418 ([return])
[ i.e. he dared not rape her.]
419 ([return])
[ i.e. her "yes" meant "yes" and her "no" meant "no.">[
420 ([return])
[ "Ignorance" (Jahl) may, here and elsewhere, mean wickedness, forwardness, folly, vicious folly or uncalled-for wrath. Here Arabic teaches a good lesson, for ignorance, intemperance and egoism are, I repeat, the roots of all evil.]
421 ([return])
[ So Mohammed said of a child born in adultery "The babe to the blanket (i.e. let it be nursed and reared) and the adultress to the stone.">[
422 ([return])
[ Arab. "Wa há," etc., an interjection corresponding with the Syriac "ho" lo! (i.e., look) behold! etc.]