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then your affairs and your associates?; nor let your affair (be ordered) for you in the dark; then decide respecting me, and do not wait; and if ye turn your backs, I ask you not for hire; my hire is only due from God, and I am bidden to be of those resigned.' But they called him a liar; and we saved him, and those with him, in the ark ; and we made these 2 successors, and drowned those who had said our signs were lies; see then how was the end of those who had been warned !
[75] Then we raised up after him apostles unto their people, and they came to them with manifest signs; but they would not believe in what they had called a lie before. Thus do we set a stamp upon the hearts of the transgressors.
Then we raised up after them Moses and Aaron, unto Pharaoh and his chiefs with our signs; but they were too big with pride, and were a sinful people; and when the truth came to them from us they said, verily, 'This is obvious sorcery.'
Moses said, “Will ye say of the truth when it comes to you, Is this sorcery? But sorcerers shall not prosper.'
They said, 'Hast thou come to turn us away from what we found our fathers at, that there may be for you twain grandeur in the earth ? but we will not believe you.'
[80] And Pharaoh said, 'Bring me every knowing sorcerer ;' and when the sorcerers came, Moses said to them, “Throw down what ye have to throw!' and when they threw down, Moses said, "What ye have brought is sorcery! verily, God will make
1 Your idols.
? Noah's people.
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| SR No. | 007686 |
| Book Title | Quran Part 01 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | E H Palmer |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1880 |
| Total Pages | 779 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English, R000, & R999 |
| File Size | 12 MB |