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A47589	The Alcoran of Mahomet, translated out of Arabick into French, by the Sieur Du Ryer, Lord of Malezair, and resident for the French king, at Alexandria. And newly Englished, for the satisfaction of all that desire to look into the Turkish vanities. To which is prefixed, the life of Mahomet, the prophet of the Turks, and author of the Alcoran. With A needful caveat, or admonition, for them who desire to know what use may be made of, or if there be danger in reading the Alcoran.; Koran. English. 1649.	Du Ryer, André, ca. 1580-ca. 1660.; Ross, Alexander, 1591-1654. aut	1688 (1688)	Wing K748; ESTC R213797	330,837	588

Earth and return into the World Behold a very strong return we know assuredly what the Earth will do with us we have a Book wherein all is written they impugn the known truth and are in a great confusion See they not Heaven above them how we have built it how we have adorned it and how there is no defect We have extended the Earth raised the Mountains and caused all sorts of fruits to spring forth for a sign of our Omnipotency We have sent the blessed Rain from Heaven made Gardens to produce Grain pleasing to the Reapers and Date-trees exceeding each other in height to enrich our creatures We have given life to the dead dry and barren Earth so shall the dead come out of their sepulchres The People of Noah's time those that inhabited near the Well Temod Pharaoh the fellow-citizens of Lot they that dwelt in the Forest and People of King Teba did heretofore traduce our Prophets and felt the punishment denounced against Infidels Was it a trouble to us to create men at first Nevertheless they are in doubt if they shall rise again We created man without difficulty we know the motions of his Soul and penetrate into his heart as the blood into the veins of his Body O man think upon the day that thou shalt see thy good and evil Angel near thee at the right hand and on thy left they have observed and written all that thou hast done represent to thy self death before thine eyes it is inevitable Think on the Angel that shall sound the Trumpet at the Day of the Resurrection that day shall the wicked behold what was promised them and all men shall come before God to be judged Their guardian Angels shall conduct them and be the witnesses of their deportments It shall be said to the Infidels Behold the day of which ye would have no thoughts we have now opened your eyes ye shall see this day more hard than Iron their guardian Angels shall say unto them Behold here before your eyes all that ye have done cast into Hell those obstinate Infidels that have hindred their Neighbour to do good that have offended in doubting of God's Law and have affirmed there was another God with God cast them into the most grievous torments Then shall the Devil say to them Lord I did not seduce them they seduced themselves God shall say Dispute not before me what was heretofore promised you is infallible my Word admitteth no alteration and I will do injustice to none God shall ask at the Day of Judgment If Hell be full It shall answer Is there any more Paradise is prepared for the Righteous who shall have the fear of God before their eyes it is promised to them that shall be converted that shall obey the Commandments of his Divine Majesty and persevere in their obedience It shall be said to them Enter ye into Paradise exempt from all evil behold the eternal day ye shall have all that ye shall desire and more How rich and powerful Cities have we in times past destroyed Their inhabitants sought in their Countries places of retreat and escaped not the puishment of their crimes this ought to serve for example to them that comprehend it to them that hear it and to such that saw it Certainly we created in Six days without difficulty the Heaven and Earth and all that is betweem them Persevere be not impatient for the words of unbelievers exalt the glory of thy Lord before the Sun go down and before it rise pray to thy Lord at the entrance of the Night the last of all shall be worship Hearken when the Angel shall call thee to general Judgment that day shall all the World hear the Trumpet the people shall come out of their sepulchres and Earth shall open before the eyes of men I give life and death and all the World shall be assembled before me to be judged This assembly is easie for me to accomplish I know what the wicked say thou shalt not cause them by force to embrace my Law Teach it those that fear the torments prepared for Infidels CHAP. LI. The Chapter of Things dispersed containing Sixty Verses written at Mecca IN the Name of God gracious and merciful I swear by the Winds that disperse the dust by the Clouds charged with Rain by the Ship that runneth upon the Waters and by them that divide the Wealth of the Earth that what hath been promised to you is true and that the Day of Judgment is infallible I swear by Heaven and the Stars thereof that ye are in an exceeding great error God expelleth lyars far from him he curseth them that blaspheme and such as believe not in the Resurrection They ask When shall be the Day of Judgment That day shall they be punished in the Fire of Hell. It shall be said unto them Taste the torments that ye have with impatience demanded They who had the fear of God before their eyes shall be in Gardens adorned with Fountains they shall enjoy the pleasures prepared for them by God because they are Righteous they sleep very little by Night implore pardon of God at the dawning of the Day and give alms to the poor that beg and the poor that are bashful God manifesteth on the Earth and in your persons the signs of his Omnipotency consider ye not that what is promised to you is written in Heaven God is Lord of Heaven and Earth he is truth it self will ye not confess him Did the Angels convey to thee the books of Abraham When they entred into his House they saluted him he likewise saluted them made signs to his servants to bring a fat Calf roasted which he presented to them he said unto them Wherefore do ye not eat And was afraid in his mind of their coming They said Fear not we are the Messengers of God they declared to him that he should have a Son that should be a great personage Then his wife drew near crying with a loud voice and smiting her Face said One that is barren beareth no Child they said The thing shall come to pass as we have spoken thy Lord ordaineth what pleaseth him and knoweth all Abraham said unto them O ye Messengers of God! what is your design They replied We are sent from God to destroy the Cities inhabited by the wicked and cast upon them stones of Fire whereon are inscribed the names of them that they shall strike We will cause all the Righteous to depart from among them if we find there but one Family of Righteous we will there leave an example to Posterity for them that fear the torments of Hell. Moses is a sign of our omnipotency we sent him to Pharaoh with reasons clear and intelligible he despised my Commandments and said That Moses was a Magician and possessed of the Devil but we surprised him and drowned his People to his great displeasure Aad is an example of our Omnipotency We sent an

him the right way God guideth Men to the way of Salvation I will wholly resign my self to the pleasure of his Divine Majesty Make your prayers at the time appointed and pay Tythes you all shall appear before God at the Day of Judgment to give account of your actions He it is that created Heaven and Earth Remember thou the Day wherein he said Be thou and every thing was he shall reign and at that day command an Angel to sound the Trumpet to call to universal Judgment the living and the dead He knoweth the future present and past is most Wise and nothing is hidden from him Remember thou that Abraham said to his Father Azer wherefore do you worship Idols instead of God I perceive your Family to be in manifest errour God shewed to Abraham the Kingdom of Heaven and of Earth and he was in the number of the Blessed Abraham seeing by night a most clear Star asked in himself if it were his God no replyed he to himself my God doth not rise and set seeing the Moon to arise he demanded if that were his God no said he to himself certainly God will not guide me to be of them that are erroneous when he beheld the Sun rising he likewise asked if that were his God and when he saw it set he said to his people I am innocent of the sin which you commit in adoring many Gods I wholly commend my self to his Will who created Heaven and Earth and profess his Unity His people would dispute against him he said to them will you dispute against me concerning the Unity of God who hath instructed me in the right way I fear not your Idols my God doth what pleaseth him and knoweth all things will you not consider it How shall I fear your Idols since you are not afraid to affirm that God hath Companions equal to him which you have no reason to adore If you understand the truth who is more true you or I Such as believe in God and shall not cover the truth with a lie shall be delivered from the torments of Hell and conducted into the way of Salvation We instructed Abraham with reasons to dispute against his people I give knowledge to whom I see good and exalt whom I please Thy Lord O Abraham seeth and knoweth all things we gave to Abraham Isaac and Iacob his Sons we before instructed Noah and his Lineage in the right way we taught it David Solomon Iob Ioseph Moses Aaron Zachary St. Iohn Iesus the Son of Mary Eliah Ismael Ioshua Ionas and Lot we gratified them above the residue of the World we elected their Fathers Brothers and Progeny and guided them in the right way Thus God guideth whom he seeth good Men before adored Idols and believeth there were many Gods nevertheless he blotted out their past Errours when they were converted If they slander them that have knowledge of the Scriptures and of Prophecies will give power over their Persons to Men that shall mis-lead them with the Infidels Those whom God guideth believe in the Unity of his Divine Majesty Say unto them I require no reward for having preached to you the Alcoran he teacheth to all the World the Commandments of God. The Iews have not honoured him as was their Duty they understood not his Graces when they said he hath instructed the people in nothing that is profitable Say unto them who gave the Tables unto Moses who instructed him in the Scripture which they have written in Vellum to guide and illuminate the people They have published what pleased them and have concealed much they shall learn in the Alcoran what they know not and what their Fathers understood not Say to them God after that left them obstinate and amazed in their Errours We have sent from Heaven that Book full of Blessedness it confirmeth the Scriptures that were sent before it to the end thou mayst instruct the people of Mecca them that inhabit about that City and the rest of the World. Such as shall believe in the Day of Judgment believe in what is written in this Book and shall pray to God to deliver them from the torments of Hell Who is more unjust than he that blasphemeth against God that saith God hath inspired into him what he uttereth notwithstanding he hath received no inspiration from his Divine Majesty Who more unjust than he that saith he will cause to descend from Heaven things like to those which God inspired into his Prophets When thou shalt see the wicked at the point of death and the Angels stretching forth their hands to take their Souls say unto them This day the torments of Hell shall be the punishment of the blasphemies that ye have vomited against God and your disobedience to his Commandments God shall say to them you are come before us without Riches and Children naked as you were created and have cast behind your Backs the instructions which we gave you I see not with you the Idols you adored you are separated from each other and have forsaken them that you esteemed on Earth should have been your Protectors God separateth the good from the wicked as the Corn from the Ear and the stone from the Date He causeth the Living to spring from the dead and the dead from the living behold the works of God why will you depart from his Law He divideth the Morning from darkness hath established Night for the repose of Men and the Sun and Moon to compute Ages Years Months and Seasons such are the effects of Gods power he is Omnipotent and knoweth all things He it is that created the Stars to give you light and guide you in the obscurity of the Earth and Sea he gratifieth with his Grace such as learn his Commandments He it is that created you of one sole Person that gave you the Earth to inhabit and preserveth you in the World he hath conferred his Grace on such as have obeyed his Commandments hath made Rain to descend from Heaven and caused the Earth to produce divers sorts of Herbs Green things and Corn he hath caused the Date to spring forth and the Palm Tree with Gardens enriched with Grapes Olives Pomgranets and many Fruits alike and different Consider how Fruits encrease and multiply this serveth for instruction of Gods Unity to them that have his fear before their eyes the Infidels have adored the Devil with God who created them and said that God hath Sons and Daughters such is their ignorance praised be God he created Heaven and Earth how shall he have a Son who hath no Wives He createth and knoweth all things he is your God and your Lord there is none other God but he worship him he conserveth all things he is seen of no Man and beholdeth all things he is benign and nothing is concealed from him O people there is come to you a light from your Lord to conduct you he that seeth clearly shall receive advantage and he that

making use of a tame Pigeon which he had taught to pick corn out of his Ears in stead of the holy Ghost and causing silly people to believe that in his falling-sickness to which he was much subject he had conference with the Angel Gabriel I know the publishing of the Alcoran may be to some dangerous and scandalous dangerous to the Reader scandalous to the higher Powers who notwithstanding have cleared themselves by disliking the publishing and questioning the publishers thereof but for the danger I will deliver in these ensuing Propositions my opinion yet with submission to wiser judgments 1. Though it may be dangerous to such as like Reeds are shaken and like empty clouds carried about with every wind of Doctrine yet to staid and solid Christians the reading of Mahomet's Heresies will be no more dangerous than the reading of those errors which are recorded in Scripture for in them are mentioned many damnable errors and abominations of the Egyptians Canaanites Hittites Sidonians and other Gentiles and of the Hebrews themselves of the Sadducees who denied Spirits Angels and the Resurrection 2. Is there more danger in reading the Alcoran than in reading the Errors of ancient and modern Hereticks surely Tertullian Irenaeus Epiphanius Austin and other Fathers were not of this opinion who have left upon record to posterity the damnable Heresies of Arians Eutychians Nestorians Macedonians and others and in the Alcoran there are not such dangerous errors as among the Tetratheites Angelites and Theodosians who held there were four Gods or the Tritheites who affirmed there were three or the Gnosticks Manicheans Cerdonians Marcionites who maintained there were two contrary gods the one good the other bad whereas the Alcoran sets down there is but one true God and although it denieth with Arius the Divinity of Christ yet it holds him a great Prophet nor doth it speak so blasphemously of Christ as the Simonians who held Simon Magus or the Ophites and Manicheans who said the Serpent was Christ or Menander who affirmed himself to be Christ and the Saviour of the World. Besides Are not the damnable Heresies of the modern Familists who deny Christ's Divinity making as many Christs as there be illuminated Elders in their Congregations are not also the Heresies of the Socinians Anti-trinitarians Adamites Servetians Antisabbatarians and many others exposed to the view of all that will read them why then may not the Alcoran Besides are Men debarred from reading the Greek and Latine Poets nay are not many of them translated into our English tongue as also the modern Histories of the East and West Indies wherein are more damnable Tenets than any in the Alcoran and they who have read the Iewish Talmud and Cabala will find them as ridiculous pieces as the Alcoran 3. If there were any loveliness beauty excellency or any thing else in the Alcoran that might win the mind and draw the affection after it I should hold the reading of it dangerous but whereas it is such a mishapen and deformed piece I think the reading of it will confirm us in the truth and cause us love the Scripture so much the more for as a beautiful body is never more lovely than when she is placed near a Black-More neither is truth more amiable than when it is beset with Errors Opposita juxta se posita clarius elucescunt the Gem receives lustre from the foil the Stars from the night and Fire is most scorching in Frost even so by an Antiperistasis truth is fortified by error Who can think that the sight of a Hob-Goblin or deformed Vizard should draw the Child from the Nurse or breast of the Mother to embrace it whereas the sight thereof will rather cause the Child hold faster by the Mother The wise Spartans oft times brought Drunkards into the room where their sons were not that they should be induced thereby to love but to abhor drunkenness which they could not have done had they not seen the unseemly and rude carriage the undecent behaviour and uncomposed gestures of the drunkard When Zisca had destroyed the Adamites of Bohemia he preserved two alive that they might reveal to the World the wicked errors of that Sect. Who is so mad as to prefer the embracements of a filthy Baboon to his beautiful Mistress or the braying of an Ass to a Consort of Musick he deserves the ears of Midas that will prefer the Cuckows song to the sweet notes of the Nightingale 4. Though the Alcoran be received among many Nations yet this reception proceeds not from any love they bear to it or any loveliness they find in it but partly out of fear being forced by the Sword partly out of a preposterous desire of liberty and preferment and partly out of ignorance as not being suffered to read the Scriptures nor to hear Philosophy by which the errors thereof may be detected nor to enquire into the absurdities thereof or to dispute and question any thing in it for which cause also it is not suffered to be Printed nor are Christians permitted to enter into Mecca lest the absurdities and impieties of their Religion should be manifested and thus are those silly souls kept in blindness and ignorance and therefore I never read that any Nation did voluntarily receive the Alcoran except the theevish Saracens of Arabia because it was a friend both to their theevery and lechery as permitting multiplicity of Wives and Concubines and a reward for those that shall murther and rob 5. The Alcoran is translated into French and other vulgar Tongues and the chief heads thereof by Purchas in his Pilgrimage by Heylin in his Geography and by others into our own tongue without scruple or exception and I pray you why is the Arabick tongue the language of that false Prophet and in which he writ his Alcoran so much learned and taught in Schools and Christian Universities but that by it we may come to the knowledge of Mahomet's Laws and Religion and how should we know this little horn in Daniel that spake high and proud things against the Almighty if we read not his life and Doctrine 6. There is a kind of necessity we should know evil as well as good falshood as well as Truth that we may avoid the one and so much more love the other he that hath smelled a stinking weed will smell with more delight the sweet Rose he that reads the Alcoran will find it smell worse than Mahomet's carkass did which after his death lay putrifying upon the ground which his disciples permitted for many days together hoping he would have been as good as his word who made them a promise that he would rise again the third day but at last finding he had forgot himself and that his body smelled not so sweet as Alexander's did after his death they were forced to bury it or otherwise the Dogs who were beginning to bury him in their guts had saved them a labour though Sugar be sweet in it self yet

that believe in God if you obey the wicked they will cause you to return upon your steps you shall return to the number of the damned truly God is your Lord he is the best Protector I will put fear into the hearts of Infidels because they have without reason adored many Gods and the fire of Hell shall be their habitation God hath made the truth of his Promises to appear to you when by his permission you slew the Infidels until you were weary of fighting nevertheless you contradicted what the Prophet ordained you disobeyed him after he had caused you to see what you desired with affection There be among you that covet the Goods of this World and others that love the good things of Heaven God hath withdrawn you from the Infidels to try you he hath pardoned your sins he is bountiful to them that observe his Commandments When you retreated from the Combat and yielded without reason the Prophet recalled you and gave you to know your Errour with a thousand pains afflict not your selves with the loss of the spoil that escaped you at the day of Victory neither with the mischief that befel you when you were vanquished God knoweth all your Actions After your Labour he sent you great repose part of you slept in all safety and the residue suffered themselves to be carried away at their Pleasures they had thoughts of God contrary to the truth Think on the ignorant that say Have we seen any of the succour that God hath promised Say to them all things proceed from God. They conceal in their Souls what they publish not and say had we been free of our own Wills we had not been slain say to them although you had stayed in your Houses and in your B●…ds death would have taken away them that were arrived at the hour of their Destiny God approveth what is in your hearts and knoweth what you have in your Souls Certainly the Devil seduced them that fled when the two Armies were in Battel and that because of some sin they had committed nevertheless God pardoned them he is gracious and merciful to his people O ye that believe be not like the Infidels that said speaking of their Brethren that were slain in the Army that had they continued in their Houses they had not dyed God putteth this sorrow in their heart because of their impiety he giveth life and death and beholdeth all your Actions if you be slain for his Law or die in his favour it shall be more advantagious to you than all the Treasures of the World and if you dye or be slain fighting for the Faith you shall appear before his Divine Majesty to be rewarded Through the grace of God thou hast rendred them docile although thou be severe to them they will not depart from thee pardon them pray for them Take their Advice in occasions offered and being resolved to do any thing trust thou in God he loveth them that trust in him he protecteth you none shall obtain Victory over you if he abandon you who shall protect you All the faithful ought to resign themselves to the Will of his Divine Majesty It is not Lawful for the Prophet to deceive he that shall be a deceiver shall appear at the Day of Judgment with his deceit to be judged then shall men be payed with what they have gained no injustice shall be done to them that shall have loved God and Hell shall be the habitation of them that through deceit shall return in the displeasure of his Divine Majesty They shall not be all equally entreated God shall appoint them their Rank and place he beholdeth all their Actions he assuredly rewarded the true Believers when he sent them a Prophet of their own Nation to preach to them his Commandments and instruct them in the Alcoran they before his coming were in a manifest Errour When any mischief befel you it also befel the Infidels you have demanded when doth this mischief come it proceedeth from your selves certainly God is Omnipotent What befel you when the two Camps encountred hapned through the permission of God to distinguish the true Believers that dispense their Goods with affection for the glory of his Divine Majesty from them that abandoned the fight when it was said to them Come fight for the Faith and answered had we thought of fighting we had not followed you then were they nearer to impiety than to the Faith nevertheless they had not all of them that in their heart that was in their mouth God knoweth what they keep secret There be of them that said to their Brethren Stay and go not to the Combat your Companions had not been slain had they obeyed us say to them Deliver your selves from death if you can avoid it continuing in your Houses Believe not that those that were slain for the Faith are dead on the contrary they are alive with God they rejoyce for that such as ran to hinder them to fight did not meet them fear not for them they shall rejoyce eternally in the favour of God he will abundantly reward them that fight for his Law. Those that obeyed God and the Prophet after being overcome that did good works and feared his Divine Majesty shall receive great rewards When it was told them the people have conspired against you take heed to your selves this Discourse increased their Faith and they said it sufficeth that God is our Protector they were filled with the grace of God no more evil befel them and they observed the Commandments of his Divine Majesty He is gracious to them that obey him The Devil will cause in you a fear of the Infidels fear them not but if you be good men fear me Afflict not your selves to see the wicked run to impiety they hurt not God he will not give them rest in the other World where they shall be severely chastised I increase the wealth of Infidels to augment their pain they shall in the end feel grievous torments God will not leave the faithful in the state that you are in he will one day separate the good from the evil he doth not teach you what is to come he for that effect chuseth among the Prophets whom he seeth good Believe therefore in God and his Prophets if you believe in God fear to offend him you shall be rewarded Believe that such as are too sparing and avaritious of the wealth that God hath given them do well on the contrary they do very ill what they spare without reason shall strangle them at the day of Judgment The inheritance of Heaven and Earth is Gods he knoweth all things Certainly God heard the Speech of them that said God is poor and we are rich he hath said I will write what they have spoken and keep an exact account of the Murther they have unjustly committed on the Persons of the Prophets I will say to them at the day of Judgment taste of the torments of

up the Mountains upon the Earth to fasten and hinder it to move he hath thereon dispersed many Beasts and sent Rain from Heaven which causeth Plants to spring forth and Herbs of divers sorts Behold here what God hath created shew me what your Idols have created assuredly Idolaters are manifestly seduced from the right way We inspired knowledg into Locman and spake unto him to give God thanks he that returneth thanks to God for his Graces doth good for his Soul. God rejecteth the ingrateful and praise is due to him in all places Remember thou that Locman said unto his Son O my Son believe not thou that God hath a companion it is an exceeding great Sin We have commanded man to honour his Father and Mother his Mother beareth him with grief upon grief and weaneth him at the age of Two years be thou not ingrateful for God's benefits honour Father and Mother thou shalt be one day before God to be judged If thy Parents press thee to believe that God hath companions obey them not follow the way of them that obey him all men shall be one day assembled before him to be rewarded according to their works O my Son if thou dost evil of the weight of a Gr●…n of Mustardseed or of the weight of a Rock or of the greatness of Heaven and Earth God will know it and put it in account he is exact and Omniscient O my Son make thy prayers at the time appointed do what is honest and civil fly what is not approved and be patient in thy adversities regard not the World disordered through pride converse not with the proud God detesteth the haughty observe thy steps walk with modesty speak gently they be persons that bray like Asses when they speak seest thou not that God hath created for men all that is in Heaven and Earth and conferreth on them his Graces in general and particular There be ignorant persons that dispute of the Deity without reason when it is said unto them Do what God hath appointed they answer We will do what we saw done by our Fathers They consider not that the Devil calleth them and their Fathers to the pains of Hell. He that obeyeth God and doth good works fastneth him to the strongest Knot and will have a care of him at the Hour of his end The impiety of the wicked ought not to afflict thee they shall be one day assembled in our presence to be chastised I will shew them all that they have done I know what is in the hearts of men I will prolong awhile their punishment upon Earth and precipitate them in the other World into the Fire of Hell. Hast thou not demanded of them who created Heaven and Earth They said It is God say unto them therefore praised be God nevertheless the greatest part of them are ignorant Whatsoever is in Heaven and Earth is Gods he hath no want of the World praise is due unto him in all that he doth if all the Trees of the World were Pens and the Sea Ink they could not comprehend the effect of his Omnipotency he is Omnipotent and knoweth all things He created and shall make you to rise again with one word he understandeth and seeth all things Consider they not that God causeth the Night to enter into the Day and the Day into the Night that he created the Sun and the Moon that move in the Heaven until the day appointed he knoweth whatsoever ye do because he is truly God they that invoke other than him invoke things vain and unprofitable God alone is most high and most mighty Seest thou not how the Ship runneth upon the Water for a token of his Omnipotency to such as acknowledg his Graces When the Wars arose against the Infidels many called upon God with resolution to follow his Law when he saved them on the Land some persevered to do well and others returned to their impiety none but deceivers and ingrateful persons despise his Commandments O People fear God and the day when the Father shall not be able to succour his Child neither the Child serve his Father God's promises are infallible be not proud of your Riches neither that God tolerateth and suffereth you he knoweth the time when ye shall be chastised the hour that the Rain shall fall upon the Earth he knoweth what is in the wombs of women whether it be Male or Female none but God knoweth what thou wilt do to morrow none but he knoweth the place where thou shalt die he knoweth all he knoweth all CHAP. XXXII The Chapter of Worship containing an Hundred and Thirty Verses written at Mecca IN the name of God gracious and merciful I am the most Wise God. Doubtless this Book was sent by the Lord of the Universe will the wicked say that thou hast invented it On the contrary it is the truth it self which proceedeth from thy Lord to preach to them that heretofore had none to instruct them peradventure they will follow the right way God created Heaven and Earth and all that is between them in Six days and sitteth on his Throne Who shall protect you Who shall hear your prayers but he Will you never consider it He disposeth all things in Heaven and Earth all men shall one day be assembled before him to be judged a Thousand years are but one day before his Divine Majesty he knoweth what is past present and future he is Omnipotent and Merciful he hath created every thing for his People he formed man of the Dirt and Dust of the Earth he inspired the Soul into his Body he giveth you hearing sight and sense but few men return him thanks for his Graces They say What shall we die and return to be a new People Certainly they believe not in the Resurrection Say unto them The Angel of Death shall cause you to die and ye shall return before God to be judged Thou shalt then see how the Infidel will hang down the Head before their Lord and say Lord we now see the certainty of the Resurrection we this day know the truth of thy words permit us to return into the World we will be Righteous we now understand what is profitable and necessary for us we could have given a guide to every Person my word is most true I will fill Hell with the wicked and Paradise with the Righteous thus shall men be rewarded and chastised according to their works Taste O ye wicked the pains that ye have deserved in refusing to believe in this day which ye have found we leave you in the miseries due to your incredulity taste the eternal torments that ye have merited through your impiety Such as believe in the mysteries of my Law are humble they worship me alone and praise me when they hear mention of me they are not proud rebel not against my Commandments They arise from their Bed to make their prayers with fear and hope and imploy in pious works some part of

God gracious and merciful When the Roundness of the Sun shall appear the Stars fall the Mountains walk the Camel be without burden and without keeper when 〈◊〉 beast shall be gathered together the Sea 〈◊〉 with fire Souls return into Bodies the ●…ter demand why they put her to death 〈◊〉 the book of good and evil shall open when ●…ven shall cast off its ornaments the fire of 〈◊〉 appear and Paradise be opened then shall 〈◊〉 know the good and the evil that they have ●…mitted I swear by the Planets by the 〈◊〉 of night and by the brightness of day that the words of the Alcoran are the words of the Prophet beloved of God powerful with his divine Majesty ye ought to obey him he is a faithful observer of what is commanded him he is not possessed of the Devil as ye have imagined he hath seen the Angel clearly and without riddle and is not perplexed for what is to come the words of the Alcoran are not the words of the Devil on whatsoever side ye turn you it is only for the instruction of men and such among you as will follow the right way but ye shall have no inclination to follow it if it please God the Lord of the Universe CHAP. LXXXII The Chapter of the opening of Heaven containing seventeen Verses written at Mecca IN the Name of God gracious and merciful The souls shall know the good and the evil that they have done when the heavens shall open the stars fall the seas be gathered together and the sepulchres be opened O man what maketh thee so proud as to rise against God who hath created thee who hath formed and proportioned thee after what manner he pleased O ye wicked ye will not believe the day of Judgment there are Angels that observe your actions and are obedient to God. The just shall go into Paradise and the unjust be precipitated into the fire of hell whence they shall never return I will not tell when the day of Judgment shall be that day none shall be able to succour his neighbour and God alone shall command CHAP. LXXXIII The Chapter of Them that weigh with false weights containing Thirty six Verses written at Mecca IN the Name of God gracious and merciful They that weigh with false weights and measure with false measures believe not to rise again at the day when all the World shall appear before God to be judged Certainly the book wherein the sins of the wicked are written is kept in hell Misery shall be upon Infidels at the day of Judgment none doubteth the coming of this day but the wicked when they hear the Commandments of God preached they say that it is but an old fable impiety retaineth them in this error and induceth them to abandon the Law of his divine Majesty but they shall be cast headlong into the flames of hell It shall be said unto them Behold the punishment which ye would not believe The book wherein the good works of the righteous are written is reserved in heaven the Angels are witnesses how the just shall enjoy the delights of Paradise they shall see the immense graces of God reposed on delicious beds their countenance shall be covered with joy and content they shall drink of purified wine most savory that shall have the odour of Musk preserved in bottles that none but themselves shall open and it shall be mixt with the water of the fountain of Paradise where the Cherubins do drink The Infidels deride the true believers that would instruct them nevertheless when they return to their companions they admire their doctrine and say when they see them behold the seduced but they are not sent to be their tutors The Infidels that shall be converted and believe in the day of Judgment shall go into Paradise they shall enjoy the grace of God they shall behold the grievous torments of the damned that shall be punished after their demerits and shall find in the other world what they have done on earth CHAP. LXXXIV The Chapter of the Cleft containing Twenty five Verses written at Mecca IN the Name of God gracious and merciful The day of Judgment shall appear when the heaven shall cleave asunder and the earth cast men out of their sepulchres by the commandment of God. O man thou goest daily towards death and shalt find in the end the good and evil that thou shalt have done he to whom shall be given the book of accompt of his actions in the right hand shall be blessed he shall go with his companions into Paradise where he shall enjoy eternal felicity He to whom shall be given the account of his actions in the left hand shall be damned he shall be cast headlong into the fire of hell because of the unlawful pleasures that he hath taken in the world and for that he believed not in the Resurrection God beholdeth all that he doth and keepeth account I swear by the redness that appeareth in the Air when the Sun setteth by the obscurity of the night and the brightness of the Moon That you all shall change being and posture and shall revive after your death Wherefore is it that the wicked believe not in God why do they not humble themselves when they hear the Alcoran read They blaspheme against God but he knows all their actions declare to them that they shall be chastised and that such as believe in his Unity and do good works shall receive an infinite reward CHAP. LXXXV The Chapter of Signs Celestial containing twenty Verses written at Mecca Many Mahometan Doctors entitle this The Chapter of Castles IN the name of God gracious and merciful It swear by heaven adorned with signs and by the day of Judgment by the Angels and men that they who have made pits filled with fire to burn the true believers shall be witness of their own malice and shall avou●… that the fire burned themselves to make them know the unity of God and the truth of his Law. God is Omnipotent and always victorious he is the King of the heavens and earth he beholdeth all They that torment true believers and shall not repent shall be damned they shall burn eternally in the fire of hell and such as shall believe in God and do good works shall dwell in pleasant gardens wherein flow many rivers where they shall for ever enjoy supream felicity The wrath of God is strong he maketh his creatures to die and rise again when he pleaseth he is merciful towards them that repent of their sins and loveth them that serve him He hath created his throne to which praise is due eternally he raiseth up whom he listeth and nothing is to him impossible Hast thou heard the History of the people of Pharaoh and Temod God shall chastise in like manner them that shall not believe in his Law he knoweth them all Certainly the precious Alcoran is written in the book that is reserved in heaven CHAP. LXXXVI The