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1from my people,—Aaron my brother; gird up my loins through him’, and join him with me in the affair; that we may celebrate Thy praises much and remember Thee much. [35] ‘Verily, Thou dost ever behold us!’ He said, ‘ Thou art granted thy request, O Moses! and we have already shown favours unto thee at another time. When we inspired thy mother with what we inspired her, “Hurl him into the ark, and hurl him into the sea; and the sea shall cast him on the shore, and an enemy of mine and of his shall take him ;’—for on thee have I cast my 1 The Muslim legend is that Moses burnt his tongue with a live coal when a child. This incident is related at length, together with other Mohammedan legends connected with Moses and the Exodus, in my ‘ Desert of the Exodus,’ Appendix C. p. 533. Transl. 2 Literally, viztr, ‘ vizier,” ‘one who bears the burden’ of office. 5 Ie. ‘strengthen me.’ The idiom is still in common use amongst the desert Arabs. XX, 39-54. THE CHAPTER OF 7. H. 37 love, [40] that thou mayest be formed under my eye. When thy sister walked on and said, “Shall I guide you to one who will take charge of him ?” And we restored thee to thy mother, that her eye might be cheered and that she should not grieve. And thou didst slay a person and we saved thee from the trouble, and we tried thee with various trials. And thou didst tarry for years amongst the people of Midian; then thou didst come (hither) at (our) decree, O Moses! And I have chosen thee for myself. Go, thou and thy brother, with my signs, and be not remiss in remembering me. [45] Go ye both to Pharaoh; verily, he is outrageous! and speak to him a gentle speech, haply he may be mindful or may fear.’ They two said, ‘Our Lord! verily, we fear that he may trespass against us, or that he may be outrageous, He said, ‘ Fear not; verily, I am with you twain. I hear and see! ‘So come ye to him and say, “ Verily, we are the apostles of thy Lord; send then the children of Israel with us; and do not torment them. We have brought thee a sign from thy Lord, and peace be upon him who follows the guidance |!. [50] ‘“ Verily, we are inspired that the torment will surely come upon him who calls us liars and turns his back.”’ Said he, ‘And who is your Lord, O Moses ?’ He said, ‘Our Lord is He who gave everything its creation, then guided it.’ Said he, ‘ And what of the former generations ?’ He said, ‘The knowledge of them is with my Lord in a book; my Lord misleads not, nor forgets ! 38 THE QUR'AN. XX, 53-67. [55] Who made for you the earth a bed; and has traced for you paths therein; and has sent down from the sky water,—and we have brought forth thereby divers sorts of different vegetables. Eat and pasture your cattle therefrom; verily, in that are signs to those endued with intelligence. From it have we created you and into it will we send you back, and from it will we bring you forth another time.’ We did show him our signs, all of them, but he called them lies and did refuse.
2Eat and pasture your cattle therefrom; verily, in that are signs to those endued with intelligence. From it have we created you and into it will we send you back, and from it will we bring you forth another time.’ We did show him our signs, all of them, but he called them lies and did refuse. Said he, ‘Hast thou come to us, to turn us out of our land with thy magic, O Moses? [60] Then we will bring you magic like it; and we will make between us and thee an appointment; we will not break it, nor do thou either ;—a fair place.’ Said he, ‘Let your appointment be for the day of adornment!, and let the people assemble in the forenoon 2,’ But Pharaoh turned his back, and collected his tricks, and then he came. Said Moses to them, ‘Woe to you! do not forge against God a lie; lest He destroy you by torment; for disappointed has ever been he who has forged.’ [65] And they argued their matter among themselves; and secretly talked it over. Said they, ‘These twain are certainly two magicians, who wish to turn you out of your land by their magic, and to remove your most exemplary doctrine®. Collect therefore your tricks, and then 1 T.e. the festival. 2 In order that they might all see. * Or, ‘your most eminent men,’ as some commentators interpret it, i.e. the children of Israel. XX, 67-76. THE CHAPTER OF 7. H. 39 form a row; for he is prosperous to-day who has the upper hand.’ Said they, ‘O Moses! either thou must throw, or we must be the first to throw.’ He said, ‘Nay, throw ye!’ and lo! their ropes and their staves appeared to move along. [70] And Moses felt a secret fear within his soul. Said we, ‘Fear not! thou shalt have the upper hand. Throw down what is in thy right hand; and it shall devour what they have made. Verily, what they have made is but a magician’s trick; and no magician shall prosper wherever he comes.’ And the magicians were cast down in adoration ; said they, ‘We believe in the Lord of Aaron and of Moses!’ Said he?, ‘Do ye believe in Him before I give you leave? Verily, he is your master who taught you magic! Therefore will I surely cut off your hands and feet on alternate sides, and I will surely crucify you on the trunks of palm trees; and ye shall surely know which of us is keenest at torment and more lasting.’ [75] Said they, ‘ We will never prefer thee to what has come to us of manifest signs, and to Him who originated us. Decide then what thou canst decide ; thou canst only decide in the life of this world! Verily, we believe in our Lord, that He may pardon us our sins, and the magic thou hast forced us to use ; and God is better and more lasting!’ Verily, he who comes to his Lord a sinner,— verily, for him is hell; he shall not die therein, and shall not live. 1 Pharaoh. 40 THE Qur’AN. XX, 77-88. But he who comes to Him a believer who has done aright—these, for them are the highest ranks, —gardens of Eden beneath which rivers flow, to dwell therein for aye; for that is the reward of him who keeps pure.
31 Pharaoh. 40 THE Qur’AN. XX, 77-88. But he who comes to Him a believer who has done aright—these, for them are the highest ranks, —gardens of Eden beneath which rivers flow, to dwell therein for aye; for that is the reward of him who keeps pure. And we inspired Moses, ‘Journey by night with my servants, and strike out for.them a dry road in the sea. [80] Fear not pursuit, nor be afraid!’ Then Pharaoh followed them with his armies, and there overwhelmed them of the sea that which overwhelmed them. And Pharaoh and his people went astray and were not guided. O children of Israel! We have saved you from your enemy; and we made an appointment with you on the right side of the mount; and we sent down upon you the manna and the quails. ‘Eat of the good things we have provided you with, and do not exceed therein, lest my wrath light upon you; for whomsoever my wrath lights upon he falls! ‘Yet am I forgiving unto him who repents and believes and does right, and then is guided. [85] ‘ But what has hastened thee on away from thy people, O Moses ?’ He said, ‘They were here upon my track and I hastened on to Thee, my Lord! that thou mightest be pleased.’ Said He, ‘Verily, we have tried thy people, since thou didst leave, and es SAmarty! has led them astray.’ And Moses returned to his people, wrathful, grieving ! * Te. the Samaritan; some take it to mean a proper name, in order to avoid the anachronism. a XX, 89-96. THE CHAPTER OF 7. H. 41 Said he, ‘O my people! did not your Lord promise you a good promise? Has the time seemed too long for you, or do you desire that wrath should light on you from your Lord, that ye have broken your promise to me?’ [90] They said, ‘We have not broken our promise to thee of our own accord. But we were made to carry loads of the ornaments of the people, and we hurled them down, and so did es Samarty cast ; and he brought forth for the people a corporeal calf which lowed.’ And they said, ‘This is your god and the god of Moses, but he has forgotten!’ What! do they not see that it does not return them any speech, and cannot control for them harm or profit? Aaron too told them before, ‘O my people! ye are only being tried thereby ; and, verily, your Lord is the Merciful, so follow me and obey my bidding.’ They said, ‘We will not cease to pay devotion to it until Moses come back to us. Said he, ‘O Aaron! what prevented thee, when thou didst see them go astray, from following me ? Hast thou then rebelled against my bidding ?’ [95] Said he, ‘O son of my mother! seize me not by my beard, or my head! Verily, I feared lest thou shouldst say, “Thou hast made a division amongst the children of Israel, and hast not observed my word.”’ Said he, ‘What was thy design, O Samarty ?’ Said he, ‘I beheld what they beheld not, and I grasped a handful from the footprint of the messenger! and cast it; for thus my soul induced me.’ 1 A handful of dust from the footprint of the angel Gabriel’s 42 THE QUR'AN. XX, 97-108.
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.
1from my people,—Aaron my brother; gird up my loins through him’, and join him with me in the affair; that we may celebrate Thy praises much and remember Thee much. [35] ‘Verily, Thou dost ever behold us!’ He said, ‘ Thou art granted thy request, O Moses! and we have already shown favours unto thee at another time. When we inspired thy mother with what we inspired her, “Hurl him into the ark, and hurl him into the sea; and the sea shall cast him on the shore, and an enemy of mine and of his shall take him ;’—for on thee have I cast my 1 The Muslim legend is that Moses burnt his tongue with a live coal when a child. This incident is related at length, together with other Mohammedan legends connected with Moses and the Exodus, in my ‘ Desert of the Exodus,’ Appendix C. p. 533. Transl. 2 Literally, viztr, ‘ vizier,” ‘one who bears the burden’ of office. 5 Ie. ‘strengthen me.’ The idiom is still in common use amongst the desert Arabs. XX, 39-54. THE CHAPTER OF 7. H. 37 love, [40] that thou mayest be formed under my eye. When thy sister walked on and said, “Shall I guide you to one who will take charge of him ?” And we restored thee to thy mother, that her eye might be cheered and that she should not grieve. And thou didst slay a person and we saved thee from the trouble, and we tried thee with various trials. And thou didst tarry for years amongst the people of Midian; then thou didst come (hither) at (our) decree, O Moses! And I have chosen thee for myself. Go, thou and thy brother, with my signs, and be not remiss in remembering me. [45] Go ye both to Pharaoh; verily, he is outrageous! and speak to him a gentle speech, haply he may be mindful or may fear.’ They two said, ‘Our Lord! verily, we fear that he may trespass against us, or that he may be outrageous, He said, ‘ Fear not; verily, I am with you twain. I hear and see! ‘So come ye to him and say, “ Verily, we are the apostles of thy Lord; send then the children of Israel with us; and do not torment them. We have brought thee a sign from thy Lord, and peace be upon him who follows the guidance |!. [50] ‘“ Verily, we are inspired that the torment will surely come upon him who calls us liars and turns his back.”’ Said he, ‘And who is your Lord, O Moses ?’ He said, ‘Our Lord is He who gave everything its creation, then guided it.’ Said he, ‘ And what of the former generations ?’ He said, ‘The knowledge of them is with my Lord in a book; my Lord misleads not, nor forgets ! 38 THE QUR'AN. XX, 53-67. [55] Who made for you the earth a bed; and has traced for you paths therein; and has sent down from the sky water,—and we have brought forth thereby divers sorts of different vegetables. Eat and pasture your cattle therefrom; verily, in that are signs to those endued with intelligence. From it have we created you and into it will we send you back, and from it will we bring you forth another time.’ We did show him our signs, all of them, but he called them lies and did refuse.
2Eat and pasture your cattle therefrom; verily, in that are signs to those endued with intelligence. From it have we created you and into it will we send you back, and from it will we bring you forth another time.’ We did show him our signs, all of them, but he called them lies and did refuse. Said he, ‘Hast thou come to us, to turn us out of our land with thy magic, O Moses? [60] Then we will bring you magic like it; and we will make between us and thee an appointment; we will not break it, nor do thou either ;—a fair place.’ Said he, ‘Let your appointment be for the day of adornment!, and let the people assemble in the forenoon 2,’ But Pharaoh turned his back, and collected his tricks, and then he came. Said Moses to them, ‘Woe to you! do not forge against God a lie; lest He destroy you by torment; for disappointed has ever been he who has forged.’ [65] And they argued their matter among themselves; and secretly talked it over. Said they, ‘These twain are certainly two magicians, who wish to turn you out of your land by their magic, and to remove your most exemplary doctrine®. Collect therefore your tricks, and then 1 T.e. the festival. 2 In order that they might all see. * Or, ‘your most eminent men,’ as some commentators interpret it, i.e. the children of Israel. XX, 67-76. THE CHAPTER OF 7. H. 39 form a row; for he is prosperous to-day who has the upper hand.’ Said they, ‘O Moses! either thou must throw, or we must be the first to throw.’ He said, ‘Nay, throw ye!’ and lo! their ropes and their staves appeared to move along. [70] And Moses felt a secret fear within his soul. Said we, ‘Fear not! thou shalt have the upper hand. Throw down what is in thy right hand; and it shall devour what they have made. Verily, what they have made is but a magician’s trick; and no magician shall prosper wherever he comes.’ And the magicians were cast down in adoration ; said they, ‘We believe in the Lord of Aaron and of Moses!’ Said he?, ‘Do ye believe in Him before I give you leave? Verily, he is your master who taught you magic! Therefore will I surely cut off your hands and feet on alternate sides, and I will surely crucify you on the trunks of palm trees; and ye shall surely know which of us is keenest at torment and more lasting.’ [75] Said they, ‘ We will never prefer thee to what has come to us of manifest signs, and to Him who originated us. Decide then what thou canst decide ; thou canst only decide in the life of this world! Verily, we believe in our Lord, that He may pardon us our sins, and the magic thou hast forced us to use ; and God is better and more lasting!’ Verily, he who comes to his Lord a sinner,— verily, for him is hell; he shall not die therein, and shall not live. 1 Pharaoh. 40 THE Qur’AN. XX, 77-88. But he who comes to Him a believer who has done aright—these, for them are the highest ranks, —gardens of Eden beneath which rivers flow, to dwell therein for aye; for that is the reward of him who keeps pure.
31 Pharaoh. 40 THE Qur’AN. XX, 77-88. But he who comes to Him a believer who has done aright—these, for them are the highest ranks, —gardens of Eden beneath which rivers flow, to dwell therein for aye; for that is the reward of him who keeps pure. And we inspired Moses, ‘Journey by night with my servants, and strike out for.them a dry road in the sea. [80] Fear not pursuit, nor be afraid!’ Then Pharaoh followed them with his armies, and there overwhelmed them of the sea that which overwhelmed them. And Pharaoh and his people went astray and were not guided. O children of Israel! We have saved you from your enemy; and we made an appointment with you on the right side of the mount; and we sent down upon you the manna and the quails. ‘Eat of the good things we have provided you with, and do not exceed therein, lest my wrath light upon you; for whomsoever my wrath lights upon he falls! ‘Yet am I forgiving unto him who repents and believes and does right, and then is guided. [85] ‘ But what has hastened thee on away from thy people, O Moses ?’ He said, ‘They were here upon my track and I hastened on to Thee, my Lord! that thou mightest be pleased.’ Said He, ‘Verily, we have tried thy people, since thou didst leave, and es SAmarty! has led them astray.’ And Moses returned to his people, wrathful, grieving ! * Te. the Samaritan; some take it to mean a proper name, in order to avoid the anachronism. a XX, 89-96. THE CHAPTER OF 7. H. 41 Said he, ‘O my people! did not your Lord promise you a good promise? Has the time seemed too long for you, or do you desire that wrath should light on you from your Lord, that ye have broken your promise to me?’ [90] They said, ‘We have not broken our promise to thee of our own accord. But we were made to carry loads of the ornaments of the people, and we hurled them down, and so did es Samarty cast ; and he brought forth for the people a corporeal calf which lowed.’ And they said, ‘This is your god and the god of Moses, but he has forgotten!’ What! do they not see that it does not return them any speech, and cannot control for them harm or profit? Aaron too told them before, ‘O my people! ye are only being tried thereby ; and, verily, your Lord is the Merciful, so follow me and obey my bidding.’ They said, ‘We will not cease to pay devotion to it until Moses come back to us. Said he, ‘O Aaron! what prevented thee, when thou didst see them go astray, from following me ? Hast thou then rebelled against my bidding ?’ [95] Said he, ‘O son of my mother! seize me not by my beard, or my head! Verily, I feared lest thou shouldst say, “Thou hast made a division amongst the children of Israel, and hast not observed my word.”’ Said he, ‘What was thy design, O Samarty ?’ Said he, ‘I beheld what they beheld not, and I grasped a handful from the footprint of the messenger! and cast it; for thus my soul induced me.’ 1 A handful of dust from the footprint of the angel Gabriel’s 42 THE QUR'AN. XX, 97-108.
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