15. "Believers! bow down with worship your Lord and work righteousness, haply ye may prosper."
"And ('Jáhidoo') make efforts in God, as (Jihádehi) your making efforts is His due, He hath elected you, and hath not laid on you any hardship in religion, the Faith of your father Abraham. He hath named you the Muslims."
Messrs. Sale and Palmer translate the word here as meaning fighting, which is wrong, as it is unclassical and not literal. Rodwell translates it "do valiantly," and Sir William Muir says it is used in the more general sense (Vol. III, p. 32).
This verse is a brief and concise version of the great maxim in Deut. VI. 5; Mark XII. 30; and Luke X. 27,—
"Thou shalt love thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength."
See also Luke XIII. 24: "Strive to enter in at the straight gate."
(4) The Bee, XVI, 108, 111.
16. "Whoso after he hath believed in God denieth Him if he were forced to it, and if his heart remain steadfast in the faith, shall be guiltless; but whoso openeth his heart to infidelity—on them, in that case, shall be wrath from God, and a severe punishment awaiteth them."
"To those also who after their trials fled their country, then (Jáhadoo) toiled and endured with patience. Verily, thy Lord will afterwards be forgiving, gracious."