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IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  BENIGNANT, HEARING, KNOWING GOD

2  THESE ARE VERSES 
OF THE BOOK THAT MAKES MANIFEST
  
3   WE RECITE TO YOU IN TRUTH SOME OF THE STORY
OF MOSES AND PHARAOH FOR PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE

4  PHARAOH EXALTED HIMSELF IN THE LAND
AND DIVIDED ITS PEOPLE INTO BANDS
WEAKENING ONE OF THE BANDS

KEEPING ALIVE THEIR FEMALES
BUT SLAUGHTERING THEIR MALES 
FOR HE WAS A MISCHIEF MAKER REVEALED 

5  AND WE WISHED TO BESTOW FAVORS
TO THOSE OF WHOM HE WAS THEIR OPPRESSOR 
AND MAKE THEM HEIRS AND MAKE THEM LEADERS 

6  AND TO ESTABLISH A FIRM PLACE FOR THEM IN THE LAND 
AND SHOW PHARAOH, HAMAN AND THEIR HOSTS AT THEIR HANDS 
THE VERY THINGS WHICH THEY FEARED OF OUR PLANS

7  SO WE SENT THIS INSPIRATION TO MOSES'S MOTHER 
NURSE YOUR CHILD BUT WHEN ABOUT HIM YOU HAVE FEARS 
CAST HIM INTO THE RIVER
BUT FEAR NOT NOR GRIEVE FOR HIM EITHER
FOR WE WILL RESTORE HIM TO YOU THEREAFTER
AND MAKE HIM ONE OF THE MESSENGERS

8  THE PEOPLE OF PHARAOH PICKED HIM UP FROM THE RIVER 
IT WAS INTENDED THAT MOSES SHOULD BE AN OPPOSER 
FOR PHARAOH AND HAMAN AND THEIR HOSTS WERE WRONG DOERS

9  PHARAOH'S WIFE SAID, HERE IS A JOY OF THE EYE FOR ME AND YOU  
SLAY HIM NOT, HE MAY BE OF USE TO ME AND TO YOU
OR WE MAY ADOPT HIM AS A SON BUT THEY HAD NOT A CLUE
OF THE CONSEQUENCES OF WHAT THEY WERE GETTING READY TO DO

10  BUT THERE BECAME A VOID IN THE HEART OF THE MOTHER OF MOSES
AND SHE WAS ALMOST GOING TO DISCLOSE HIS CIRCUMSTANCES

HAD WE NOT STRENGTHENED HER HEART WITH RELIEF
SO THAT SHE MIGHT REMAIN FIRM IN BELIEF

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11  AND SHE SAID TO MOSES'S SISTER 
FOLLOW HIM, SO SHE THE SISTER 
WATCHED HIM IN THE CHARACTER OF A STRANGER 
AND THEY DID NOT RECOGNIZE HER

12  AND WE ORDAINED THAT AT FIRST 
THAT HE WOULD REFUSE TO BE NURSED 

UNTIL HIS SISTER SAID, SHALL I POINT OUT TO YOU 
THE PEOPLE THAT WILL BRING HIM UP FOR YOU? 
AND THEY WILL BE BONDED TO HIM IN TRUTH

13  SO WE RESTORED HIM TO HIS MOTHER
THAT HER EYE MIGHT FIND COMFORT
AND THAT SHE MIGHT NOT SUFFER 

AND THAT SHE MIGHT KNOW THE TRUTH OF GOD'S PROMISE 
BUT MOST PEOPLE DO NOT UNDERSTAND THIS

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14  WHEN HE REACHED FULL MATURITY 
AND WAS THEN ESTABLISHED IN LIFE FIRMLY
THEN WE BESTOWED ON HIM FROM OUR MERCY
WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE FOR THIS IS HOW WE 
REWARD THOSE WHO ACT RIGHTEOUSLY

15  HE ENTERED THE CITY WHEN ITS PEOPLE WERE NOT WATCHING 
AND HE FOUND THERE TWO MEN WHO WERE FIGHTING 

ONE OF HIS OWN PARTY, THE OTHER OF HIS ENEMIES
THE MAN OF HIS OWN PARTY APPEALED TO HIM AGAINST HIS ENEMY 
MOSES STRUCK HIM WITH HIS FIST AND KILLED HIM INSTANTLY
HE SAID, THIS IS A WORK OF SATAN FOR HE IS AN ENEMY 
THAT SURELY MISLEADS MANIFESTLY

16  THEN HE PRAYED, OH MY LORD, I HAVE INDEED 
WRONGED MY SOUL, WILL YOU FORGIVE ME? 
SO GOD FORGAVE HIM FOR HE IS SURELY
FULL OF FORGIVENESS AND MERCY

17  HE SAID, OH MY LORD, FOR THAT YOU HAVE BESTOWED GRACE ON ME
NEVER WILL I BE A HELP TO WORKERS OF INIQUITY

18  AND HE WAS IN THE CITY FEARING AND WAITING
WHEN HE WHO ASKED HIS HELP THE DAY BEFORE WAS CRYING
OUT TO HIM FOR HELP, MOSES SAID, YOU ARE ONE ERRING

19  THEN HE DECIDED TO LAY HOLD OF HIM 
HE WHO WAS AN ENEMY TO BOTH OF THEM

HE SAID, OH MOSES, IS IT YOUR INTENTION TODAY
TO KILL ME AS YOU KILLED A MAN YESTERDAY?  

YOUR INTENTION IS NONE OTHER THAN 
TO BECOME A POWERFUL VIOLENT MAN IN THE LAND 
AND NOT TO BE ONE WHO SETS THINGS PROPERLY IN HAND

20  AND THERE CAME A MAN RUNNING
FROM THE FURTHEST END OF THE CITY SAYING 
OH MOSES, THE CHIEFS ARE TAKING 

COUNSEL TOGETHER ABOUT YOU TO KILL YOU 
SO GET AWAY FOR I GIVE SINCERE ADVICE TO YOU

21  SO HE GOT AWAY LOOKING ABOUT IN A STATE OF FEAR
AND HE PRAYED, OH MY LORD, SAVE ME FROM THE WRONG DOERS 

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22  THEN WHEN HE TURNED HIS FACE TOWARDS THE LAND OF MADYAN  
HE SAID, I HOPE THAT MY LORD WILL GUIDE ME HEREIN

23  HE ARRIVED AT A PLACE OF WATERING FLOCKS
HE FOUND A GROUP OF MEN WATERING THEIR FLOCKS 
AND HE FOUND TWO WOMEN KEEPING BACK THEIR FLOCKS
HE ASKED THE WOMEN WHY THEY WERE NOT WATERING THEIR FLOCKS 
THEY ANSWERED SAYING, WE CANNOT WATER OUR FLOCKS
UNTIL THE SHEPHERDS FINISH WATERING THEIR FLOCKS
AND OUR FATHER IS OLD AND CANNOT HELP US WITH OUR FLOCKS

24  SO HE WATERED THEIR FLOCKS FOR THEM                                                             
THEN HE TURNED BACK TO THE SHADE AWAY FROM THEM

AND SAID, OH MY LORD, I AM IN DESPERATE NEED 
OF ANY GOOD THAT YOU MAY SEND TO ME INDEED

25  ONE OF THE WOMEN CAME BACK TO HIM
WALKING BASHFULLY AND SHE SAID HIM

MY FATHER INVITES YOU TO JOIN US
THAT HE MAY REWARD YOU FOR WATERING OUR FLOCKS FOR US

SO WHEN HE CAME TO HIM AND NARRATED THE STORY 
HE SAID TO HIM, FEAR NOT FOR YOU HAVE SURELY
ESCAPED FROM THE PEOPLE WHO ACT UNJUSTLY

26  SAID ONE OF THE WOMEN, FATHER, EMPLOY HIM ON WAGES
TRULY THE BEST OF MEN FOR YOU TO EMPLOY ON WAGES
IS THE MAN WHO IS STRONG AND ACTS WITH JUSTICE

27  HE SAID, I INTEND TO WED TO YOU ONE OF MY DAUGHTERS
ON CONDITION THAT YOU SERVE ME FOR EIGHT YEARS

IF YOU COMPLETE TEN YEARS IT WILL BE GRACE FROM YOU 
BUT I INTEND NOT TO PLACE A DIFFICULTY UPON YOU
YOU WILL FIND ME IF GOD WILLS ONE WHO IS TRUE 

28  MOSES SAID, THE AGREEMENT IS SETTLED BETWEEN ME AND YOU 
AND WHICHEVER OF THE TERMS I FULFILL OF THE TWO
THERE WILL BE NO ILL WILL BETWEEN ME AND YOU
GOD IS THE WITNESS TO WHAT WE SAY AND DO

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29  WHEN MOSES HAD FULFILLED THE TERM COMPLETELY
AND HE WAS TRAVELING WITH HIS FAMILY 

ON THE SIDE OF A MOUNTAIN HE PERCEIVED A FIRE 
HE SAID TO HIS FAMILY, STAY HERE I PERCEIVE A FIRE

I HOPE TO BRING FROM IT SOME INFORMATION TO YOU 
OR BRING A BURNING FIREBRAND TO WARM YOU

30  WHEN HE CAME TO THE FIRE HE HEARD  
A VOICE FROM A BUSH SAYING THESE WORDS
OH MOSES, I AM GOD, THE LORD OF THE WORLDS 

31  NOW THROW YOUR ROD, AND WHEN HE SAW IT MOVING 
AS IF IT HAD BEEN A SNAKE HE TURNED BACK RETREATING

IT WAS SAID, OH MOSES, DRAW NEAR
AND DO NOT HAVE AT ALL ANY FEAR
YOU ARE OF THOSE WHO ARE SECURE

32  MOVE YOUR HAND INTO YOUR BOSOM AND IT 
WILL COME OUT WHITE AND WITHOUT STAIN ON IT 

AND REMAIN CALM AND BE NOT FEARFUL
THOSE ARE TWO OF THE CREDENTIALS 

FROM YOUR LORD TO PHARAOH AND HIS CHIEFS
FOR THEY ARE PEOPLE WHO ACT WICKEDLY

33  HE SAID, OH MY LORD ,I HAVE KILLED A MAN 
AND I FEAR THEY WILL KILL ME IF THEY CAN

34  AND MY BROTHER AARON                                                                                                        
HE IS MORE ELOQUENT IN CONVERSATION 

SO SEND HIM WITH ME 
AS A HELPER TO CONFIRM AND STRENGTHEN ME 
FOR I FEAR THAT THEY MAY ACCUSE ME OF FALSITY

35  HE SAID, WE WILL THROUGH YOUR BROTHER ADD STRENGTH TO YOU
AND GIVE AUTHORITY TO BOTH OF YOU 
SO THAT THEY WILL NOT BE ABLE TO TOUCH YOU 
AND WITH OUR SIGNS YOU WILL TRIUMPH BOTH OF YOU  
AS WELL AS ALL OF THOSE WHO FOLLOW YOU

36  WHEN MOSES CAME TO THEM WITH OUR MESSAGES CLEARLY
THEY SAID, THIS IS NOTHING BUT FAKED UP SORCERY 
NEVER DID WE HEAR THE LIKE OF IT PREVIOUSLY

37  MOSES SAID, MY LORD KNOWS WHO HE SENDS AS A  MESSENGER
AND WHO IT IS IN THE END THAT WILL BE BEST IN THE HEREAFTER
CERTAIN IT IS THAT THE WRONG DOERS WILL NOT PROSPER

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38  PHARAOH SAID, OH CHIEFS 
NO GOD DO I KNOW FOR YOU BUT ME 
THEREFORE OH HAMAN, LIGHT A FIRE FOR ME 
TO BAKE BRICKS OUT OF CLAY AND BUILD A PALACE FOR ME 

THAT I MAY MOUNT UP TO THE GOD OF MOSES 
BUT I THINK THAT THERE IS NO TRUTH IN MOSES  

39  AND HE WAS ARROGANT IN THE LAND BEYOND REASON 
HE AND HIS HOSTS THOUGHT THEY WOULD NOT HAVE REASON
TO RETURN TO US IN DUE SEASON

40  WE SEIZED HIM AND HIS ARMY AND FLUNG THEM INTO THE SEA 
NOW SEE WHAT WAS THE END OF THOSE WHO ACT WRONGFULLY

41  AND WE MADE THEM LEADERS INVITING TO THE FIRE 
AND ON THE DAY OF JUDGMENT THEY WILL FIND NO HELPERS 

42  IN THIS WORLD WE MADE TO FOLLOW THEM A CURSE 
AND ON JUDGMENT DAY THEY WILL BE DESPISED EVEN WORSE

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43  WE GAVE TO MOSES THE REVELATION 
AFTER WE DESTROYED THE EARLIER GENERATIONS 
TO GIVE INSIGHT AND GUIDANCE AND MERCY TO MEN
SO THAT THEY MIGHT RECEIVE ADMONITION

44  AND WHEN WE GAVE TO MOSES THE COMMANDMENTS 
ON THE SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN YOU WERE NOT PRESENT 
NOR WERE YOU A WITNESS OF THOSE EVENTS

45  BUT WE RAISED UP GENERATIONS AFTER THEM 
THEN LIFE BECAME PROLONGED TO THEM 
THE PEOPLE OF MIDIAN YOU WERE NOT AMONG THEM
RECITING OUR MESSAGES TO THEM 
BUT THE MESSENGERS WE ARE THE SENDERS OF THEM

46  YOU WERE NOT AT THE MOUNTAIN WHEN WE SAID TO MOSES 
YOU ARE SENT FROM YOUR LORD WITH HIS MESSAGES 
TO WARN PEOPLE  TO WHOM NO WARNER CAME PREVIOUS 
THAT THEY MAY BE MINDFUL OF MY PROMISES
 
47  OR ELSE A DISASTER SHOULD BEFALL THEM 
FOR WHAT THEIR HANDS HAVE SENT BEFORE THEM

AND THEY SAY, LORD, WHY DID YOU NOT SEND US A MESSENGER
SO THAT WE MIGHT HAVE FOLLOWED HIM AND BEEN BELIEVERS?

48  BUT NOW WHEN THE TRUTH HAS COME TO THEM FROM US 
AND THEY SAY, WHY ARE NOT SENT TO HIM MESSAGES 
LIKE THOSE OF WHICH WERE SENT TO MOSES?
DID THEY NOT REJECT THE MESSAGES
WHICH WERE SENT TO MOSES? 

THEY SAY, TWO KINDS OF SORCERY EACH ASSISTING THE OTHER  
AND THEY SAY, FOR US WE REJECT ALL SUCH THINGS ALL TOGETHER

49  SAY, THEN BRING FROM GOD A BETTER SCRIPTURE
THAT OF IT I MAY BE A FOLLOWER
IF WHAT YOU ARE SAYING IS BETTER

50  BUT IF THEY LISTEN NOT TO YOUR MESSAGE FROM US
KNOW THAT THEY ONLY FOLLOW THEIR OWN LUSTS
AND WHO IS MORE ASTRAY THAN ONE WHO FOLLOWS HIS OWN LUSTS 
VAINLY NOT BEING GUIDED BY US
FOR GOD GUIDES NOT THOSE WHO ARE UNJUST

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51  NOW HAVE WE CAUSED THE WORD TO REACH THEM 
IN ORDER THAT ADMONITION MAY BE RECEIVED BY THEM

52  THOSE TO WHOM BEFORE THIS WE SENT REVELATION
THEY BELIEVE TOO IN THIS REVELATION

53  AND WHEN IT IS RECITED TO THEM THEY SAY SINCERELY
IT IS THE TRUTH FROM GOD AND IN IT WE BELIEVE TRULY
AND WE HAVE BEEN SUBMITTERS BEFORE PREVIOUSLY

54  TWICE WILL THEY BE GIVEN THEIR REWARD FOR THAT THEY 
ARE STEADFAST AND REVERT EVIL WITH RIGHTEOUS WAYS
AND THEY SPEND IN CHARITY IN A GENEROUS WAY

55  AND WHEN THEY HEAR MEN TALKING VAINLY 
THEY TURN AWAY AND SAY, TO US ARE OUR DEEDS
AND TO YOU ARE YOURS AND TO YOU BE PEACE
AND WE SEEK NOT THOSE WHO ACT IGNORANTLY

56  TO ALL WHOM YOU PLEASE YOU CANNOT GIVE THEM GUIDANCE 
BUT THOSE WHOM GOD PLEASES HE GIVES TO THEM GUIDANCE 
AND HE KNOWS BEST THOSE WHO RECEIVE HIS GUIDANCE 

57  THEY SAY, IF WE WERE TO FOLLOW YOUR INSTRUCTIONS
WE SHOULD BE SNATCHED AWAY FROM OUR HABITATIONS
BUT HAVE WE NOT ESTABLISHED FOR THEM SECURE ENVIRONS 
TO WHICH ARE GIVEN TO THEM OF ALL KINDS OF PROVISIONS?  
BUT MOST OF THEM HAVE NO COMPREHENSION

58  AND HOW MANY POPULATIONS
HAVE WE BROUGHT TO DESTRUCTION 
WHICH LIVED THEIR LIVES IN EXALTATION  
OF WHICH ARE NOW DESERTED HABITATIONS
AND OF WHICH ARE NOW IN OUR POSSESSIONS?

59  NOR DID YOUR LORD EVER DESTROY A POPULATION 
UNTIL HE SENT A MESSENGER TO GIVE ADMONITION
RECITING TO THEM OUR CLEAR INSTRUCTIONS
NOR ARE WE GOING TO DESTROY A POPULATION 
EXCEPT WHEN ITS MEMBERS PRACTICE REBELLION

60  THE MATERIAL THINGS YOU ARE GIVEN ARE AN ENJOYMENT
OF THIS LIFE AND ITS ADORNMENT
BUT THAT WHICH IS WITH GOD IS BETTER AND MORE PERMANENT 
WILL YOU NOT THEN BE OBEDIENT?

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61  ARE THESE ALIKE, ONE WITH WHOM WE HAVE MADE A COVENANT
AND WITH WHOM IT IS GOING TO REACH ITS FULFILLMENT?  
AND ONE TO WHOM GOOD THINGS HAVE BEEN SENT
BUT WHO ON THE DAY OF JUDGMENT 
IS TO BE AMONG THOSE BROUGHT UP FOR PUNISHMENT?

62  THAT DAY GOD WILL CALL TO THEM 
AND ASK WHERE ARE THE PARTNERS THEY ASCRIBED TO HIM 

63  THOSE AGAINST WHOM THE CHARGE WILL BE PROVED WILL SAY 
OUR LORD, THESE ARE THE ONES WHOM WE LED ASTRAY 
WE LED THEM ASTRAY BECAUSE WE WERE ASTRAY 

IN YOUR PRESENCE WE FREE OURSELVES FROM THEM 
IT WAS NOT US THAT WAS WORSHIPPED BY THEM

64  AND IT WILL BE SAID TO THEM
CALL YOUR PARTNERS FOR HELP, AND THEY WILL CALL THEM 
BUT THEY WILL NOT BE ABLE TO LISTEN TO THEM 
THEY WILL SEE THE PENALTY BEFORE THEM 
AND THEN WILL IT BE WISHED BY THEM
THAT THEY WOULD HAVE FOLLOWED THE GUIDANCE GIVEN TO THEM

65  GOD WILL SAY, WHAT WAS THE ANSWER 
THAT YOU GAVE TO THE MESSENGERS?

66  THE WHOLE STORY THAT DAY WILL SEEM TO THEM OBSCURE 
LIKE LIGHT TO THE BLIND AND THEY WILL NOT  QUESTION EACH OTHER

67  BUT IN THIS LIFE IF THEY HAD REPENTED AND BELIEVED 
AND WORKED RIGHTEOUSNESS THEY WOULD HAVE RECEIVED 
THE SALVATION WHICH THEY WOULD HAVE HOPED TO ACHIEVE

68  YOUR LORD DOES CREATE AND CHOOSES AS PLEASES HIM
NO CHOICE HAVE THEY IN THE MATTER, GLORY BE TO HIM
FAR IS HE ABOVE THE PARTNERS THEY ASCRIBE TO HIM

69  AND GOD KNOWS ALL THAT THEIR HEARTS CONCEAL 
AND HE KNOWS ALL THAT THEIR HEARTS REVEAL

70  AND HE IS GOD, THERE IS NO GOD BUT HE
AND TO HIM BE PRAISED FIRST AND LASTLY
AND YOU WILL RETURN TO HIM FINALLY

71  SAY, IF GOD WERE TO MAKE THE NIGHT PERPETUAL OVER YOU 
WHO OTHER THAN GOD CAN GIVE ENLIGHTENMENT TO YOU?
WILL YOU NOT THEN SHOW GRATITUDE ?

72  SAY, IF GOD WERE TO MAKE THE DAY PERPETUAL OVER YOU
WHO ELSE COULD BRING THE NIGHT TO GIVE REST TO YOU?
IS THIS NOT UNDERSTOOD BY YOU?

73  OUT OF HIS MERCY HE HAS MADE FOR YOU 
THE NIGHT TO GIVE REST TO YOU 
AND THE DAY THAT HIS GRACE MY BE SOUGHT BY 
IN ORDER THAT YOU MAY SHOW TO HIM YOUR GRATITUDE

74  THE DAY THAT HE WILL CALL ON THEM  
AND ASK WHERE ARE PARTNERS THEY ASCRIBED TO HIM

75  FROM EACH PEOPLE WILL WE  DRAW WITNESSES
AND WE WILL SAY, PRODUCE YOUR EVIDENCES
THEN WILL THEY KNOW THAT TRUTHFULNESS
IS IN GOD ALONE AND THEIR FALSE MESSAGES 
WILL HAVE LEFT THEM IN THE LURCHES

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76  KORAH WAS ONE OF  MOSES'S PEOPLE 
BUT HE ACTED INSOLENTLY TOWARDS THE APOSTLE

AND THE TREASURES TO HIM WHICH WE HAD GIVEN
THAT THEIR VERY KEYS WOULD HAVE BEEN 
A BURDEN TO A BODY OF STRONG MEN 

HIS PEOPLE SAID TO HIM, DO NOT EXULT
FOR GOD LOVES NOT THOSE WHO EXULT

77  BUT SEEK WITH THE WEALTH GOD HAS GIVEN TO YOU
THE HOME OF THE HEREAFTER, NOR FORGET TO DO 
GOOD IN THIS WORLD AS GOD HAS BEEN GOOD TO YOU 
AND MISCHIEF DO NOT SEEK TO DO
FOR GOD LOVES NOT THOSE WHO DO MISCHIEF AMONG YOU

78  HE SAID, THIS HAS BEEN GIVEN TO ME 
BECAUSE OF KNOWLEDGE THAT HAS BEEN GIVEN TO ME

DID HE NOT KNOW THAT GOD HAD DESTROYED BEFORE HIM 
WHOLE GENERATIONS WHICH WERE SUPERIOR TO HIM 
AND MUCH GREATER IN RICHES THAN HIM? 

BUT THE WICKED ARE NOT IMMEDIATELY 
CALLED TO ACCOUNT FOR THEIR INIQUITY 

79  SO HE WENT AMONG HIS PEOPLE WITH HIS WORLDLY GLITTER 
AND IT WAS SAID BY THOSE WHOSE AIM IS WORLDLY GLITTER

IF ONLY WE HAD THE LIKE KORAH'S POSSESSIONS
FOR HE IS A LORD OF MIGHTY GOOD FORTUNE 

80  BUT THOSE WHO WERE GIVEN GUIDANCE CLEAR 
SAID, THE REWARD OF GOD IN THE HEREAFTER 
IS BEST FOR THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVERS
AND WHO ARE RIGHTEOUS DOERS 
BUT THE ATTAINERS OF THIS ARE THE PERSEVERERS 

81  SO WE CAUSED THE EARTH TO SWALLOW HIM 
AND HIS WHOLE HOUSEHOLD WITH HIM 
AND AGAINST GOD HE HAD NO ONE TO HELP HIM
NOR WAS THERE ANY DEFENSE FOR HIM

82  AND ALL THOSE WHO HAD THE DAY BEFORE ENVIED HIS POSITION
THE DAY AFTER SAID, IT IS GOD WHO ENLARGES THE PROVISION
OR RESTRICTS IT TO ANY HE PLEASES OF HIS SERVANTS 

AND HAD IT NOT BEEN THAT GOD WAS GRACIOUS TO US 
HE COULD HAVE CAUSED THE EARTH TO SWALLOW US 
THOSE WHO REJECT GOD WILL NOT BE PROSPEROUS

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83  THE HOME OF THE HEREAFTER WE WILL GIVE TO THE RIGHTEOUS 
WHO INTEND NOT MISCHIEF ON EARTH OR HIGH HANDEDNESS 
AND THE END IS BEST FOR THOSE WHO ARE RIGHTEOUS

84  IF ANY DOES GOOD HIS REWARD IS BETTER THAN HIS DEED 
BUT IF ANY DOES EVIL THEY ARE INDEED
PUNISHED TO THE EXTENT OF THEIR DEEDS

85  HE WHO ORDAINED THE QURAN FOR YOU
BACK TO THE PLACE OF RETURN HE WILL BRING YOU
SAY, MY LORD KNOWS BEST WHO BRINGS GUIDANCE TRUE 
AND WHO IS IN MANIFEST ERROR AMONG YOU

86  YOU HAD NOT EXPECTED THAT THE BOOK WOULD BE 
SENT TO YOU FROM GOD AS A MERCY 
SO DO NOT SUPPORT THOSE WHO DISBELIEVE

87  LET NOTHING KEEP YOU BACK FROM THE MESSAGES OF GOD 
AFTER THEY HAVE BEEN REVEALED AND INVITE MEN TO GOD 
AND BE NOT AMONG THOSE WHO JOIN GODS WITH GOD

88  AND CALL NOT BESIDES GOD ON ANOTHER GOD 
BESIDES HIM THERE IS NO OTHER GOD 

EVERYTHING THAT EXISTS WILL PERISH EXCEPT HIM  
THE COMMAND BELONGS ONLY TO HIM 
AND YOU WILL ALL BE BROUGHT BACK TO HIM

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