A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád'/Appendix A/21

by Moulavi Gerágh Ali

[Sidenote: (9) Creator, XXXV, 40.]

21. "They swore by God with their (Jahd) utmost oath that should a preacher come to them they would yield to guidance more than any people: but when the preacher came to them, it only increased in them their estrangement."

Sale's rendering is "most solemn oath," Rodwell's, "mightiest oath," and Palmer's, "most strenuous oath."