20. Ta-Ha

1 Ta Ha

2 We have not sent down to you the Quran that you be distressed

3 But only as a reminder for those who fear

4 A revelation from He who created the earth and highest heavens

5 The Most Merciful established Himself above the Throne

6 To Him belongs what is in the heavens and what is on the earth and what is between them and what is under the soil

7 And if you speak aloud then indeed He knows the secret and what is more hidden

8 God there is no deity except Him To Him belong the best names

9 Has the story of Moses reached you

10 When he saw a fire and said to his family Stay here I have perceived a fire perhaps I can bring you a torch from it or find guidance at the fire

11 Then when he came to it he was called O Moses

12 Indeed I am your Lord so remove your sandals Indeed you are in the sacred valley of Tuwa

13 And I have chosen you so listen to what is revealed

14 Indeed I am God there is no god but Me so worship Me and establish prayer for My remembrance

15 Indeed the Hour is coming I almost hide it so that every soul may be rewarded for what it strives for

16 So do not let one who does not believe in it and follows his desire avert you from it lest you perish

17 And what is that in your right hand O Moses

18 He said It is my staff I lean upon it and I beat down leaves with it for my sheep and I have other uses for it

19 He said Throw it down O Moses

20 So he threw it down and suddenly it was a snake moving swiftly

21 He said Seize it and do not fear We will return it to its former state

22 And press your hand to your side it will come out white without disease as another sign

23 That We may show you of Our greater signs

24 Go to Pharaoh Indeed he has transgressed

25 Moses said My Lord expand for me my chest

26 And ease for me my task

27 And untie the knot from my tongue

28 That they may understand my speech

29 And appoint for me a helper from my family

30 Aaron my brother

31 Increase through him my strength

32 And let him share my task

33 That we may glorify You much

34 And remember You much

35 Indeed You are of us ever Seeing

36 God said You have been granted your request O Moses

37 And We had already conferred favor upon you another time

38 When We inspired to your mother what We inspired

39 Put him into the chest and cast it into the river and the river will throw it onto the bank there will take him an enemy to Me and an enemy to him And I bestowed upon you love from Me that you would be brought up under My eye

40 When your sister went and said Shall I direct you to someone who will be responsible for him So We returned you to your mother that she might be content and not grieve And you killed a man but We saved you from distress and tried you with a trying And you remained years among the people of Midian Then you came here at the decreed time O Moses

41 And I have chosen you for Myself

42 Go you and your brother with My signs and do not slacken in My remembrance

43 Go both of you to Pharaoh Indeed he has transgressed

44 And speak to him with gentle speech that perhaps he may be reminded or fear

45 They said Our Lord indeed we are afraid that he will hasten against us or that he will transgress

46 God said Do not fear Indeed I am with you both I hear and I see

47 So go to him and say Indeed we are messengers of your Lord so send with us the Children of Israel and do not torment them We have come to you with a sign from your Lord And peace will be upon he who follows the guidance

48 Indeed it has been revealed to us that the punishment will be upon whoever denies and turns away

49 Pharaoh said: Who then is the Lord of you two, O Moses?

50 He said: Our Lord is He who gave everything its form, then guided it.

51 Pharaoh said: What then is the state of the previous generations?

52 He said: The knowledge of that is with my Lord in a record. My Lord neither errs nor forgets.

53 He who made for you the earth as a bed and made for you in it paths and sent down from the sky water, then We brought forth with it pairs of various plants.

54 Eat and pasture your livestock. Indeed in that are signs for those of intelligence.

55 From it We created you, and into it We will return you, and from it We will bring you out another time.

56 And We showed him Our signs, all of them, but he denied and refused.

57 He said: Have you come to us to drive us out of our land with your magic, O Moses?

58 Then we will surely bring you magic like it, so make between us and you an appointment, which we will not fail to keep and neither will you, in a place of equal distance.

59 Moses said: Your appointment is on the day of the festival, and let the people be gathered in the morning.

60 So Pharaoh went away, put together his plan, then came.

61 Moses said to them: Woe to you, do not invent a lie against God or He will destroy you with a punishment. And he has failed who invents.

62 So they disputed their affair among themselves and concealed their private conversation.

63 They said: These two are certainly magicians who want to drive you out of your land with their magic and do away with your exemplary way.

64 So agree upon your plan and then come in line. And he has succeeded today who overcomes.

65 They said: O Moses, either you throw or we will be the first to throw.

66 He said: Rather, you throw. And suddenly their ropes and staffs seemed to him from their magic that they were moving.

67 And Moses felt fear within himself.

68 We said: Do not fear. Indeed, it is you who will be superior.

69 And throw what is in your right hand; it will swallow up what they have crafted. What they have crafted is but the trick of a magician, and the magician will not succeed wherever he is.

70 So the magicians fell down in prostration. They said: We have believed in the Lord of Aaron and Moses.

71 Pharaoh said: You believed him before I gave you permission. Indeed, he is your leader who has taught you magic. So I will surely cut off your hands and your feet on opposite sides, and I will crucify you on the trunks of palm trees, and you will surely know which of us is more severe in punishment and more enduring.

72 They said: We will never prefer you over what has come to us of clear proofs and He who created us. So decree whatever you are to decree. You can only decree for this worldly life.

73 Indeed, we have believed in our Lord that He may forgive us our sins and what you compelled us of magic. And God is better and more enduring.

74 Indeed, whoever comes to his Lord as a criminal, indeed for him is Hell; he will neither die in it nor live.

75 But whoever comes to Him as a believer having done righteous deeds, for those will be the highest degrees.

76 Gardens of perpetual residence beneath which rivers flow, wherein they abide eternally. And that is the reward of one who purifies himself.

77 We inspired Moses: Travel by night with My servants and strike a dry path for them through the sea. Do not fear being overtaken and do not be afraid.

78 Pharaoh pursued them with his armies, but the sea overwhelmed them completely.

79 Pharaoh led his people astray and did not guide them.

80 O Children of Israel, We delivered you from your enemy and made an appointment with you on the right side of Mount Sinai and sent down to you manna and quails.

81 Eat from the good things We have provided for you and do not transgress therein, lest My anger descend upon you. And he upon whom My anger descends has certainly fallen.

82 But indeed, I am the Perpetual Forgiver of whoever repents and believes and does righteousness and then continues in guidance.

83 And what made you hurry from your people O Moses

84 He said They are close upon my tracks and I hastened to You my Lord that You might be pleased

85 God said We have tested your people after you departed and the Samiri has led them astray

86 So Moses returned to his people angry and sorrowful He said O my people did not your Lord promise you a good promise Did the time seem too long for you Or did you wish that wrath from your Lord should descend upon you so you broke your promise to me

87 They said We did not break our promise to you by our own will but we were made to carry burdens from the ornaments of the people so we threw them and that was what the Samiri suggested

88 Then he brought out for them a calf statue which made a lowing sound And they said This is your god and the god of Moses but he forgot

89 Did they not see that it could not return to them a word and that it did not possess any power to harm or benefit them

90 And Aaron had already told them before Moses returned O my people you are only being tested by it and indeed your Lord is the Most Merciful so follow me and obey my order

91 They said We will never cease being devoted to it until Moses returns to us

92 Moses said O Aaron what prevented you when you saw them going astray

93 From following me Did you then disobey my order

94 Aaron said O son of my mother do not seize me by my beard or my head Indeed I feared that you would say You caused division among the Children of Israel and you did not observe my word

95 Moses said And what is your case O Samiri

96 He said I saw what they did not see so I took a handful from the track of the messenger and threw it and thus did my soul entice me

97 Moses said Then go For indeed for you in this worldly life is to say No contact And indeed you have an appointment that will not be broken And look at your god to which you remained devoted We will surely burn it and scatter it in the sea with a final scattering

98 Your god is only God there is no deity except Him He has encompassed all things in knowledge

99 Thus We relate to you some news of what has gone before. And We have given you from Us a reminder.

100 Whoever turns away from it will bear a burden on the Day of Resurrection.

101 Abiding eternally therein, and evil it is for them on the Day of Resurrection as a load.

102 The Day the Horn will be blown. And We will gather the criminals, that Day, blue eyed.

103 They will whisper among themselves, You remained not but ten.

104 We know best what they will say, when the best of them in manner will say, You remained not but one day.

105 And they ask you about the mountains, so say, My Lord will blow them away with a blast.

106 And He will leave it a level plain.

107 You will not see therein a depression or an elevation.

108 That Day, they will follow the caller with no deviation therefrom, and all voices will be hushed before the Most Merciful, so you will not hear except a whisper.

109 That Day, no intercession will benefit except from one whom the Most Merciful has given permission and whose word He has approved.

110 He knows what is before them and what will be after them, but they do not encompass it in knowledge.

111 And faces will be humbled before the Ever Living, the Sustainer of existence. And he will have failed who carries injustice.

112 But he who does righteous deeds while he is a believer, he will fear neither injustice nor deprivation.

113 And thus We have sent it down as an Arabic Quran and have diversified therein the warnings that perhaps they will avoid sin or it would cause them remembrance.

114 So high is God, the True King. And do not hasten with the Quran before its revelation is completed to you, and say, My Lord, increase me in knowledge.

115 We had already taken a promise from Adam before, but he forgot, and We found no determination in him.

116 And when We said to the angels, Prostrate to Adam, they prostrated except Iblis. He refused.

117 So We said, O Adam, indeed this is an enemy to you and to your wife. So do not let him drive you out of Paradise, so you would suffer.

118 Indeed, it is for you not to be hungry therein or be unclothed.

119 And indeed, you will not be thirsty therein or be hot from the sun.

120 Then Satan whispered to him. He said, O Adam, shall I direct you to the tree of eternity and possession that will not deteriorate?

121 And they both ate of it, and their private parts became apparent to them, and they began to fasten over themselves from the leaves of Paradise. And Adam disobeyed his Lord and erred.

122 Then his Lord chose him and turned to him in forgiveness and guided him.

123 He said, Descend from it, all of you, as enemies to one another. And if there should come to you guidance from Me, then whoever follows My guidance will neither go astray nor suffer.

124 And whoever turns away from My remembrance, indeed, he will have a difficult life, and We will gather him on the Day of Resurrection blind.

125 He will say, My Lord, why have you raised me blind while I was seeing?

126 He will say, Thus did Our signs come to you, and you forgot them. And thus will you this Day be forgotten.

127 Thus do We recompense one who transgressed and did not believe in the signs of his Lord. And the punishment of the Hereafter is more severe and more lasting.

128 Has it not become clear to them how many generations We destroyed before them as they walk among their dwellings? Indeed in that are signs for those of intelligence.

129 And if not for a word that preceded from your Lord, punishment would have been an obligation and a specified term.

130 So be patient over what they say and exalt with praise of your Lord before the rising of the sun and before its setting; and during periods of the night exalt Him and at the ends of the day, that you may be satisfied.

131 And do not extend your eyes toward that by which We have given enjoyment to some categories of them, the splendor of worldly life by which We test them. And the provision of your Lord is better and more lasting.

132 And enjoin prayer upon your family and be steadfast therein. We ask you not for provision; We provide for you, and the best outcome is for righteousness.

133 And they say, Why does he not bring us a sign from his Lord? Has there not come to them evidence of what was in the former scriptures?

134 And if We had destroyed them with a punishment before him, they would have said, Our Lord, why did You not send to us a messenger so we could have followed Your verses before we were humiliated and disgraced?

135 Say, Each is waiting; so wait. You will know who are the companions of the even path and who is guided.