407 The two clauses following have been variously construed, and some translations leave the sense ambiguous. I have construed the conjunction "an to mean "lest", as it undoubtedly does in
7:172, "an taqulu ", etc. 408 Cf.
2:26;
2:76. The People of the Book were doubly annoyed at the Muslims: (1) that they should (being outside their ranks) receive Allah's revelations, and (2) that having received such revelations, they should be able to convict them out of their own scriptures before their Lord!