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The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Qur'an, 5:48 (al-Ma'ida, The Table), then 2:148 (al-Baqara, The Cow); Conway (1874), no. LXXXIV, The Essence of Religion, p. 53.

Two verses from Conway's section, which quotes Rodwell's English, in reverse order: Conway has 2:148 first, 'wherever ye be, hasten emulously after good: God will one day bring you all together', and 5:48 later, 'If God had pleased, he would surely have made you all one people; but he would test you by what he hath given to each. Be emulous then in good deeds. To God shall ye all return'. Tolstoy makes 'you all' «всех нас» (all of us), cuts 'by what he hath given to each' to «но он испытывает нас» (but he tests us), moves 'be emulous then in good deeds' to the second verse as «все стремитесь изо всех сил к добру», and leaves out 'To God shall ye all return'. In 5:48 God gives each people its own law and way; in 2:148 each has its own direction of prayer.

The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Qur'an, Sura 53 (al-Najm, The Star), 53:39-40; Conway (1874), no. CCCXIX, The Prophet, p. 213, margin 'The Star'.

Two verses of Sura 53 in Rodwell's English (1861), through Conway, who sets them as two sayings: 'Nothing shall be reckoned to a man but that for which he hath made efforts; And his efforts shall at last be seen in their true light.' Tolstoy keeps the first close («Ничто не будет зачтено человеку, а только его усилие») and changes the second: the Qur'an's promise that a man's striving will be seen, at the reckoning the next verse names ('That then he shall be recompensed with a most exact recompense'), becomes «Только в своем усилии человек является в своем истинном свете» (only in his effort does a man appear in his true light). In the Qur'an the efforts are what will be seen; in Tolstoy the effort is where the man is seen truly. The Arabic: 'man has nothing but what he strove for, and his striving will be seen' (saʿy, striving). Not in Thoughts of Wise Men (1903).