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The Qur'an
(Koran) - M. H. Shakir |
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In the name of
Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
[20.1] Ta Ha.
[20.2] We have not revealed
the Quran to you that you may be
unsuccessful.
[20.3] Nay, it is a reminder
to him who fears:
[20.4] A revelation from Him
Who created the earth and the high
heavens.
[20.5] The Beneficent God is
firm in power.
[20.6] His is what is in the
heavens and what is in the earth and
what is between them two and what is
beneath the ground.
[20.7] And if you utter the
saying aloud, then surely He knows
the secret, and what is yet more
hidden.
[20.8] Allah -- there is no
god but He; His are the very best
names.
[20.9] And has the story of
Musa come to you?
[20.10] When he saw fire, he
said to his family: Stop, for surely
I see a fire, haply I may bring to
you there from a live coal or find a
guidance at the fire.
[20.11] So when he came to
it, a voice was uttered: O Musa:
[20.12] Surely I am your
Lord, therefore put off your shoes;
surely you are in the sacred valley,
Tuwa,
[20.13] And I have chosen
you, so listen to what is revealed:
[20.14] Surely I am Allah,
there is no god but I, therefore
serve Me and keep up prayer for My
remembrance:
[20.15] Surely the hour is
coming-- I am about to make it
manifest-- so that every soul may be
rewarded as it strives:
[20.16] Therefore let not him
who believes not in it and follows
his low desires turn you away from
it so that you should perish;
[20.17] And what is this in
your right hand, O Musa!
[20.18] He said: This is my
staff: I recline on it and I beat
the leaves with it to make them fall
upon my sheep, and I have other uses
for it.
[20.19] He said: Cast it
down, O Musa!
[20.20] So he cast it down;
and lo! it was a serpent running.
[20.21] He said: Take hold of
it and fear not; We will restore it
to its former state:
[20.22] And press your hand
to your side, it shall come out
white without evil: another sign:
[20.23] That We may show you
of Our greater signs:
[20.24] Go to Firon, surely
he has exceeded all limits.
[20.25] He said: O my Lord!
Expand my breast for me,
[20.26] And make my affair
easy to me,
[20.27] And loose the knot
from my tongue,
[20.28] (That) they may
understand my word;
[20.29] And give to me an
aider from my family:
[20.30] Haroun, my brother,
[20.31] Strengthen my back by
him,
[20.32] And associate him
(with me) in my affair,
[20.33] So that we should
glorify Thee much,
[20.34] And remember Thee
oft.
[20.35] Surely, Thou art
seeing us.
[20.36] He said: You are
indeed granted your petition, O Musa
And certainly We bestowed on you a
favor at another time;
[20.38] When We revealed to
your mother what was revealed;
[20.39] Saying: Put him into
a chest, then cast it down into the
river, then the river shall throw
him on the shore; there shall take
him up one who is an enemy to Me and
enemy to him, and I cast down upon
you love from Me, and that you might
be brought up before My eyes;
[20.40] When your sister went
and said: Shall I direct you to one
who will take charge of him? So We
brought you back to your mother,
that her eye might be cooled and she
should not grieve and you killed a
man, then We delivered you from the
grief, and We tried you with (a
severe) trying. Then you stayed for
years among the people of Madyan;
then you came hither as ordained, O
Musa.
[20.41] And I have chosen you
for Myself:
[20.42] Go you and your
brother with My communications and
be not remiss in remembering Me;
[20.43] Go both to Firon,
surely he has become inordinate;
[20.44] Then speak to him a
gentle word haply he may mind or
fear.
[20.45] Both said: O our
Lord! Surely we fear that he may
hasten to do evil to us or that he
may become inordinate.
[20.46] He said: Fear not,
surely I am with you both: I do hear
and see.
[20.47] So go you both to him
and say: Surely we are two apostles
of your Lord; therefore send the
children of Israel with us and do
not torment them! Indeed we have
brought to you a communication from
your Lord, and peace is on him who
follows the guidance;
[20.48] Surely it has been
revealed to us that the chastisement
will surely come upon him who
rejects and turns back.
[20.49] (Firon) said: And who
is your Lord, O Musa?
[20.50] He said: Our Lord is
He Who gave to everything its
creation, then guided it (to its
goal).
[20.51] He said: Then what is
the state of the former generations?
[20.52] He said: The
knowledge thereof is with my Lord in
a book, my Lord errs not, nor does
He forget;
[20.53] Who made the earth
for you an expanse and made for you
therein paths and sent down water
from the cloud; then thereby We have
brought forth many species of
various herbs.
[20.54] Eat and pasture your
cattle; most surely there are signs
in this for those endowed with
understanding.
[20.55] From it We created
you and into it We shall send you
back and from it will We raise you a
second time.
[20.56] And truly We showed
him Our signs, all of them, but he
rejected and refused.
[20.57] Said he: Have you
come to us that you should turn us
out of our land by your magic, O
Musa?
[20.58] So we too will
produce before you magic like it,
therefore make between us and you an
appointment, which we should not
break, (neither) we nor you, (in) a
central place.
[20.59] (Musa) said: Your
appointment is the day of the
Festival and let the people be
gathered together in the early
forenoon.
[20.60] So Firon turned his
back and settled his plan, then
came.
[20.61] Musa said to them:
Woe to you! do not forge a lie
against Allah, lest He destroy you
by a punishment, and he who forges
(a lie) indeed fails to attain (his
desire).
[20.62] So they disputed with
one another about their affair and
kept the discourse secret.
[20.63] They said: These are
most surely two magicians who wish
to turn you out from your land by
their magic and to take away your
best traditions.
[20.64] Therefore settle your
plan, then come standing in ranks
and he will prosper indeed this day
who overcomes.
[20.65] They said: O Musa!
will you cast, or shall we be the
first who cast down?
[20.66] He said: Nay! cast
down. then lo! their cords and their
rods-- it was imaged to him on
account of their magic as if they
were running.
[20.67] So Musa conceived in
his mind a fear.
[20.68] We said: Fear not,
surely you shall be the uppermost,
[20.69] And cast down what is
in your right hand; it shall devour
what they have wrought; they have
wrought only the plan of a magician,
and the magician shall not be
successful wheresoever he may come
from.
[20.70] And the magicians
were cast down making obeisance;
they said: We believe in the Lord of
Haroun and Musa.
[20.71] (Firon) said: You
believe in him before I give you
leave; most surely he is the chief
of you who taught you enchantment,
therefore I will certainly cut off
your hands and your feet on opposite
sides, and I will certainly crucify
you on the trunks of the palm trees,
and certainly you will come to know
which of us is the more severe and
the more abiding in chastising.
[20.72] They said: We do not
prefer you to what has come to us of
clear arguments and to He Who made
us, therefore decide what you are
going to decide; you can only decide
about this world's life.
[20.73] Surely we believe in
our Lord that He may forgive us our
sins and the magic to which you
compelled us; and Allah is better
and more abiding.
[20.74] Whoever comes to his
Lord (being) guilty, for him is
surely hell; he shall not die
therein, nor shall he live.
[20.75] And whoever comes to
Him a believer (and) he has done
good deeds indeed, these it is who
shall have the high ranks,
[20.76] The gardens of
perpetuity, beneath which rivers
flow, to abide therein; and this is
the reward of him who has purified
himself.
[20.77] And certainly We
revealed to Musa, saying: Travel by
night with My servants, then make
for them a dry path in the sea, not
fearing to be overtaken, nor being
afraid.
[20.78] And Firon followed
them with his armies, so there came
upon them of the sea that which came
upon them.
[20.79] And Firon led astray
his people and he did not guide
(them) aright.
[20.80] O children of Israel!
indeed We delivered you from your
enemy, and We made a covenant with
you on the blessed side of the
mountain, and We sent to you the
manna and the quails.
[20.81] Eat of the good
things We have given you for
sustenance, and be not inordinate
with respect to them, lest My wrath
should be due to you, and to
whomsoever My wrath is due be shall
perish indeed.
[20.82] And most surely I am
most Forgiving to him who repents
and believes and does good, then
continues to follow the right
direction.
[20.83] And what caused you
to hasten from your people, O Musa?
[20.84] He said: They are
here on my track and I hastened on
to Thee, my Lord, that Thou mightest
be pleased.
[20.85] He said: So surely We
have tried your people after you,
and the Samiri has led them astray.
[20.86] So Musa returned to
his people wrathful, sorrowing. Said
he: O my people! did not your Lord
promise you a goodly promise: did
then the time seem long to you, or
did you wish that displeasure from
your Lord should be due to you, so
that you broke (your) promise to me?
[20.87] They said: We did not
break (our) promise to you of our
own accord, but we were made to bear
the burdens of the ornaments of the
people, then we made a casting of
them, and thus did the Samiri
suggest.
[20.88] So he brought forth
for them a calf, a (mere) body,
which had a mooing sound, so they
said: This is your god and the god
of Musa, but he forgot.
[20.89] What! could they not
see that it did not return to them a
reply, and (that) it did not control
any harm or benefit for them?
[20.90] And certainly Haroun
had said to them before: O my
people! you are only tried by it,
and surely your Lord is the
Beneficent God, therefore follow me
and obey my order.
[20.91] They said: We will by
no means cease to keep to its
worship until Musa returns to us.
[20.92] (Musa) said: O
Haroun! what prevented you, when you
saw them going astray,
[20.93] So that you did not
follow me? Did you then disobey my
order?
[20.94] He said: O son of my
mother! seize me not by my beard nor
by my head; surely I was afraid lest
you should say: You have caused a
division among the children of
Israel and not waited for my word.
[20.95] He said: What was
then your object, O Samiri?
[20.96] He said: I saw
(Jibreel) what they did not see, so
I took a handful (of the dust) from
the footsteps of the messenger, then
I threw it in the casting; thus did
my soul commend to me
[20.97] He said: Be gone
then, surely for you it will be in
this life to say, Touch (me) not;
and surely there is a threat for
you, which shall not be made to fail
to you, and look at your god to
whose worship you kept (so long); we
will certainly burn it, then we will
certainly scatter it a (wide)
scattering in the sea.
[20.98] Your God is only
Allah, there is no god but He; He
comprehends all things in (His)
knowledge.
[20.99] Thus do We relate to
you (some) of the news of what has
gone before; and indeed We have
given to you a Reminder from
Ourselves.
[20.100] Whoever turns aside
from it, he shall surely bear a
burden on the day of resurrection
[20.101] Abiding in this
(state), and evil will it be for
them to bear on the day of
resurrection;
[20.102] On the day when the
trumpet shall be blown, and We will
gather the guilty, blue-eyed, on
that day
[20.103] They shall consult
together secretly: You did tarry but
ten (centuries).
[20.104] We know best what
they say, when the fairest of them
in course would say: You tarried but
a day.
[20.105] And they ask you
about the mountains. Say: My Lord
will carry them away from the roots.
[20.106] Then leave it a
plain, smooth level
[20.107] You shall not see
therein any crookedness or
unevenness.
[20.108] On that day they
shall follow the inviter, there is
no crookedness in him, and the
voices shall be low before the
Beneficent God so that you shall not
hear aught but a soft sound.
[20.109] On that day shall no
intercession avail except of him
whom the Beneficent God allows and
whose word He is pleased with.
[20.110] He knows what is
before them and what is behind them,
while they do not comprehend it in
knowledge.
[20.111] And the faces shall
be humbled before the Living, the
Self-subsistent God, and he who
bears iniquity is indeed a failure.
[20.112] And whoever does
good works and he is a believer, he
shall have no fear of injustice nor
of the withholding of his due.
[20.113] And thus have We
sent it down an Arabic Quran, and
have distinctly set forth therein of
threats that they may guard (against
evil) or that it may produce a
reminder for them.
[20.114] Supremely exalted is
therefore Allah, the King, the
Truth, and do not make haste with
the Quran before its revelation is
made complete to you and say: O my
Lord ! increase me in knowledge.
[20.115] And certainly We
gave a commandment to Adam before,
but he forgot; and We did not find
in him any determination.
[20.116] And when We said to
the angels: Make obeisance to Adam,
they made obeisance, but Iblis (did
it not); he refused.
[20.117] So We said: O Adam!
This is an enemy to you and to your
wife; therefore let him not drive
you both forth from the garden so
that you should be unhappy;
[20.118] Surely it is
(ordained) for you that you shall
not be hungry therein nor bare of
clothing;
[20.119] And that you shall
not be thirsty therein nor shall you
feel the heat of the sun.
[20.120] But the Shaitan made
an evil suggestion to him; he said:
O Adam! Shall I guide you to the
tree of immortality and a kingdom
which decays not?
[20.121] Then they both ate
of it, so their evil inclinations
became manifest to them, and they
both began to cover themselves with
leaves of the garden, and Adam
disobeyed his Lord, so his life
became evil (to him).
[20.122] Then his Lord chose
him, so He turned to him and guided
(him).
[20.123] He said: Get forth
you two there from, all (of you),
one of you (is) enemy to another. So
there will surely come to you
guidance from Me, then whoever
follows My guidance, he shall not go
astray nor be unhappy;
[20.124] And whoever turns
away from My reminder, his shall be
a straitened life, and We will raise
him on the day of resurrection,
blind.
[20.125] He shall say: My
Lord! why hast Thou raised me blind
and I was a seeing one indeed?
[20.126] He will say: Even
so, Our communications came to you
but you neglected them; even thus
shall you be forsaken this day.
[20.127] And thus do We
recompense him who is extravagant
and does not believe in the
communications of his Lord, and
certainly the chastisement of the
hereafter is severer and more
[20.128] Does it not then
direct them aright how many of the
generations In whose dwelling-places
they go about We destroyed before
them? Most surely there are signs in
this for those endowed with
understanding.
[20.129] And had there not
been a word (that had) already gone
forth from your Lord and an
appointed term, it would surely have
been made to cleave (to them).
[20.130] Bear then patiently
what they say, and glorify your Lord
by the praising of Him before the
rising of the sun and before its
setting, and during hours of the
night do also glorify (Him) and
during parts of the day, that you
may be well pleased
[20.131] And do not stretch
your eyes after that with which We
have provided different classes of
them, (of) the splendor of this
world's life, that We may thereby
try them; and the sustenance (given)
by your Lord is better and more
abiding.
[20.132] And enjoin prayer on
your followers, and steadily adhere
to it; We do not ask you for
subsistence; We do give you
subsistence, and the (good) end is
for guarding (against evil).
[20.133] And they say: Why
does he not bring to us a sign from
his Lord? Has not there come to them
a clear evidence of what is m the
previous books?
[20.134] And had We destroyed
them with chastisement before this,
they would certainly have said: O
our Lord! why didst Thou not send to
us an apostle, for then we should
have followed Thy communications
before that we met disgrace and
shame.
[20.135] Say: Every one (of
us) is awaiting, therefore do await:
So you will come to know who is the
follower of the even path and who
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