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THESE ARE MESSAGES of the divine writ, clear in itself and clearly showing the truth!
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Wouldst thou, perhaps, torment thyself to death (with grief) because they (who live around thee) refuse to believe (in it)?
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Had We so willed, We could have sent down unto them a message from the skies, so that their necks would (be forced to) bow down before it in humility.
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(But We have not willed it:) and so, whenever there comes unto them any fresh reminder from the Most Gracious, they (who are blind of heart) always - turn their backs upon it:
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thus, indeed, have they given the lie (to this message as well). But (in time) they will come to understand what it was that they were wont to deride!
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Have they, then, never considered the earth - how much of every noble kind (of life) We have caused to grow thereon?
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In this, behold, there is a message (unto men), even though most of them will not believe (in it).
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But, verily, thy Sustainer - He alone - is almighty, a dispenser of grace!
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HENCE, (remember how it was) when thy Sustainer summoned Moses: “Go unto those evil doing people.
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the people of Pharaoh, who refuse to be conscious of Me!”
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He answered: “O my Sustainer! Behold, I fear that they will give me the lie,
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and then my breast will be straitened and my tongue will not be free: send, then, (this Thy command) to Aaron.
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Moreover, they keep a grave charge (pending) against me, and I fear that they will slay me.”
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Said He: “Not so, indeed! Go forth, then, both of you, with Our messages: verify, We shall be with you, listening (to your call)!
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And go, both of you, unto Pharaoh and say, ‘Behold, we bear a message from the Sustainer of all the worlds:
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Let the children of Israel go with us!’”
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(But when Moses had delivered his message, Pharaoh) said: “Did we not bring thee up among us when thou wert a child? And didst thou not spend among us years of thy (later) life?
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And yet thou didst commit that (heinous) deed of thine, and (hast thus shown that) thou art one of the ingrate!”
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Replied (Moses): “I committed it while I was still going astray;
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and I fled from you because I feared you. But (since) then my Sustainer has endowed me with the ability to judge (between right and wrong), and has made me one of (His) message-bearers.
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And (as for) that favour of which thou so tauntingly remindest me - (was it not) due to thy having enslaved the children of Israel?”
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Said Pharaoh: “And what (and who) is that ‘Sustainer of all the worlds’?’’
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(Moses) answered: “(He is) the Sustainer of the heavens and the earth and all that is between them: if you would but (allow yourselves to) be convinced!”
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Said (Pharaoh) unto those around him: “Did you hear (what he said)?”
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(And Moses) continued: “(He is) your Sustainer, (too,) as well as the Sustainer of your forefathers of old!”
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(Pharaoh) exclaimed: “Behold, (this) your ‘apostle’ who (claims that he) has been sent unto you is mad indeed!
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(But Moses) went on: “(He of whom I speak is) the Sustainer of the east and the west and of all that is between the two”- as you would know) if you would but use your reason!”
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Said (Pharaoh): “Indeed, if thou choose to worship any deity other than me, I shall most certainly throw thee into prison!
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Said he: “Even if I should bring about before thee something that clearly shows the truth?”
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