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But the earthquake took them unawares,
and they lay prostrate in their homes before the morning! |
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The men who rejected Shu'aib became
as if they had never been in the homes where they had flourished:
the men who rejected Shu'aib - it was they who were ruined! |
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So Shu'aib left them, saying: "O
my people! I did indeed convey to you the Messages for which I was
sent by my Lord: I gave you good counsel, but how shall I lament over
a people who refuse to believe!" |
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Whenever We sent a prophet to a town,
We took up its people in suffering and adversity, in order that they
might learn humility. |
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Then We changed their suffering into
prosperity, until they grew and multiplied, and began to say: "Our
fathers (too)
were touched by suffering and affluence."...Behold! We called
them to account of a sudden, while they realized not (their
peril). |
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If the people of the towns had but
believed and feared Allah, We should indeed have opened out to them
(all kinds of)
blessings from heaven and earth; but they rejected (the
truth), and We brought them
to book for their misdeeds. |
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97. |
Did the people of the towns feel secure
against the coming of Our wrath by night while they were asleep? |
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Or else did they feel secure against
its coming in broad daylight while they played about (care-free)? |
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Did they then fell secure against the
Plan of Allah? But no one can feel secure from the Plan of Allah,
except those (doomed)
to ruin! |
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To those who inherit the earth in succession
to its (previous)
possessors, is it not a guiding
(lesson) that, if We so willed,
We could punish them (too)
for their sins, and seal up their hearts so that they could not hear? |
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101. |
Such were the towns whose story We
(thus)
relate unto you: there came indeed to them their Messengers with clear
(Signs):
but they would not believe what they had rejected before. Thus does
Allah seal up the heart of those who reject Faith. |
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Most of them We found not men
(true)
to their covenant: but most of them We found rebellious and disobedient. |
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Then after them We sent Moses with
Our Signs to Pharaoh and his chiefs, but they wrongfully rejected
them: so see what was the end of those who made mischief. |
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Moses said: "O Pharaoh! I am an
messenger from the Lord of the worlds - |
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"One for whom it is right to say
nothing but truth about Allah. Now have I come unto you (people),
from your Lord, with a clear (Sign):
so let the children of Israel depart along with me." |
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(Pharaoh)
said: "If indeed you have come with a Sign, show it forth - if
you tell the truth." |
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Then
(Moses) threw his rod, and behold!
it was a serpent, plain (for
all to see)! |
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And he drew out his hand, and behold!
it was white to all beholders! |
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Said the Chiefs of the people of Pharaoh:
"This is indeed a sorcerer well-versed. |
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"His plan is to get you out of
your land: then what is it you counsel?" |
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They said: "Keep him and his brother
in suspense (for a while);
and send to the cities men to collect - |
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And bring up to you all (our)
sorcerers well-versed." |
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So there came the sorcerers to Pharaoh:
they said, "Of course we shall have a (suitable)
reward if we win!" |
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He said: "Yes, (and
more) - for you shall in that
case be (raised to posts)
nearest (to my person)." |
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They said: "O Moses! will you
throw (first),
or shall we have the (first)
throw?" |
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Said Moses: "Throw you
(first)."
So when they threw, they bewitched the eyes of the people, and struck
terror into them: for they showed a great (feat
of) magic. |
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We put it into Moses's mind by inspiration:
"throw (now)
your rod": and behold! it swallows up straightway all the falsehoods
which they fake! |
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| 118. |
Thus truth was confirmed and all that
they did was made of no effect. |
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So the (great
ones) were vanquished there
and then, and were made to look small. |
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But the sorcerers fell down prostrate
in adoration. |
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