[199]. Every one has a noose cast around his neck; when a man dies, if he is righteous, the noose falls from his neck; but if wicked, they drag him with that noose down to hell.—(Farg., V, 8.)
[200]. Fargard, xix, 27-32.
[201]. Visparad, II, V, XVI, XXII.
[202]. Isaiah xlv, 6.
[203]. Sir M. Monier-Williams, Trans. Vic. Ins., Vol. XXV, p. 10.
[204]. The word Qur’an, a reading, comes from the verb qara’a, “to read.” It is also called El Forqān, “the discrimination,” a word borrowed from the Hebrew. It is also designated by the words El Mus-haf, volume, or El Kitāb, the book.
[205]. The chronology of this conquest is in many points uncertain, as the accounts differ. The most important event, however, in the long war was the battle of Nehāwend, which took place probably about A.D. 641.
[206]. Chap. II, v. 100.
[207]. It was probably about A.D. 571.
[208]. Chap. liii, v. 19-20.