T. H.
We did not bring the Quran down upon you to cause you misery.
It is but a Reminder for those who fear.
A revelation from the One who created the earth and the high heavens.
The Almighty: He settled on the Throne.
To Him belongs what is in the heavens and what is in the earth and what is in between them, and what is beneath the soil.
Regardless of you speaking out loudly, He knows the secrets as well as what is most hidden.
God: there is no god except Him. To Him belong the Beautiful Names.
Has the story of Moses reached you?
When he saw a fire, he said to his family, "Wait here, I have come across a fire. Perhaps I could bring you a burning ember or find at the fire some guidance."
Then when he reached it, he was called, "O, Moses,
I am your Lord, so remove your sandals. You are in the holy valley Tuwa.
I have chosen you, so listen to what is being inspired.
I am God. There is no god except Me. So worship Me, and observe the Salat to commemorate Me.
The Hour is surely coming. I will keep it almost hidden so that every self is repaid for what it strives.
So let not the one who does not believe in it and who followed his personal desire make you disregard it, for then you would fall.
What is that in your right hand, O Moses?"
He said, "It is my staff. I lean on it, herd my sheep with it, and I have other uses for it."
He said, "Throw it down, Moses."
He threw it down, whereupon it became a moving serpent.
He said, "Take it and do not fear. We will return it to its original state.
And draw your hand to your wing, it will come out white without blemish; another sign.
This is to show you another of Our great signs.
Go to Pharaoh, for he has transgressed."
He said, "My Lord, relieve my chest for me,
and make my task easy for me,
and untie the knot in my tongue,
so they would understand my words,
and appoint an assistant for me from my family,
Aaron, my brother,
strengthen me through him.
Let him share in my task,
so that we may glorify You frequently,
and commemorate You frequently.
You have been Seer of us."
He said, "You are granted your request, O Moses.
We have indeed bestowed favour upon you one more time
when We inspired to your mother what was to be inspired:
'Cast him into the basket, then throw it into the river. The river will toss him onto the shore, to be picked up by an enemy of Mine and an enemy of his.' I showered you with love from Me, and I had you grow up before My eyes.
Your sister walked over and said, 'Shall I guide you to one who could nurse him?' We thus returned you to your mother so that she would be happy and does not grieve. And when you killed a person, We saved you from the grief, and We tested you severely. You then remained with the people of Madyan for a number of years. Then you came here as ordained, O Moses.
I have fashioned you for Myself.
Go, you and your brother, with My signs, and do not slacken in My remembrance.
Go, both of you, to Pharaoh, for he has transgressed.
Say gentle words to him so that perhaps he will be reminded or show some fear."
They said, "Our Lord, we fear that he may be too excessive against us, or transgress."
He said, "Do not fear, I am with the two of you. I hear, and I see.
So go to him and say, `We are messengers of your Lord, so let the Children of Israel go with us and do not punish them. We come to you with a sign from your Lord, and peace be upon the one who follows the guidance.
It has been inspired to us that the punishment shall fall upon the one who denies and turns away.' "
He said, "So who is the Lord of the two of you, O Moses?"
He said, "Our Lord is the One who gave everything its created form, then He guided."
He said, "What about the former generations?"
He said, "The knowledge thereof is with my Lord in a Record. My Lord does not err, nor does He forget."
He is the One who rendered the earth a cradle for you and threaded pathways in it for you, and He brought water down from the sky with which We produced pairs of various plants.
Eat and pasture your livestock. Indeed, in that are signs for those who possess intelligence.
From it, We created you. Into it, We will return you, and from it, We will bring you out another time.
We showed him all of Our signs, but he denied and refused.
He said, "Did you come to us to take us out of our land with your magic, O Moses?
We will surely bring you magic like it. So set between us and you an appointment which we do not break, neither do you, in a mutually agreeable place."
He said, "Your appointment is on the day of the zinat, and the people shall gather in the morning."
Then Pharaoh turned away and put together his scheme, then he came.
Moses said to them, "Woe to you! Do not fabricate lies against God, or He will strike you with a punishment that will wipe you out. Those who fabricate will surely fail."
They disputed their affair amongst themselves, and they conferred secretly.
They said, "Indeed, these are two magicians who wish to drive you out of your land with their magic and to do away with your exemplary system.
So put together your plan, then come in a row. The one who gains the upper hand will indeed succeed today."
They said, "O Moses, either you cast or we will be the first to cast."
He said, "No, you cast." So then their ropes and their sticks appeared to him, because of their magic, as if they were moving.
So Moses harboured fear within himself.
We said, "Do not fear, you will have the upper hand.
Cast what is in your right hand. It will swallow up what they conjured up. What they conjured up is no more than the scheming of a magician. The magician will not succeed, whatever he comes up with."
And so the magicians fell in prostration. They said, "We believe in the Lord of Aaron and Moses."
He said, "Did you believe in him before I give you the permission? He must be your chief, the one who taught you magic. I will cut your hands and feet on opposite sides, and I will crucify you on the trunks of palm trees. Then you will surely know which of us is more severe in punishment and is longer lasting."
They said, "We will not prefer you over the clear proofs that have come to us and the One who initiated us. So decree whatever you are to decree. You can only decree in this worldly life.
We have believed in our Lord that He may forgive us our sins and the magic that you forced us to perform. Indeed, God is better and everlasting."
The one who comes to his Lord as a criminal, for him is Hell, wherein he neither dies nor lives.
And the one who comes to Him as a believer and has done good deeds, those shall have the high ranks;
the Gardens of Eden beneath which rivers flow. Therein, they shall permanently remain. Such is the reward of those who purify themselves.
We inspired to Moses: "Travel with My servants, then strike for them a dry path through the sea. Do not fear being caught, and do not be scared."
So Pharaoh pursued them with his soldiers, then there covered them of the sea that which covered them.
Pharaoh led his people astray and did not guide.
O Children of Israel, We saved you from your enemy, and We made an appointment with you at the right side of the mount, and We brought down upon you the manna and the quails.
Eat from the good things We provided you with, and do not transgress therein, or my wrath will fall upon you. Whoever incurs My wrath has surely plunged to his ruin.
But indeed, I am Forgiving towards the one who repents, believes, does good deeds and is then guided.
"What has made you rush ahead of your people, O Moses?"
He said, "They are following close behind me, but I have hurried on to You, my Lord, so You would be pleased."
He said, "We have tested your people after you left, and the Samarian has misguided them."
So Moses returned to his people, angry and disappointed. He said, "O my people, did your Lord not promise you a good promise? Has the pledge been a long time coming for you? Or did you wish for your Lord's wrath to descend upon you, and thus you broke your promise to me?"
They said, "We did not break our promise to you out of our own will, but we were made to carry heavy loads of the people's zinat, so we threw them in just as the Samarian did throw."
He then produced for them a calf with a body that emitted a mooing sound, and they said, "This is your god and the god of Moses, but he forgot."
Did they not see that it could not return a word to them nor possessed the power to harm them or benefit them?
Aaron had earlier told them, "O my people, you are being tested by it. Indeed, your Lord is the Almighty, so follow me and obey my command."
They said, "We will not stop being devoted to it until Moses returns to us."
He said, "O Aaron, what prevented you when you saw that they had strayed
from following me? Have you disobeyed my command?"
He said, "O son of my mother; do not grab me by my beard or my head. I feared that you might say, 'You have caused division among the Children of Israel, and you did not pay attention to my words.' "
He said, "So what do you have to say, O Samarian?"
He said, "I saw what they did not see, and so I grabbed a handful from the tracks of the messenger and threw it. That is what my inner self prompted me to do."
He said, "Then go! You are granted in this life to say that you are not to be touched. And indeed, there is for you an appointment that you will not be allowed to evade. And look at your god to which you remained devoted; we will burn it, then we will scatter its entire remains in the sea."
Indeed, God is your only god: the One besides whom there is no other god. He has encompassed all things in knowledge.
We thus narrate to you news from what has preceded, and We have given you a Reminder from Us.
The one who turns away from it shall bear a burden on the Day of Resurrection
in which they shall permanently remain; what a miserable load on the Day of Resurrection!
That is the Day when the horn is blown, and We gather the criminals on that Day looking blue,
whispering among themselves, "You remained but ten."
We know best what they say when the most exemplary among them in conduct will say, "You remained no more than one day."
They ask you about the mountains, say, "My Lord will blast them off completely.
He will leave it like a barren level plain.
You will not see in it any crookedness nor unevenness."
On that Day, they will follow the caller. He has no crookedness in him. All voices will be subdued before the Almighty, so you will hear nothing but whispers.
On that Day, intercession will benefit no one except the one who has been permitted by the Almighty and whose utterance is accepted by Him.
He knows what is before them and what is after them, while they encompass no knowledge about Him.
And the faces were humbled before the Living, the Eternal. And those loaded with transgressions have failed.
And he who does good deeds, and is a believer, should fear no injustice nor deprivation.
And thus We brought it down as an Arabic Quran, and We diversified therein the warnings so that they may be reverent or that it may provide them with a reminder.
Exalted is God, the King, the Truth. Do not rush the Quran before its revelation to you is concluded, and say, "My Lord, increase me in knowledge."
We have taken a pledge from Adam previously, but he forgot, and We found in him no resolve.
When We said to the angels, "Fall prostrate before Adam," they fell prostrate, except Satan; he refused.
So We said, "O Adam, this is an enemy of you and your wife, so do not let him evict the two of you from Paradise and thus become miserable.
You are granted never to hunger therein, nor go naked.
And you will neither thirst therein nor suffer excessive heat."
Then the devil whispered to him. He said, "O Adam, shall I show you the tree of immortality and sovereignty that never perishes?"
So they ate from it whereupon their bodies became apparent to them, and they started covering themselves with the leaves of Paradise. Adam disobeyed his Lord, and so he strayed.
Then his Lord chose him, and so He redeemed him and guided him.
He said, "Go down therefrom, all of you. Some of you will be enemies of one another. When guidance comes to you from Me, the one who follows My guidance will not go astray nor suffer any misery.
As for the one who turns away from My remembrance, he will have a miserable life, and We will summon him on the Day of Resurrection blind."
He will say, "My Lord, why did you summon me blind when before I was able to see?"
He said, "Thus did Our revelations come to you and you forgot them, and thus today you will be forgotten."
And thus do We repay the one who was excessive and did not believe in the revelations of his Lord. The punishment of the Hereafter is more severe and longer lasting.
Has it not been of any guidance to them how many generations We have annihilated before them, and in whose dwelling places they now walk? Indeed, in that are signs for those who possess intelligence.
Had it not been for a previous Word from your Lord and a specified time, it would have been an inevitability.
So be patient in the face of what they say, and glorify your Lord with praise before the rising of the sun and before its setting, and during the night glorify, as well as at the ends of the day, so that you may be content.
Do not stare with envy at the enjoyments We granted some couples among them. The flowering of the worldly life is that in which We test them, while the provisions of your Lord are better and longer lasting.
Instruct your family to observe the Salat and be diligent in observing it. We do not ask you for provisions; it is We who provide for you. The best outcome is attained through reverence.
They said, "If only he could bring us a miracle from his Lord!" Has there not come to them the clear proof of what is in the previous Scrolls?
Had We annihilated them through a punishment before him, they would have said, "Our Lord, if only You had sent us a messenger! We would have followed Your revelations before we were humiliated and disgraced."
Say, "Everyone is waiting, so wait. You will find out who are the companions of the even path and who is guided.