surah¹

In surah xiv., a grievous punishment is prepared for the unjust.

So in the sixth surah, he writes: We (as if identifying himself with God) will not impose a task on any soul beyond its ability.

The greatest luxury to which she treated herself now and again was a taffetas or surah silk.

surah—A twilled silk similar to serge; first made in Surat, India.

In this event it may be set into a scarf or drapery of China or surah silk with charming results.

Thus in the second surah he insists that mankind was of one faith from the beginning.