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all their works are in vain.’ 140 He unconscious. And when he
said, ‘Shall I seek a deity for you recovered, he said, ‘Glory be to
other than God, while it is He You, I turn towards You, and I
who has exalted you above all am the first to believe.’
peoples? 141 We delivered you 144 He replied, ‘Moses, I have
from Pharaoh’s people, who chosen you of all mankind for
afflicted you with dreadful My messages and My Words.
torment, slaying your male Hold fast to what I have given
children and sparing only your you, and be among the grateful!’
daughters. That was surely a 145 And We wrote for him upon
great trial for you by your Lord.’ the Tablets an admonition and
142 We appointed thirty nights details of all things, then [bade
for Moses, then added ten more: him], ‘Hold fast to them; and
the term set by his Lord was command your people to follow
fulfilled in forty nights. Moses them in their best sense. Soon I
said to his brother Aaron, ‘Take shall show you the home of the
my place among my people: act wicked. 146 I will turn away from
rightly and do not follow the My signs all those who are
way of those who spread arrogant in the land without any
corruption.’ 143 And when Moses right, so that even if they see all
came at Our appointed time and the signs they will not believe in
his Lord spoke to him, he said, them. If they see the right path,
‘My Lord, show Yourself to me they shall not walk upon it: but
so that I may look at You.’ He if they see the path of error, they
replied, ‘You cannot see Me, but shall choose it for their path,
look at the mountain; if it remains because they have given the lie
firmly in its place, then only will to Our signs and paid no heed to
you see Me.’ And when his Lord them. 147 The actions of those
manifested Himself on the who denied Our signs and the
mountain, He broke it into Meeting of the Hereafter will
pieces and Moses fell down come to nothing—they shall