death and life, to try you, which of you does best; for He is the mighty, the forgiving! Who created seven heavens in stories; thou canst not see any discordance in the creation of the Merciful ! Why, look again! canst thou see a flaw? Then LXVII, 4-15. THE CHAPTER OF THE KINGDOM. 293 look again twice !—thy look shall return to thee driven back and dulled! [5] And we have adorned the lower heaven with lamps; and set them to pelt the devils with’; and we have prepared for them the torment of the blaze ! And for those who disbelieve in their Lord is the torment of hell, and an evil journey shall it be! When they shall be cast therein they shall hear its braying? as it boils—it will well-nigh burst for rage! Whenever a troop of them is thrown in, its treasurers shall ask them, ‘Did not a warner come to you ?’ They shall say, ‘Yea! a warner came to us, and we called him liar, and said, “God has not sent down aught ; ye are but in great error!” [10] And they shall say, ‘Had we but listened or had sense we had not been amongst the fellows of the blaze!’ And théy will confess their sins; but ‘Avaunt to the fellows of the blaze!’ Verily, those who fear their Lord in seeret, for them is forgiveness and a great hire! Speak ye secretly or openly, verily, He knows the nature of men’s breasts ! Ay! He knows who created! for He is the subtle, the well-aware ! [15] He it is who made the earth flat for you; so walk in the spacious sides thereof and eat of His provision ; for unto Him the resurrection is! 1 See Part I, pp. 50, 51, note 2. 2 Cf. Chapters XXV, verse 12, and XXXI, verse 18. 294 THE QURAN, LXVII, 16-28. Are ye sure that He who is in the heaven will not cleave the earth with you, and that it then shall quake ?
21 See Part I, pp. 50, 51, note 2. 2 Cf. Chapters XXV, verse 12, and XXXI, verse 18. 294 THE QURAN, LXVII, 16-28. Are ye sure that He who is in the heaven will not cleave the earth with you, and that it then shall quake ? Or are ye sure that He who is in the heaven will not send against you a heavy sand storm, and that ye then shall know how the warning was ? But those before them did call the apostles liars, and what a change it was! Or have they not looked at the birds above them expanding their wings or closing them ?—none holds them in except the Merciful One ; for He on everything doth look. [20] Or who is this who will be a host for you, to help you against the Merciful ?—the misbelievers are only in delusion! Or who is this who will provide you if He hold back His provision ?— Nay, but they persist in perverseness and aversion! Is he who walks prone upon his face more guided than he who walks upright upon a straight path ? Say, ‘It is He who produced you and made for you hearing and sight and hearts’—little is it that ye give thanks. Say, ‘It is He who sowed you in the earth, and unto Him shall ye be gathered!’ [25] They say, ‘When shall this threat be, if ye do speak the truth ?’ Say, ‘The knowledge is only with God; and I am but a plain warner!’ And when they see it nigh, sorry shall be the faces of those who misbelieve ; and it shall be said, ‘This is that for which ye used to call!’ Say, ‘Have ye considered, whether God destroy me and those with me, or whether we obtain mercy, LXVII, 28-LXVIII, 11. THE CHAPTER OF THE PEN. 295 yet who will protect the misbelievers from grievous torment ?’ Say, ‘ He is the Merciful; we believe in Him, and upon Him do we rely; and ye shall shortly know who it is that is in obvious error !’ [30] Say, ‘Have ye considered if your waters on the morrow should have sunk, who is to bring you flowing water ?’ THe CHAPTER OF THE PEN. (LXVIII. Mecca.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God. __N.! By the pen, and what they write, thou art not, by God's grace, mad! and, verily, thine is a hire that is not grudged! [5] and, verily, thou art of a grand nature? ! But thou shalt see and they shall see which of you is the infatuated. Verily, thy Lord He knows best who errs from His way; and He knows best those who are guided. Then obey not those who call thee liar; they would fain that thou shouldst be smooth with them, then would they be smooth with thee! [10] And obey not any mean swearer®, a back- 1 The Arabic name of the letter nfin signifies both ‘a fish’ and ‘an inkstand ;’ the symbol is by some supposed to refer to Jonah, mentioned in verse 48, and by others to writing on the eternal tablets (see Part I, p. 2, note 2), to which the first words of the chapter apply. 2 For bearing so meekly the insults of the misbelievers. 5 The person meant is, probably, Walid ibn MugAdirah, the inveterate enemy of the prophet. 296 THE QuR’AN. LXVIII, 11-32.
32, note 2), to which the first words of the chapter apply. 2 For bearing so meekly the insults of the misbelievers. 5 The person meant is, probably, Walid ibn MugAdirah, the inveterate enemy of the prophet. 296 THE QuR’AN. LXVIII, 11-32. biter, a walker about with slander; a forbidder of good, a transgressor, a sinner; rude, and base-born too; though he have wealth and sons ! [15] When our signs are recited to him he says, ‘Old folks’ tales !’ We will brand him on the snout ! Verily, we have tried them as we tried the fellows of the garden when they swore, ‘We will cut its fruit at morn!’ But they made not the exception’; and there came round about it an encompassing calamity from thy Lord the while they slept; [20] and on the morrow it was as one the fruit of which is cut. And they cried to each other in the morning, ‘Go early to your tilth if ye would cut it!’ So they set off, saying privily to each other, ‘There shall surely enter it to-day unto you no poor person!’ [25] And they went early deciding to be stingy”. And when they saw it they said, ‘ Verily, we have erred! Nay, we are forbidden (its fruit) !’ Said the most moderate of them, ‘Said I not to you, “unless ye celebrate God’s praises!”’ Said they, ‘Celebrated be the praises of our Lord! verily, we were unjust!’ [30] And they approached each other with mutual blame. Said they, ‘O woe to us! verily, we have been outrageous! Haply our Lord may give us instead a _ better than it; verily, we unto our Lord do yearn.’ 1 T.e. they did not add, ‘If God please !’ ? Or, according to another interpretation, ‘with a determined purpose.’ LXVIII, 33-48. THE CHAPTER OF THE PEN. 297 Thus is the torment, but, verily, the torment of the hereafter is greater, if ye did but know! Verily, for the pious with their Lord are gardens of pleasure ! [35] Shall we then make the Muslims like the sinners ? What ails you? how ye judge! Or have ye a book in which ye can study, that ye are surely to have what ye may choose ? Or have ye oaths binding on us until the judgment day that ye are surely to have what ye may judge? [40] Ask them, which of them will vouch for this ? Or have they partners, then let them bring their partners if they do speak the truth ? On the day when the leg shall be bared’; and they shall be called to adore and shall not be able! Lowering their looks, abasement shall attack them, for they were called to adore while yet they were safe! . But let me alone with him who calls this new discourse a lie. We will surely bring them down by degrées from whence they do not know. [45] And I will let them have their way! for my device is sure. Or dost thou ask them a hire for it while they are burdened with debts ? Or have they the knowledge of the unseen, so that they write ? But wait patiently for the judgment of thy Lord, and be not like the fellow of the fish 2, when he cried out as he was choking with rage.
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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