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for the prosperous issue shall attend on piety.o The unbelievers say, Unless he come unto us with a sign from his LORD, we will not believe on him. Hath not a plain declaration come unto them, of that which is contained in the former volumes of scripture, by the revelation of the Koran? if we had destroyed them by a judgment before the same had been revealed, they would have said, at the resurrection, O LORD, how could we believe since thou didst not send unto us an apostle, that we might follow thy signs, before we were humbled and covered with shame? Say, Each of us wait the issue: wait, therefore; for ye shall surely know hereafter who have been the followers of the even way, and who hath been rightly directed. k Seeing the footsteps of their destruction; as of the tribes of Al, and Thamûd. l i.e., Evening and morning; which times are repeated as the principal hours of prayer. But some suppose these words intend the prayer of noon; the first half of the day ending, and the second half beginning at that time.1 m That is, do not envy or covet their pomp and prosperity in this world.2 n viz., The reward laid up for thee in the next life: or the gift of prophecy, and the revelations with which GOD had favoured thee. o It is said that when Mahommed's family were in any strait or affliction, he used to order them to go to prayers, and to repeat this verse.3
1 Iidem. 2 See chapter 15, p. 194. 3 Al Beidâwi.