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Moses: We sent him to Pharaoh pairs of all things so that you
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with clear authority. 39 But he might reflect. Therefore hasten
turned his back, he and his to God; truly, I am sent by Him
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courtiers, and said, ‘This is a to give you clear warning. Do
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sorcerer or a madman.’ Then not set up another god, along
We seized him and his army and with God. I come from Him to
cast them all into the sea: he warn you plainly.
himself [Pharaoh] was to blame. 52 Likewise, there came no
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There is another sign in the messenger to those before them,
[tribe of] ‘Ad, when We sent but they said, ‘He is a sorcerer or
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against them a life-destroying a madman.’ Have they handed
wind 42 and it destroyed this down to one another? They
everything over which it passed are certainly a people who exceed
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and reduced it to dust. In the all bounds, 54 so ignore them—
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Thamud [there was another sign], you are not to blame— but
when they were told, ‘Make the keep on exhorting them, for
most of your lives for a while.’ exhortation benefits the believers.
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But they rebelled against the I created the jinn and
command of their Lord. So the mankind only so that they might
thunderbolt overtook them while worship Me: 57 I seek no
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they looked on: they could not sustenance from them, nor do I
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stand up again, nor could they want them to feed Me— it is
defend themselves. 46 [We God who is the great Sustainer,
destroyed] the people of Noah the Mighty One, the Invincible.
before them. They were certainly 59 The wrongdoers will meet the
a sinful people. same fate as their predecessors—
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We built the universe with let them not ask Me to hasten on
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Our might, giving it its vast [the punishment]— woe, then,
expanse. 48 We have spread out to those who are bent on denying
the earth—how well We have the truth, when the Day arrives
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spread it out— and We created which they have been promised.