Chapter II
Samuel Beal translation
Entitled, the Cow22—Revealed Partly at Mecca, and Partly at Medina
In the Name of the Most Merciful God,
Notes in this chapter
Note 1 · Footnote 22: (return) This title was occasioned by the story of the red heifer, mentioned p. 217.Note 2 · Footnote 23: (return) Concerning the creation of Adam, here intimated, the Mohammedans have several peculiar traditions. They say the angelsNote 3 · Footnote 24: (return) This occasion of the devil's fall has some affinity with an opinion which has been pretty much entertained among ChrisNote 4 · Footnote 25: (return) The Jews are here called upon to receive the Koran, as verifying and confirming the Pentateuch, particularly with respNote 5 · Footnote 26: (return) The person who cast this calf, the Mohammedans say, was (not Aaron but) al Sâmeri, one of the principal men among the Note 6 · Footnote 27: (return) The eastern writers say these quails were of a peculiar kind, to be found nowhere but in Yaman, from whence they were Note 7 · Footnote 28: (return) The occasion of this sacrifice is thus related: A certain man at his death left his son, then a child, a cow-calf, whiNote 8 · Footnote 29: (return) Those two Arabic words have both the same signification, viz., Look on us; and are a kind of salutation. Mohammed had Note 9 · Footnote 30: (return) By baptism is to be understood the religion which God instituted in the beginning; because the signs of it appear in tNote 10 · Footnote 31: (return) At first, Mohammed and his followers observed no particular rite in turning their faces towards any certain place, or Note 11 · Footnote 32: (return) For this reason, whenever the Mohammedans kill any animal for food, they always say, Bismi allah, or "In the name of GNote 12 · Footnote 33: (return) This is the common practice in Mohammedan countries, particularly in Persia, where the relations of the deceased may tNote 13 · Footnote 34: (return) That is, the legacy was not to exceed a third part of the testator's substance, nor to be given where there was no necNote 14 · Footnote 35: (return) This person was al Akhnas Ebn Shoraik, a fair-spoken dissembler, who swore that he believed in Mohammed, and pretendedNote 15 · Footnote 36: (return) Setting fire to his neighbor's corn, and killing his asses by night.Note 16 · Footnote 37: (return) The person here meant was one Soheib, who being persecuted by the idolaters of Mecca forsook all he had and fled to MeNote 17 · Footnote 38: (return) Under the name of wine all sorts of strong and inebriating liquors are comprehended.Note 18 · Footnote 39: (return) The original word, al Meiser, properly signifies a particular game performed with arrows, and much in use with the pagNote 19 · Footnote 40: (return) Some commentators expound this negatively, "That ye will not deal justly, nor be devout ..." For such wicked oaths, thNote 20 · Footnote 41: (return) Yahya interprets this from a tradition of Mohammed, who, being asked which was the middle prayer, answered, The eveninNote 21 · Footnote 42: (return) The following seven lines contain a magnificent description of the divine majesty and providence; but it must not be sNote 22 · Footnote 43: (return) This throne, in Arabic called Corsi, is by the Mohammedans supposed to be God's tribunal, or seat of justice.Note 23 · Footnote 44: (return) But this, say the Mohammedans, the Jews do, who receive Moses but reject Jesus; and the Christians, who receive both tNote 24 · Footnote 45: (return) That is, on the Jews, who, as the commentators tell us, were ordered to kill a man by way of atonement, to give one-foNote 25 · A.L.M. There is no doubt in this book; it is a direction to the pious, who believe in the mysteries of faith, who observe the appointed time