Note 124 — ALA AL-DIN ABU AL-SHAMAT.”[24] (continued 2)

Again the true old charge of falsifying the so-called “Sacred books.” Here the Koran is called “Furkán.” Sale (sect. iii.) would assimilate this to the Hebr. Perek or Pirka, denoting a section or portion of Scripture; but Moslems understand it to be the “Book which distinguished (faraka, divided) the true from the false.” Thus Caliph Omar was entitled “Fárúk” = the Distinguisher (between right and wrong). Lastly, “Furkán,” meaning as in Syr. and Ethiop. deliverance, revelation, is applied alike to the Pentateuch and Koran.