{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/sbe09/113.htm","path":"isl/sbe09/113.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/sbe09/113.htm","text":"The Qur'\u00e2n, part II (Sacred Books of the East volume 9), Palmer edition [1880];\nIN the name of the merciful and compassionate God.\nSay, 'I seek refuge in the Lord of the daybreak, from the evil of what He has created; and from the evil of the night when it cometh on 3; and from the evil of the blowers upon knots 4; [5] and from the evil of the envious when he envies.'\n344:3 Or, according to a traditional explanation given by the prophet to \u2018\u00c2yeshah, 'the moon when it is eclipsed.'\n344:4 Witches who make knots in string and blow upon them, uttering at the same time some magical formula and the name of the persons they wish to injure.","title":"The Qur'\u00e2n, ed. Palmer (SBE9): CXIII. The Chapter o...","type":"page"}