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43 Attend to your prayers, give for you and saved you and
the zakat [prescribed alms] and drowned Pharaoh’s people, while
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bow down with those who bow you looked on. We appointed
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down. Do you admonish others for Moses forty nights [on Mount
to do good and forget this Sinai], and in his absence you
yourselves? Yet you read the Book. took to worshipping the calf,
Will you not then understand? and thus became transgressors.
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Seek help with patience and Yet after that We pardoned
prayer; this is indeed an exacting you, so that you might be grateful.
discipline, but not to the humble, 53 Remember when We gave
46 who know for certain that they Moses the Scripture, and the
will meet their Lord, and that criterion [to distinguish between
they will return to Him. right and wrong], so that you
47 Children of Israel, remember might be guided. When Moses
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My blessing which I have said to his people, ‘O my people,
bestowed on you, and how I you have indeed wronged
favoured you above all other yourselves by worshipping the
people. 48 Guard yourselves calf; turn in repentance to your
against the Day on which no soul Creator and slay [the culprits]
shall in the least avail another, among you. That course is best
when neither intercession nor for you in the sight of your
ransom shall be accepted from it Maker.’ He relented towards you.
nor shall help be given to it. He is the Forgiving One, the
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49 Remember when We delivered Merciful. Remember when you
you from Pharaoh’s people, who said, ‘Moses, we will not believe
subjected you to grievous in you until we see God with our
torment, slaying your sons and own eyes,’ a thunderbolt struck
sparing only your daughters— you while you were looking on.
surely in that there was a great 56 Then We brought you back to
trial for you from your Lord— life after your death, so that you
50 and when We divided the sea might be grateful. 57 Then We