{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/quran/00716.htm","path":"isl/quran/00716.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/quran/00716.htm","text":"The Holy Quran, tr. by Yusuf Ali, [1934]\n130. Walaqad akhathna ala firAAawna bialssineena wanaqsin mina alththamarati laAAallahum yaththakkaroona\n130. We punished the people\n Of Pharaoh with years\n(Of drought) and shortness\n Of crops; that they might\n Receive admonition.\n131. Fa-itha jaat-humu alhasanatu qaloo lana hathihi wa-in tusibhum sayyi-atun yattayyaroo bimoosa waman maAAahu ala innama ta-iruhum AAinda Allahi walakinna aktharahum la yaAAlamoona\n131. But when good (times) came,\n They said, \"This is due\n To us;\" when gripped\n By calamity, they ascribed it\n To evil omens connected\n With Moses and those with him!\n Behold! in truth the omens\n Of evil are theirs\n In God's sight, but most\n Of them do not understand!\n132. Waqaloo mahma ta/tina bihi min ayatin litasharana biha fama nahnu laka bimu/mineena\n132. They said (to Moses):\n \"Whatever be the Signs\n Thou bringest, to work\n Therewith thy sorcery on us,\"\n We shall never believe\n In thee.\"\n133. Faarsalna AAalayhimu alttoofana waaljarada waalqummala waalddafadiAAa waalddama ayatin mufassalatin faistakbaroo wakanoo qawman mujrimeena\n133. So We sent (plagues) on them:\n Wholesale Death,\n Locusts, Lice, Frogs,\n And Blood: Signs openly\n Self-explained: but they\n Were steeped in arrogance,\u2014\n A people given to sin.\n134. Walamma waqaAAa AAalayhimu alrrijzu qaloo ya moosa odAAu lana rabbaka bima AAahida AAindaka la-in kashafta AAanna alrrijza lanu/minanna laka walanursilanna maAAaka banee isra-eela\n134. Every time the Penalty\n Fell on them, they said:\n\"O Moses! on our behalf\n Call on thy Lord in virtue\n Of his promise to thee:\n If thou wilt remove\n The Penalty from us,\n We shall truly believe in thee,\n And we shall send away\n The Children of Israel\n With thee.\"\n135. Falamma kashafna AAanhumu alrrijza ila ajalin hum balighoohu itha hum yankuthoona\n135. But every tune We removed\n The Penalty from them\n According to a fixed term\n Which they had to fulfil,\u2014\n Behold! they broke their word!\n136. Faintaqamna minhum faaghraqnahum fee alyammi bi-annahum kaththaboo bi-ayatina wakanoo AAanha ghafileena\n136. So We exacted retribution\n From them: We drowned them\n In the sea, because they\n Rejected Our Signs, and failed\n To take warning from them.\n137. Waawrathna alqawma allatheena kanoo yustadAAafoona mashariqa al-ardi wamagharibaha allatee barakna feeha watammat kalimatu rabbika alhusna AAala banee isra-eela bima sabaroo wadammarna ma kana yasnaAAu firAAawnu waqawmuhu wama kanoo yaAArishoona\n137. And We made a people,\n Considered weak (and of no account),\n Inheritors of lands\n In both East and West,\u2014\nLands whereon We sent\n Down Our blessings.\n The fair promise of thy Lord\n Was fulfilled for the Children\n Of Israel, because they had\n Patience and constancy,\n And We levelled to the ground\n The great Works and fine Buildings\n Which Pharaoh and his people\n Erected (with such pride).\n138. Wajawazna bibanee isra-eela albahra faataw AAala qawmin yaAAkufoona AAala asnamin lahum qaloo ya moosa ijAAal lana ilahan kama lahum alihatun qala innakum qawmun tajhaloona\n138. We took the Children of Israel\n (With safety) across the sea.\n They came upon a people\n Devoted entirely to some idols\n They had. They said:\n \"O Moses! fashion for us\n A god like unto the gods\n They have.\" He said:\n\"Surely ye are a people\n Without knowledge.\n139. Inna haola-i mutabbarun ma hum feehi wabatilun ma kanoo yaAAmaloona\n139. \"As to these folk,\u2014\n The cult they are in\n Is (but) a fragment of a ruin,\n And vain is the (worship)\n Which they practise.\"\n140. Qala aghayra Allahi abgheekum ilahan wahuwa faddalakum AAala alAAalameena\n140. He said: \"Shall I seek for you\n A god other than the (true)\n God, when it is God\n Who hath endowed you\n With gifts above the nations?\"\n141. Wa-ith anjaynakum min ali firAAawna yasoomoonakum soo-a alAAathabi yuqattiloona abnaakum wayastahyoona nisaakum wafee thalikum balaon min rabbikum AAatheemun\n141. And remember We rescued you\n From Pharaoh's people,\n Who afflicted you with\n The worst of penalties,\n Who slew your male children\n And saved alive your females:\n In that was a momentous\n Trial from your Lord.","title":"The Quran: S\u016bra VII.: A\u2019r\u0101f, or the Heights: Section 16 (130-141)","type":"page"}