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26. THE POETS (AL-SHU‘ARA’)

In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
1 Ta Sin Mim to Moses, saying, ‘Go to the
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wrongdoing people, the people
2 These are the verses of the of Pharaoh, will they not fear
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Book that makes things clear. It God?’ Moses replied, ‘My
may be that you will destroy Lord, I fear they will reject me,
yourself with grief because they 13 and my breast is straitened and
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will not believe. But if We had my tongue is not fluent; so send
so willed, We could have sent Aaron as well; 14 besides, they
down to them a sign from the accuse me of a crime, and I fear
heavens so that their heads would that they may put me to death.’
be bowed down before it in utter 15 God said, ‘Indeed not; go
humility. 5 Whenever there both of you with Our signs, We
comes to them any fresh warning shall be with you, listening [to
from the Merciful, they always your call]. Go to Pharaoh, both
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turn their backs on it: they have
of you, and say, “We are
indeed rejected the message. But
messengers from the Lord of the
the truth of what they laughed to 17
Worlds: let the Children of
scorn will dawn upon them Israel go with us!”’ 18 Pharaoh
before long.
7 Do they not see the earth, and said to Moses, ‘Did we not bring
what beneficial kinds of things you up among us as a child? And
you spent several years of your
We have caused to grow in it? 19
8 Surely in this there is a sign, yet life with us. Yet you committed
the deed you did, surely you are
most of them would not believe:
9 truly, your Lord is the Mighty one of the ingrates.’
20 Moses replied, ‘I did that
One, the Merciful.
10 When your Lord called out when I was one of the misguided,