Chapter V
Samuel Beal translation
Entitled, the Table82—Revealed at Medina
In the Name of the Most Merciful God.
Notes in this chapter
Note 1 · Footnote 82: (return) This title is taken from the Table, which, towards the end of the chapter, is fabled to have been let down from heavenNote 2 · Footnote 83: (return) As camels, oxen, and sheep; and also wild cows, antelopes, but not swine, nor what is taken in hunting during the pilgNote 3 · Footnote 84: (return) The sacred months in the Mohammedan calendar were the first, the seventh, the eleventh, and the twelfth.Note 4 · Footnote 85: (return) A game similar to raffling, arrowheads being used as counters.Note 5 · Footnote 86: (return) The Arabic word al Fatra signifies the intermediate space of time between two prophets, during which no new revelationNote 6 · Footnote 87: (return) But this punishment, according to the Sonna, is not to be inflicted, unless the value of the thing stolen amount to foNote 7 · Footnote 88: (return) This is to be understood of fish that live altogether in the sea, and not of those that live in the sea and on land boNote 8 · Footnote 89: (return) These were the names given by the pagan Arabs to certain camels or sheep which were turned loose to feed, and exemptedNote 9 · Footnote 90: (return) This miracle is thus related by the commentators: Jesus having, at the request of his followers, asked it of God, a reNote 10 · O True believers, perform your contracts. Ye are allowed to eat the brute cattle,83 other than what ye are commanded to abstain from; except