[44:19]

And saying: Be not proud against Allah. Lo! I bring you a clear warrant.

[44:20]

And lo! I have sought refuge in my Lord and your Lord lest ye stone me to death.

[44:21]

And if ye put no faith in me, then let me go.

[44:22]

And he cried unto his Lord, (saying): These are guilty folk.

[44:23]

Then (his Lord commanded): Take away My slaves by night. Lo! ye will be followed,

[44:24]

And leave the sea behind at rest, for lo! they are a drowned host.

[44:25]

How many were the gardens and the watersprings that they left behind,

[44:26]

And the cornlands and the goodly sites

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And pleasant things wherein they took delight!

[44:28]

Even so (it was), and We made it an inheritance for other folk;

[44:29]

And the heaven and the earth wept not for them, nor were they reprieved.

[44:30]

And We delivered the Children of Israel from the shameful doom;

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(We delivered them) from Pharaoh. Lo! he was a tyrant of the wanton ones.

[44:32]

And We chose them, purposely, above (all) creatures.

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And We gave them portents wherein was a clear trial.

[44:34]

Lo! these, forsooth, are saying:

[44:35]

There is naught but our first death, and we shall not be raised again.

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Bring back our fathers, if ye speak the truth!

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Are they better, or the folk of Tubb’a and those before them ? We destroyed them, for surely they were guilty.

[44:38]

And We created not the heavens and the earth, and all that is between them, in play.

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We created them not save with truth; but most of them know not.