Moḥammad and the Ḳur-Án
XVII.
†O thou enwrapped in thy mantle,69
Arise and warn!
And thy Lord—magnify Him!
And thy raiment—purify it!
And the abomination70—flee it!
And bestow not favours that thou mayest receive again with increase.
And for thy Lord wait thou patiently.71
(lxxiv. 1-7.)
XVIII.
†By the morning-brightness,
And by the still of night,72
Thy Lord hath not forsaken thee, neither hath He hated thee.
And surely the Future will be better for thee than the Present,
And thy Lord will give to thee, and thou wilt be well-pleased.
Did He not find thee an orphan, and sheltered thee?
And He found thee erring, and guided thee,
And found thee needy, and enriched thee.
Then, as to the orphan, oppress him not;
And as to him that asketh of thee, chide him not away;
And as for the bounty of thy Lord, tell it then [abroad].
And as for the bounty of thy Lord, tell it then [abroad].
(xciii.)
XIX.
Say, I do not say unto you, ‘With me73 are the treasures of God,’ nor, ‘I know what is unseen,’ nor do I say unto you, ‘Verily I am an angel.’ I follow not [aught] but what is revealed unto me.
(vi. 50.)
XX.
†Say, I am only a man like unto you. It is only revealed unto me that your God is One God. He then that hopeth to meet his Lord, let him work a righteous work, and in the worship of his Lord let him not associate any [other god].
(xviii. 110.).
XXI.
†Say, If I err, only against myself shall I err, but if I am rightly-guided, it [is] of what my Lord hath revealed to me. Verily, He is the Hearer, the Near-at-hand!
(xxxiv. 49.)
XXII.
Moḥammad is nought but a Messenger.74 The Messengers have passed away before him. If then he die or be slain, will ye turn round upon your heels?75 But he who turneth round upon his heels will not injure God a whit;76 and God will reward the thankful.
(iii. 138.)
XXIII.
Verily We have revealed unto thee as we revealed unto Noah and the prophets after him, and as We revealed unto Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the tribes, and Jesus, and Job, and Jonah, and Aaron, and Solomon; and We gave unto David the Psalms.
(iv. 161.)
XXIV. 77 Say unto them, Do ye argue with us concerning God, when He is our Lord and your Lord,78 and when we have our works and ye have your works, and when we are sincere towards Him?
Nay, do ye say that Abraham and Ishmael and Isaac and Jacob and the tribes were Jews or Christians? Say unto them, Are ye the more knowing, or is God?79 And who is more unrighteous than they who conceal a testimony that they have from God?80 But God is not heedless of that which ye do.
(ii. 133, 134.)
XXV.
Remember, when Jesus the son of Mary said, ‘O children of Israel, Verily I am the Messenger of God unto you, confirming the Law which [was] before me, and giving good tidings of a Messenger who shall come after me, whose name [shall be] Aḥmad.’81 But when he (Aḥmad) came unto them with evident proofs, they said, ‘This is manifest magic!’
And who is more unrighteous than he who forgeth falsehood against God, when he is invited unto El-Islám? And God directeth not the unrighteous people.
They desire to put out the light of God with their mouths: but God will perfect His light, though the unbelievers be loth thereto.
It is He who hath sent His messenger with the direction and the religion of truth, that He may exalt above every religion, though the polytheists be loth thereto.
(lxi. 6-9.)
XXVI.
Those to whom We have given the Scripture know him (Moḥammad) as they know their children.82 But a party of them do conceal the truth83 while they know.
(ii. 141.)
XXVII.
The Jews said unto Moḥammad, ‘Verily God hath enjoined us84 that we should not believe an apostle until he bring us a sacrifice which fire shall devour.’
Say, Apostles have come unto you before me with manifest proofs,85 and with that ye have mentioned:86 then wherefore did ye slay them, if ye be speakers of truth?
(iii. 179, 180.)
XXVIII.
The unbelievers of Mekkeh have sworn by God, with the mightiest of their oaths, that if a sign come unto them they will assuredly believe therein. Say, Signs are only with God. And what will make you to know?87 Verily if they come they will not believe.
And We will turn away their hearts and their eyes,88 as they believed not therein the first time; and We will leave them in their transgression, wandering about in perplexity.
And though We had sent down unto them the angels, and the dead had spoken unto them, and We had gathered together about them everything in tribes, they had not believed unless God had pleased; but the greater number of them know not.
(vi. 109-111.)
XXIX.
And they have said, ‘O thou unto whom the Admonition89 hath been sent down, thou art certainly possessed by a Jinnee.90
Why dost thou not come unto us with the angels, if thou be of those that speak truth?’
We send not down the angels save with justice,91 nor would they then be respited.
Verily, We have sent down the Admonition, and We will surely preserve it.
And We have sent Messengers before thee among the sects of the former generations;
And there came not unto them any Messenger but they had him in derision:
In like manner will We put it into the hearts of the sinners of Mekkeh to do so;
They shall not believe in him, and the punishment of the former generations hath passed.
And if We should open above them a gate in heaven, and they should pass the day mounting up to it,
They would say, ‘Our eyes are only intoxicated, or rather we are a people enchanted.’
(xv. 6-15.)
XXX.
†Verily, it is the excellent Ḳur-án,
Written in the Preserved Book.92
None shall touch it but they who are purified.93
It is a revelation from the Lord of the Worlds.
(lvi. 76-79.)
XXXI.
Say, Verily if mankind and the Jinn assembled together for the purpose of producing the like of this Ḳur-án,94 they could not produce the like thereof, although they helped one another.95
And We have explained unto men in this Ḳur-án every kind of parable,96 but the greater number of men have refused [all else] save unbelief,
And have said, ‘We will by no means believe in thee until thou cause a fountain to gush forth for us from the earth,
Or thou have a garden of palm-trees and grapes, and thou cause rivers to spring forth in the midst thereof in abundance,
Or thou cause heaven to fall down upon us, as thou hast pretended, in pieces, or thou bring God and the angels before us,
Or thou have a house of gold, or thou ascend into heaven, and we will not believe thy ascending until thou cause a book to descend unto us which we may read.’ Say, Extolled be the perfection of my Lord! Am I [aught] save a man, [sent] as a Messenger?
And nothing hath hindered men from believing when the direction hath come unto them, but their saying, ‘Hath God sent a man as a Messenger?’97
Say, If there were upon the earth angels walking at ease,98 We had sent down unto them from heaven an angel as a Messenger.99
Say, God is a sufficient witness between me and you: for He knoweth and seeth His servants.
(xvii. 90-98.)
XXXII.
And this Ḳur-án is not an invention100 of one who is not God, but it hath been sent down as a confirmation of those books which have been before it, and an explanation of the Scripture—there is no doubt thereof—from the Lord of the Worlds.
Do they say, ‘He101 hath forged it?’ Say, Then bring ye a Soorah102 like unto it and call whom ye can,103 other than God, if ye speak truth.
Nay they have charged with falsehood that which they comprehend not, and the explanation thereof104 hath not yet come unto them. In like manner did those who were before them charge their Messengers with falsehood; but see how was the end of the offenders!
(x. 38-40.)
XXXIII.
If ye be in doubt concerning that which We have sent down unto Our servant Moḥammad,105 bring ye a Soorah like unto it,106 and invoke your witnesses,107 other than God, if ye be speakers of truth.
But if ye do it not (and do it ye shall not), fear the fire whose fuel is men and stones: it is prepared for the unbelievers.
(ii. 21, 22.)
XXXIV.
Whatsoever108 verse We abrogate or cause thee to forget, We will produce one better than it or like unto it. Dost thou not know that God is all-powerful?
Dost thou not know that to God belongeth the dominion of the heavens and the earth, and that beside God ye have no protector or defender?
(ii. 100, 101.)
XXXV.
When We substitute a verse in the stead of a verse (and God best knoweth what He revealeth), they say, ‘Thou art but a forger!’—but the greater number of them know not!
Say, The Holy Spirit Gabriel hath brought it down from thy Lord with truth, to stablish those who have believed, and as a direction and good tidings unto the Muslims.
And We well know that they say, ‘Only a man109 teacheth him.’ The tongue of him to whom they incline is foreign, and this is the perspicuous Arabic tongue.
(xvi. 103-105).
XXXVI.
Say, If the sea were ink, for writing the words of my Lord, the sea would be dried up or ever the words of my Lord were exhausted; and [so] if we brought its like in aid.110
(xviii. 109).