Ash-Shu'ara

Ṭā, Seen, Meem.

These are the verses of the clear Book.

Perhaps, [O Muḥammad], you would kill yourself with grief that they will not be believers.

If We willed, We could send down to them from the sky a sign for which their necks would remain humbled.

And no mention [i.e., revelation] comes to them anew from the Most Merciful except that they turn away from it.

For they have already denied, but there will come to them the news of that which they used to ridicule.

Did they not look at the earth - how much We have produced therein from every noble kind?

Indeed in that is a sign, but most of them were not to be believers.

And indeed, your Lord - He is the Exalted in Might, the Merciful.

And [mention] when your Lord called Moses, [saying], "Go to the wrongdoing people -

The people of Pharaoh. Will they not fear Allāh?"

He said, "My Lord, indeed I fear that they will deny me

And that my breast will tighten and my tongue will not be fluent, so send for Aaron.

And they have upon me a [claim due to] sin, so I fear that they will kill me."

[Allāh] said, "No. Go both of you with Our signs; indeed, We are with you, listening.

Go to Pharaoh and say, 'We are the messengers of the Lord of the worlds,

[Commanded to say], "Send with us the Children of Israel."'"

[Pharaoh] said, "Did we not raise you among us as a child, and you remained among us for years of your life?

And [then] you did your deed which you did, and you were of the ungrateful."

[Moses] said, "I did it, then, while I was of those astray [i.e., ignorant].

So I fled from you when I feared you. Then my Lord granted me judgement [i.e., wisdom and prophet hood] and appointed me [as one] of the messengers.

And is this a favor of which you remind me - that you have enslaved the Children of Israel?"

Said Pharaoh, "And what is the Lord of the worlds?"

[Moses] said, "The Lord of the heavens and earth and that between them, if you should be convinced."

[Pharaoh] said to those around him, "Do you not hear?"