Footnote

a In the book entitled “The Koran: Commonly Called The Alcoran of Mohammed,” a translation published by William Teggs & Company, London, England, in 1850, under the heading “Chapter II. Intitled The Cow; Revealed Partly at Mecca, and Partly at Medina. In the Name of the Most Merciful God,” we read, on page 20, in lines 18-23, the following: “O true believers, eat of the good things which we have bestowed upon you for food, and render thanks unto God, if ye serve him. Verily he hath forbidden you to eat that which dieth of itself, and blood and swine’s flesh, and that on which any other name but God’s hath been invocated. But he who is forced by necessity, not lusting, not returning to transgress, it shall be no crime in him if he eat of these things, for God is gracious and merciful.”