And anon been lifted up to declare that a rigid conformity

E people of Mecca submitted without bloodshed, and hence it is obvious
that the injunctions contained in the commencement of the ninth
chapter of the Koran were never

carried out. They remained as dead letter, and will, I think, so
remain perpetually. Almost all European writers, as far as I know,
labour under the delusion that at the end of the ninth year Mohammad
published the opening verses of the ninth Sura,

commonly designated _Sura Barat_. But the fact is that it was
published in the eighth year of the Hegira before the commencement
of the sacred months, probably in the month of Shaban, while Mohammad
marched
in Ramzan against Mecca, not with the intention of prosecuting war,
for

it was to take place after the lapse of Zikad, Zelhaj and Moharram,
but of taking Mecca by compromise and preconcerted understanding
between himself and Abu Sofian. If it be admitted that the preliminary
verses of Sura IX of

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