[75] To unbelief.
[76] He will only injure himself.
[77] The Jews said unto the Muslims, We are the people of the first book (the Pentateuch), and our Ḳibleh (the point to which we turn our faces in praying) is the more ancient, and the prophets have not been of the Arabs, and if Moḥammad were a prophet, he had been of us. Therefore the following was revealed.
[78] So that He may choose of His servants whom He pleaseth.
[79] That is, God is; and He hath acquitted Abraham of belonging to them by His saying [Ḳur. iii. 60], Abraham was not a Jew nor a Christian; and the other persons above-mentioned with him were followers of him.
[80] They are the Jews, who have concealed the testimony of God, in the Pentateuch, of Abraham’s orthodoxy.
[81] [Moḥammad and Aḥmad are from the same root, ḥamd, meaning ‘praise;’ and both names were borne by the Prophet. The supposed prediction of Moḥammad’s coming arose, perhaps, from a confusion between Parakletos and Perikleitos or possibly Periklytos in Evang. S. Jo. xvi. 7, where the coming of ‘the Paraclete’ is promised; in some Arabic version of which the word may have been ignorantly rendered by ‘Aḥmad,’ and thus reported to Moḥammad.]
[82] By the description of him in their books.
[83] The description of him.
[84] In the Law.