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28. THE STORY (AL-QASAS)

In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

1 Ta Sin Mim and do not grieve, for We shall
return him to you, and shall
2 These are verses from the Book make him one of the
that makes things clear. 3 We Messengers.’ 8 Then Pharaoh’s
shall narrate to you some of the household picked him up—later
story of Moses and Pharaoh, to become for them an enemy
with truth, for people who would and a source of grief for them:
believe. 4 Pharaoh behaved Pharaoh and Haman and their
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arrogantly in the land, and hosts were wrongdoers— and
divided the people into groups, Pharaoh’s wife said, ‘He will be
seeking to weaken one section, a joy to the eye for me and you!
slaying their sons and sparing Do not slay him: he may well be
their daughters—he was one of of use to us, or we may adopt
those who spread corruption— him as a son.’ They did not
5 We wished to favour those realize what they were doing.
who were oppressed in the land, 10 Moses’ mother’s heart was
and to make them leaders and full of anxiety—she would have
make them inheritors [of Our disclosed his identity had We not
bounties], 6 and to give them strengthened her heart so that
power in the land; and to show she might be a firm believer [in
Pharaoh and Haman and their Our promise]. 11 She said to
hosts that very thing which they Moses’ sister, ‘Go, and follow
feared. him.’ So she watched him from
7 We inspired Moses’ mother a distance, like a stranger,
saying, ‘Suckle him, and then, without anyone noticing her.
when you fear for him, cast him 12 We had already made him
into the river, and have no fear refuse all wet nurses. So his