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| 79. And Pharaoh said, `Bring to me every expert sorcerer.' 80. And when the sorcerers came, Moses said to them, cast ye what you would cast.' 81. And when they had cast, Moses said, `What you have brought is mere sorcery. Surely ALLAH will bring it to naught. Verily, ALLAH does not permit the work of mischief-makers to prosper. 82. `And ALLAH establishes the truth by HIS words, even though the guilty be averse to it.' 83. And none obeyed Moses save some youths from among his people, because of the fear of pharaoh and their chiefs, lest he should persecute them. And surely Pharaoh was a tyrant in the land and surely he was of the transgressors. 84. And Moses said, `O my people, if you have believed in ALLAH, then in HIM put your trust, if you have truly submitted to His Will.' 85. And they said, `In ALLAH do we put our trust. Our Lord, make us not a trial for the wrongdoing people; 86. `And deliver us by Thy mercy from the tyranny of the disbelieving people.' 87. And WE revealed to Moses and his brother, saying, `Take for your people some houses in the town, and construct your houses so that they face each other and observe Prayer. And give glad tidings to the believers.' 88. And Moses said, `Our Lord, Thou hast bestowed upon Pharaoh and his chiefs splendour and riches in the present life, with the result, our Lord, that they are leading men astray from Thy path. Our Lord ! destroy their riches and harden their hearts so that they believe not until they see the grievous punishment.' |
