33. The same verse, word for word. Sale ... "Wage war." Rodwell ... "Contend against." Palmer ... "Strive strenuously." The word _Jahid_ is the same in both the passages, yet the translators differ in their interpretation of it. As there had been no war against the hypocrites, the word cannot be held to bear the construction they put on it, even if we deprived it of its proper signification. In one place Sale takes _Jahid_ to mean "attacking with arms," and in another he takes it in the sense of attacking with arguments. There is no signification of "attacking" in _Jihad_, but only that of "exerting," and the verse simply means, "exert thyself in preaching to, and remonstrating with, the unbelievers and hypocrites, and also be strict towards them,"--_i.e._, not to be smooth with them, nor to be beguiled by them.[332] [Sidenote: (22) The tried, LXI.] 34. "O Ye believers! take not my foe and your foe for friends: ye show them kindness although they believe not that truth which hath come to you: they drive forth the Apostle and yourself because ye believe in God your Lord! If ye have come forth[333] (_Jihadan_) labouring in my cause, and from a desire to please Me, ye show them kindness in private, then I well know what ye conceal and what ye discover! And whoso of you doth this hath verily, therefore, gone astray from the even way." Sale translates _Jihadan_ as meaning "to fight in the defence of my religion." Rodwell ... "To fight on my path." Palmer ... "Fighting strenuously." The translators quoted above say that Hatib had informed the Meccans of an intended surprise of Mecca on the part of Mohammad with the view of making terms for his own family, which had been left there. On this occasion the passage was revealed. This shows that the campaign of Mecca is termed _Jihad_. But Sir William Muir does not agree with them. He says in a footnote:--"The opening verses of the sixtieth Sura are said to refer to Hatib; but they appear to have a general bearing against too great intimacy with the Coreish during the truce and to be, therefore, of a prior date."[334] 35. Hatib's story. The story regarding Hatib's revelation of the intended attack upon Mecca by Mohammad, is not supported by authentic and trustworthy traditions. The authentic tradition of Bokhari[335] only states that the occasion of the verse being revealed was in the case of Hatib, but does not say that it was during the campaign of Mecca, nor that the information contained anything about the intended campaign. The authentic tradition only says that the report contained information regarding some of the affairs of the Prophet.