[155] If the choice had been given us we had not gone forth and had not been slain.
[156] Namely, the Jews.
[157] [See Modern Egyptians, 5th ed., p 284.]
[158] [On the various orders of the Jinn, see Lane’s Thousand and One Nights, Introduction, note 21. And see above, pp. 7, 9.]
[159] Consisting of the angels.
[160] They speak not until after He hath spoken.
[161] Iblees [the devil].
[162] [In the Arabic, ‘Ḳur-án.’]
[163] This is said to be the most comprehensive verse in the Ḳur-án with respect to good and evil. [The commentators say it contains the whole duty of man, both in respect of doing and of shunning. It is needless to enumerate the various virtues and sins which they consider are implied in each of the simple words of the text.]
[164] [Mr. Rodwell’s rendering.]