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In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
- "Only our desire is that our Lord will forgive us our faults, that we may become foremost among the Believers!"
- By inspiration We told Moses: "Travel by night with My servants; for surely ye shall be pursued."
- Then Pharaoh sent heralds to (all) the Cities,
- (Saying): "These (Israelites) are but a small band,
- "And they are raging furiously against us;
- "But we are a multitude amply fore-warned."
- So We expelled them from gardens, springs,
- Treasures, and every kind of honorable position;
- Thus it was, but We made the Children of Israel inheritors of such things.
- So they pursued them at sunrise.
- And when the two bodies saw each other, the people of Moses said: "We are sure to be overtaken."
- (Moses said: "By no means! my Lord is with me! Soon will He guide me!
- Then We told Moses by inspiration: "Strike the sea with thy rod." So it divided, and each separate part become like the huge, firm mass of a mountain.
- And We made the other party approach thither.
- We delivered Moses and all who were with him;
- But We drowned the others.
- Verily in this is a Sign: but most of them do not believe.
- And verily thy Lord is He, the Exalted in Might, Most Merciful.
- And rehearse to them (something of) Abraham's story.
- Behold, he said to his father and his people: "What worship ye?"
- They said: "We worship idols, and we remain constantly in attendance on them."
- He said: "Do they listen to you when ye call (on them)., Or do you good or harm?"
- They said: "Nay, but we found our fathers doing thus (what we do)."
- He said: "Do ye then see whom ye have been worshipping, --
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