Then they found one from among Our servants whom We had granted mercy from Us and whom We had taught knowledge from Ourselves.

He said: Blame me not for what I forgot, and do not constrain me to a difficult thing in my affair.

He said: If I ask you about anything after this, keep me not in your company; indeed you shall have (then) found an excuse in my case.

And as for the wall, it belonged to two orphan boys in the city, and there was beneath it a treasure belonging to them, and their father was a righteous man; so your Lord desired that they should attain their maturity and take out their treasure, a mercy from your Lord, and I did not do it of my own accord. This is the significance of that with which you could not have patience.

Surely We established him in the land and granted him means of access to every thing.

And as for him who believes and does good, he shall have goodly reward, and We will speak to him an easy word of Our command.

Until when he reached the land of the rising of the sun, he found it rising on a people to whom We had given no shelter from It;

Until when he reached (a place) between the two mountains, he found on that side of them a people who could hardly understand a word.

He said: This is a mercy from my Lord, but when the promise of my Lord comes to pass He will make it level with the ground, and the promise of my Lord is ever true.

What! do then those who disbelieve think that they can take My servants to be guardians besides Me? Surely We have prepared hell for the entertainment of the unbelievers.

And surely I fear my cousins after me, and my wife is barren, therefore grant me from Thyself an heir,

Who should inherit me and inherit from the children of Yaqoub, and make him, my Lord, one in whom Thou art well pleased.

O Zakariya! surely We give you good news of a boy whose name shall be Yahya: We have not made before anyone his equal.

He said: O my Lord! when shall I have a son, and my wife is barren, and I myself have reached indeed the extreme degree of old age?

He said: So shall it be, your Lord says: It is easy to Me, and indeed I created you before, when you were nothing.

So he went forth to his people from his place of worship, then he made known to them that they should glorify (Allah) morning and evening.

And tenderness from Us and purity, and he was one who guarded (against evil),

And mention Marium in the Book when she drew aside from her family to an eastern place;

So she took a veil (to screen herself) from them; then We sent to her Our spirit, and there appeared to her a well-made man.

Then (the child) called out to her from beneath her: Grieve not, surely your Lord has made a stream to flow beneath you;

So eat and drink and refresh the eye. Then if you see any mortal, say: Surely I have vowed a fast to the Beneficent Allah, so I shall not speak to any man today.

It beseems not Allah that He should take to Himself a ! son, glory to be Him; when He has decreed a matter He only says to it "Be," and it is.

But parties from among them disagreed with each other, so woe to those who disbelieve, because of presence on a great

O my father! truly the knowledge has come to me which has not come to you, therefore follow me, I will guide you on a right path:

O my father! surely I fear that a punishment from the Beneficent Allah should afflict you so that you should be a friend of the Shaitan.

And I will withdraw from you and what you call on besides Allah, and I will call upon my Lord; may be I shall not remain unblessed in calling upon my Lord.

So when he withdrew from them and what they worshipped besides Allah, We gave to him Ishaq and Yaqoub, and each one of them We made a prophet.

And We granted to them of Our mercy, and We left (behind them) a truthful mention of eminence for them.

And We called to him from the blessed side of the mountain, and We made him draw nigh, holding communion (with Us).

And We gave to him out of Our mercy his brother Haroun a prophet.

These are they on whom Allah bestowed favors, from among the prophets of the seed of Adam, and of those whom We carried with Nuh, and of the seed of Ibrahim and Israel, and of those whom We guided and chose; when the communications of the Beneficent Allah were recited to them, they fell down making obeisance and weeping.

But there came after them an evil generation, who neglected prayers and followed and sensual desires, so they win meet perdition,

This is the garden which We cause those of Our servants to inherit who guard (against evil).

Does not man remember that We created him before, when he was nothing?

Then We will most certainly draw forth from every sect of them him who is most exorbitantly rebellious against the Beneficent Allah.

And how many of the generations have We destroyed before them who were better in respect of goods and outward appearance!

By no means! We write down what he says, and We will lengthen to him the length of the chastisement

And they have taken gods besides Allah, that they should be to them a source of strength;

And how many a generation have We destroyed before them! Do you see any one of them or hear a sound of them?

And press your hand to your side, it shall come out white without evil: another sign:

That We may show you of Our greater signs:

And loose the knot from my tongue,

And give to me an aider from my family:

When your sister went and said: Shall I direct you to one who will take charge of him? So We brought you back to your mother, that her eye might be cooled and she should not grieve and you killed a man, then We delivered you from the grief, and We tried you with (a severe) trying. Then you stayed for years among the people of Madyan; then you came hither as ordained, O Musa.

So go you both to him and say: Surely we are two messengers of your Lord; therefore send the children of Israel with us and do not torment them! Indeed we have brought to you a communication from your Lord, and peace is on him who follows the guidance;

Who made the earth for you an expanse and made for you therein paths and sent down water from the cloud; then thereby We have brought forth many species of various herbs.

Said he: Have you come to us that you should turn us out of our land by your magic, O Musa?

They said: These are most surely two magicians who wish to turn you out from your land by their magic and to take away your best traditions.

He said: Nay! cast down. then lo! their cords and their rods-- it was imaged to him on account of their magic as if they were running.

(Firon) said: You believe in him before I give you leave; most surely he is the chief of you who taught you enchantment, therefore I will certainly cut off your hands and your feet on opposite sides, and I will certainly crucify you on the trunks of the palm trees, and certainly you will come to know which of us is the more severe and the more abiding in chastising.

They said: We do not prefer you to what has come to us of clear arguments and to He Who made us, therefore decide what you are going to decide; you can only decide about this world's life.

Surely we believe in our Lord that He may forgive us our sins and the magic to which you compelled us; and Allah is better and more abiding.

The gardens of perpetuity, beneath which rivers flow, to abide therein; and this is the reward of him who has purified himself.

And Firon followed them with his armies, so there came upon them of the sea that which came upon them.

O children of Israel! indeed We delivered you from your enemy, and We made a covenant with you on the blessed side of the mountain, and We sent to you the manna and the quails.

Eat of the good things We have given you for sustenance, and be not inordinate with respect to them, lest My wrath should be due to you, and to whomsoever My wrath is due be shall perish indeed.

He said: So surely We have tried your people after you, and the Samiri has led them astray.

So Musa returned to his people wrathful, sorrowing. Said he: O my people! did not your Lord promise you a goodly promise: did then the time seem long to you, or did you wish that displeasure from your Lord should be due to you, so that you broke (your) promise to me?

They said: We did not break (our) promise to you of our own accord, but we were made to bear the burdens of the ornaments of the people, then we made a casting of them, and thus did the Samiri suggest.

And certainly Haroun had said to them before: O my people! you are only tried by it, and surely your Lord is the Beneficent Allah, therefore follow me and obey my order.

He said: I saw (Jibreel) what they did not see, so I took a handful (of the dust) from the footsteps of the messenger, then I threw it in the casting; thus did my soul commend to me

Thus do We relate to you (some) of the news of what has gone before; and indeed We have given to you a Reminder from Ourselves.

And whoever does good works and he is a believer, he shall have no fear of injustice nor of the withholding of his due.

And thus have We sent it down an Arabic Quran, and have distinctly set forth therein of threats that they may guard (against evil) or that it may produce a reminder for them.

Supremely exalted is therefore Allah, the King, the Truth, and do not make haste with the Quran before its revelation is made complete to you and say: O my Lord ! increase me in knowledge.

And certainly We gave a commandment to Adam before, but he forgot; and We did not find in him any determination.

So We said: O Adam! This is an enemy to you and to your wife; therefore let him not drive you both forth from the garden so that you should be unhappy;

Then they both ate of it, so their evil inclinations became manifest to them, and they both began to cover themselves with leaves of the garden, and Adam disobeyed his Lord, so his life became evil (to him).

Does it not then direct them aright how many of the generations In whose dwelling-places they go about We destroyed before them? Most surely there are signs in this for those endowed with understanding.

And had there not been a word (that had) already gone forth from your Lord and an appointed term, it would surely have been made to cleave (to them).

Bear then patiently what they say, and glorify your Lord by the praising of Him before the rising of the sun and before its setting, and during hours of the night do also glorify (Him) and during parts of the day, that you may be well pleased

And they say: Why does he not bring to us a sign from his Lord? Has not there come to them a clear evidence of what is m the previous books?

And had We destroyed them with chastisement before this, they would certainly have said: O our Lord! why didst Thou not send to us a messenger, for then we should have followed Thy communications before that we met disgrace and shame.

There comes not to them a new reminder from their Lord but they hear it while they sport,

There did not believe before them any town which We destroyed, will they then believe?

And how many a town which was iniquitous did We demolish, and We raised up after it another people!

Had We wished to make a diversion, We would have made it from before Ourselves: by no means would We do (it).

Or have they taken gods from the earth who raise (the dead).

Or, have they taken gods besides Him? Say: Bring your proof; this is the reminder of those with me and the reminder of those before me. Nay! most of them do not know the truth, so they turn aside.

And We did not send before you any messenger but We revealed to him that there is no god but Me, therefore serve Me.

He knows what is before them and what is behind them, and they do not intercede except for him whom He approves and for fear of Him they tremble.

And whoever of them should say: Surely I am a god besides Him, such a one do We recompense with hell; thus do, We recompense the unjust.

Do not those who disbelieve see that the heavens and the earth were closed up, but We have opened them; and We have made of water everything living, will they not then believe?

And We did not ordain abiding for any mortal before you. What! Then if you die, will they abide?

Man is created of haste; now will I show to you My signs, therefore do not ask Me to hasten (them) on.

And certainly messengers before you were scoffed at, then there befell those of them who scoffed that at which they had scoffed.

Say: Who guards you by night and by day from the Beneficent Allah? Nay, they turn aside at the mention of their Lord.

Or, have they gods who can defend them against Us? They shall not be able to assist themselves, nor shall they be defended from Us.

Nay, We gave provision to these and their fathers until life was prolonged to them. Do they not then see that We are visiting the land, curtailing it of its sides? Shall they then prevail?

And if a blast of the chastisement of your Lord were to touch them, they will certainly say: O woe to us! surely we were unjust.

And We will set up a just balance on the day of resurrection, so no soul shall be dealt with unjustly in the least; and though there be the weight of a grain of mustard seed, (yet) will We bring it, and sufficient are We to take account.

(For) those who fear their Lord in secret and they are fearful of the hour.

And certainly We gave to Ibrahim his rectitude before, and We knew him fully well.

They said: Have you brought to us the truth, or are you one of the triflers?

He said: Nay! your Lord is the Lord of the heavens and the earth, Who brought them into existence, and I am of those who bear witness to this:

They said: Who has done this to our gods? Most surely he is one of the unjust.

He said: What! do you then serve besides Allah what brings you not any benefit at all, nor does it harm you?

Fie on you and on what you serve besides Allah; what! do you not then understand?

And (as for) Lut, We gave him wisdom and knowledge, and We delivered him from the town which wrought abominations; surely they were an evil people, transgressors;

And We took him into Our mercy; surely he was of the good.