"And ('_Jahidoo_') make efforts in God, as (_Jihadehi_) your making efforts is His due, He hath elected you, and hath not laid on you any hardship in religion, the Faith of your father Abraham. He hath named you the Muslims." Messrs. Sale and Palmer translate the word here as meaning fighting, which is wrong, as it is unclassical and not literal. Rodwell translates it "do valiantly," and Sir William Muir says it is used in the more general sense (Vol. III, p. 32). This verse is a brief and concise version of the great maxim in Deut. VI. 5; Mark XII. 30; and Luke X. 27,-- "Thou shalt love thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength." See also Luke XIII. 24: "Strive to enter in at the straight gate." [Sidenote: (4) The Bee, XVI, 108, 111.] 16. "Whoso after he hath believed in God denieth Him if he were forced to it, and if his heart remain steadfast in the faith, shall be guiltless; but whoso openeth his heart to infidelity--on them, in that case, shall be wrath from God, and a severe punishment awaiteth them." "To those also who after their trials fled their country, then (_Jahadoo_) toiled and endured with patience. Verily, thy Lord will afterwards be forgiving, gracious." Dr. Sprenger (Life of Mohammad, p. 159) explains this verse of the seven slaves purchased and manumitted by Abu Bekr. They had been tortured for professing Islam, shortly after Mohammad assumed the prophetic office. The flight referred to in verse 111th is the early Abyssinian flight. These verses relate to the persecutions endured by humble and needy Moslems from their townspeople of Mecca. These Moslems, after being persecuted and forced as far as denying God, while their remaining steadfast in the faith, had to flee elsewhere, and then suffered much in their wanderings; but they endured their labours and fatigues, losses, disadvantages both in body and mind, patiently. There is no allusion to fighting or waging war. The Rev. Mr. Rodwell and Mr. Palmer are both wrong in translating '_Jahadoo_' as fighting. Sale is right in not translating it as fighting, but he is too paraphrastic when he translates, "and who have since fought _in defence of the true religion_," as their "Jihad" was only their great exertion and toil in suffering from persecutions. [Sidenote: (5) The Spider, XXIX, 5.] 17. "And whoso ('_Jahada_') labours ('_Yojahido_') toils for his own good only. Verily God is independent of all the worlds." Mr. Palmer is wrong in making _Jahada_ and _Yojahido_ to mean fighting strenuously. Mr. Sale and the Rev. W. Rodwell are right in translating by "striveth" and "efforts" respectively, and so is Sir W. Muir in taking it into, what he styles, the general sense of the verse (The Life of Mahomet, Vol. III, p. 32). [Sidenote: (6) The Spider, XXIX, 7.]