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| 52. Moses said, `The knowledge thereof is with my Lord preserved in a Book. My Lord neither errs nor forgets; 53. It is HE WHO has made the earth for you a bed and has caused pathways for you to run through it; and WHO sends down rain from the sky and thereby WE bring forth various kinds of vegetation in pairs. 54. `Eat ye and pasture your cattle. Verily, in this are Signs for those endowed with reason.' 55. From the earth have WE have created you, and into it shall WE cause you to return, and from it shall WE bring you forth a second time. 56. And WE did show Pharaoh Our Signs, all of them; but he rejected them and refused to believe. 57. He said, `Has thou come to us, O Moses, to drive us out of our land by thy magic ? 58. But we shall assuredly bring thee magic the like thereof; so make an appointment between us and thyself which we shall not fail to keep - neither we nor thou - at a place alike for us both.' 59. Moses said, `Your appointment shall be the day of the festival and let the people be assembled when the sun is risen high.' 60. Then Pharaoh withdrew and concerted his plan and then came to the place of appointment. 61. Moses said to them, `Woe to you, forge not a lie against ALLAH, lest HE destroy you utterly by some punishment and, surely, he who forges a lie shall perish.' 62. Then they argued their affair among themselves and conferred in secret. 63. They said, `Certainly these two are magicians who seek to drive you out from your land by their magic and to destroy your best way of life; 64. `Concert, therefore, your plan; and then come forward in a body. And, surely, he who gains ascendancy this day shall prosper.' |
