{"translations":[{"resource_id":20,"text":"Ṭā, Seen, Meem.<sup foot_note=196947>1</sup>"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"These are the verses of the clear Book."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"Perhaps, [O Muḥammad], you would kill yourself with grief that they will not be believers."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"If We willed, We could send down to them from the sky a sign for which their necks would remain humbled.<sup foot_note=196948>1</sup>"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And no mention [i.e., revelation] comes to them anew from the Most Merciful except that they turn away from it."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"For they have already denied, but there will come to them the news of that which they used to ridicule."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"Did they not look at the earth - how much We have produced therein from every noble kind?"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"Indeed in that is a sign, but most of them were not to be believers."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And indeed, your Lord - He is the Exalted in Might, the Merciful."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And [mention] when your Lord called Moses, [saying], \"Go to the wrongdoing people -"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"The people of Pharaoh. Will they not fear Allāh?\""},{"resource_id":20,"text":"He said, \"My Lord, indeed I fear that they will deny me"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And that my breast will tighten and my tongue will not be fluent, so send for Aaron."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And they have upon me a [claim due to] sin, so I fear that they will kill me.\""},{"resource_id":20,"text":"[Allāh] said, \"No. Go both of you with Our signs; indeed, We are with you, listening."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"Go to Pharaoh and say, 'We are the messengers<sup foot_note=196949>1</sup> of the Lord of the worlds,"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"[Commanded to say], \"Send with us the Children of Israel.\"'\""},{"resource_id":20,"text":"[Pharaoh] said, \"Did we not raise you among us as a child, and you remained among us for years of your life?"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And [then] you did your deed which you did,<sup foot_note=196950>1</sup> and you were of the ungrateful.\""},{"resource_id":20,"text":"[Moses] said, \"I did it, then, while I was of those astray [i.e., ignorant]."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"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."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And is this a favor of which you remind me - that you have enslaved the Children of Israel?\""},{"resource_id":20,"text":"Said Pharaoh, \"And what is the Lord of the worlds?\""},{"resource_id":20,"text":"[Moses] said, \"The Lord of the heavens and earth and that between them, if you should be convinced.\""},{"resource_id":20,"text":"[Pharaoh] said to those around him, \"Do you not hear?\""},{"resource_id":20,"text":"[Moses] said, \"Your Lord and the Lord of your first forefathers.\""},{"resource_id":20,"text":"[Pharaoh] said,<sup foot_note=196951>1</sup> \"Indeed, your 'messenger' who has been sent to you is mad.\""},{"resource_id":20,"text":"[Moses] said, \"Lord of the east and the west and that between them, if you were to reason.\""},{"resource_id":20,"text":"[Pharaoh] said, \"If you take a god other than me, I will surely place you among those imprisoned.\""},{"resource_id":20,"text":"[Moses] said, \"Even if I brought you something [i.e., proof] manifest?\""},{"resource_id":20,"text":"[Pharaoh] said, \"Then bring it, if you should be of the truthful.\""},{"resource_id":20,"text":"So [Moses] threw his staff, and suddenly it was a serpent manifest.<sup foot_note=196952>1</sup>"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And he drew out his hand; thereupon it was white for the observers."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"[Pharaoh] said to the eminent ones around him, \"Indeed, this is a learned magician."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"He wants to drive you out of your land by his magic, so what do you advise?\""},{"resource_id":20,"text":"They said, \"Postpone [the matter of] him and his brother and send among the cities gatherers"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"Who will bring you every learned, skilled magician.\""},{"resource_id":20,"text":"So the magicians were assembled for the appointment of a well-known day.<sup foot_note=196953>1</sup>"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And it was said to the people, \"Will you congregate."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"That we might follow the magicians if they are the predominant?\""},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And when the magicians arrived, they said to Pharaoh, \"Is there indeed for us a reward if we are the predominant?\""},{"resource_id":20,"text":"He said, \"Yes, and indeed, you will then be of those near [to me].\""},{"resource_id":20,"text":"Moses said to them, \"Throw whatever you will throw.\""},{"resource_id":20,"text":"So they threw their ropes and their staffs and said, \"By the might of Pharaoh, indeed it is we who are predominant.\""},{"resource_id":20,"text":"Then Moses threw his staff, and at once it devoured what they falsified."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"So the magicians fell down in prostration [to Allāh]."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"They said, \"We have believed in the Lord of the worlds,"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"The Lord of Moses and Aaron.\""},{"resource_id":20,"text":"[Pharaoh] said, \"You believed him [i.e., Moses] before I gave you permission. Indeed, he is your leader who has taught you magic, but you are going to know. I will surely cut off your hands and your feet on opposite sides, and I will surely crucify you all.\""},{"resource_id":20,"text":"They said, \"No harm. Indeed, to our Lord we will return."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"Indeed, we aspire that our Lord will forgive us our sins because we were the first of the believers.\""},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And We inspired to Moses, \"Travel by night with My servants; indeed, you will be pursued.\""},{"resource_id":20,"text":"Then Pharaoh sent among the cities gatherers<sup foot_note=196954>1</sup>"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"[And said], \"Indeed, those are but a small band,"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And indeed, they are enraging us,"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And indeed, we are a cautious society...\""},{"resource_id":20,"text":"So We removed them from gardens and springs"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And treasures and honorable station<sup foot_note=196955>1</sup> -"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"Thus. And We caused to inherit it the Children of Israel."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"So they pursued them at sunrise."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And when the two companies saw one another, the companions of Moses said, \"Indeed, we are to be overtaken!\""},{"resource_id":20,"text":"[Moses] said, \"No! Indeed, with me is my Lord; He will guide me.\""},{"resource_id":20,"text":"Then We inspired to Moses, \"Strike with your staff the sea,\" and it parted, and each portion was like a great towering mountain."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And We advanced thereto the others [i.e., the pursuers]."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And We saved Moses and those with him, all together."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"Then We drowned the others."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"Indeed in that is a sign, but most of them were not to be believers."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And indeed, your Lord - He is the Exalted in Might, the Merciful."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And recite to them the news of Abraham,"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"When he said to his father and his people, \"What do you worship?\""},{"resource_id":20,"text":"They said, \"We worship idols and remain to them devoted.\""},{"resource_id":20,"text":"He said, \"Do they hear you when you supplicate?"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"Or do they benefit you, or do they harm?\""},{"resource_id":20,"text":"They said, \"But we found our fathers doing thus.\""},{"resource_id":20,"text":"He said, \"Then do you see what you have been worshipping,"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"You and your ancient forefathers?"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"Indeed, they are enemies to me, except the Lord of the worlds,<sup foot_note=196956>1</sup>"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"Who created me, and He [it is who] guides me."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And it is He who feeds me and gives me drink."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And when I am ill, it is He who cures me"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And who will cause me to die and then bring me to life"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And who I aspire that He will forgive me my sin on the Day of Recompense.\""},{"resource_id":20,"text":"[And he said], \"My Lord, grant me authority and join me with the righteous."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And grant me a mention [i.e., reputation] of honor among later generations."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And place me among the inheritors of the Garden of Pleasure."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And forgive my father. Indeed, he has been of those astray."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And do not disgrace me on the Day they are [all] resurrected -"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"The Day when there will not benefit [anyone] wealth or children"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"But only one who comes to Allāh with a sound heart.\""},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And Paradise will be brought near [that Day] to the righteous."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And Hellfire will be brought forth for the deviators,"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And it will be said to them, \"Where are those you used to worship"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"Other than Allāh? Can they help you or help themselves?\""},{"resource_id":20,"text":"So they will be overturned into it [i.e., Hellfire], they and the deviators"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And the soldiers of Iblees, all together."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"They will say while they dispute therein,"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"\"By Allāh, we were indeed in manifest error"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"When we equated you with the Lord of the worlds."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And no one misguided us except the criminals."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"So now we have no intercessors"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And not a devoted friend."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"Then if we only had a return [to the world] and could be of the believers...\"<sup foot_note=196957>1</sup>"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"Indeed in that is a sign, but most of them were not to be believers."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And indeed, your Lord - He is the Exalted in Might, the Merciful."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"The people of Noah denied the messengers<sup foot_note=196958>1</sup>"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"When their brother Noah said to them, \"Will you not fear Allāh?"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"Indeed, I am to you a trustworthy messenger."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"So fear Allāh and obey me."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And I do not ask you for it any payment. My payment is only from the Lord of the worlds."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"So fear Allāh and obey me.\""},{"resource_id":20,"text":"They said, \"Should we believe you while you are followed by the lowest [class of people]?\""},{"resource_id":20,"text":"He said, \"And what is my knowledge of what they used to do?"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"Their account is only upon my Lord, if you [could] perceive."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And I am not one to drive away the believers."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"I am only a clear warner.\""},{"resource_id":20,"text":"They said, \"If you do not desist, O Noah, you will surely be of those who are stoned.\""},{"resource_id":20,"text":"He said, \"My Lord, indeed my people have denied me."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"Then judge between me and them with decisive judgement and save me and those with me of the believers.\""},{"resource_id":20,"text":"So We saved him and those with him in the laden ship."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"Then We drowned thereafter the remaining ones."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"Indeed in that is a sign, but most of them were not to be believers."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And indeed, your Lord - He is the Exalted in Might, the Merciful."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"ʿAad denied the messengers"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"When their brother Hūd said to them, \"Will you not fear Allāh?"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"Indeed, I am to you a trustworthy messenger."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"So fear Allāh and obey me."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And I do not ask you for it any payment. My payment is only from the Lord of the worlds."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"Do you construct on every elevation a sign,<sup foot_note=196959>1</sup> amusing yourselves,"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And take for yourselves constructions [i.e., palaces and fortresses] that you might abide eternally?"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And when you strike, you strike as tyrants."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"So fear Allāh and obey me."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And fear He who provided you with that which you know,"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"Provided you with grazing livestock and children"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And gardens and springs."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"Indeed, I fear for you the punishment of a terrible day.\""},{"resource_id":20,"text":"They said, \"It is all the same to us whether you advise or are not of the advisors."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"This is not but the custom of the former peoples,"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And we are not to be punished.\""},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And they denied him, so We destroyed them. Indeed in that is a sign, but most of them were not to be believers."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And indeed, your Lord - He is the Exalted in Might, the Merciful."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"Thamūd denied the messengers"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"When their brother Ṣāliḥ said to them, \"Will you not fear Allāh?"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"Indeed, I am to you a trustworthy messenger."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"So fear Allāh and obey me."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And I do not ask you for it any payment. My payment is only from the Lord of the worlds."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"Will you be left in what is here, secure [from death],"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"Within gardens and springs"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And fields of crops and palm trees with softened fruit?"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And you carve out of the mountains, homes, with skill."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"So fear Allāh and obey me."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And do not obey the order of the transgressors,"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"Who cause corruption in the land and do not amend.\""},{"resource_id":20,"text":"They said, \"You are only of those affected by magic."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"You are but a man like ourselves, so bring a sign, if you should be of the truthful.\""},{"resource_id":20,"text":"He said, \"This is a she-camel.<sup foot_note=196960>1</sup> For her is a [time of] drink, and for you is a [time of] drink, [each] on a known day."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And do not touch her with harm, lest you be seized by the punishment of a terrible day.\""},{"resource_id":20,"text":"But they hamstrung her and so became regretful."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And the punishment seized them. Indeed in that is a sign, but most of them were not to be believers."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And indeed, your Lord - He is the Exalted in Might, the Merciful."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"The people of Lot denied the messengers"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"When their brother Lot said to them, \"Will you not fear Allāh?"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"Indeed, I am to you a trustworthy messenger."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"So fear Allāh and obey me."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And I do not ask you for it any payment. My payment is only from the Lord of the worlds."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"Do you approach males among the worlds<sup foot_note=196961>1</sup>"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And leave what your Lord has created for you as mates? But you are a people transgressing.\""},{"resource_id":20,"text":"They said, \"If you do not desist, O Lot, you will surely be of those evicted.\""},{"resource_id":20,"text":"He said, \"Indeed, I am, toward your deed, of those who detest [it]."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"My Lord, save me and my family from [the consequence of] what they do.\""},{"resource_id":20,"text":"So We saved him and his family, all,"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"Except an old woman<sup foot_note=196962>1</sup> among those who remained behind."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"Then We destroyed the others."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And We rained upon them a rain [of stones], and evil was the rain of those who were warned."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"Indeed in that is a sign, but most of them were not to be believers."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And indeed, your Lord - He is the Exalted in Might, the Merciful."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"The companions of the thicket [i.e., the people of Madyan] denied the messengers"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"When Shuʿayb said to them, \"Will you not fear Allāh?"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"Indeed, I am to you a trustworthy messenger."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"So fear Allāh and obey me."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And I do not ask you for it any payment. My payment is only from the Lord of the worlds."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"Give full measure and do not be of those who cause loss."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And weigh with an even [i.e., honest] balance."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And do not deprive people of their due and do not commit abuse on earth, spreading corruption."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And fear He who created you and the former creation.\"<sup foot_note=196963>1</sup>"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"They said, \"You are only of those affected by magic."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"You are but a man like ourselves, and indeed, we think you are among the liars."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"So cause to fall upon us fragments of the sky, if you should be of the truthful.\""},{"resource_id":20,"text":"He said, \"My Lord is most knowing of what you do.\""},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And they denied him, so the punishment of the day of the black cloud seized them. Indeed, it was the punishment of a terrible day."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"Indeed in that is a sign, but most of them were not to be believers."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And indeed, your Lord - He is the Exalted in Might, the Merciful."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And indeed, it [i.e., the Qur’ān] is the revelation of the Lord of the worlds."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"The Trustworthy Spirit [i.e., Gabriel] has brought it down"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"Upon your heart, [O Muḥammad] - that you may be of the warners -"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"In a clear Arabic language."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And indeed, it is [mentioned] in the scriptures of former peoples."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And has it not been a sign to them that it is recognized by the scholars of the Children of Israel?"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And even if We had revealed it to one among the foreigners<sup foot_note=196964>1</sup>"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And he had recited it to them [perfectly],<sup foot_note=196965>1</sup> they would [still] not have been believers in it."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"Thus have We inserted it [i.e., disbelief] into the hearts of the criminals."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"They will not believe in it until they see the painful punishment."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And it will come to them suddenly while they perceive [it] not."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And they will say, \"May we be reprieved?\""},{"resource_id":20,"text":"So for Our punishment are they impatient?"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"Then have you considered if We gave them enjoyment for years"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And then there came to them that which they were promised?"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"They would not be availed by the enjoyment with which they were provided."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And We did not destroy any city except that it had warners"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"As a reminder; and never have We been unjust."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And the devils have not brought it [i.e., the revelation] down.<sup foot_note=196966>1</sup>"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"It is not allowable for them, nor would they be able."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"Indeed they, from [its] hearing, are removed.<sup foot_note=196967>1</sup>"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"So do not invoke<sup foot_note=196968>1</sup> with Allāh another deity and [thus] be among the punished."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And warn, [O Muḥammad], your closest kindred."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And lower your wing [i.e., show kindness] to those who follow you of the believers."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And if they disobey you, then say, \"Indeed, I am disassociated from what you are doing.\""},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And rely upon the Exalted in Might, the Merciful,"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"Who sees you when you arise<sup foot_note=196969>1</sup>"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And your movement among those who prostrate.<sup foot_note=196970>1</sup>"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"Indeed, He is the Hearing, the Knowing."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"Shall I inform you upon whom the devils descend?"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"They descend upon every sinful liar."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"They pass on what is heard,<sup foot_note=196971>1</sup> and most of them are liars."},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And the poets - [only] the deviators follow them;"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"Do you not see that in every valley they roam<sup foot_note=196972>1</sup>"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"And that they say what they do not do? -"},{"resource_id":20,"text":"Except those [poets] who believe and do righteous deeds and remember Allāh often and defend [the Muslims]<sup foot_note=196973>1</sup> after they were wronged. And those who have wronged are going to know to what [kind of] return they will be returned."}],"meta":{"translation_name":"Saheeh International","author_name":"Saheeh International","filters":{"resource_id":20,"chapter_number":"26"}}}