26:1  Ta Sin Mi

26:2  Those are the signs of the Manifest Book

26:3  Perchance thou consumest thyself that they are not believers

26:4  If We will, We shall send down on them out of heaven a sign, so their necks will stay humbled to it

26:5  But never fresh remembrance comes to them from the All-merciful, except they turn away from it

26:6  So they have cried lies; therefore assuredly tidings will come to them of that they mocked at

26:7  What, have they not regarded the earth, how many therein We have caused to grow of every generous kind

26:8  Surely in that is a sign, yet most of them are not believers

26:9  Surely thy Lord, He is the All-mighty, the All-compassionate

26:10  And when thy Lord called to Moses, 'Go to the people of the evildoers

26:11  the people of Pharaoh; will they not be godfearing?

26:12  He said, 'My Lord, I fear they will cry me lies

26:13  and my breast will be straitened, and my tongue will not be loosed; so send to Aaron

26:14  They also have a sin against me, and I fear they will slay me.

26:15  Said He, 'No indeed; but go, both of you, with Our signs, and We assuredly shall be with you, listening

26:16  So go you to Pharaoh, and say, "Verily, I am the Messenger of the Lord of all Being

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

26:18  He said, 'Did we not raise thee amongst us as a child? Didst thou not tarry among us years of thy life

26:19  And thou didst the deed thou didst, being one of the ungrateful!

26:20  Said he, 'Indeed I did it then, being one of those that stray

26:21  so I fled from you, fearing you. But my Lord gave me Judgment and made me one of the Envoys

26:22  That is a blessing thou reproachest me with, having enslaved the Children of Israel.

26:23  Pharaoh said, 'And what is the Lord of all Being?

26:24  He said, 'The Lord of the heavens and earth, and what between them is, if you have faith.

26:25  Said he to those about him, 'Do you not hear?

26:26  He said, 'Your Lord and the Lord of your fathers, the ancients.

26:27  Said he, 'Surely your Messenger who was sent to you is possessed!

26:28  He said, 'The Lord of the East and West, and what between them is, if you have understanding,

26:29  Said he, 'If thou takest a god other than me, I shall surely make thee one of the imprisoned.

26:30  He said, 'What, even though I brought thee something so manifest?

26:31  Said he, 'Bring it then, if thou art of the truthful.

26:32  So he cast his staff, and behold, it was a serpent manifest

26:33  And he drew forth his hand, and lo, it was white to the beholders

26:34  Said he to the Council about him, 'Surely this man is a cunning sorcere

26:35  who desires to expel you from your land by his sorcery; what do you command?

26:36  They said, 'Put him and his brother off a while, and send among the cities musterers

26:37  to bring thee every cunning sorcerer

26:38  So the sorcerers were assembled for the appointed time of a fixed day

26:39  The people were asked, 'Will you assemble

26:40  Haply we shall follow the sorcerers if it should be they are the victors.

26:41  Then, when the sorcerers came, they said to Pharaoh, 'Shall we indeed have a wage, if we should be the victors?

26:42  He said, 'Yes indeed; and you shall then be among the near-stationed.

26:43  Moses said to them, 'Cast you down what you will cast.

26:44  So they cast their ropes and their staffs, and said, 'By the might of Pharaoh we shall be the victors.

26:45  Then Moses cast his staff and lo, it forthwith swallowed up their lying invention

26:46  so the sorcerers were cast down, bowing themselves

26:47  They said, 'We believe in the Lord of all Being

26:48  the Lord of Moses and Aaron.

26:49  Said Pharaoh, 'You have believed him before I gave you leave. Why, he is the chief of you, the same that taught you sorcery; now you shall know! I shall assuredly cut off alternately your hands and feet, then I shall crucify you all together.

26:50  They said, 'There is no harm; surely unto our Lord we are turning

26:51  We are eager that our Lord should forgive us our offences, for that we are the first of the believers.

26:52  Also We revealed unto Moses, 'Go with My servants by night; surely you will be followed.

26:53  Then Pharaoh sent among the cities musterers

26:54  'Behold, these are a small troop

26:55  and indeed they are enraging us

26:56  and we are a host on our guard.

26:57  So We expelled them from gardens and fountains

26:58  and treasures and a noble station

26:59  even so, and We bequeathed them upon the Children of Israel

26:60  Then they followed them at the sunrise

26:61  and, when the two hosts sighted each other, the companions of Moses said, 'We are overtaken!

26:62  Said he, 'No indeed; surely my Lord is with me; He will guide me.

26:63  Then We revealed to Moses, 'Strike with thy staff the sea'; and it clave, and each part was as a mighty mount

26:64  And there We brought the others on

26:65  and We delivered Moses and those with him all together

26:66  then We drowned the others

26:67  Surely in that is a sign, yet most of them are not believers

26:68  Surely thy Lord, He is the All-mighty, the All-compassionate

26:69  And recite to them the tiding of Abraha

26:70  when he said to his father and his people, 'What do you serve?

26:71  They said, 'We serve idols, and continue cleaving to them

26:72  He said, 'Do they hear you when you call

26:73  or do they profit you, or harm?

26:74  They said, 'Nay, but we found our fathers so doing.

26:75  He said, 'And have you considered what you have been serving

26:76  you and your fathers, the elders

26:77  They are an enemy to me, except the Lord of all Bein

26:78  who created me, and Himself guides me

26:79  and Himself gives me to eat and drink

26:80  and, whenever I am sick, heals me

26:81  who makes me to die, then gives me life

26:82  and who I am eager shall forgive me my offence on the Day of Doom

26:83  My Lord, give me Judgment, and join me with the righteous

26:84  and appoint me a tongue of truthfulness among the others

26:85  Make me one of the inheritors of the Garden of Blis

26:86  and forgive my father, for he is one of those astray

26:87  Degrade me not upon the day when they are raised up

26:88  the day when neither wealth nor sons shall profi

26:89  except for him who comes to God with a pure heart

26:90  And Paradise shall be brought forward for the godfearing

26:91  and Hell advanced for the perverse

26:92  It shall be said to them, 'Where is that you were serving

26:93  apart from God? Do they help you or help themselves?

26:94  Then they shall be pitched into it, they and the pervers

26:95  and the hosts of Iblis, all together

26:96  They shall say, as they dispute there one with another

26:97  'By God, we were certainly in manifest erro

26:98  when we made you equal with the Lord of all Being

26:99  It was naught but the sinners that led us astray

26:100  so now we have no intercessors

26:101  no loyal friend

26:102  O that we might return again, and be among the believers!

26:103  Surely in that is a sign, yet most of them are not believers

26:104  Surely thy Lord, He is the All-mighty, the All-compassionate

26:105  The people of Noah cried lies to the Envoy

26:106  when their brother Noah said to them, 'Will you not be godfearing

26:107  I am for you a faithful Messenger

26:108  so serve you God, and obey you me

26:109  I ask of you no wage for this; my wage falls only upon the Lord of all Being

26:110  so fear you God, and obey you me.

26:111  They said, 'Shall we believe thee, whom the vilest follow?

26:112  He said, 'What knowledge have I of that they have been doing

26:113  Their account falls only upon my Lord, were you but aware

26:114  I would not drive away the believers

26:115  'I am naught but a plain warner.

26:116  They said, 'If thou givest not over, Noah, thou shalt assuredly be one of the stoned.

26:117  He said, 'My Lord, my people have cried me lies

26:118  so give true deliverance between me and them, and deliver me and the believers that are with me

26:119  So We delivered him, and those with him, in the laden ship

26:120  then afterwards We drowned the rest

26:121  Surely in that is a sign, yet most of them are not believers

26:122  Surely thy Lord, He is the All-mighty, the All-compassionate

26:123  Ad cried lies to the Envoy

26:124  when their brother Hood said to them, 'Will you not be godfearing

26:125  I am for you a faithful Messenger

26:126  so fear you God, and obey you me

26:127  I ask of you no wage for this; my wage falls only upon the Lord of all Being

26:128  What, do you build on every prominence a sign, sporting

26:129  and do you take to you castles, haply to dwell forever

26:130  When you assault, you assault like tyrants

26:131  So fear you God, and obey you me

26:132  and fear Him who has succoured you with what you know

26:133  succoured you with flocks and sons

26:134  gardens and fountains

26:135  'Indeed, I fear for you the chastisement of a dreadful day.

26:136  They said, 'Alike it is to us, whether thou admonishest, or art not one of the admonishers

26:137  this is nothing but the habit of the ancients

26:138  and we shall not be chastised.

26:139  So they cried him lies; then We destroyed them. Surely in that is a sign, yet most of them are not believers

26:140  Surely thy Lord, He is the All-mighty, the All-compassionate

26:141  Thamood cried lies to the Envoy

26:142  when their brother Salih said to them, 'Will you not be godfearing

26:143  I am for you a faithful Messenger

26:144  so fear you God, and obey you me.

26:145  'I ask of you no wage for this; my wage falls only upon the Lord of all Being

26:146  Will you be left secure in this here

26:147  among gardens and fountains

26:148  sown fields, and palms with slender spathes

26:149  Will you still skilfully hew houses out of the mountains

26:150  So fear you God, and obey you me

26:151  and obey not the commandment of the prodiga

26:152  who do corruption in the earth, and set not things aright.

26:153  They said, 'Thou art merely one of those that are bewitched

26:154  thou art naught but a mortal, like us; then produce a sign, if thou art one of the truthful.

26:155  He said, 'This is a she-camel; to her a draught and to you a draught, on a day appointed

26:156  and do not touch her with malice so that there seize you the chastisement of a dreadful day.

26:157  But they hamstrung her, and in the morning they were remorseful

26:158  and the chastisement seized them. Surely in that is a sign, yet most of them are not believers

26:159  Surely thy Lord, He is the All-mighty, the All-compassionate

26:160  The people of Lot cried lies to the Envoy

26:161  when their brother Lot said to them, 'Will you not be godfearing

26:162  I am for you a faithful Messenger

26:163  so fear you God, and obey you me

26:164  I ask of you no wage for this; my wage falls only upon the Lord of all Being

26:165  What, do you come to male beings

26:166  leaving your wives that your Lord created for you? Nay, but you are a people of transgressors

26:167  They said, 'If thou givest not over, Lot, thou shalt assuredly be one of the expelled.

26:168  He said, 'Truly I am a detester of what you do

26:169  My Lord, deliver me and my people from that they do.

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

26:171  save an old woman among those that tarried

26:172  then We destroyed the others

26:173  and We rained on them a rain; and evil is the rain of them that are warned

26:174  Surely in that is a sign, yet most of them are not believers

26:175  Surely thy Lord, He is the All-mighty, the All-compassionate

26:176  The men of the Thicket cried lies to the Envoy

26:177  when Shuaib said to them, 'Will you not be godfearing

26:178  I am for you a faithful Messenger, so fear you God, and obey you me

26:179  I ask of you no wage for this

26:180  my wage falls only upon the Lord of all Being

26:181  Fill up the measure, and be not cheaters

26:182  and weigh with the straight balance

26:183  and diminish not the goods of the people, and do not mischief in the earth, working corruption

26:184  Fear Him who created you, and the generations of the ancients.

26:185  They said, 'Thou art merely one of those that are bewitched

26:186  thou art naught but a mortal, like us; indeed, we think that thou art one of the liars

26:187  Then drop down on us lumps from heaven, if thou art one of the truthful.

26:188  He said, 'My Lord knows very well what you are doing.

26:189  But they cried him lies; then there seized them the chastisement of the Day of Shadow; assuredly it was the chastisement of a dreadful day

26:190  Surely in that is a sign, yet most of them are not believers

26:191  Surely thy Lord, He is the All-mighty, the All-compassionate

26:192  Truly it is the revelation of the Lord of all Being

26:193  brought down by the Faithful Spiri

26:194  upon thy heart, that thou mayest be one of the warners

26:195  in a clear, Arabic tongue

26:196  Truly it is in the Scriptures of the ancients

26:197  Was it not a sign for them, that it is known to the learned of the Children of Israel

26:198  If We had sent it down on a barbaria

26:199  and he had recited it to them, they would not have believed in it

26:200  Even so We have caused it to enter into the hearts of the sinners

26:201  who will not believe in it, until they see the painful chastisemen

26:202  so that it will come upon them suddenly, while they are not aware

26:203  and they will say, 'Shall we be respited?

26:204  What, do they seek to hasten Our chastisement

26:205  What thinkest thou? If We give them enjoyment of days for many years

26:206  then there comes on them that they were promised

26:207  what will it then avail them, the enjoyment of days they were given

26:208  Never a city We destroyed, but it had warner

26:209  for a reminder; and never did We wrong

26:210  Not by the Satans has it been brought down

26:211  it behoves them not, neither are they able

26:212  Truly, they are expelled from hearing

26:213  So call thou not upon another god with God, lest thou shouldst be one of those that are chastised

26:214  And warn thy clan, thy nearest kin

26:215  Lower thy wing to those who follow thee, being believers

26:216  then, if they disobey thee, say, 'I am quit of that you do.

26:217  Put thy trust in the All-mighty, the All-compassionate

26:218  who sees thee when thou standes

26:219  and when thou turnest about among those who bow

26:220  Surely He is the All-hearing, the All-knowing

26:221  Shall I tell you on whom the Satans come down

26:222  They come down on every guilty impostor

26:223  They give ear, but most of them are liars

26:224  And the poets -- the perverse follow them

26:225  hast thou not seen how they wander in every valle

26:226  and how they say that which they do not

26:227  Save those that believe, and do righteous deeds, and remember God oft, and help themselves after being wronged; and those who do wrong shall surely know by what overturning they will he overturned