“Separate ye this day, O ye sinners! Did I not charge you, O sons of Adam, not to serve the Devil,--surely he is your open enemy,-- But to worship Me: this is the straight way? Yet he led away a great multitude of you: had ye no wits? This is Hell, which ye were threatened with: Roast there to-day, because ye did not believe.” On that day will we set a seal on their mouths, but their hands shall speak to us, and their feet shall bear witness of what they have earned for themselves. And if we pleased, we could put out their eyes, and still would they hasten on their way: but how would they see? And if we pleased we could transform them as they stand so that they could not go on or turn back; And him whom we make old, we bow down his body: have they no wits? We have not taught [Mohammad] poetry, nor would it befit him. It is only a warning and a plain Korān, To warn whosoever liveth: and the sentence shall be carried out upon the unbelievers. Do they not see that we have created for them, of what our hands have made, the cattle which they possess? And we have subdued them unto them, and some of them are for riding and of some they eat, And they have in them profit and milk to drink: and will they not be thankful? But they have taken other gods beside God, if haply they may be holpen: They are not able to help them; yet they themselves are an army arrayed for their defence. But let not their speech grieve thee: verily, we know what they hide and what they show! Doth not man see that we created him from a germ? Yet, behold he is an open adversary, And he putteth arguments to us, and forgetteth his creation, saying, “Who can quicken bones that are rotten?” Say: He who first made them to be shall quicken them: for all creating He knoweth well;-- Who made for you fire from a green tree, and behold, ye kindle with it; And is not He who created the Heavens and the Earth able to create their like? Yea! for He is the wise Creator. His command, when he willeth a thing, is only to say to it “BE,” and it is! Then extolled be the Perfection of Him in whose hand is the empire over all, and to whom ye must return. (xxxvi.) THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL. _In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful._