CHAP. LXXXVII.
Intitled, The most High
[a]
; revealed at Mecca.
In the name of the most merciful God.
[a] Some take the first word of this chapter, viz. Praise, for its title.
[b] Who determineth them to various ends;] Determining their various species, properties, ways of life, &c. [1]
[1] Al Beidawi.
[c] And directeth them, &c.] Guiding the rational by their reason and also by revelation, and the irrational by instinct [2] , &c.
[2] Idem.
[d] See chap. 75. p. 474.
[e] Except what God shall please;] i.e. Except such revelations as God shall think fit to abrogate and blot out of thy memory. See chap. 2. p. 14, and chap. 75. p. 474.
[f] We will facilitate unto thee the most easy way;] To retain the relations communicated to thee by Gabriel ; or, as some understand the words, We will dispose thee to the profession and strict observance of the most easy religion, that is, of Islâm.