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your prayer tell you that we you say. In fact, we see that you
should abandon what our are powerless among us.Were it
forefathers worshipped and that not for your clan, we would have

we should stop disposing of our stoned you,for you are not strong
belongings as we please? You against us.’ 92 He said, ‘My
are indeed the only wise and people, is my tribe mightier to
rightly-guided man!’ you than God? You put Him
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[Shu‘ayb] said, ‘O my behind you, turning your backs
people! What do you think? If I on Him! Surely, my Lord
have clear evidence from my encompasses all that you do.
Lord, and He has sustained me 93 My people, do what you will
with fair sustenance from and so shall I. You will certainly
Himself [should I not guide come to know who will receive
you?]. I have no desire to do, out a punishment to disgrace him,
of opposition to you, what I am and who is a liar. Wait on; I shall
asking you not to do. I only want wait on with you.’
to reform you as far as I can. Nor 94 When Our command came,
can I succeed without God’s We saved Shu‘ayb and those
help. In Him I have put my trust who believed with him as a
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and to Him I turn. O my people, mercy from Ourself, while the
do not let your opposition to me blast overtook the wrongdoers,
bring upon you a fate similar to so that they lay dead in their
the peoples of Noah or Hud or homes, 95 as though they had
Salih; nor is it long since the never dwelt therein. Oh, away
people of Lot were punished! with the people of Midian, just
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Seek forgiveness of your Lord as happened with the Thamud!
and turn to Him in repentance. 96 We sent forth Moses with
For my Lord is indeed merciful Our signs and with manifest
and loving.’ authority, 97 to Pharaoh and his
91 They replied, ‘Shu‘ayb, we nobles. But they followed the
do not understand much of what command of Pharaoh and the