[42] _Which cause the clouds to fill with water._ [43] _As the bird from the egg._ [44] _As the egg from the bird._ [45] _Or consider._ [46] _For you previously to birth._ [47] [‘Compacted,’ orig. ed. Strictly, words such as ‘come forth’ should be supplied before ‘clusters.’] [48] _In leaf._ [49] _In fruit._ [50] [Genii.] _since they have obeyed them in worshipping idols_. See p. 33. [51] _Alone._ [52] _This was revealed with reference to a man unto whom the Prophet sent one to invite him_ to the faith; _but he said, Who is the apostle of God, and what is God? Is he of gold, or silver, or brass? Whereupon a thunderbolt fell upon him, and struck off his skull_. [53] _On the Preserved Tablet._ [54] _Restoring your souls in the daytime._ [55] _The term of life._ [56] [‘Predominant,’ orig. ed.] [57] _Angels who register your deeds._ [58] _The creatures._ [59] _That He may recompense them._ [60] _O Moḥammad, to the people of Mekkeh._ [61] _Namely, the Jews and the Christians, and those_ [Arabs] _who assert that the angels are daughters of God_. [62] [‘Demolished,’ orig. ed.] [63] _On the day of resurrection._ [64] _Without wealth or helper._ [65] _Of the perfume and saffron with which they are overdaubed._ [66] _Idols._ [67] _This they would not worship them._ [68] [‘Similitudes,’ orig. ed. It is the plural of the same word as that translated ‘parable’ at the beginning of the preceding extract, and ‘likeness’ twice in this extract.] [69] [It is said that Moḥammad, when a revelation came down to him, used to say, ‘Cover ye me with something whereby I may become warm.’ Lane: Lexicon, voce _dathara_.] [70] [Idolatry.] [71] [This rendering is Mr. Rodwell’s. I do not think it can be bettered.] [72] [Lit. ‘And by the night when it becometh still;’ or (but this is less strongly supported) ‘when it darkeneth.’] [73] [‘In my possession,’ orig. ed.] [74] [‘Apostle,’ in the orig. ed.; but Christian associations have somewhat restricted the original meaning of the word, and I have therefore in this and other instances substituted ‘Messenger,’ which exactly represents the Arabic _rasool_.] [75] _To unbelief._ [76] _He will only injure himself._ [77] _The Jews said unto the Muslims, We are the people of the first book_ (the Pentateuch), _and our Ḳibleh_ (the point to which we turn our faces in praying) _is the more ancient, and the prophets have not been of the Arabs, and if Moḥammad were a prophet, he had been of us_. _Therefore_ the following _was revealed_. [78] _So that He may choose of His servants whom He pleaseth._ [79] _That is, God is; and He hath acquitted Abraham of belonging to them by His saying_ [Ḳur. iii. 60], _Abraham was not a Jew nor a Christian; and the other persons above-mentioned with him were followers of him_. [80] _They are the Jews, who have concealed the testimony of God, in the Pentateuch, of Abraham’s orthodoxy._