40 Preface يا بَني إِسرائيلَ اذكُروا نِعمَتِيَ الَّتي أَنعَمتُ عَلَيكُم وَأَوفوا بِعَهدي أوفِ بِعَهدِكُم وَإِيّايَ فَارهَبونِYusuf AliO Children of Israel! call to mind the (special) favour which I bestowed upon you, and fulfil your covenant1 with Me as I fulfil My Covenant with you, and fear none but Me.The appeal is made to Israel subjectively in terms of their own tradition. You claim to be a favoured nation: have you forgotten My favours? You claim a special Covenant with Me: I have fulfilled My part of the Covenant by bringing you out of the land of bondage and giving you Canaan, the land “flowing with milk and honey”: how have you fulfilled your part of the Covenant? Do you fear for your national existence? If you fear Me, nothing else will matter.