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XL, 27-36.
THE CHAPTER OF THE BELIEVER.
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And Pharaoh said, 'Let me kill Moses; and then let him call upon his Lord! verily, I fear that he will change your religion, or that he will cause evil doing to appear in the land.'
And Moses said, “Verily, I take refuge in my Lord and your Lord from every one who is big with pride and believes not on the day of reckoning.'
And a believing man of Pharaoh's people, who concealed his faith, said, “Will ye kill a man for saying, My Lord is God, when he has come to you with manifest signs from your Lord ? and if he be a liar, against him is his lie; and if he be truthful, there will befall you somewhat of that which he threatens you ; verily, God guides not him who is an extravagant liar. [30] O my people! yours is the kingdom to-day, ye are eminent in the land, but who will help us against the violence of God, if it comes upon us ?
Said Pharaoh, ‘I will only show you what I see, and I will only guide you into the way of right direction.'
And he who believed said, O my people! verily, I fear for you the like of the day of the confederates, the like of the wont of the people of Noah and 'Ad and Hâmân, and of those after them; for God desires not injustice for His servants. O my people! verily, I fear for you the day of crying out, — [35] the day when ye shall turn your backs, fleeing, with no defender for you against God; for he whom God leads astray, for him there is no guide!
And Joseph came to you before with manifest signs, but ye ceased not to doubt concerning what he brought you, until, when he perished, ye said, “God will not send after him an apostle ;" thus
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