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Moses {Musa}
said unto them: Woe unto you! Invent not a lie against Allah, lest
He extirpate you by some punishment. He who lies fails miserably. |
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Then they debated one with another
what they must do, and they kept their counsel secret. |
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They said: Lo! these are two wizards
who would drive you out from your country by their magic, and destroy
your best traditions; |
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So arrange your plan, and come in battle
line. Whoso is uppermost this day will be indeed successful. |
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They said: O Moses {Musa}!
Either throw first, or let us be the first to throw? |
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He said: Nay, do you throw! Then Lo!
their cords and their staves, by their magic, appeared to him as though
they ran. |
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And Moses {Musa}
conceived a fear in his mind |
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68. |
We said: Fear not! Lo! you are the
higher. |
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Throw that which is in your right hand!
It will eat up that which they have made. Lo! that which they have
made but a wizards artifice, and a wizard shall not be successful
to whatever point (of skill)
he may attain. |
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| 70. |
Then the wizards were (all)
flung down prostrate, crying: We believe in the Lord of Aaron and
Moses {Musa}. |
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(Pharaoh)
said: You put faith in him before I give you leave. Lo! he is your
chief who taught you magic. Now surely I shall cut off your hands
and your feet alternately, and I shall crucify you on the trunks of
palm trees, and you shall know for certain which of us has sterner
and more lasting punishment. |
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They said: We choose you not above
the clear proofs that have come unto us, and above Him Who created
us. So decree what you will decree. You will end for us only the life
of the world. |
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Lo! we believe in our Lord, that He
may forgive us our sins and the magic unto which you didst force us.
Allah is better and more lasting. |
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Lo! whoso comes guilty unto his Lord,
verily for him is hell. There he will neither die nor live. |
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But whoso comes unto Him a believer,
having done good works, for such are the high stations; |
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Gardens of Eden underneath which rivers
flow, wherein they will abide for ever. That is the reward of him
who groweth. |
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And verily We inspired Moses
{Musa},
saying: Take away My slaves by night and strike for them a dry path
in the sea, fearing not to be overtaken, neither being afraid
(of the sea). |
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Then Pharaoh followed with his hosts
and there covered them that which did cover them of the sea. |
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And Pharaoh led his folk astray, he
did not guide them. |
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O Children of Israel! We delivered
you from your enemy, and We made a covenant with you on the holy mountain's
side, and sent down on you the manna and the quails, |
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(Saying):
Eat of the good things wherewith We have provided you, and transgress
not in respect thereof lest My wrath come upon you; and he on whom
My wrath comes, he is lost indeed. |
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And lo! verily I am Forgiving toward
him who repents and believes and does good, and afterward walks aright. |
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And (it
was said): What has made you
hasten from your folk, O Moses {Musa}? |
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He said: They are close upon my track.
I hastened unto You that You might be well pleased. |
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He said: Lo! We have tried your folk
in your absence, and As-Samiri has misled them. |
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Then Moses {Musa}
went back unto his folk, angry and sad. He said: O my people! Has
not your Lord promised you a fair promise? Did the time appointed
then appear too long for you, or did you wish that wrath from your
Lord should come upon you, that you broke tryst with me? |
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They said: We broke not tryst with
you of our own will, but we were laden with burdens of ornaments of
the folk, then cast them (in
the fire), for thus As-Samiri
proposed; |
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Then he produced for them a calf, of
saffron hue, which gave forth a lowing sound. And they cried: This
is your God and the God of Moses {Musa},
but he has forgotten. |
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See they not, then, that it returnes
no saying unto them and possesses for them neither hurt nor use? |
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And Aaron indeed had told them beforehand:
O my people! You are but being seduced therewith, for lo! your Lord
is the Beneficent, so follow me and obey my order. |
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