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| 71. And recite unto them the story of Noah, when he said to his people, `O my people, if my station with God and my reminding you of your duty through the Signs of ALLAH offend you - and in ALLAH do I put my trust - muster then all your designs, and your associated-gods; then let not your course of action remain obscure to you in any respect; then carry out your designs against me and give me no respite, 72. `But if you turn back, then remember, I have not asked of you any reward. My reward is with ALLAH alone, and I have been commanded to be of those who are wholly resigned to Him. 73. But they rejected him, so WE saved him and those who were with him in the Ark. And WE made them inheritors of Our favours, while WE drowned those who rejected our Signs. See then, how evil was the end of those who had been warned. 74. The WE sent, after him, other Messengers to their respective peoples, and they brought them clear proofs. But they would not believe in them, because they had rejected them before. Thus do WE seal the hearts of the transgressors. 75. Then WE sent after them Moses and Aaron to Pharaoh and his chiefs with Our Signs, but they behaved arrogantly. And they were a sinful people. 76. And when there came to them the truth from US, they said, `This is surely a manifest enchantment.' 77. Moses said, `Do you say this of the truth when it has come to you ? Can this be enchantment ? And the enchanters never prosper. 78. They said, `Hast thou come to us that thou mayest turn us away from what we found our fathers following, and that you two may have greatness in the land ? But we will not believe in either of you.' |
