Alexander Ross, The Alcoran of Mahomet, translated out of Arabick into French, by the Sieur Du Ryer, Lord of Malezair, and resident for the French king, at Alexandria. And newly Englished, for the satisfaction of all that desire to look into the Turkish vanities. (1649)

pray for the Prophet, and obey him: He that shall displease God and his Prophet, shall be accursed this world, and shall feel rigorous pains in the other; such as do injurie without reason, to those (men and women) that believe in God, commit an exceeding great sin. O Prophet! speak to thy wives, and thy daughters, and the wives of true-believers, that they cover themselves with vailes, they shall be more honored, and shall receive no displeasure, God is gracious and merciful. If the wicked, the whooremongers, and those of Medina, that are weak in their faith, quit not their Impiety, I will give thee absolute power over them, and few among them will respect thee; but take thou them, and slay them wheresoever thou shalt meet them, God so commanded those that were before thee; thou shalt finde no alteration in the Law of God. The people will enquire of thee, when shall be the day of Judgment? Say unto them, that God alone knoweth it, and that thou knoweth not if it shall be very speedily; but that God hath prepared for Infidels an exceeding great fire, wherein they shall burn eternally, they shall finde no protection, they shall be cast headlong into the fire, and shall say, would to God we had obeyed his divine Majestie, and the Prophet his Apostle; they shall say, Lord, we obeyed our Masters and Superiors, they seduced us from the right way; Lord, chastise them doubly, and give them thy curse. O ye that believe! be not like them that displeased Moses, he was innocent of the crimes that they laid upon him, he was inspired of God; fear God, and speak with civility, your works shall be acceptable to him, and he shall pardon your sins; He that shall obey God, and his Apostle, shall be happy; fidelity and obedience are pleasing to him in heaven and in earth, and upon the mountains. Such as depart far [from him] as did Adam, do injury to themselves, and are ignorant, he shall chastise those (men and women) that shall be disobedient and impious; he will give his grace to those (men and women) that shall believe in his Law, he is gracious and merciful to them that obey him.

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Alexander Ross, The Alcoran of Mahomet, translated out of Arabick into French, by the Sieur Du Ryer, Lord of Malezair, and resident for the French king, at Alexandria. And newly Englished, for the satisfaction of all that desire to look into the Turkish vanities., London, Printed, Anno Dom., Consulted online at “Quran Archive - Texts and Studies on the Quran” on 25 Apr. 2024: http://quran-archive.org/explorer/alexander-ross/1649?page=284