And on the day when He shall gather them, and whatever they served besides Allah, He shall say: Was it you who led astray these My servants, or did they themselves go astray from the path?

They shall say: Glory be to Thee; it was not beseeming for us that we should take any guardians besides Thee, but Thou didst make them and their fathers to enjoy until they forsook the reminder, and they were a people in perdition,

And We have not sent before you any messengers but they most surely ate food and went about in the markets; and We have made some of you a trial for others; will you bear patiently? And your Lord is ever Seeing.

And We will proceed to what they have done of deeds, so We shall render them as scattered floating dust.

And thus have We made for every prophet an enemy from among the sinners and sufficient is your Lord as a Guide and a Helper.

And He it is Who sends the winds as good news before His mercy; and We send down pure water from the cloud,

And He it is Who has created man from the water, then He has made for him blood relationship and marriage relationship, and your Lord is powerful.

And they serve besides Allah that which neither profits them nor causes them harm; and the unbeliever is a partisan against his Lord.

Say: I do not ask you aught in return except that he who will, may take the way to his Lord.

And they who say: O our Lord! grant us in our wives and our offspring the joy of our eyes, and make us guides to those who guard (against evil).

If We please, We should send down upon them a sign from the heaven so that their necks should stoop to it.

And there does not come to them a new reminder from the Beneficent Allah but they turn aside from it.

Do they not see the earth, how many of every noble kind We have caused to grow in it?

(Firon) said: Did we not bring you up as a child among us, and you tarried among us for (many) years of your life?

And you did (that) deed of yours which you did, and you are one of the ungrateful.

He said: I did it then while I was of those unable to see the right course;

So I fled from you when I feared you, then my Lord granted me wisdom and made me of the messengers;

Said he: If you will take a god besides me, I will most certainly make you one of the imprisoned.

Said he: Bring it then, if you are of the truthful ones.

Who desires to turn you out of your land with his magic; what is it then that you advise?

He said: Yes, and surely you will then be of those who are made near.

Said he: You believe in him before I give you permission; most surely he is the chief of you who taught you the magic, so you shall know: certainly I will cut off your hands and your feet on opposite sides, and certainly I will crucify you all.

So We turned them out of gardens and springs,

And make me of the heirs of the garden of bliss

And forgive my father, for surely he is of those who have gone astray;

Besides Allah? Can they help you or yet help themselves?

So we have no intercessors,

But if we could but once return, we would be of the believers.

And I do not ask you any reward for it; my reward is only with the Lord of the worlds:

They said: If you desist not, O Nuh, you shall most certainly be of those stoned to death.

Therefore judge Thou between me and them with a (just) judgment, and deliver me and those who are with me of the believers.

And I do not ask you any reward for it; surely my reward is only with the Lord of the worlds

They said: It is the same to us whether you admonish or are not one of the admonishers

And I do not ask you any reward for it; my reward is only with the Lord of the worlds:

And you hew houses out of the mountains exultingly;

They said: You are only of the deluded ones;

You are naught but a mortal like ourselves; so bring a sign if you are one of the truthful.

And I do not ask you any reward for it; my reward is only with the Lord of the worlds;

What! do you come to the males from among the creatures

And leave what your Lord has created for you of your wives? Nay, you are a people exceeding limits.

They said: If you desist not, O Lut! you shall surely be of those who are expelled.

He said: Surely I am of those who utterly abhor your

And I do not ask you any reward for it, my reward is only with the Lord of the worlds;

Give a full measure and be not of those who diminish;

They said: You are only of those deluded;

And you are naught but a mortal like ourselves, and we know you to be certainly of the liars.

Therefore cause a portion of the heaven to come down upon us, if you are one of the truthful.

Upon your heart that you may be of the warners

And We did not destroy any town but it had (its) warners,

So call not upon another god with Allah, lest you be of those who are punished.

And be kind to him who follows you of the believers.

Except those who believe and do good and remember Allah much, and defend themselves after they are oppressed; and they who act unjustly shall know to what final place of turning they shall turn back.

And most surely you are made to receive the Quran from the Wise, the Knowing Allah.

And enter your hand into the opening of your bosom, it shall come forth white without evil; among nine signs to Firon and his people, surely they are a transgressing people.

And certainly We gave knowledge to Dawood and Sulaiman, and they both said: Praise be to Allah, Who has made us to excel many of His believing servants.

And Sulaiman was Dawood's heir, and he said: O men! we have been taught the language of birds, and we have been given all things; most surely this is manifest grace.

And his hosts of the jinn and the men and the birds were gathered to him, and they were formed into groups.

So he smiled, wondering at her word, and said: My Lord! grant me that I should be grateful for Thy favor which Thou hast bestowed on me and on my parents, and that I should do good such as Thou art pleased with, and make me enter, by Thy mercy, into Thy servants, the good ones.

And he reviewed the birds, then said: How is it I see not the hoopoe or is it that he is of the absentees?

And he tarried not long, then said: I comprehend that which you do not comprehend and I have brought to you a sure information from Sheba.

Surely I found a woman ruling over them, and she has been given abundance and she has a mighty throne:

I found her and her people adoring the sun instead of Allah, and the Shaitan has made their deeds fair-seeming to them and thus turned them from the way, so they do not go aright

He said: We will see whether you have told the truth or whether you are of the liars:

Surely it is from Sulaiman, and surely it is in the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful;

One audacious among the jinn said: I will bring it to you before you rise up from your place; and most surely I am strong (and) trusty for it.

One who had the knowledge of the Book said: I will bring it to you in the twinkling of an eye. Then when he saw it settled beside him, he said: This is of the grace of my Lord that He may try me whether I am grateful or ungrateful; and whoever is grateful, he is grateful only for his own soul, and whoever is ungrateful, then surely my Lord is Self-sufficient, Honored.

He said: Alter her throne for her, we will see whether she follows the right way or is of those who do not go aright.

So when she came, it was said: Is your throne like this? She said: It is as it were the same, and we were given the knowledge before it, and we were submissive.

And what she worshipped besides Allah prevented her, surely she was of an unbelieving people.

It was said to her: Enter the palace; but when she saw it she deemed it to be a great expanse of water, and bared her legs. He said: Surely it is a palace made smooth with glass. She said: My Lord! surely I have been unjust to myself, and I submit with Sulaiman to Allah, the Lord of the worlds.

What! do you indeed approach men lustfully rather than women? Nay, you are a people who act ignorantly.

But the answer of his people was no other except that they ~s said: Turn out Lut's followers from your town; surely they are a people who would keep pure!

But We delivered him and his followers except his wife; We ordained her to be of those who remained behind.

Nay, He Who created the heavens and the earth, and sent down for you water from the cloud; then We cause to grow thereby beautiful gardens; it is not possible for you that you should make the trees thereof to grow. Is there a god with Allah? Nay! they are people who deviate.

Or, Who originates the creation, then reproduces it and Who gives you sustenance from the heaven and the earth. Is there a god With Allah? Say: Bring your proof if you are truthful.

We have certainly been promised this, we and our fathers before; these are naught but stories of the ancients

And there is nothing concealed in the heaven and the earth but it is in a clear book.

And when the word shall come to pass against them, We shall bring forth for them a creature from the earth that shall i wound them, because people did not believe in Our communications.

And on the day when We will gather from every nation a party from among those who rejected Our communications, then they shall be formed into groups.

Whoever brings good, he shall have better than it; and they shall be secure from terror on the day.

I am commanded only that I should serve the Lord of this city, Who has made it sacred, and His are all things; and I am commanded that I should be of these who submit;

And that I should recite the Quran. Therefore whoever goes aright, he goes aright for his own soul, and whoever goes ' astray, then say: I am only one of the warners.

We recite to you from the account of Musa and Firon with truth for people who believe.

Surely Firon exalted himself in the land and made its people into parties, weakening one party from among them; he slaughtered their sons and let their women live; surely he was one of the mischiefmakers.

And We revealed to Musa's mothers, saying: Give him suck, then when you fear for him, cast him into the river and do not fear nor grieve; surely We wi!l bring him back to you and make him one of the messengers.

And the heart of Musa's mother was free (from anxiety) she would have almost disclosed it had We not strengthened her heart so that she might be of the believers.

And We ordained that he refused to suck any foster mother before, so she said: Shall I point out to you the people of a house who will take care of him for you, and they will be benevolent to him?

And he went into the city at a time of unvigilance on the part of its people, so he found therein two men fighting, one being of his party and the other of his foes, and he who was of his party cried out to him for help against him who was of his enemies, so Musa struck him with his fist and killed him. He said: This is on account of the Shaitan's doing; surely he is an enemy, openly leading astray.

So when he desired to seize him who was an enemy to them both, he said: O Musa! do you intend to kill me as you killed a person yesterday? You desire nothing but that you should be a tyrant in the land, and you do not desire to be of those who act aright.

And a man came running from the remotest part of the city. He said: O Musa! surely the chiefs are consulting together to slay you, therefore depart (at once); surely I am of those who wish well to you.

So he went forth therefrom, fearing, awaiting, (and) he said: My Lord! deliver me from the unjust people.

And when he came to the water of Madyan, he found on it a group of men watering, and he found besides them two women keeping back (their flocks). He said: What is the matter with you? They said: We cannot water until the shepherds take away (their sheep) from the water, and our father is a very old man.

So he watered (their sheep) for them, then went back to the shade and said: My Lord! surely I stand in need of whatever good Thou mayest send down to me.

Then one of the two women came to him walking bashfully. She said: My father invites you that he may give you the reward of your having watered for us. So when he came to him and gave to him the account, he said: Fear not, you are secure from the unjust people.

He said: I desire to marry one of these two daughters of mine to you on condition that you should serve me for eight years; but if you complete ten, it will be of your own free will, and I do not wish to be hard to you; if Allah please, you will find me one of the good.

So when Musa had fulfilled the term, and he journeyed with his family, he perceived on this side of the mountain a fire. He said to his family: Wait, I have seen a fire, maybe I will bring to you from it some news or a brand of fire, so that you may warm yourselves.

And when he came to it, a voice was uttered from the right side of the valley in the blessed spot of the bush, saying: O Musa! surely I am Allah, the Lord of the worlds.

And saying: Cast down you staff. So when he saw it in motion as if it were a serpent, he turned back retreating, and did not return. O Musa! come forward and fear not; surely you are of those who are secure;

Enter your hand into the opening of your bosom, it will come forth white without evil, and draw your hand to yourself to ward off fear: so these two shall be two arguments from your Lord to Firon and his chiefs, surely they are a transgressing people.

And Musa said: My Lord knows best who comes with guidance from Him, and whose shall be the good end of the abode; surely the unjust shall not be successful.