God, gracious and merciful," in allusion perhaps to Exodus xxxiv. 6. except the ninth, which is of a warlike description, exhorting his followers to break truce with the enemy, and destroy them.
The great object of the Koran is to enforce the Unity of God, and the divine legation of Mohammed. "There is no God but God, and Mohammed is his Prophet." The Unity is inculcated in contradistinction to the Heathen Polytheists, who hold many gods; to the Jews, who are accused of believing Ezra to be the Son of God[1]; and to the Christians, who are charged with holding a plurality of Gods; connected with which is the dogma of the apostleship of Mohammed. A distinguishing feature of the Koran is a restless anxiety to mislead the mind by every species of artifice, and to anticipate and answer objections. Frequent challenges are
- ↑ Koran, chap. 9.
