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ⅩⅩⅦ, 89-ⅩⅩⅧ, 3. be startled, save whom God pleases! and all shall come abjectly to Him. And thou shalt see the mountains, which thou dost deem solid, pass away like the passing of the clouds ; — the work of God who orders all things; verily, He is well aware of what ye do !

He who brings a good deed shall have better than it ; and from the alarm of that day they shall be safe : but those who bring an evil deed shall be thrown down upon their faces in the fire. Shall ye be rewarded save for what ye have done ?

I am bidden to serve the Lord of this country who has made it sacred, and whose are all things ; and I am bidden to be of those who are resigned, and to recite the Qurʼân; and he who is guided he is only guided for himself; and he who errs, — say, ‘ I am only of those who warn !’

And say, ‘ Praise be to God, He will show you His signs, and ye shall recognise them; for thy Lord is not heedless of what ye do !’ 

 . (ⅩⅩⅧ. Mecca.)

In the name of the merciful and compassionate God.

T. S. M. Those are the signs of the perspicuous Book ; we recite to thee from the history of Moses and Pharaoh in truth unto a people who believe

Verily, Pharaoh was lofty in the land and made the people thereof sects; one party of them he weakened, slaughtering their sons and letting their women live. Verily, he was of the despoilers.