[126] _In the way to good fortune (namely, the Prophets), how honourable shall be!_ [127] [‘Destined to continue for ever _in boyhood_,’ orig. ed.] [128] [Ḥooreeyehs.] [129] Intensely black and white, large-eyed. [130] From bottom to top. [131] [The Ḥooreeyehs.] [132] _Polytheism._ [133] Beneath the tents thereof. [134] _The believers and the unbelievers._ [135] _One after another, barefooted, naked, unarmed._ [136] _Of the resurrection._ [137] _Written in their books._ [138] _I will surely fill Hell_, &c. [Ḳur. vii. 17, given below, p. 51]. [139] Of righteousness. [140] _Between all creatures._ [141] [Or ‘marked’ or ‘goodly.’] [142] [Fighting for the faith.] [143] [Or ‘end,’ ‘result.’] [144] “Arms on armour clashing bray’d Horrible discord.”—_Par. Lost_, vi. 209. [145] _O Moḥammad._ The copies of the original differ here, but the differences are unimportant. [146] _By taking to themselves idols._ [147] _Thou wouldst see a great thing!_ [148] _Denying their having led them into error._ [149] _Iblees._ [150] _And the people of paradise are introduced into paradise, and the people of the fire into the fire, and when the latter have assembled around him._ [151] _Respecting the resurrection and retribution._ [152] _The contrary._ [153] _The people of Mekkeh._ [154] _Of the resurrection._ [155] _If the choice had been given us we had not gone forth and had not been slain._ [156] _Namely, the Jews._ [157] [See _Modern Egyptians_, 5th ed., p 284.] [158] [On the various orders of the Jinn, see Lane’s _Thousand and One Nights_, Introduction, note 21. And see above, pp. 7, 9.] [159] _Consisting of the angels._ [160] _They speak not until after He hath spoken._ [161] _Iblees_ [the devil]. [162] [In the Arabic, ‘Ḳur-án.’] [163] _This is said to be the most comprehensive verse in the Ḳur-án with respect to good and evil._ [The commentators say it contains the whole duty of man, both in respect of doing and of shunning. It is needless to enumerate the various virtues and sins which they consider are implied in each of the simple words of the text.] [164] [Mr. Rodwell’s rendering.] [165] The traveller. [166] _Of being rewarded for so doing._ [167] _Or reproach._ [168] _Their idols._ [169] _Disposition._ [170] [Lit., and in orig. ed., ‘hath great good fortune.’] [171] [_Mod. Egypt._, 104.] [172] [The Christians and Jews.] [173] [Or ‘best:’ so in _Mod. Egypt._, 280.] [174] [This is Mr. Rodwell’s word, and is, I think, more expressive of the original (_muslimoona_) than ‘resigned.’] [175] _In the prophets._ [176] [Some suppose this verse to be abrogated by the next extract: others try to explain it away.] [177] _And of him who inviteth them to the true religion._ [178] Mirage (_saráb_). [179] _In like manner the unbeliever reckoneth that his works will profit him, until, when he dieth and is brought before his Lord, he findeth not his works._ [180] _The unbeliever._ [181] _By his unbelief._