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238 AL KORAN. CHAP, xxxil
[lis signs 1 Yerily liereiu are signs unto every patient, grateful pei-soiL
When waves cover them, like ovei-shadowing clouds, they call upon Gou,
(exhibiting the pure religion unto him ;* but when he bringeth them safe to
land, there is of them who halteth between the true faith and idolatry.
Howbeit, none rejecteth our signs, except every perfidious, ungrateful
person. O men, fear your Lord, and dread the day whereon a father
shall not make satisfaction for his son, neither shall a son make satisfaction
for his father at all : the promise of God is assuredly true. Let not this
present life, thei-efore, deceive you; neither let the deceiver ^ deceive you
concerning GoD. Verily the knowledge of the hour of judgment is with
God ; and he causeth the rain to descend at his own appointed time ; and
he knoweth what is in the wombs of females. Xo soiil knoweth what it
shall gain on the moiTow ; neither doth any soul know in what land it
shall die : '^ bat God is knowing and fully acquainted with all things.
CHAPTER XXXIL
ENTITLED, ADORATION;' REVEALED AT MECCA.
IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.
A. L. ]\I.' The revelation of this boolt, there is no doubt thereof, ie
from the Lord of all creatures, f Will they say, Mohammed hath forged
it 1 Nay it is the truth from thy Lord, that thou mayest preach to a
people, unto whom no preacher hath come before thee;* perad venture they
will be directed. It is God who hath created the heavens and the earth,
and whatever t5 between them, in six days; and then ascended his throne.
Ye have no patron, or intercessor besides him. Will ye not therefore con-
• "When the billows cover the ship, like gloomy mountains, the mariners call
upon the name of God; they manifest unto him a sincere faith." — Saoary.
P Viz. the devil.
iln this passage five things are enumerated which are known to God alone:
viz., the time of the day of judgment; the time of rain; what is forming in the
womb, as whether it be male or female, &c. ; what shall happen on the morrow;
and where any person shall die. Tliese the Arabs, according to a tradition of their
prophet, call the five keys of secret knowledge. The passage, it is said, was occasioned
by al Hareth Ebn Amru, who propounded questions of this nature to Mohammed.
As to the last particular, al Beidawi relates the following story: — The angel of
death passing once by Solomon in a visible shape, and looking at one who was sit-
ting with him, the man asked who he was, and upon Solomon's acquainting him
that it was the angel of death, said. He seems to want me ; wherefore order the
wind to carry me from hence into India: which being accordingly done, the angel
said to Solomon, I looked so earnestly at the man out of wonder ; because I was
commanded to take his soul in India, and found him with thee in Palestine.
■■ This title is taken from the middle of the chapter, where the believers are said
to fall down adoring.
• See the Prelim. Disc. sect. iii. p. 42, &c.
f 'The Sovereign of the universe hath caused the Koran to descend from
heaven. This book ought to leave no doubt."— Sarart/.
• See chap. 28, p. 321.