63 Preface وَعِبادُ الرَّحمٰنِ الَّذينَ يَمشونَ عَلَى الأَرضِ هَونًا وَإِذا خاطَبَهُمُ الجاهِلونَ قالوا سَلامًاYusuf AliAnd the servants of (God) Most Gracious are those who walk on the earth in humility, and when the ignorant1 address them, they say, “Peace!”;Ignorant: in a spiritual sense. Address : in the aggressive sense. Their humility is shown in two ways: (1) to those in real search of knowledge, they give such knowledge as they have and as the recipients can assimilate; (2) to those who merely dispute, they do not speak harshly, but say “Peace!”, as much as to say, “May it be well with you, may you repent and be better”; or “May God give me peace from such wrangling”; or “Peace, and Good-bye: let me leave you!”.