26. Surah Ash-Shu'ara

Ṭā, Seen, Meem.1

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These are the verses of the clear Book.

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Perhaps, [O Muḥammad], you would kill yourself with grief that they will not be believers.

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If We willed, We could send down to them from the sky a sign for which their necks would remain humbled.1

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And no mention [i.e., revelation] comes to them anew from the Most Merciful except that they turn away from it.

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For they have already denied, but there will come to them the news of that which they used to ridicule.

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Did they not look at the earth - how much We have produced therein from every noble kind?

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Indeed in that is a sign, but most of them were not to be believers.

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And indeed, your Lord - He is the Exalted in Might, the Merciful.

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And [mention] when your Lord called Moses, [saying], "Go to the wrongdoing people -

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The people of Pharaoh. Will they not fear Allāh?"

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He said, "My Lord, indeed I fear that they will deny me

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And that my breast will tighten and my tongue will not be fluent, so send for Aaron.

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And they have upon me a [claim due to] sin, so I fear that they will kill me."

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[Allāh] said, "No. Go both of you with Our signs; indeed, We are with you, listening.

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Go to Pharaoh and say, 'We are the messengers1 of the Lord of the worlds,

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[Commanded to say], "Send with us the Children of Israel."'"

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[Pharaoh] said, "Did we not raise you among us as a child, and you remained among us for years of your life?

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And [then] you did your deed which you did,1 and you were of the ungrateful."

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[Moses] said, "I did it, then, while I was of those astray [i.e., ignorant].

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So I fled from you when I feared you. Then my Lord granted me judgement [i.e., wisdom and prophet hood] and appointed me [as one] of the messengers.

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And is this a favor of which you remind me - that you have enslaved the Children of Israel?"

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Said Pharaoh, "And what is the Lord of the worlds?"

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[Moses] said, "The Lord of the heavens and earth and that between them, if you should be convinced."

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[Pharaoh] said to those around him, "Do you not hear?"

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[Moses] said, "Your Lord and the Lord of your first forefathers."

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[Pharaoh] said,1 "Indeed, your 'messenger' who has been sent to you is mad."

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[Moses] said, "Lord of the east and the west and that between them, if you were to reason."

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[Pharaoh] said, "If you take a god other than me, I will surely place you among those imprisoned."

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[Moses] said, "Even if I brought you something [i.e., proof] manifest?"

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[Pharaoh] said, "Then bring it, if you should be of the truthful."

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So [Moses] threw his staff, and suddenly it was a serpent manifest.1

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And he drew out his hand; thereupon it was white for the observers.

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[Pharaoh] said to the eminent ones around him, "Indeed, this is a learned magician.

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He wants to drive you out of your land by his magic, so what do you advise?"

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They said, "Postpone [the matter of] him and his brother and send among the cities gatherers

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Who will bring you every learned, skilled magician."

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So the magicians were assembled for the appointment of a well-known day.1

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And it was said to the people, "Will you congregate.

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That we might follow the magicians if they are the predominant?"

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