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)

shalt see it speedily; that day shall the heaven resemble dissolved mettall; the mountains shall be like to carded wooll, which bendeth downwards; none shall ask his neighbour who he is; and they shall look one upon another; the unbelievers shall desire to redeem themselves from these pains, through the loss of their children, their wives, their brethren, their companions, their neighbours, and the loss of all that is on earth. The flame of fire shall rise upon them, and shall burn the skin of their head; they shall call upon those that are behind them, that have, like themselves, abandoned the Law of God; and the covetous, that shall have heaped up treasures. Man was created timerous, he is afraid when evill befalleth him, and is arrogant when good hapneth to him; except the believers, who are stable in their faith, that persevere in their prayers, that give alms to the poor that beg, and those that are bashful, that believe in the day of Judgment, fear the punishment of God, and know none other women but their own, and their slaves, they shall be exempt from affliction at the day of Judgment; those that shall act the contrary, shall be in the number of the unjust. They who effect what they have promised, and preserve faithfully what to them hath been entrusted, who speak the truth in testimony, and who make their prayers at the time appointed, shall be honoured in Paradise. Wherefore is it that the Infidels, who are about thee, cast their eyes to the right hand, and to the left, with pride? do they require to enter into Paradise, and be saved? We have created them as other men. I swear by the Lord of the East and West, that we are able to change them into a people better then they, and that it is a thing easie for us to perform; leave them in their errors, until they be come to the day when they are promised to be chastised, and that they shall come out of their sepulchres to repaire to universal Judgment; they shall repair thither terrified, and their sight shall be covered with shame; this is the day that hath been heretofore preached to them.

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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 28 Mar. 2024: http://quran-archive.org/explorer/alexander-ross/1649?page=384