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26:2  That are the signs of the clear Book.

26:3  Perhaps thou wouldst be one who consumes thyself in grief because they become not ones who believe.

26:4  If We will, We send down to them from heaven a sign so that perhaps their necks would stay to it, ones that are bent in humility.

26:5  And there approaches them not any renewed Remembrance from The Merciful but that they had been ones who turn aside from it.

26:6  Surely, they denied it. So soon the tiding will approach them about what they had been ridiculing.

26:7  Consider they the earth, how much We caused to develop in and on it of every generous pair?

26:8  Truly, in that is a sign. Yet most of them had not been ones who believe.

26:9  Truly, thy Lord, He is, certainly, The Almighty, The Compassionate.

26:10  And when thy Lord proclaimed to Moses saying that: Approach the unjust folk,

26:11  a folk of Pharaoh saying: Will they not be Godfearing?

26:12  He said: My Lord! Truly, I fear that they will deny me

26:13  and my breast be narrowed and my tongue will not be loosened. So send for Aaron.

26:14  And they charge an impiety against me. I fear that they will kill me.

26:15  He said: No indeed! Both of you go with Our signs. Truly, We will be with you, ones who are listening.

26:16  And both of you approach Pharaoh and say: We are the Messengers of the Lord of the worlds,

26:17  so send the Children of Israel with us.

26:18  Pharaoh said: Raise not we thee up among us as a child? Hadst thou not lingered in expectation with us for many years of thy lifetime?

26:19  And thou hadst accomplished thy accomplishment that thou hadst accomplished and thou art among the ones who are ungrateful.

26:20  Moses said: I accomplished it when I was of the ones who go astray.

26:21  So I ran away from you when I feared you. Then, my Lord bestowed on me critical judgment and made me among the ones who are sent.

26:22  Beyond this past favor with which thou hast reproached me, thou hadst enslaved the Children of Israel.

26:23  Pharaoh said: And what is the Lord of the worlds?

26:24  Moses said: The Lord of the heavens and the earth and whatever is between the two of them if you had been ones who are certain.

26:25  Pharaoh said to whoever was around him: Listen you not?

26:26  Moses said: Your Lord and the Lord of your fathers, the ancient ones.

26:27  Pharaoh said: Truly, your Messenger who was sent to you is one who is possessed!

26:28  Moses said: The Lord of the East and the West and whatever is between the two of them if you had been reasonable!

26:29  Pharaoh said: If thou hadst taken to thyself a god other than me. I will, certainly, assign thee to be imprisoned!

26:30  Moses said: What if I drew near thee with something that makes it clear?

26:31  Pharaoh said: Bring it, if thou hast been among the ones who are sincere.

26:32  So he cast his staff; that is when it was a clear serpent.

26:33  And he drew out his hand and that is when it was shimmering white to the ones who look.

26:34  He said to the Council around him: Truly, this is one who is a knowing sorcerer!

26:35  He wants to drive you out from your region by his sorcery. What is it, then, that you suggest?

26:36  They said: Put him and his brother off and raise up ones who summon in the cities.

26:37  They will bring every knowing witch to thee.

26:38  So the ones who were sorcerers were gathered at a time appointed on a known day

26:39  and it was said to humanity: Will you, you be ones who gather together

26:40  so that perhaps we follow the ones who are sorcerers if they had been the ones who are victors?

26:41  So when the ones who are sorcerers drew near, they said to Pharaoh: Is there a compensation for us if we had been the ones who are victors?

26:42  Pharaoh said: Yes! Truly, you will be the ones who are brought near to me.

26:43  Moses said to them: Cast what you will as ones who cast.

26:44  So they cast their ropes and their staffs and said: By the vainglory of Pharaoh, we, we will, surely, be the ones who are victors!

26:45  Then, Moses cast down his staff. That is when it swallows what they faked.

26:46  The ones who are sorcerers were cast down, ones who prostrate themselves.

26:47  They said: We believed in the Lord of the worlds,

26:48  the Lord of Moses and Aaron.

26:49  Pharaoh said: You believed in him before I give permission to you? He is, truly, your foremost master who taught you sorcery. Then, you will know. I will, certainly, cut off your hands and your feet on opposite sides, and I will cause you to be crucified one and all.

26:50  They said: No grievance. Truly, to our Lord we are ones who are turning.

26:51  Truly, we are desirous that Our Lord forgive us our transgressions that we had been the first of the ones who believe.

26:52  And We revealed to Moses saying that: Set thou forth by night with My servants. Truly, you are ones who will be followed.

26:53  Then, Pharaoh sent to the cities, ones who summon.

26:54  They said: These are, truly, a small crowd

26:55  and, truly, they are ones who enrage us.

26:56  We are altogether, truly, ones who are cautious.

26:57  So We drove them out from the gardens and springs

26:58  and treasures and a generous station.

26:59  And We, thus, gave them as inheritance to the Children of Israel.

26:60  So they pursued them at sunrise.

26:61  Then, when the two multitudes sighted each other, the Companions of Moses said: Truly, we are ones who are to be overtaken.

26:62  Moses said: No indeed. Truly, my Lord is with me and He will guide me.

26:63  Then, We revealed to Moses saying that: Strike the sea with thy staff and it divided and each had been a separate part like a high, tremendous mountain.

26:64  And, again, We brought the others close

26:65  and We rescued Moses and whoever was with him, one and all.

26:66  Again, We drowned the others.

26:67  Truly, in this is a sign and yet most of them had not been ones who believe.

26:68  And, truly, thy Lord, He is The Almighty, The Compassionate.

26:69  And recount to them the tidings of Abraham

26:70  when he said to his father and his folk: What is it you worship?

26:71  They said: We worship idols. We will stay ones who give ourselves up to them.

26:72  He said: Hear they when you call them?

26:73  Or are they profiting you or hurting you?

26:74  They said: Nay! But we found our fathers acting likewise.

26:75  He said: Then, considered what you had been worshipping,

26:76  you and your fathers, the elders?

26:77  Truly, they are an enemy to me, but not so the Lord of the worlds

26:78  Who created me. And it is He Who guides me.

26:79  And that He Who feeds me and gives me drink.

26:80  And when I was sick, it is He Who heals me

26:81  and Who causes me to die, again, will give me life,

26:82  and from Whom I am desirous that He will forgive me my transgressions on the Day of Judgment.

26:83  My Lord! Bestow on me critical judgment and cause me to join with the ones in accord with morality.

26:84  And assign me a good name of good repute with the later ones

26:85  and make me one who inherits the Garden of Bliss.

26:86  And forgive my father. Truly, he had been among the ones who go astray.

26:87  And cover me not with shame on a Day they will be raised up,

26:88  on a Day neither wealth will profit nor children

26:89  but he who approached God with a pure-hearted heart.

26:90  And the Garden will be brought close for the ones who are Godfearing

26:91  and hellfire will be advanced for the ones who are in error.

26:92  And it will be said to them: Where is what you had been worshipping

26:93  instead of God? Are you helped by them? Or help they themselves?

26:94  Then, they were thrown down into it, they and the ones who are in error,

26:95  and the army of Iblis, one and all.

26:96  And they said while they are in it striving against one another:

26:97  By God! Truly, we had been clearly wandering astray

26:98  when we made you equal with the Lord of the worlds.

26:99  And no one caused us to go astray but the ones who sin.

26:100  Now we have not ones who are intercessors

26:101  nor an ardent friend, a loyal friend.

26:102  Would that there were for us a return again. Then, we would be among the ones who believe!

26:103  Truly, in this is a sign; yet most of them had not been ones who believe.

26:104  And, truly, thy Lord, He is The Almighty, The Compassionate.

26:105  The folk of Noah denied the ones who are sent

26:106  when their brother, Noah, said to them: Will you not be Godfearing?

26:107  Truly, I am a trustworthy Messenger to you

26:108  so be Godfearing of God and obey me.

26:109  And I ask you not for any compensation for it. My compensation is only from the Lord of the worlds.

26:110  So be Godfearing of God and obey you me.

26:111  They said: Will we believe in thee when it is the most wretched that followed thee?

26:112  He said: And what knowledge have I of what they had been doing?

26:113  Truly, their reckoning is but with my Lord if you be aware.

26:114  I am not one who drives away the ones who believe.

26:115  I am not but a clear warner.

26:116  They said: If thou hast not refrained thyself, O Noah, thou wilt, certainly, be among the ones who are stoned!

26:117  He said: My Lord! My folk denied me,

26:118  so give Thou deliverance between me and them and victory and deliver me and whoever is with me among the ones who believe.

26:119  And We rescued him and whoever was with him in the laden boat.

26:120  Again, We drowned after that the ones who remained.

26:121  In this is, truly, a sign, yet most of them had not been ones who believe.

26:122  Thy Lord, He, truly, is The Almighty, The Compassionate.

26:123  Ad denied the ones who are sent

26:124  when their brother Hud said to them: Will you not be Godfearing?

26:125  Truly, I am a trustworthy Messenger to you,

26:126  so be Godfearing of God and obey me.

26:127  And I ask you not for any compensation for it. My compensation is only from the Lord of the worlds.

26:128  Build you a sign on every high hill to amuse?

26:129  And take you for yourselves castles so that perhaps you will dwell in them forever?

26:130  And when you seized by force, seized you by force haughtily?

26:131  So be Godfearing of God and obey me.

26:132  Be Godfearing of Him Who furnished relief to you with all that you know.

26:133  He furnished relief to you with flocks and children

26:134  and gardens and springs.

26:135  Truly, I fear for you the punishment of a tremendous Day.

26:136  They said: It is equal to us whether thou wert to admonish or thou hast not been among the ones who admonish.

26:137  Truly, this is nothing but morals of the ancient ones

26:138  and we are not ones who are punished.

26:139  So they denied him and We caused them to perish. Truly, in this is a sign yet most of them had not been ones who believe.

26:140  And, truly, thy Lord, He is, certainly, The Almighty, The Compassionate.

26:141  And Thamud denied the ones who are sent

26:142  when their brother Salih said to them: Will you not be Godfearing?

26:143  Truly, I am a trustworthy Messenger to you,

26:144  so be Godfearing of God and obey me.

26:145  And I ask you not for any compensation for it. My compensation is only from the Lord of the worlds.

26:146  Will you be left ones who are safe in what you have here

26:147  in gardens and springs

26:148  and crops of slender spathes of date palm trees?

26:149  Will you carve houses out of the mountains as ones who are skillful?

26:150  So be Godfearing of God and obey me.

26:151  Obey not the command of the ones who are excessive,

26:152  who make corruption in and on the earth and make not things right.

26:153  They said: Truly, thou art only of the ones against whom a spell is cast.

26:154  Thou art not but a mortal like us. So bring us a sign if thou hadst been of the ones who are sincere.

26:155  He said: This is a she camel. She has a right to drink and you have a right to drink on a known day.

26:156  And afflict her not with evil so that you should take the punishment of a tremendous Day.

26:157  But they crippled her and, then, it came to be in the morning that they are ones who are remorseful.

26:158  So the punishment took them. Truly, in this is a sign yet most of them had not been ones who believe.

26:159  And, truly, thy Lord! He is, certainly, The Almighty, The Compassionate.

26:160  The folk of Lot denied the ones who are sent

26:161  when their brother, Lot, said to them: Will you not be Godfearing?

26:162  Truly, I am a trustworthy Messenger to you

26:163  so be Godfearing of God and obey me.

26:164  And I ask you not for any compensation for it. My compensation is only from the Lord of the worlds.

26:165  You approach males among worldly beings

26:166  forsaking spouses whom your Lord created for you? Nay! You are a folk ones who turn away.

26:167  They said: If thou hast not refrained thyself, O Lot, thou wilt, certainly, be among ones who are driven out.

26:168  He said: I am of the ones with hatred for your actions.

26:169  My Lord! Deliver me and my people from what they do!

26:170  So We delivered him and his people one and all

26:171  but an old woman of the ones who stay behind.

26:172  Again, We destroyed the others

26:173  and We rained down on them a rain. And how evil was the rain for the ones who are warned!

26:174  Truly, in this is a sign. Yet most of them had not been ones who believe.

26:175  And, truly, thy Lord, He is, certainly, The Almighty, The Compassionate.

26:176  The Companions of the Thicket denied the ones who are sent.

26:177  When Shuayb said to them: Will you not be Godfearing?

26:178  Truly, I am a trustworthy Messenger to you

26:179  so be Godfearing of God and obey me.

26:180  And I ask you not for any compensation for it. My compensation is only from the Lord of the worlds.

26:181  Live up to the full measure and be not of the ones who cause loss to others by fraud.

26:182  And weigh with a straight scale

26:183  and diminish not to humanity their things nor do mischief in or on the earth as ones who make corruption.

26:184  And be Godfearing of Him Who created you and the array of the ancient ones.

26:185  They said: Thou art only ones against whom a spell is cast.

26:186  And thou art nothing but a mortal like us. And, truly, we think thee to be among the ones who lie.

26:187  So cause pieces of heaven to drop on us, if you had been among the ones who are sincere.

26:188  He said: My Lord is greater in knowledge of what you do.

26:189  But they denied him. So took them the punishment on the overshadowing day. Truly, that had been the punishment of a tremendous Day!

26:190  Truly, in this is a sign. Yet most of them had not been ones who believe.

26:191  And, truly, thy Lord, He is, certainly, The Almighty, The Compassionate.

26:192  And this, truly, is the sending down successively of the Lord of the worlds

26:193  that the Trustworthy Spirit brought down

26:194  on thy heart that thou be among the one who warn

26:195  in a clear Arabic tongue.

26:196  And, truly, it is in the ancient scrolls of the ancient ones.

26:197  Would it not be a sign for them that is known to the knowing among the Children of Israel?

26:198  And if We sent it down to some of the non-Arabs,

26:199  and he recited it to them, they had not been ones who believe in it.

26:200  Thus, We thrust it into the hearts of the ones who sin.

26:201  They will not believe in it until they see the painful punishment.

26:202  Then, it will approach them suddenly while they are not aware.

26:203  Then, they will say: Are we ones who are given respite?

26:204  Seek they to hasten Our punishment?

26:205  Hadst thou considered that if We gave them enjoyment for years

26:206  and, again, there drew near them what they had been promised,

26:207  they would not be availed by what they had been given of enjoyment?

26:208  We caused no town to perish but that it had ones who warn

26:209  as a reminder. And We had not been ones who are unjust.

26:210  It came not forth by the satans

26:211  and neither is it fit and proper for them nor are they able.

26:212  Truly, they, from having the ability to hear, are the ones who are set aside.

26:213  So call thou not to any god with God so that thou be among the ones who are punished.

26:214  And warn thy nearest kin, the kinspeople.

26:215  And make low thy wing to whoever followed thee among the ones who believe.

26:216  Then, if they rebelled against thee, then, say: Truly, I am free of what you do.

26:217  And put thy trust in The Almighty, The Compassionate,

26:218  Who sees thee at the time thou hast stood up

26:219  and thy going to and fro of the ones who prostrate themselves?

26:220  Truly, He is The Hearing, The Knowing.

26:221  Will I tell you in whom the satans come forth?

26:222  They come forth in every sinful false one who gives listen,

26:223  but most of them are ones who lie.

26:224  As for the poets, the ones who are in error follow them.

26:225  Hast thou not considered that they wander in every valley

26:226  and that they say what they accomplish not?

26:227  But those who believed and did as the ones in accord with morality remembered God frequently and helped themselves after they were wronged. And those who did wrong will know by which overturning they will be turned about!