11 That is, ye believers: to whom the speakers on Al Araf are supposed to turn. 12 The fruits of Paradise. Comp. Luke xvi. 19. 13 The fulfilment of its promises and threats. 14 The rain. Thus, the Rabbins call the rain "the might and power of God," Comp. Tract Tanith, fol. I, and connect it with the Resurrection, Tract Berachoth, fol. 33. 15 The Rabbins in like manner describe the mission of Noah. Comp. Sanhedr. 108. Midr. Rabbah on Gen. par. 30, 33; and on Eccl. 9, 14. See Sura [lxxv.] xi. 40. 16 The two tribes of Ad and Themoud–the latter of whom is mentioned by Diod. Sic. and Ptolemy–lay to the north of Mecca in the direct line of traffic between the countries to the north and to the south, and both probably disappeared with its cessation, when the Arabs were no longer held in check by the Romans. The traditions adopted by Muhammad attribute this to the divine vengeance, throughout the Koran, and were derived by him from the popular legends of Arabia. See Freyt. Einl. p. 12. 17 On Houd, see Geiger, pp. 113 119. He supposes him to be the Eber of the Bible. But Mr. Muir suggests that both Houd and Saleh may have been persecuted Jewish or Christian emissaries and teachers, whose rejection was thus recast by Muhammad. See note on verse 71. 18 Or, entrusted, i.e. with the office of apostle. 19 Saleh–according to Bochart, the Peleg of Gen. xi. 16. D'Herbelot, B. O. 740, makes him the Schelah of Gen. xi. 13. See v. 63, n. and p. 220, n. 20 It is just possible that the act of Koleib, chief of the Banu Taghlib tribe, in killing the milch camel of Basûs, a female relative of his wife of Bani-Bakr lineage–which led to a forty years' war between these two tribes, A.D. 490–may have been worked up by Muhammad into this account of the persecutions of Saleh. 21 See Sura xxiv. 176, p. 109. 22 This verse may contain an implied reference to the famine with which Mecca had been visited, and fix the date of this part of the Sura. Comp. verse 127. 23 Lit. plot, stratagem. 24 Comp. the passage from Pirke R. Eliezer, c. 48, who makes Moses perform this miracle in the presence of Pharaoh, which the Scripture (Ex. vii.) account does not. The Muhammadan tradition is that Moses was a black. 25 Lit. cause him to hope, temporise with him. 26 Lit. male ominati sunt. Mar. They traced their calamities to Moses. So Sale. Kas. But Ullmann. renders, they attributed their misfortunes to the predictions of Moses. 27 In Suras [lxvii.] xvii. and [lxviii.] Muhammad speaks of nine plagues. The flood is not mentioned in the Scripture. 28 Lit. when we removed from them the plague until a period at which they should arrive. 29 Lit. that in which these are. 30 Lit. the set time of his Lord was fulfilled in forty nights.