And when God shall say-"O Jesus, Son of Mary:  hast thou said unto mankind-‘Take me and my mother as two Gods, beside God?"’ He shall say-"Glory be unto Thee! it is not for me to say that which I know to be not the truth; had I said that, verily thou wouldest have known it:  Thou knowest what is in me, but I know not what is in Thee; for Thou well knowest things unseen!

“I spake not to them aught but that which thou didst bid me-’Worship God, my Lord and your Lord;’ and I was a witness of their actions while I stayed among them; but since thou hast taken me to Thyself, Thou hast Thyself watched them, and Thou art witness of all things: 

“If Thou punish them, they are Thy servants, and if Thou forgive them. . . .44 Thou, verily, art the Mighty, the Wise!”

God will say-This day shall their truth advantage the truthful.  Gardens shall they have ’neath which the rivers flow, and remain therein for ever:  God is well pleased with them and they with Him.  This shall be the great bliss.

Unto God belongeth the sovereignty of the Heavens and of the Earth, and of all that they contain; and He hath power over all things.

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1 The garlands, etc., attached to the victims offered at Mecca.

2 When you have again returned to your common and everyday life by laying aside the ihram, or pilgrim’s robe.  This generally consists of two pieces of cotton, or linen, or woollen cloth, without seam or ornament, one of which is wrapped round the loins, and the other thrown over the shoulders.  The instep, heel, and head must be bare.

3 The Koreisch sent to meet Muhammad, who was on his way to visit the Caaba with 1400 men, at Hudaibiya (An.  Hej. 6) to prohibit his nearer approach.  A truce for ten years was ultimately concluded.

4 By making war in the holy month.

5 Comp.  Tract Cholin, c. 3.

6 Lit. on blocks or shafts of stone.  These were set up by the pagan Arabs in front of their houses for the purpose of sacrificing thereon.  See Freytag’s Einl. p. 462, and Tr.  Cholin, p. 39, 40, 41.

7 It was the custom to draw lots for joints of a camel with arrows, some feathered and others unfeathered, kept for this purpose in the temple of Mecca.  See Pocock, Spec.  Hist.  Ar., under the word Hobal.

8 In the sense of sound, healthful.

9 Thus Talm.  Tr.  Berachoth, 46.

10 This refers to the oath of fidelity which Muhammad’s followers took at Al Akaba.  Abulf.  Vit.Moh.p.43.

11 It is quite uncertain to what events this refers.  The commentators narrate, and have doubtless invented, various incidents as having occasioned it.

12 Verses 15-38 belong probably to the period shortly before the taking of Chaibar in the beginning of Hej. 7.  It is remarkable that Muhammad, although he has invented these twelve leaders of tribes, should nowhere mention the number of the Apostles.  There is no doubt, however, from the ancient biographies, that he chose twelve assistants for the propagation of Islam.  See Gagnier, Vie de M. ii. xvi.