al-bāriḥah: the night that has most recently passed. Before noon one says, “I saw (it) al-laylah,” while after noon one says, “I saw (it) al-bāriḥah.”

luḍightu: “I was stung,” i.e., by a scorpion—the sting is a bite that injects its venom.

irtaqaytu: “I sought someone to perform ruqyah for me.” Ruqyah is the recitation of Qurʾanic verses and lawful supplications over one who is ill or afflicted.

mā ḥamalaka ʿalā dhālik?: “What prompted you to do that? What proof do you have for its permissibility?”

lā ruqyata illā min ʿayn: “Ruqyah is only for the evil eye.” The evil eye is when a person harms another simply by casting a glance at him.

aw ḥumah: “or for ḥumah,” i.e., the venom of a scorpion or the like.

man intahā ilā mā samiʿa: “Whoever stops at what he has heard,” meaning he acts upon whatever knowledge has reached him, unlike one who acts in ignorance or neglects what he knows.

ʿuriḍat ʿalayya al-umam: “The nations were displayed before me”—it is said this occurred on the Night of the Ascension, when Allah showed him a likeness of those nations as they will appear on the Day of Resurrection.

al-raht: a group fewer than ten.

laysa maʿahu aḥad: “No one was with him,” meaning none of his own people followed him.

sawād ʿaẓīm: a vast multitude.

fa-ẓanantu annahum ummatī: “I supposed that they were my community,” because of their great number and because he was far from them and could not distinguish individuals.

Moses: Moses son of ʿImrān, the one to whom the Most Merciful spoke.

wa-qawmuhu: “and his people,” i.e., those of the Children of Israel who followed his religion.

bilā ḥisābin wa-lā ʿadhāb: “without reckoning and without torment,” meaning they will neither be called to account nor punished before entering Paradise thanks to their realization of pure monotheism.

thumma nahaḍa: “Then he rose,” i.e., he stood up.

fa-khāḍa al-nāsu fī ulāʾik: “The people began to discuss those (individuals),” that is, those present debated and differed regarding them.