Note 046 See Maracci Alcoran. Sura xviii. tom. ii. p. 420-427, and tom. i. part iv. p. 103. With such an ample privilege Mahomet has not shown much taste or ingenuity. He has invented the dog (Al Rakim) of the Seven Sleepers; the respect of the sun, who altered his course twice a day that he rnight not shine into the cavern; and the care of God himself, who preserved their bodies from putrefaction by turning them to the right and left.

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