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IN THE NAME OF GOD 
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  OH MAN OF GOD

2  WE HAVE NOT SENT DOWN THE QURAN TO YOU 
TO BE AN OCCASION OF DISTRESS FOR YOU

3  BUT IT IS A REMINDER 
FOR HIM WHO FEARS 

4  IT IS A REVELATION OF INSPIRATION
FROM HIM WHO CREATED THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS

5  GOD MOST GRACIOUS IS FIRMLY
ESTABLISHED ON THE THRONE OF AUTHORITY

6  TO HIM BELONGS ALL THAT IS IN THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH
AND ALL BETWEEN THEM AND UNDER THE SOIL OF THE EARTH

7  IF YOU PRONOUNCE THE WORD LOUDLY
IT IS NO MATTER, FOR SURELY 

HE KNOWS WHAT IS SECRET AND EVEN
WHAT IS YET MORE HIDDEN  

8  GOD, THERE IS NO GOD BUT HE
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL NAMES HAS HE

9  HAS THERE COME TO YOU MOSES' STORY? 

10  HE SAW A FIRE SO HE SAID TO HIS FAMILY 

STAY HERE I PERCEIVE A FIRE 
PERHAPS I CAN BRING YOU A BURNING BRANCH FROM THE FIRE
OR FIND SOME GUIDANCE FOR YOU AT THE FIRE

11  A VOICE WAS HEARD, OH MOSES, WHEN HE CAME TO THE FIRE

12  I AM YOUR LORD, PULL OFF YOUR SHOES BEFORE ME
FOR YOU ARE IN THE SACRED VALLEY

13  AND I HAVE CHOSEN YOU 
SO LISTEN TO THE INSPIRATION SENT TO YOU

14  I AM GOD, THERE IS NO GOD BUT ME SO SERVE ME ONLY 
AND ESTABLISH REGULAR PRAYER IN REMEMBRANCE OF ME

15  SURELY THE HOUR IS COMING 
TO KEEP IT HIDDEN IS MY CHOOSING

SO THAT EVERY SOUL MAY BE REWARDED AMPLY 
FOR WHAT IT STRIVES FOR EARNESTLY

16  THEREFORE LET NOT THOSE WHO BELIEVE NOT IN IT 
BUT FOLLOW THEIR OWN LUSTS DIVERT YOU FROM IT 
OR ELSE YOU WILL PERISH AS A RESULT OF IT

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17  AND WHAT IS THIS
IN YOUR RIGHT HAND, OH MOSES?

18  HE ANSWERED AND SAID, THIS IS MY STAFF, I LEAN ON IT
AND FOR MY SHEEP I BEAT THE LEAVES WITH IT
AND I HAVE OTHER USES FOR IT

19  GOD SAID, OH MOSES, THROW IT

20  SO HE THREW IT 
AND A SNAKE IN MOTION WAS IT

21  GOD SAID, SEIZE IT 
AND FEAR NOT, WE WILL RETURN IT 
AT ONCE TO THE FORMER CONDITION OF IT

22  NOW DRAW YOUR HAND CLOSE TO YOUR SIDE 
IT WILL COME FORTH WHITE AND WITH A SHINE 
WITHOUT HARM OR STAIN AS ANOTHER SIGN

23  THAT WE MAY SHOW YOU OF OUR GREATER SIGNS 

24  GO TO PHARAOH FOR HE HAS INDEED
TRANSGRESSED ALL BOUNDARIES

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25  MOSES SAID, OH MY LORD, EXPAND MY BREAST FOR ME

26  AND EASE MY TASK FOR ME

27  AND REMOVE THE IMPEDIMENT OF MY SPEECH FROM ME

28  SO THAT THEY MAY UNDERSTAND ME

29  AND GIVE ME A MINISTER FROM MY FAMILY

30  AARON MY BROTHER TO HELP ME

31  AND THROUGH HIM ADD STRENGTH TO ME

32  AND MAKE HIM SHARE MY TASK WITH ME

33  THAT WE MAY GLORIFY YOU GREATLY

34  AND REMEMBER YOU HONORABLY

35  FOR YOU ARE THE SEER OVER US SURELY

36  GOD SAID, OH MOSES, YOUR PRAYER IS ANSWERED 

37  AND WE CONFERRED ON YOU BEFORE ANOTHER FAVOR

38  WHEN WE SENT BY INSPIRATION THE MESSAGE TO YOUR MOTHER

39  PUT THE CHILD IN THE CHEST AND THROW IT INTO THE RIVER 

AND THE RIVER WILL CAST HIM UP ON THE BANK SAFELY
AND HE WILL BE TAKEN UP BY ONE WHO IS AN ENEMY  
AND I SHED ON YOU LOVE FROM ME AND MERCY 
AND THAT REARED UP UNDER MY EYE YOU MAY BE 

40  YOUR SISTER WENT FORTH AND SAID, SHALL I SHOW YOU 
ONE WHO WILL NURSE AND REAR THE CHILD FOR YOU

SO WE BROUGHT YOU BACK TO YOUR MOTHER
SO THAT HER EYE MIGHT FIND COMFORT
AND SO THAT SHE WOULD NOT SUFFER 
THEN YOU KILLED A MAN AND WE SAVED YOU FROM YOUR ERROR
AND WE TRIED YOU IN VARIOUS MANNERS
THEN YOU STAYED WITH THE MIDIANS FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS
THEN AS ORDAINED, OH MOSES, YOU CAME HERE

41  AND I HAVE PREPARED YOU FOR MY SERVICES

42  GO YOU AND YOUR BROTHER WITH MY MESSAGES
AND BE NOT SLACK IN MY REMEMBRANCES

43  GO BOTH OF YOU TO PHARAOH, FOR HE HAS INDEED
TRANSGRESSED BEYOND ALL BOUNDARIES

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44  BUT SPEAK TO HIM MILDLY 
PERCHANCE THAT HE MAY FEAR GOD AND TAKE HEED

45  MOSES AND AARON SAID, OUR LORD WE FEAR THAT HE 
SHOULD HASTEN AGAINST US INSOLENTLY

46  HE SAID, FEAR NOT FOR I AM WITH YOU
AND I HEAR AND SEE ALL THAT YOU DO

47  SO GO BOTH OF YOU TO HIM AND SAY, WE ARE APOSTLES 
SENT BY GOD SO SEND WITH US THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL 

AND DO NOT AFFLICT THEM FOR WE HAVE INDEED
COME FROM GOD WITH A MESSAGE OF PEACE 
TO ALL WHO FOLLOW GUIDANCE SURELY

48  IT HAS BEN REVEALED TO US THAT THE PENALTY 
AWAITS THOSE WHO REJECT AND TURN AWAY ARROGANTLY

49  WHEN THIS MESSAGE TO PHARAOH WAS DELIVERED 
HE SAID, OH MOSES, WHO IS THIS GOD YOU SERVE?

50  HE SAID, OUR LORD IS HE WHO EVERYTHING HE CREATED IT
HE GAVE FORM TO IT AND GAVE ITS NATURE TO IT
AND FURTHER HE GAVE GUIDANCE TO IT 

51  PHARAOH SAID, WHAT IS THE CONDITION 
OF FORMER GENERATIONS?

52  HE SAID, THE KNOWLEDGE OF THAT IS IN A BOOK WITH GOD
AND NEVER ERRING OR FORGETTING IS GOD

53  HE HAS MADE THE EARTH FOR YOU LIKE A CARPET SPREAD OUT
AND HAS ENABLED YOU TO BY ROADS AND CHANNELS GO ABOUT

AND HAS SENT DOWN FROM THE SKY WATERS
WITH IT HE HAS PRODUCED PAIRS OF PLANTS AND DIVERS
EACH OF THEM SEPARATE FROM THE OTHERS

54  ENJOY YOURSELVES PASTURING YOUR CATTLE AND EATING
THERE ARE SIGNS IN THIS FOR MEN OF UNDERSTANDING

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55  FROM THE EARTH WE CREATED YOU
AND INTO THE EARTH WE WILL RETURN YOU
AND FROM IT ONCE AGAIN WE WILL RAISE YOU

56  AND WE SHOWED PHARAOH ALL THE SIGNS
BUT HE REFUSED AND REJECTED THE SIGNS

57  HE SAID, HAVE YOU COME TO DRIVE US
OUT OF OUR LAND WITH YOUR MAGIC, OH MOSES

58  WE TOO CAN PRODUCE MAGIC LIKE YOU
SO MAKE AN APPOINTMENT BETWEEN US AND YOU
IN A CENTRAL PLACE WHICH WE WILL KEEP, US AND YOU

59  MOSES SAID, YOUR APPOINTMENT IS THE DAY OF THE FESTIVAL
AND LET THE PEOPLE BE GATHERED WHEN THE SUN IS UP WELL

60  PHARAOH WENT BACK AND SETTLED HIS PLAN
AND THEN HE CAME BACK AGAIN

61  MOSES SAID TO HIM, WOE TO YOU
DO NOT LIE AGAINST GOD OR HE WILL DESTROY YOU
SURELY HE FAILS WHO LIES AMONG YOU

62  SO WITH ONE ANOTHER THEY DISPUTED 
ABOUT THEIR AFFAIR AND KEPT IT SECRET

63  AND THEY SAID, THESE TWO ARE CERTAINLY EXPERT MAGICIANS
WHO WILL DRIVE YOU FROM YOUR LAND WITH THEIR ILLUSIONS
AND DO AWAY WITH YOUR MOST CHERISHED INSTITUTIONS

64  SO ASSEMBLE IN RANKS AND SETTLE YOUR PLAN 
HE SUCCEEDS WHO GAINS THE UPPER HAND

65  THEY SAID, OH MOSES, WILL YOU THROW
OR WILL WE BE THE FIRST TO THROW?

66  MOSES SAID, YOU WILL BE THE FIRST TO THROW
THEN THEIR ROPES AND THEIR RODS THEY DID THROW

AND ON ACCOUNT OF THEIR ILLUSION
IT SEEMED TO HIM TO BE IN MOTION

67  SO WHEN HE SAW THIS
FEAR ROSE IN MOSES

68  WE SAID, FEAR NOT THEIR PLAN
YOU HAVE THE UPPER HAND

69  THROW THAT WHICH IS IN YOUR RIGHT HAND
IT WILL EAT UP ALL THEY HAVE PLANNED

WHAT THEY HAVE IS ONLY A TRICK OF AN ENCHANTER
AND NEVER WILL SUCCEED THE TRICK OF AN ENCHANTER

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70  SO THE MAGICIANS FELL DOWN IN PROSTRATION
THEY SAID, WE BELIEVE IN THE GOD OF MOSES AND AARON

71  PHARAOH SAID, BELIEVE HIM BEFORE I GIVE YOU PERMISSION?
THIS MUST BE YOUR LEADER WHO TAUGHT YOU ILLUSION

I WILL CUT OFF YOUR HANDS AND YOUR FEET ON BOTH SIDES
AND ON TRUNKS OF PALM TREES HAVE YOU CRUCIFIED

SO YOU WILL KNOW SURELY
WHICH OF US CAN GIVE THE WORST PENALTY

72  THEY SAID, WE CANNOT PREFER YOU TO WHAT HAS COME TO US
OF CLEAR ARGUMENTS AND TO HIM WHO MADE US
SO DECIDE WHAT YOU WILL FOR US
YOU CAN ONLY DECIDE ABOUT THIS WORLD FOR US

73  WE BELIEVE IN OUR LORD THAT OUR FAULTS HE MAY FORGIVE US
FROM PERFORMING THE MAGIC TO WHICH YOU COMPELLED US
AND GOD IS BEST AND EVER ABIDING FOR US

74  HE WHO COMES TO HIS LORD AT JUDGMENT AS A SINNER 
FOR HIM IS HELL, IN IT HE WILL NOT DIE OR LIVE EITHER  

75  BUT THOSE WHO COME TO HIM AS BELIEVERS
WHO HAVE DONE GOOD DEEDS, THEY ARE HIGH ACHIEVERS

76  IN GARDENS OF ETERNITY WHEREIN FLOW RIVERS
THEY WILL DWELL THEREIN FOR EVER
THIS IS THE REWARD FOR THOSE WHO ARE NOT SINNERS

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77  WE  SENT TO MOSES AN INSPIRATION
TRAVEL BY NIGHT WITH MY SERVANTS

AND STRIKE A DRY PATH FOR THEM THROUGH THE SEA 
WITHOUT FEAR OF BEING OVERTAKEN BY PHARAOH'S ARMY

78  THEN WITH HIS FORCES PHARAOH PURSUED THEM 
BUT THE WATERS OVERWHELMED THEM AND COVERED THEM 

79  PHARAOH LED HIS PEOPLE ASTRAY 
INSTEAD OF LEADING THEM TO THE RIGHT WAY

80  OH CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, FROM YOUR ENEMY WE DELIVERED YOU 
AND WE MADE A COVENANT ON MOUNT SINAI WITH YOU 
AND WE SENT DOWN MANNA AND QUAILS TO YOU 

81  SO EAT OF THE GOOD THINGS WE HAVE PROVIDED FOR YOU
BE NOT INORDINATE OR MY WRATH WILL COME UPON YOU
THOSE ON WHOM MY WRATH DESCENDS PERISH THROUGH 

82  BUT WITHOUT DOUBT, I AM ALSO HE
WHO FORGIVES THOSE WHO REPENT AND BELIEVE
AND THOSE WHO ARE READY TO BE GUIDED RIGHTLY

83  WHEN HE WAS UP ON THE MOUNTAIN GOD SAID TO MOSES
WHAT MADE YOU HASTEN BEFORE YOUR PEOPLE MOSES?

84  HE SAID, THEY ARE CLOSE BEHIND AND I HASTENED TO YOU
OH MY LORD, THAT I MAY PLEASE YOU

85  GOD SAID, WE HAVE TESTED YOUR PEOPLE WHILE YOU WERE AWAY
AND THE SAMIRI HAS LED THEM ASTRAY

86  SO MOSES RETURNED TO HIS PEOPLE 
IN A STATE OF SORROW AND SAID, OH MY PEOPLE 

DID NOT GOD MAKE A HANDSOME PROMISE TO YOU
DID THEN THE PROMISE SEEM TOO LONG IN COMING TO YOU 
OR DID YOU DESIRE THAT HIS WRATH SHOULD DESCEND ON YOU  
SO YOUR PROMISE TO ME WAS BROKEN BY YOU?

87  THEY SAID, WE BROKE NOT THE PROMISE TO YOU 
AS FAR AS LAY IN OUR POWER TO DO

BUT WE WERE MADE TO CARRY THE BURDENS
OF THE PEOPLE'S ORNAMENTS 

AND WE THREW THEM INTO THE FIRE
ACCORDING TO THE SIMIRI'S ORDER

88  HE BROUGHT FORTH FROM THE FIRE A CALF FOR THEM
WHICH HAD A HOLLOW SOUND TO THEM

HE SAID, THIS IS YOUR GOD AND THE GOD OF MOSES
BUT THIS HAS BEEN FORGOTTEN BY MOSES

89  COULD THEY NOT SEE THAT IT COULD NOT RETURN A WORD TO THEM 
AND THAT IT HAD NO POWER EITHER TO HARM OR PROFIT THEM?

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90  AARON HAD SAID TO THEM PRIOR 
OH MY PEOPLE, YOU ARE BEING TESTED IN THIS MATTER
FOR GOD MOST GRACIOUS IS YOUR LORD AND CHERISHER
SO FOLLOW ME AND OBEY MY ORDERS

91  THEY SAID, WE WILL NOT ABANDON THIS CULT, BUT IN TURN
WE WILL DEVOTE OURSELVES TO IT UNTIL MOSES RETURNS 
 
92  MOSES SAID, OH AARON, WHAT KEPT YOU 
BACK WHEN THEIR WRONG DOING WAS SEEN BY YOU? 

93  AND YOU FOLLOWED NOT MY ADVICE TO YOU
HAVE YOU THEN DISOBEYED MY ORDERS TOO?

94  AARON REPLIED, SON OF MY MOTHER, SEIZE ME NOT BY MY BEARD 
NOR BY THE HAIR OF MY HEAD FOR TRULY I FEARED 

UNLESS YOU SHOULD SAY, YOU HAVE CAUSED A DIVISION 
AMONG THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL AND DID NOT LISTEN
OR RESPECT MY WORD EVEN

95  MOSES SAID, OH SAMIRI, WHAT WAS YOUR CASE THEN

96  HE REPLIED, I SAW WHAT THEY SAW NOT SO I TOOK A HANDFUL
OF DUST FROM THE FOOTPRINT OF THE APOSTLE 

THEN IT WAS THROWN INTO THE CALF BY ME
SO DID MY SOUL SUGGEST TO ME

97  MOSES SAID, GET OUT BUT YOUR PUNISHMENT WILL BE 
IN THIS LIFE. YOU WILL SAY TO MEN, DO NOT TOUCH ME
AND MOREOVER FOR A FUTURE PENALTY 
YOU HAVE A PROMISE THAT WILL NOT FAIL INDEED
LOOK AT YOUR GOD WHOM YOU WORSHIPPED DEVOTEDLY
FOR WE WILL MELT IT IN A FIRE BLAZING FIERCELY
AND SCATTER IT BROADCAST INTO THE SEA

98  THE GOD OF YOU ALL IS THE ONE GOD, THERE IS NO GOD BUT HE 
ALL THINGS HE COMPREHENDS IN HIS KNOWLEDGE COMPLETELY

99  SO DO WE RELATE TO YOU 
SOME STORIES OF WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE YOU
WE HAVE SENT THE MESSAGE FROM OUR OWN PRESENCE TO YOU

100  IF FROM IT ANY DO TURN AWAY 
THEY WILL BEAR A BURDEN ON JUDGMENT DAY 

101  THEY WILL ABIDE IN THIS STATE AND GRIEVOUS THE BURDEN 
WILL BE TO THEM ON THAT DAY FOR CERTAIN

102  THE DAY WHEN THE TRUMPET IS BLOWN WE WILL GATHER 
THE GUILTY BLUE EYED ON THAT DAY ALL TOGETHER

103  IN WHISPERS TO EACH OTHER WILL THEY SAY 
YOU STAYED NOT LONGER THAN TEN DAYS

104  WE KNOW BEST WHAT THEY WILL SAY 
THEIR LEADER MOST EMINENT IN CONDUCT WILL SAY 
YOU STAYED LONGER THAN JUST A DAY

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105  THEY ASK YOU ABOUT THE MOUNTAINS, SAY TO THEM
MY LORD WILL UPROOT THEM AND LIKE DUST SCATTER THEM

106  AND LIKE PLAINS SMOOTH AND LEVEL HE WILL LEAVE THEM

107  YOU WILL SEE NO CROOKEDNESS
IN THEIR PLACE AND NO UNEVENNESS

108  ON THAT DAY THE CALLER THEY WILL FOLLOW HIM
STRAIGHT AND NO CROOKEDNESS CAN THEY SHOW HIM 

AND ALL SOUNDS WILL BE HUMBLING
IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD MOST GRACIOUS AND NOTHING 
WILL YOU HEAR BUT THE TRAMPLING OF THEIR FEET WHILE MARCHING

109  ON THAT DAY NO INTERCESSION
WILL AVAIL EXCEPT FOR THOSE WHOM GOD GIVES PERMISSION 
AND WHOSE WORD BY HIM HAS FOUND RECEPTION

110  HE KNOWS WHAT APPEARS 
TO HIS CREATURES BEFORE THEM OR AFTER 
BUT THEY WILL NOT COMPASS IT WITH KNOWLEDGE OF THEIRS

111  ALL FACES WILL BE HUMBLED BEFORE HIM, THE LIVING 
THE ETERNAL, THE SELF SUBSISTING 

112  HOPELESS INDEED WILL BE 
THE MAN THAT CARRIES ON HIS BACK INIQUITY 
BUT HE WHO IS A BELIEVER AND DOES GOOD DEEDS 
WILL HAVE NO FEAR NOR WILL HE GRIEVE

113  WE SENT DOWN AN ARABIC QURAN EXPLAINING
IN IT IN DETAIL SOME OF THE WARNINGS 
IN ORDER THAT THEY MAY BE GOD FEARING 
AND MAY REMEMBER GOD IN THEIR REMEMBERING

114  HIGH ABOVE ALL IS GOD, THE TRUTH, THE KING 
BE NOT IN HASTE WITH THE QURAN BEFORE ITS REVEALING 
TO YOU IS COMPLETED BUT SAY, MY LORD, ADVANCE ME IN LEARNING 

115  WE HAD BEFORE TAKEN THE COVENANT OF ADAM ALREADY 
BUT HE FORGOT AND WE FOUND ON HIS PART NO FIRM CERTAINTY

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116  WHEN WE SAID TO THE ANGELS, BOW DOWN TO ADAM
AND THEY ALL BOWED DOWN, ALL EXCEPT SATAN
HE REFUSED TO BOW DOWN IN SUBMISSION

116  THEN WE SAID, OH ADAM, SURELY THIS IS AN ENEMY 
TO YOU AND YOUR WIFE SO LET HIM NOT WITH HIS TRICKERY
GET YOU BOTH OUT OF THIS GARDEN AND CAUSE YOU MISERY 

118  THERE ARE PROVISIONS IN IT AMPLY
FOR YOU NOT TO BE NAKED OR HUNGRY 

119  NOR TO SUFFER FROM THE SUN'S HEAT OR BE THIRSTY

120  BUT SATAN WHISPERED EVIL TO HIM AND SAID SEDUCTIVELY
OH ADAM, SHALL I LEAD YOU TO THE TREE OF ETERNITY 
AND TO A KINGDOM THAT DECAYS NOT ETERNALLY?

121  THEY ATE OF THE TREE AND THEIR EVIL INCLINATIONS
APPEARED TO THEM IN MANIFESTATION
THEY COVERED THEMSELVES WITH LEAVES FROM THE GARDEN 
SO ADAM DISOBEYED HIS LORD YIELDING TO SEDUCTION  

122  BUT HIS LORD CHOSE HIM 
FOR HIS GRACE AND HE TURNED TO HIM 
AND HE DID GIVE CLEAR GUIDANCE TO HIM 

123  HE SAID, GET OUT BOTH OF YOU ALL TOGETHER 
FROM THE GARDEN WITH ENMITY TO ONE ANOTHER 

BUT WHEN THERE COMES TO YOU GUIDANCE FROM ME
WHOSOEVER FOLLOWS MY GUIDANCE WILL SURELY
NOT LOSE HIS WAY NOR FALL INTO MISERY

124  BUT WHOEVER TURNS AWAY FROM MY MESSAGE HAUGHTILY
FOR HIM IS A LIFE NARROWED DOWN AND WE WILL SURELY
ON THE DAY OF JUDGMENT RAISE HIM UP BLINDLY

125  HE WILL SAY, OH MY LORD, WHY HAVE YOU RAISED ME 
UP BLIND WHILE BEFORE I COULD SEE

126  GOD WILL SAY, OUR SIGNS WERE DISREGARDED BY YOU 
SO THIS DAY WE WILL DISREGARD YOU

127  SO DO WE RECOMPENSE HE WHO TRANSGRESSES 
BEYOND BOUNDS AND BELIEVES NOT IN GOD'S MESSAGES

AND THE PENALTY OF THE HEREAFTER 
IS FAR MORE ENDURING AND SEVERE 

128  IS IT NOT TO SUCH MEN A WARNING TO THEM
TO CALL TO MIND HOW MANY GENERATIONS BEFORE THEM 
 
WE DESTROYED IN WHOSE DWELLINGS THEY ARE NOW LIVING? 
IN THIS IS A SIGN FOR MEN WITH UNDERSTANDING

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129  HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR A WORD THAT WENT 
BEFORE FROM YOUR LORD? THEIR PUNISHMENT 

MUST NECESSARILY HAVE COME TO THEM
BUT THERE IS A TERM APPOINTED FOR THEM

130  THEREFORE BEAR WITH WHAT THEY SAY PATIENTLY
AND CELEBRATE THE PRAISES OF YOUR LORD CONSTANTLY 

BEFORE THE SUN'S RISING 
AND BEFORE ITS SETTING 

CELEBRATE THEM FOR PART OF THE HOURS OF THE NIGHT 
AND AT THE SIDES OF THE DAY IN SO THAT YOU MIGHT 
HAVE INCREASE IN WISDOM AND SPIRITUAL DELIGHT

131  NOR STRAIN YOUR EYES IN LONGING FOR THE THINGS 
WE HAVE GIVEN TO PARTIES OF THEM FOR FUN LOVING
OF WHICH WE GIVE TO THEM FOR TESTING  
BUT THE PROVISION OF YOUR LORD IS LONGER LASTING 

132  ENJOIN PRAYER ON YOUR PEOPLE, BE CONSTANT AND BE TRUE
WE DO NOT ASK YOU TO PROVIDE FOR US, WE PROVIDE FOR YOU 

BUT THE FRUIT OF THE HEREAFTER 
IS FOR THE RIGHTEOUS BELIEVERS

133  AND THEY SAY, WHY DOES HE NOT BRING US A SIGN FROM GOD
HAS THERE NOT COME TO THEM CLEAR INDICATIONS FROM GOD
OF ALL THAT WAS IN THE FORMER REVELATIONS FROM GOD?

134  AND IF WE HAD INFLICTED ON THEM A PENALTY 
BEFORE THIS THEY WOULD HAVE SAID, OUR LORD, IF ONLY 
YOU HAD SENT US AN APOSTLE WE WOULD HAVE CERTAINLY  
FOLLOWED YOUR SIGNS BEFORE WE WERE PUT INTO HUMILITY

135  SAY, EACH ONE OF US IS WAITING, SO WAIT
SOON YOU WILL KNOW WHO IS ON THE WAY THAT IS STRAIGHT   
AND WHO IT IS THAT HAS RECEIVED GUIDANCE TO THE RIGHT WAY

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