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THE QUR'ÂN.
XLIX, 9-13.
then make peace between them; and if one of the twain outrages the other, then fight the party that has committed the outrage until it return to God's bidding; and if it do return then make peace between them with equity, and be just; verily, God loves the just.
[10] The believers are but brothers, so make peace between your two brethren and fear God, haply ye may obtain mercy!
Oye who believe! let not one class ridicule another who are perchance better than they; nor let women ridicule other women who are perchance better than they; and do not defame each other, nor call each other bad names an ill name is iniquity after faith?!
Oye who believe! carefully avoid suspicion ; verily, some suspicion is a sin. And do not play the spy, nor backbite each other; would one of you like to eat his dead brother's flesh ?-why! ye would abhor it! then fear God; verily, God is relentant, compassionate.
O ye folk! verily, we have created you of male and female, and made you races and tribes that ye may know each other.
Verily, the most honourable of you in the sight of God is the most pious of you; verily, God is knowing, aware!
1 I. e. it is defamation to charge a person who has embraced the faith with iniquity. The passage is said to have been revealed on account of Zafîyah bint 'Huyâi, one of the prophet's wives, who complained to him that she had been taunted by the other women with her Jewish origin. Mohammed answered her, 'Canst thou Dot say, “Aaron is my father, Moses my uncle, and Mohammed my husband?"
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