[314] Nöldeke, Geschichte des Qorâns, p. 56.
[315] I.e., what it has done or left undone.
[316] The Last Judgment.
[317] Moslems believe that every man is attended by two Recording Angels who write down his good and evil actions.
[318] This is generally supposed to refer to the persecution of the Christians of Najrán by Dhú Nuwás (see p. [26] supra). Geiger takes it as an allusion to the three men who were cast into the fiery furnace (Daniel, ch. iii).
[319] See above, p. 3.
[320] According to Muḥammadan belief, the archetype of the Koran and of all other Revelations is written on the Guarded Table (al-Lawḥ al-Maḥfúẓ) in heaven.
[321] Koran, xvii, 69.
[322] See, for example, the passages translated by Lane in his Selections from the Kur-án (London, 1843), pp. 100-113.
[323] Ikhláṣ means 'purifying one's self of belief in any god except Allah.'