1TA. HA. Not to sadden thee have we sent down this Koran to thee.

3But as a warning for him who feareth.

4It is a missive from Him who hath made the earth and the lofty heavens!

5The God of Mercy sitteth on his throne.

6His, whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth, and whatsoever is between them both, and whatsoever is beneath the humid soil!

7Thou needest not raise thy voice: for He knoweth the secret whisper, and the yet more hidden.

8God! There is no God but He! Most excellent His titles!

9Hath the history of Moses reached thee?

10When he saw a fire, and said to his family, "Tarry ye here, for I perceive a fire.

10Haply I may bring you a brand from it, or find at the fire a guide."

11And when he came to it, he was called to, "O Moses!

12Verily, I am thy Lord: therefore pull off thy shoes: for thou art in the holy valley of Towa.

13And I have chosen thee: hearken then to what shall be revealed.

14Verily, I am God: there is no God but me: therefore worship me, and observe prayer for a remembrance of me.

15Verily the hour is coming:–I all but manifest it–

15That every soul may be recompensed for its labours.

16Nor let him who believeth not therein and followeth his lust, turn thee aside from this truth, and thou perish.

17Now, what is that in thy right hand, O Moses?"

18Said he, "It is my staff on which I lean, and with which I beast down leaves for my sheep, and I have other uses for it."

19He said, "Cast it down, O Moses!"

20So he cast it down, and lo! it became a serpent that ran along.

21He said, "Lay hold on it, and fear not: to its former state will we restore it."

22"Now place thy right hand to thy arm-pit: it shall come forth white, but unhurt:–another sign!–

23That We may shew thee the greatest of our signs.

24Go to Pharaoh, for he hath burst all bounds."

25He said, "O my Lord! enlarge my breast for me.

26And make my work easy for me.

27And loose the knot of my tongue.

28That they may understand my speech.

29And give me a counsellor from among my family.

30Aaron my brother.

31By him gird up my loins.

32And make him a colleague in my work.

33That we may praise thee oft and oft remember thee.

35For thou regardest us."

36He said, "O Moses, thou hast obtained thy suit.

37Already, at another time, have we showed thee favour.

38When we spake unto thy mother what was spoken.

39'Cast him into the ark: then cast him on the sea [the river], and the sea shall throw him on the shore: and an enemy to me and an enemy to him shall take him up.' And I myself have made thee an object of love.

39That thou mightest be reared in mine eye.

40When thy sister went and said, 'Shall I shew you one who will nurse him?'

40Then We returned thee to thy mother that her eye might be cheered, and that she might not grieve. And when thou slewest a person, We delivered thee from trouble, and We tried thee with other trial.

40For years didst thou stay among the people of Midian; then camest thou hither by my decree, O Moses.

41And I have chosen thee for Myself.

42Go thou and thy brother with my signs and be not slack to remember me.

43Go ye to Pharaoh, for he hath burst all bounds.

44But speak ye to him with gentle speech; haply he will reflect or fear."

45They said, "O our Lord! truly we fear lest he break forth against us, or act with exceeding injustice."

46He said, "Fear ye not, for I am with you both. I will hearken and I will behold.

47Go ye then to him and say, 'Verily we are Sent ones of thy Lord; send therefore the children of Israel with us and vex them not: now are we come to thee with signs from thy Lord, and, Peace shall be on him who followeth the right guidance.

48For now hath it been revealed to us, that chastisement shall be on him who chargeth with falsehood, and turneth him away."'

49And he said, "Who is your Lord, O Moses?"

50He said, "Our Lord is He who hath given to everything its form and then guideth it aright."

51"But what," said he, "was the state of generations past?"

52He said, "The knowledge thereof is with my Lord in the Book of his decrees. My Lord erreth not, nor forgetteth.

53He hath spread the earth as a bed, and hath traced out paths for you therein, and hath sent down rain from Heaven, and by it we bring forth the kinds of various herbs.

54–'Eat ye, and feed your cattle.' Of a truth in this are signs unto men endued with understanding.

55From it have we created you, and into it will we return you, and out of it will we bring you forth a second time."

56And we shewed him all our signs: but he treated them as falsehoods, and refused to believe.

57He said, "Hast thou come, O Moses, to drive us from our land by thine enchantments?

58Therefore will we assuredly confront thee with like enchantments: so appoint a meeting between us and you–we will not fail it, we, and do not thou–in a place alike for both."

59He said, "On the feast day be your meeting, and in broad daylight let the people be assembled."

60And Pharaoh turned away, and collected his craftsmen and came.

61Said Moses to them, "Woe to you! devise not a lie against God.

61For then will he destroy you by a punishment. They who have lied have ever perished."

62And the magicians discussed their plan, and spake apart in secret.

63They said, "These two are surely sorcerers: fain would they drive you from your land by their sorceries, and lead away in their paths your chiefest men.

64So muster your craft: then come in order: well this day shall it be for him, who shall gain the upper hand."

65They said, "O Moses, wilt thou first cast down thy rod, or shall we be the first who cast?"

66He said, "Yes, cast ye down first." And lo! by their enchantment their cords and rods seemed to him as if they ran.

67And Moses conceived a secret fear within him.

68We said, "Fear not, for thou shalt be the uppermost.

69Cast forth then what is in thy right hand: it shall swallow up what they have produced: they have only produced the deceit of an enchanter: and come where he may, ill shall an enchanter fare."

70And the magicians fell down and worshipped. They said, "We believe in the Lord of Aaron and of Moses."

71Said Pharaoh, "Believe ye on him ere I give you leave? He, in sooth, is your Master who hath taught you magic. I will therefore cut off your hands and your feet on opposite sides, and I will crucify you on trunks of the palm, and assuredly shall ye learn which of us is severest in punishing, and who is the more abiding."

72They said, "We will not have more regard to thee than to the clear tokens which have come to us, or than to Him who hath made us: doom the doom thou wilt: Thou canst only doom as to this present life.

73of a truth we have believed on our Lord that he may pardon us our sins and the sorcery to which thou hast forced us, for God is better, and more abiding than thou.

76As for him who shall come before his Lord laden with crime–for him verily is Hell: he shall not die in it and he shall not live.

77But he who shall come before Him, a believer, with righteous works,–these! the loftiest grades await them.

78Gardens of Eden, beneath whose trees the rivers flow: therein shall they abide for ever. This, the reward of him who hath been pure."

79Then revealed we to Moses, "Go forth by night with my servants and cleave for them a dry path in the sea.

80Fear not thou to be overtaken, neither be thou afraid."

81And Pharaoh followed them with his hosts, and the whelming billows of the sea overwhelmed them, for Pharaoh misled his people, and did not guide them.

82O children of Israel! we rescued you from your foes; and We appointed a meeting with you on the right side of the mountain; and We caused the manna and the quail to descend upon you.

83"Eat," said We, "of the good things with which we have supplied you; but without excess, lest my wrath fall upon you; for on whom my wrath doth fall, he perisheth outright.

84He said, "They are hard on my footsteps: but to thee, O Lord, have I hastened, that thou mightest be well pleased with me."

84Surely however will I forgive him who turneth to God and believeth, and worketh righteousness, and then yieldeth to guidance.

85He said, "Of a truth now have we proved thy people since thou didst leave them, and Samiri had led them astray."

85But what hath hastened thee on apart from thy people, O Moses?"

86And Moses returned to his people, angered, sorrowful.

86He said, "O my people! did not your Lord promise you a good promise? Was the time of my absence long to you? or desired ye that wrath from your Lord should light upon you, that ye failed in your promise to me?"

87They said, "Not of our own accord have we failed in the promise to thee, but we were made to bring loads of the people's trinkets, and we threw them into the fire and Samiri likewise cast them in, and brought forth to them a corporeal lowing calf: and they said, "This is your God and the God of Moses, whom he hath forgotten."'

89What! saw they not that it returned them no answer, and could neither hurt nor help them?

90And Aaron had before said to them, "O my people! by this calf are ye only proved: surely your Lord is the God of Mercy: follow me therefore and obey my bidding."

91They said, "We will not cease devotion to it, till Moses come back to us."

92He said, "O Aaron! when thou sawest that they had gone astray, what hindered thee from following me? Hast thou then disobeyed my command?"

94He said, "O Son of my mother! seize me not by my beard, nor by my head: indeed I feared lest thou shouldst say, Thou hast rent the children of Isreal asunder, and hast not observed my orders."'

95He said, "And what was thy motive, O Samiri?" He said, "I saw what they saw not: so I took a handful of dust from the track of the messenger of God, and flung it into the calf, for so my soul prompted me."

97He said, "Begone then: verily thy doom even in this life shall be to say, 'Touch me not.' And there is a threat against thee, which thou shalt not escape hereafter. Now look at thy god to which thou hast continued so devoted: we will surely burn it and reduce it to ashes, which we will cast into the sea.

98Your God is God, beside whom there is no God: In his knowledge he embraceth all things."

99Thus do We recite to thee histories of what passed of old; and from ourself have we given thee admonition.

100Whoso shall turn aside from it shall verily carry a burden on the day of Resurrection.

101Under it shall they remain: and grievous, in the day of Resurrection, shall it be to them to bear.

102On that day there shall be a blast on the trumpet, and We will gather the wicked together on that day with leaden eyes.

103They shall say in a low voice, one to another,–"Ye tarried but ten days on earth."

104We are most knowing with respect to that which they will say when the most veracious of them will say. "Ye have not tarried above a day."

105And they will ask thee of the mountains: SAY: scattering my Lord will scatter them in dust.

106And he will leave them a level plain: thou shalt see in it no hollows or jutting hills.

108On that day shall men follow their summoner–he marcheth straight on: and low shall be their voices before the God of Mercy, nor shalt thou hear aught but the light footfall.

109No intercession shall avail on that day, save his whom the God of Mercy shall allow to intercede, and whose words he shall approve.

110He knoweth their future and their past; but in their own knowledge they comprehend it not:–

111And humble shall be their faces before Him that Liveth, the Self-subsisting: and undone he, who shall bear the burden of iniquity.

112But he who shall have done the things that are right and is a believer, shall fear neither wrong nor loss.

113Thus have We sent down to thee an Arabic Koran, and have set forth menaces therein diversely, that haply they may fear God, or that it may give birth to reflection in them.

114Exalted then be God, the King, the Truth! Be not hasty in its recital while the revelation of it to thee is incomplete. Say rather, "O my Lord, increase knowledge unto me."

115And of old We made a covenant with Adam; but he forgat it; and we found no firmness of purpose in him.

116And when We said to the angels, "Fall down and worship Adam," they worshipped all, save Eblis, who refused: and We said, "O Adam! this truly is a foe to thee and to thy wife. Let him not therefore drive you out of the garden, and ye become wretched.

118For to thee is it granted that thou shalt not hunger therein, neither shalt thou be naked.

119And they both ate thereof, and their nakedness appeared to them, and they began to sew of the leaves of the Garden to cover them, and Adam disobeyed his Lord and went astray.

120But Satan whispered him: said he, "O Adam! shall I shew thee the tree of Eternity, and the Kingdom that faileth not?"

120Afterwards his Lord chose him for himself, and was turned towards him, and guided him.

121And God said, "Get ye all down hence, the one of you a foe unto the other. Hereafter shall guidance come unto you from me.

122And whoso followeth my guidance shall not err, and shall not be wretched.

123But whoso turneth away from my monition, his truly shall be a life of misery.

124And We will assemble him with others on the day of Resurrection, blind."

125He will say, "O my Lord! why hast thou assembled me with others, blind? whereas I was endowed with sight."

126He will answer, "Thus is it, because our signs came unto thee and thou didst forget them, and thus shalt thou be forgotten this day."

127Even thus will We recompense him who hath transgressed and hath not believed in the signs of his Lord; and assuredly the chastisement of the next world will be more severe and more lasting.

128Are not they, who walk the very places where they dwelt, aware how many generations we have destroyed before them? Verily in this are signs to men of insight.

129And had not a decree of respite from thy Lord first gone forth, their     chastisement had at once ensued. Yet the time is fixed.

130Put up then with what they say; and celebrate the praise of thy Lord before     the sunrise, and before its setting; and some time in the night do thou     praise him, and in the extremes of the day, that thou haply mayest please     Him.

131And strain not thine eye after what We have bestowed on divers of them–the     braveries of this world–that we may thereby prove them. The portion which thy     Lord will give, is better and more lasting.

132Enjoin prayer on thy family, and persevere therein. We ask not of thee to     find thine own provision–we will provide for thee, and a happy issue shall     there be to piety.

133But they say, "If he come not to us with a sign from his Lord . . .!" But     have not clear proofs for the Koran come to them, in what is in the Books of     old?

134And had We destroyed them by a chastisement before its time, they would     surely have said, "O our Lord! How could we believe if thou didst not send     unto us an Apostle that we might follow thy signs ere that we were humbled     and disgraced."

135SAY: Each one of us awaiteth the end. Wait ye then, and ye shall know which of us have been followers of the even way, and who hath been the rightly guided.