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The Koran commonly called The Alcoran of Mohammed; Translated in to English Immediately from the Original Arabic by George Sale

THE KORAN COMMONLY CALLED THE ALCORAN OF MOHAMMED

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The reason why the chapter had this title appears from the first verse.

Some, however, give it other titles, and particularly which is mentioned immediately after. It is observable that this chapter alone has not the auspicatory form,

 In the name of the most merciful God, prefixed to it; the reason of which omission, as some think, was, because these words imply a concession of security, which is utterly taken away by this chapter, after a fixed time; wherefore some have called it the chapter of Punishment:

others say that Mohammed (who died soon after he had received tills chapter) having given no direction where it should be placed, nor for the prefixing the Bismillah to it, as had been done to the other chapters^ and the argument of this chapter bearing a near resemblance to that of the preceding; his companions differed about it:

some saying that both chapters were but one, and together made the seventh of the seven long ones and others that they were two distinct chapters; whereupon, to accommodate the dispute, they left a space between them, but did not interpose the distinction of the Bismillah

It is agreed that this chapter was the last which was revealed j and the only one, as Mohammed declared, which was revealed entire and at once, except the hundred and tenth