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THE QUR'ÂN.
CXI, 2-CXIII, 5.
His wealth shall not avail him, nor what he has earned !
He shall broil in a fire that flames?, and his wife carrying faggots !—[5] on her neck a cord of palm fibres.
THE CHAPTER OF UNITY.
(CXII. Place of origin doubtful.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God.
Say, 'He is God alone! God the Eternal ! He begets not and is not begotten! Nor is there like unto Him any one !'
THE CHAPTER OF THE DAYBREAK.
(CXIII. Place of origin doubtful.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God.
Say, 'I seek refuge in the Lord of the daybreak, from the evil of what He has created ; and from the evil of the night when it cometh on 3, and from the evil of the blowers upon knots*; [5] and from the evil of the envious when he envies.'
was the nickname of 'Abd el 'Huzzâ, uncle of Mohammed, and a bitter opponent of Islam.
A pun upon his name. • The chapter is generally known in Arabic by the name of El I'hlâs, clearing oneself,' i. e. of belief in any but one God.
8 Or, according to a traditional explanation given by the prophet to 'Ayeshah, the moon when it is eclipsed.'
• Witches who make knots in string and blow upon them, uttering at the same time some magical formula and the name of the persons they wish to injure.
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