[20:52]

He said: The knowledge thereof is with my Lord in a Record. My Lord neither erreth nor forgetteth,

[20:53]

Who hath appointed the earth as a bed and hath threaded roads for you therein and hath sent down water from the sky and thereby We have brought forth divers kinds of vegetation,

[20:54]

(Saying): Eat ye and feed your cattle. Lo! herein verily are portents for men of thought.

[20:55]

Thereof We created you, and thereunto We return you, and thence We bring you forth a second time.

[20:56]

And We verily did show him all Our tokens, but he denied them and refused.

[20:57]

He said: Hast come to drive us out from our land by thy magic, O Moses ?

[20:58]

But we surely can produce for thee magic the like thereof; so appoint a tryst between us and you, which neither we nor thou shall fail to keep, at a place convenient (to us both).

[20:59]

(Moses) said: Your tryst shall be the day of the feast, and let the people assemble when the sun hath risen high.

[20:60]

Then Pharaoh went and gathered his strength, then came (to the appointed tryst).

[20:61]

Moses said unto them: Woe unto you! Invent not a lie against Allah, lest He extirpate you by some punishment. He who lieth faileth miserably.

[20:62]

Then they debated one with another what they must do, and they kept their counsel secret.

[20:63]

They said: Lo! these are two wizards who would drive you out from your country by their magic, and destroy your best traditions;

[20:64]

So arrange your plan, and come in battle line. Whoso is uppermost this day will be indeed successful.