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Surat Ash-Shu`arā' (The Poets) - سورة الشعراء
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![26:3](https://df61994948e9a54a5259-ad04094bac72ed4d481dba65a1920e88.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/26_3.png)
Sahih International
Perhaps, [O Muhammad], you would kill yourself with grief that they will not be believers.![26:4](https://df61994948e9a54a5259-ad04094bac72ed4d481dba65a1920e88.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/26_4.png)
Sahih International
If We willed, We could send down to them from the sky a sign for which their necks would remain humbled.![26:5](https://df61994948e9a54a5259-ad04094bac72ed4d481dba65a1920e88.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/26_5.png)
Sahih International
And no revelation comes to them anew from the Most Merciful except that they turn away from it.![26:6](https://df61994948e9a54a5259-ad04094bac72ed4d481dba65a1920e88.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/26_6.png)
Sahih International
For they have already denied, but there will come to them the news of that which they used to ridicule.![26:7](https://df61994948e9a54a5259-ad04094bac72ed4d481dba65a1920e88.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/26_7.png)
Sahih International
Did they not look at the earth - how much We have produced therein from every noble kind?![26:10](https://df61994948e9a54a5259-ad04094bac72ed4d481dba65a1920e88.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/26_10.png)
Sahih International
And [mention] when your Lord called Moses, [saying], "Go to the wrongdoing people -![26:13](https://df61994948e9a54a5259-ad04094bac72ed4d481dba65a1920e88.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/26_13.png)
Sahih International
And that my breast will tighten and my tongue will not be fluent, so send for Aaron.![26:14](https://df61994948e9a54a5259-ad04094bac72ed4d481dba65a1920e88.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/26_14.png)
Sahih International
And they have upon me a [claim due to] sin, so I fear that they will kill me."![26:15](https://df61994948e9a54a5259-ad04094bac72ed4d481dba65a1920e88.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/26_15.png)
Sahih International
[ Allah ] said, "No. Go both of you with Our signs; indeed, We are with you, listening.![26:16](https://df61994948e9a54a5259-ad04094bac72ed4d481dba65a1920e88.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/26_16.png)
Sahih International
Go to Pharaoh and say, 'We are the messengers of the Lord of the worlds,![26:18](https://df61994948e9a54a5259-ad04094bac72ed4d481dba65a1920e88.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/26_18.png)
Sahih International
[Pharaoh] said, "Did we not raise you among us as a child, and you remained among us for years of your life?![26:19](https://df61994948e9a54a5259-ad04094bac72ed4d481dba65a1920e88.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/26_19.png)
Sahih International
And [then] you did your deed which you did, and you were of the ungrateful."![26:21](https://df61994948e9a54a5259-ad04094bac72ed4d481dba65a1920e88.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/26_21.png)
Sahih International
So I fled from you when I feared you. Then my Lord granted me wisdom and prophethood and appointed me [as one] of the messengers.![26:22](https://df61994948e9a54a5259-ad04094bac72ed4d481dba65a1920e88.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/26_22.png)
Sahih International
And is this a favor of which you remind me - that you have enslaved the Children of Israel?"![26:24](https://df61994948e9a54a5259-ad04094bac72ed4d481dba65a1920e88.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/26_24.png)
Sahih International
[Moses] said, "The Lord of the heavens and earth and that between them, if you should be convinced."![26:27](https://df61994948e9a54a5259-ad04094bac72ed4d481dba65a1920e88.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/26_27.png)
Sahih International
[Pharaoh] said, "Indeed, your 'messenger' who has been sent to you is mad."![26:28](https://df61994948e9a54a5259-ad04094bac72ed4d481dba65a1920e88.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/26_28.png)
Sahih International
[Moses] said, "Lord of the east and the west and that between them, if you were to reason."![26:29](https://df61994948e9a54a5259-ad04094bac72ed4d481dba65a1920e88.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/26_29.png)
Sahih International
[Pharaoh] said, "If you take a god other than me, I will surely place you among those imprisoned."![26:34](https://df61994948e9a54a5259-ad04094bac72ed4d481dba65a1920e88.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/26_34.png)
Sahih International
[Pharaoh] said to the eminent ones around him, "Indeed, this is a learned magician.![26:35](https://df61994948e9a54a5259-ad04094bac72ed4d481dba65a1920e88.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/26_35.png)
Sahih International
He wants to drive you out of your land by his magic, so what do you advise?"![26:36](https://df61994948e9a54a5259-ad04094bac72ed4d481dba65a1920e88.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/26_36.png)
Sahih International
They said, "Postpone [the matter of] him and his brother and send among the cities gatherers![26:38](https://df61994948e9a54a5259-ad04094bac72ed4d481dba65a1920e88.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/26_38.png)
Sahih International
So the magicians were assembled for the appointment of a well-known day.![26:41](https://df61994948e9a54a5259-ad04094bac72ed4d481dba65a1920e88.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/26_41.png)
Sahih International
And when the magicians arrived, they said to Pharaoh, "Is there indeed for us a reward if we are the predominant?"![26:44](https://df61994948e9a54a5259-ad04094bac72ed4d481dba65a1920e88.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/26_44.png)
Sahih International
So they threw their ropes and their staffs and said, "By the might of Pharaoh, indeed it is we who are predominant."![26:45](https://df61994948e9a54a5259-ad04094bac72ed4d481dba65a1920e88.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/26_45.png)
Sahih International
Then Moses threw his staff, and at once it devoured what they falsified.![26:49](https://df61994948e9a54a5259-ad04094bac72ed4d481dba65a1920e88.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/26_49.png)
Sahih International
[Pharaoh] said, "You believed Moses before I gave you permission. Indeed, he is your leader who has taught you magic, but you are going to know. I will surely cut off your hands and your feet on opposite sides, and I will surely crucify you all."![26:51](https://df61994948e9a54a5259-ad04094bac72ed4d481dba65a1920e88.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/26_51.png)
Sahih International
Indeed, we aspire that our Lord will forgive us our sins because we were the first of the believers."![26:52](https://df61994948e9a54a5259-ad04094bac72ed4d481dba65a1920e88.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/26_52.png)
Sahih International
And We inspired to Moses, "Travel by night with My servants; indeed, you will be pursued."![26:61](https://df61994948e9a54a5259-ad04094bac72ed4d481dba65a1920e88.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/26_61.png)
Sahih International
And when the two companies saw one another, the companions of Moses said, "Indeed, we are to be overtaken!"![26:63](https://df61994948e9a54a5259-ad04094bac72ed4d481dba65a1920e88.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/26_63.png)
Sahih International
Then We inspired to Moses, "Strike with your staff the sea," and it parted, and each portion was like a great towering mountain.![26:67](https://df61994948e9a54a5259-ad04094bac72ed4d481dba65a1920e88.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/26_67.png)
Sahih International
Indeed in that is a sign, but most of them were not to be believers.![26:82](https://df61994948e9a54a5259-ad04094bac72ed4d481dba65a1920e88.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/26_82.png)
Sahih International
And who I aspire that He will forgive me my sin on the Day of Recompense."![26:83](https://df61994948e9a54a5259-ad04094bac72ed4d481dba65a1920e88.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/26_83.png)
Sahih International
[And he said], "My Lord, grant me authority and join me with the righteous.![26:102](https://df61994948e9a54a5259-ad04094bac72ed4d481dba65a1920e88.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/26_102.png)
Sahih International
Then if we only had a return [to the world] and could be of the believers... "![26:103](https://df61994948e9a54a5259-ad04094bac72ed4d481dba65a1920e88.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/26_103.png)
Sahih International
Indeed in that is a sign, but most of them were not to be believers.![26:109](https://df61994948e9a54a5259-ad04094bac72ed4d481dba65a1920e88.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/26_109.png)
Sahih International
And I do not ask you for it any payment. My payment is only from the Lord of the worlds.![26:111](https://df61994948e9a54a5259-ad04094bac72ed4d481dba65a1920e88.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/26_111.png)
Sahih International
They said, "Should we believe you while you are followed by the lowest [class of people]?"![26:116](https://df61994948e9a54a5259-ad04094bac72ed4d481dba65a1920e88.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/26_116.png)
Sahih International
They said, "If you do not desist, O Noah, you will surely be of those who are stoned."![26:118](https://df61994948e9a54a5259-ad04094bac72ed4d481dba65a1920e88.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/26_118.png)
Sahih International
Then judge between me and them with decisive judgement and save me and those with me of the believers."![26:121](https://df61994948e9a54a5259-ad04094bac72ed4d481dba65a1920e88.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/26_121.png)
Sahih International
Indeed in that is a sign, but most of them were not to be believers.![26:127](https://df61994948e9a54a5259-ad04094bac72ed4d481dba65a1920e88.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/26_127.png)
Sahih International
And I do not ask you for it any payment. My payment is only from the Lord of the worlds.![](/images/boxBottomBR.gif)