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Comp. on Jonah Sura xxxvii.
This soil on which thou dost dwell,
Surely in trouble have we created man.
"I have wasted," saith he, "enormous riches!"
What! have we not made him eyes,
And guided him to the two highways?2
And who shall teach thee what the steep is?
Or to feed in the day of famine,
Beside this, to be of those who believe, and enjoin stedfastness on
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Shall be the people of the left.
2 Of good and evil.
3 Thus we read in Hilchoth Matt'noth Aniim, c. 8, "The ransoming
poor, and there is no commandment so great as this."
ELEPHANT?
Did he not cause their stratagem to miscarry?
Claystones did they hurl down upon them,
intended at the same time for his own encouragement, on the
King of Abyssinia and Arabia Felix, said to have been lost in the
purpose of destroying the Caaba. This army was cut off by
word for small-pox also means "small stones," in reference to the
of the fourth line of this Sura, which, like many other poetical
puerile and extravagant legends. Vide Gibbon's Decline and Fall,
invasion by Abraha. M. de Hammer Gemaldesaal, i. 24. Reiske
Their union in equipping caravans winter and summer.
them with food against hunger,
round Mecca. See Sura, xcv. n. p. 41. This Sura, therefore, like the
peculiar privileges.
SURA XCVII. POWER [XXI.]
MECCA. 5 Verses
In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the. All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
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