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ARBERRY, ARTHUR JOHN – Encyclopaedia Iranica
God warns you that you beware of Him, and unto God is the homecoming. Some of the translations include commentation offensive to Muslims, and almost all employ a style of language which Muslims at once recognize as unworthy. If any man is rich, let him be abstinent; if poor, let him consume in reason. So it will be. Surely God is witness of the things you do. But fight them not by the Holy Mosque until they should fight you there; then, if they fight you, slay them — such is the recompense of unbelievers — but if they give over, surely God is All-forgiving, All- compassionate.
Why, if he should die or is slain, will you turn about on your heels? Read, highlight, and take notes, across web, tablet, and phone.
I have come to you with a sign from your Lord; so fear you God, and obey you me. The Legacy of Persiaed. And fear a day wherein you shall be returned to God, and every soul shall be paid in full what it has earned; and they shall not be wronged.
And when they meet those who believe, they say ‘We believe’; and when they go privily one to another, they say, ‘Do you speak to them of what God has revealed to you, that they may thereby dispute with you before your Lord? And whatsoever good you do, you shall not be denied the just reward of it; and God knows the godfearing.
Lord, said Joseph, she sollicited me, that Infant which is in the Cradle, and of thy Parentage shall be witness: And who does greater evil than he who conceals a testimony received from God? If you are slain or die in God’s way, forgiveness and mercy from God are a better thing than that you amass; surely if you die or are slain, it is unto God you shall be mustered.
And shake the trunk of the palm-tree toward thee, thou wilt cause ripe dates to fall upon thee. Professor Arberry died in England in For those who forswear their women a wait of four months; if they revert, God is All- forgiving, All-compassionate; but if they resolve on divorce, surely God is All-hearing, All- knowing. They would trick God and the believers, and only themselves they deceive, and wrthur are not aware.
The Koran Interpreted
Those who were given the Book were not at variance except after the knowledge came to them, being insolent one to another. Make mention in the Book of Mary; When she withdrew from her people to a place, eastward. Mary; be obedient to thy Lord, prostrating and bowing before Him.
Whereupon the child said, Verily I am the servant of God; he hath given me the book of the gospel, and hath appointed me a prophet. Selected pages Title Page. I will create for you out of clay as the likeness of a bird; then I will breathe into it, and it will be a bird, by the leave of God.
The verses into which the individual Sura is divided usually, but not always, represent rhetorical units, terminated and connected together by a rhyming word. The present life is but the joy of delusion.
And peace is upon me the day of my birth, and the day of my death, and the day of my being raised up alive. O believers, it is not lawful for you to inherit women against their will; neither debar them, that you may go off with part of what you have given them, except when they commit a flagrant indecency.
And they worked no wrong upon Us, but themselves they wronged. Feb 07, Aaron Gertler rated it liked it.
Thy Lord hath said: One more additional star rating I gave for this work for the right translation of the word, ‘Allah’, which means, ‘God’. In Andre du Ryer, a gentleman of France trading in the Levant, published a French translation which took matters little farther.
It can never take the place of the Koran in Arabic, nor is it meant to do so. In such time their mates have better right to restore them, if they desire arbsrry set things right.