{ "number": 28, "slug": "qasas", "name": "Al-Qasas", "arabicName": "القصص", "meaning": "The Stories", "juz": 20, "period": "Makkan", "tagline": "DELIVERANCE BEGINS WHERE POWER LEAST EXPECTS", "overview": "Al-Qasas follows Moses from an endangered infancy through flight, refuge in Madyan and his commission to Pharaoh. The account then speaks to the present hearer about revelation, guidance and lasting security. 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English translation (AlQuran Cloud)", "url": "https://alquran.cloud/quran/en.sahih" }, { "title": "The Hijrah in 622 · 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica", "url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Hejira" } ], "titles": [ "The opening letters", "A Book that makes clear", "A truthful account for reflection", "Oppression enters the household", "A promise for the oppressed", "The rulers' calculations overturned", "A mother receives reassurance", "An unexpected arrival in Pharaoh's house", "A voice protects the infant", "Anguish and a strengthened heart", "The sister follows carefully", "A need opens the way home", "The promised reunion", "Strength joined with wisdom", "Intervention with a grave result", "Acknowledgment and forgiveness", "A commitment after mercy", "A repeated appeal for help", "Reform or domination?", "A warning from an unnamed helper", "Departure, fear and prayer", "Turning toward Madyan", "Two women at the water-place", "Service, shade and an open prayer", "An invitation and a safe hearing", "Strength and trustworthiness", "A clearly stated commitment", "The agreement and its limits", "A distant fire on the journey", "The call in the blessed place", "A sign and reassurance", "Two signs for the mission", "Fear is spoken openly", "Aaron's gift of speech", "Strengthened through a brother", "Signs dismissed as magic", "Guidance and the lasting outcome", "A tower ordered in defiance", "Arrogance without right", "Power ends at the sea", "Leadership that leads toward ruin", "A reversed legacy", "Scripture as insight and mercy", "Not an eyewitness at the Mount", "Generations between the accounts", "Knowledge received as mercy", "Warning before consequence", "A shifting demand for signs", "A challenge about clearer guidance", "Desire without guidance", "The message reaches its hearers", "A receptive earlier community", "Recognition through recitation", "Patience, generosity and good response", "Leaving empty speech with peace", "The limits of another person's influence", "Security already received", "Prosperity cannot guarantee permanence", "Communication and accountability", "Comfort within a larger horizon", "A lasting promise or brief enjoyment", "Where are the imagined partners?", "Misleaders disown their followers", "A call with no answer", "How were the messengers answered?", "When explanations fail", "The opening of repentance", "Creation and choice belong to Allah", "Concealed and declared alike are known", "Praise, command and return", "If night never ended", "If day never ended", "Rest and provision as mercy", "The question returns", "Witnesses and the demand for proof", "Korah's treasure and arrogance", "Wealth directed toward good", "The claim of complete self-sufficiency", "A display that awakens envy", "Knowledge changes the measure", "A dwelling cannot provide rescue", "Admiration reconsidered", "The home beyond domination", "Generosity and exact justice", "An assurance of return", "Revelation as unexpected mercy", "Do not be diverted from the call", "What lasts beyond all possessions" ], "notes": [ "The separate letters open a Surah centered on providence, power and the unexpected paths of deliverance. Their recited form is preserved without an invented code. The narrative will move from an endangered infant to the responsibilities that accompany guidance and wealth.", "The Book is introduced through its clarifying signs. That description prepares the listener to read the following story for guidance, rather than only for its dramatic events. Understanding involves attending to the moral relationships the narrative makes visible.", "The account of Moses and Pharaoh is presented as truthful instruction for believers. The verse identifies the main confrontation without supplying a dynasty or ancient date. Its purpose directs attention toward oppression, deliverance and the responsibility of those receiving the story.", "Pharaoh's power divides society and oppresses one group through the killing of sons and sparing of women. Corruption here is political and deeply personal. The verse centers what domination does to families, rather than treating royal grandeur as the measure of civilization.", "The oppressed are promised favor, leadership and inheritance. The narrative's direction counters the apparent permanence of Pharaoh's arrangements. This particular promise should not become a simplistic claim that every present hardship will resolve into immediate worldly power or comfort.", "Establishment for the oppressed is joined to the undoing of the rulers' fears and calculations. The verse places Pharaoh, Haman and their forces within a reversal they cannot control. Apparent command over a population does not amount to command over history.", "Moses' mother receives an extraordinary direction amid danger, accompanied by a promise of return and future messengership. The verse belongs to her particular story. It is not general childcare advice; its significance lies in the trust demanded within that revealed assurance.", "Pharaoh's household takes in the child whose future will challenge its power. The outcome differs sharply from the family's immediate intention. The verse exposes the limits of human calculation while maintaining the narrative's judgment on the wrongdoing of the ruling establishment.", "Pharaoh's wife intervenes to protect the infant, seeing consolation and the possibility of family within a threatened life. Her compassionate speech changes the immediate scene. The verse names her relationship and action, without giving her personal name or an authenticated portrait.", "The mother's anguish is acknowledged rather than hidden behind the promise. Her heart requires strengthening as she nearly reveals the connection. The verse lets trust and intense emotion appear together, showing that receiving reassurance does not make maternal fear unreal.", "Moses' sister follows at a distance without exposing the family's connection. Her quiet observation contributes to the unfolding deliverance. The narrative gives practical attention a place alongside trust, showing a young family member acting carefully within circumstances she cannot control.", "The child's refusal of other nurses creates an opening for his sister to suggest a caring household. The narrative brings need, observation and timing together. What appears an obstacle in the palace becomes the means through which the promised reunion approaches.", "Moses is restored to his mother, bringing comfort and confirming the promise she received. The narrative resolves the separation through a path beyond her control. The lesson concerns this assurance and its fulfillment, rather than a guarantee that every separation ends similarly.", "Maturity brings wisdom and knowledge, and goodness is honored through that gift. The story now moves beyond Moses' infancy toward his own choices. Strength alone is not its ideal; understanding and moral responsibility must accompany the capacities of adulthood.", "Moses intervenes in a fight and his blow causes a man's death. The narrative does not conceal the gravity of the result. His immediate recognition of wrongdoing prepares the turn toward repentance rather than allowing group loyalty to excuse harmful action.", "Moses acknowledges that he has wronged himself and asks for forgiveness. Forgiveness is granted, with divine mercy named explicitly. The verse makes honest admission part of turning back, showing a response that neither minimizes the deed nor treats change as impossible.", "Gratitude for favor becomes a commitment not to support wrongdoing. The verse moves repentance beyond remorse toward a changed allegiance. A received mercy should affect future conduct, especially the causes and companions a person chooses to strengthen through their help.", "The next morning finds Moses anxious and alert, and the same man calls for help again. Moses challenges his behavior rather than accepting every request as righteous. The scene asks whether repeated appeals to loyalty can draw someone into continuing disorder.", "A heated confrontation exposes the earlier killing and raises the difference between tyranny and reform. The charge forces attention onto the consequences of intervention. Good intentions cannot by themselves make an action just; means and outcomes also require moral scrutiny.", "An unnamed man runs from the city's far side to warn Moses of a plan to kill him. He combines urgent information with sincere counsel. The narrative honors assistance from an ordinary figure whose name, later biography and burial place are not supplied.", "Moses leaves in fear and vigilance while praying for rescue from wrongdoing. The verse brings action and dependence together. Seeking safety is not portrayed as a denial of trust, and the narrative does not require him to remain exposed to immediate danger.", "He turns toward Madyan with a prayer for the right road. The departure has a direction but no detailed route in this verse. His hope acknowledges uncertainty, allowing the journey to unfold without presenting every practical answer as already known.", "At Madyan's water-place, Moses notices two women waiting apart with their flock. Their explanation reveals a household need behind the scene. The verse gives attention to unequal access and practical circumstances, without identifying a modern well as conclusively the same location.", "He waters the flock, then seeks shade and acknowledges his own need before Allah. Service does not require pretending to be self-sufficient. The verse joins an immediate act of help with a prayer that leaves the form of coming provision open.", "An invitation brings Moses into a household where his help is appreciated and his story can be heard. Reassurance follows his account of danger. The father is unnamed in the Quranic passage, so later identifications should remain clearly distinguished from its wording.", "One daughter recommends Moses through two qualities: strength and trustworthiness. The verse joins capability with character in judging suitable help. Neither usefulness without integrity nor good intentions without ability fully answers the practical responsibility she is considering for her household.", "The father proposes marriage with a term of service: eight years, with ten offered voluntarily. The stated aim is to avoid hardship. This narrative arrangement should be read within its context rather than treated as a complete rulebook for employment or marriage.", "Moses accepts the agreement while preserving the distinction between the two possible terms. Allah is invoked as witness over their words. The verse highlights clarity and freedom from unfair demand, showing why shared understanding matters before a long commitment begins.", "After fulfilling the term, Moses travels with his family and sees a distant fire. He hopes to bring information or warmth. An ordinary need opens onto an extraordinary encounter, while the verse gives no precise date or recoverable campsite coordinate.", "The call comes in a blessed place beside a tree, identifying Allah as Lord of the worlds. The narrative presents divine address without inviting a portrait of the Divine. An illustration can evoke landscape and atmosphere while leaving the encounter itself unpictured.", "The moving staff startles Moses, who turns to flee before receiving reassurance. Fear is acknowledged within the prophetic encounter. The sign and the promise of safety belong to this particular narrative, rather than a technique the reader is invited to reproduce.", "Two signs are appointed for the mission to Pharaoh and his chiefs. The changed appearance of the hand is explicitly without harm. The passage joins reassurance with responsibility, preparing Moses to return to a place associated with both danger and earlier wrongdoing.", "Moses names his fear openly: the death he caused may bring retaliation. The verse preserves that concern within his response to the commission. Acknowledging a serious obstacle is part of his prayer, rather than evidence that he is unaware of the task.", "He asks that Aaron accompany him, recognizing his brother's greater eloquence. The request values another person's strength in serving a shared responsibility. The verse shows humility in seeking support instead of assuming that faithful leadership must accomplish every function alone.", "The answer promises strengthening through Aaron and protection for their mission. Their success is connected with the signs and those who follow them. The narrative's assurance belongs to this commission, not to every later claim made in the name of religion.", "The clear signs are dismissed as invented magic and unfamiliar to ancestral practice. The response protects inherited assumptions by refusing the evidence's claim. The verse asks whether appeal to what one has always heard can become a barrier to considering truth.", "Moses places knowledge of true guidance and the final outcome with his Lord. He does not allow the rulers' dismissal to define success. The verse distinguishes an immediate audience's judgment from the lasting moral outcome of the course being followed.", "Pharaoh claims exclusive religious authority and orders Haman to build a lofty structure. The demand turns construction into a display of defiance. The Quran does not identify a surviving pyramid or tower here, so archaeological images remain general historical evocations.", "Pharaoh and his forces combine unjust arrogance with denial of return to Allah. Their political conduct is connected to their assumed exemption from accountability. The verse asks how belief about ultimate responsibility affects the way power is exercised in the present.", "The ruler and his forces meet their end in the sea, overturning their confidence. The reader is directed to consider the consequence of wrongdoing. This passage supplies no verified mummy identification, precise crossing location or Egyptian dynastic date for the event.", "The leaders become examples that invite others toward ruin. Their influence remains morally significant beyond their personal conduct. The verse warns that authority can organize harmful imitation, and that commanding followers does not secure help when final responsibility arrives.", "Condemnation follows them in this world, with a further consequence at resurrection. The contrast reverses the prestige they sought through domination. The verse asks the reader to judge a legacy by justice and conduct rather than by monuments or remembered power.", "Moses receives scripture as insight, guidance and mercy after earlier generations have passed. The narrative's purpose extends beyond the downfall of a ruler. Deliverance is followed by instruction, giving a community resources for remembrance and a more responsible way of living.", "Muhammad was not present beside the Mount when Moses received the commission. The verse distinguishes the messenger's knowledge from eyewitness participation. It introduces the account's claim to revelation without providing a modern archaeological identification for the location being recalled.", "Generations and long spans of life separate the present audience from the earlier story. Muhammad did not live among Madyan's people to learn it firsthand. The verse presents a continuing history of divine communication rather than an uninterrupted human eyewitness chain.", "Knowledge of the call beside the Mount is described as mercy for a people needing warning. The account is therefore directed toward present response. Its value is not limited to learning distant events; it gives the hearer an opportunity to take heed.", "Sending a messenger removes the complaint that no warning or opportunity to follow guidance was given. The verse joins accountability to communication. It asks the audience to recognize the present message as a chance to respond before consequences make earlier choices clear.", "Demanding signs like those given to Moses conflicts with an earlier rejection of that revelation. The verse exposes standards that shift to maintain refusal. A sincere question differs from a demand whose conditions change whenever an answer becomes available.", "The challenge asks for a scripture offering clearer guidance, with willingness to follow it if the claim is true. The emphasis is on guidance rather than spectacle. It invites the audience to consider the actual grounds on which it accepts or rejects.", "Failure to answer the challenge reveals the danger of following desire without guidance. The verse examines the source of a settled refusal. It asks whether preference has taken the place of reason, especially when an honest response would require personal change.", "The message has been brought to the people so that they may remember and reflect. Repeated communication is an opportunity rather than merely an accumulation of words. The verse asks what kind of attention would allow an available reminder to become effective.", "Some who received earlier scripture believe in the present revelation. The verse introduces a receptive response within that wider community. It should not be flattened into the claim that all recipients responded identically, either in acceptance or in rejection.", "These believers recognize continuity with prior surrender to their Lord when they hear the recitation. Their response joins listening with acknowledgment. The passage presents faith as recognition of truth rather than as a need to erase every aspect of an earlier history.", "Patience, answering evil with good and spending from provision accompany a doubled reward. Recognition is expressed through conduct, not only through agreement. The verse makes generous and restrained action visible as part of the response it has just commended.", "They turn away from empty or abusive speech, distinguish responsibilities and depart with peace. Refusing an unproductive exchange need not require returning its hostility. The verse shows a boundary maintained through composure, without surrendering conviction or seeking further conflict.", "Even love for another person does not give the messenger control over their inward guidance. Allah knows who receives guidance. The verse recognizes the limits of persuasion and affection, while leaving care, clear communication and personal responsibility meaningful within those limits.", "Fear of displacement is answered by recalling an established sanctuary and the provision reaching it. The audience is asked to recognize a gift already present. The verse challenges the assumption that material security comes solely from preserving the existing pattern of allegiance.", "Earlier communities failed through ingratitude despite their means of livelihood. Their empty dwellings interrupt confidence in prosperity as lasting protection. The warning concerns conduct within the narrative, not a rule for judging the moral worth of every abandoned town or displaced population.", "Warning precedes the destruction described, and wrongdoing is named as its condition. The verse explicitly connects accountability with communicated guidance. It should not be converted into a license for people to punish communities or claim certainty about the hidden meaning of present disasters.", "Worldly gifts provide comfort and adornment, while what belongs with Allah is better and more lasting. The comparison calls for proportion rather than denial of every enjoyment. Its question asks whether immediate attraction has obscured the larger horizon of a life.", "A lasting promise is contrasted with temporary enjoyment followed by accountability. Present circumstances alone cannot establish which life has the better outcome. The verse invites the reader to weigh duration and consequence, rather than treating visible comfort as the final measure.", "The question about imagined partners exposes the claims once attached to them. What seemed secure in ordinary life must now answer a direct challenge. The scene asks whether a belief rests on a real source of help or on an unsupported attribution.", "Those who misled others disown the relationship when confronted with its outcome. Shared error offers no secure refuge from responsibility. The verse warns against placing conscience entirely in the hands of influential people who cannot guarantee the consequences of following them.", "Calls to the supposed partners receive no answer, and the threatened consequence becomes visible. The scene tests reliance at the moment it is needed most. Its regret directs attention toward the present opportunity to choose guidance while a response remains possible.", "The questioning turns from supposed partners to the response given to the messengers. Responsibility includes what people did with communicated guidance. The verse asks the reader to consider hearing as an opportunity carrying consequences, rather than a wholly passive encounter.", "The usual resources for an answer disappear, and the people cannot obtain one from each other. The scene strips away confidence in a last-minute collective explanation. It makes present honesty and reflection more urgent while meaningful change can still be undertaken.", "Repentance, belief and good action reopen the prospect of success after the severe scenes of reckoning. The sequence keeps warning connected with hope. Turning back involves both direction and conduct, rather than despairing that a previous wrong has made change pointless.", "Creation and choice belong to Allah, beyond the partners people attribute to Him. The verse denies human authority to prescribe the Divine's decisions. Its focus should not erase the responsibility for repentance and good action that the preceding verse explicitly asks of people.", "What hearts conceal and what people announce are both known to the Lord. The verse closes the gap between inward reality and public presentation. It invites sincerity where no audience can fully assess motive, and humility in judging what others keep hidden.", "Unique divinity, praise, command and final return are gathered in one statement. The verse gives the surrounding warnings and promises a shared center. Human life is received, lived and finally brought back within a sovereignty that does not depend on human approval.", "An unending night is imagined to make the gift of light newly visible. Familiar alternation can conceal how much life depends upon it. The question asks the listener to recognize the limits of substitute powers before a condition humans could not simply reverse.", "An unending day similarly reveals the mercy of night and rest. The counterfactual directs attention toward a familiar need rather than an exotic sign. Human strength depends on rhythms it did not create and cannot replace merely through ambition or continual activity.", "Night and day provide room for rest and the search for bounty. Their alternation is named as mercy and an invitation to gratitude. The verse joins activity with renewal, resisting the idea that a valuable life must consist of uninterrupted work.", "The question about alleged partners returns after the reflection on night and day. Ordinary gifts and final accountability belong to the same argument. If the sources of light, rest and provision are acknowledged, devotion should be examined in that clearer light.", "A witness is brought from each nation, and proof is demanded for the claims made. Invented supports fail before the truth. The scene emphasizes accountable testimony rather than allowing communal confidence or repeated assertions to stand in place of evidence.", "Korah belongs to Moses' people yet oppresses them, showing that wrongdoing is not confined to an outside ruler. Great treasure accompanies a warning against exultant arrogance. The story will test whether wealth is received as a trust or claimed as personal exemption.", "The counsel balances seeking the Hereafter with a rightful worldly share, generosity and refusal of corruption. Wealth can be directed toward good rather than discarded as inherently meaningless. The verse asks how received kindness becomes responsible treatment of others.", "Korah attributes his possessions solely to his own knowledge. The response recalls people of greater strength whose resources did not preserve them. The verse challenges self-sufficiency, not learning itself: expertise becomes dangerous when it erases gratitude, dependence and moral accountability.", "Korah's public display prompts others to wish for his fortune. The scene shows how visible wealth can establish the terms of comparison before its character is examined. Admiration becomes risky when possession alone is allowed to define a successful life.", "Those given knowledge redirect attention toward the better reward joined to faith, good action and patience. Their response offers a different scale of value. Understanding is shown through resistance to envy, rather than merely through skill in accumulating the same possessions.", "Korah and his dwelling are swallowed by the earth, and his wealth provides no rescue. The narrative overturns the confidence displayed earlier. This particular account does not identify a verified archaeological site or authorize treating every loss of property as divine punishment.", "Those who envied Korah revise their judgment after the reversal. They recognize provision as a matter beyond their entitlement and gratitude as appropriate to their own safety. The verse asks whether wisdom can learn before envy requires such a dramatic correction.", "The lasting home is associated with those who do not seek domination or corruption on earth. The ending gathers the lessons of Pharaoh and Korah into a moral direction. Greatness is redefined through restraint and reverence rather than through superiority over others.", "A good deed receives more than its equivalent, while wrongdoing is answered according to what was done. The comparison joins generosity with justice. It offers reason for hope and effort without suggesting that accountability exceeds the deed or that goodness goes unnoticed.", "The messenger receives an assurance of return, rendered by Pickthall as coming home again. Traditional commentary includes Makkah and other understandings of the return. This edition preserves the promise while distinguishing those interpretations from an exact travel date supplied by the verse.", "Receiving scripture is described as unexpected mercy, not the fulfillment of an earlier personal scheme. The gift carries a responsibility concerning allegiance. The verse calls the messenger to remain faithful to what was entrusted, rather than treating revelation as an instrument of advantage.", "Pressure must not divert the messenger from the revealed signs or the call to his Lord. The instruction gives the ending a practical direction. Fidelity requires continued invitation and undivided worship, rather than allowing the audience's resistance to determine the message.", "The Surah closes with unique divinity, the passing of created things, divine command and return. Pharaoh's power and Korah's wealth now stand within that final perspective. The language about Allah's countenance is presented reverently, without turning it into a visual representation." ], "sections": [ { "start": 1, "end": 13, "title": "An infant, a river and a promise", "summary": "Pharaoh's oppression reaches into family life. Moses' mother, sister and Pharaoh's wife each have a part in a deliverance that brings the infant back to his mother's care.", "reflection": "Which quiet acts of care can resist a larger pattern of harm?" }, { "start": 14, "end": 28, "title": "Departure and a refuge in Madyan", "summary": "A death leads to repentance, danger and flight. At a water-place, practical kindness opens the way to hospitality, trustworthy work and a clearly stated agreement.", "reflection": "How can ability and trustworthiness strengthen the help you offer?" }, { "start": 29, "end": 42, "title": "A call, a shared mission and royal defiance", "summary": "Moses receives a commission and asks for Aaron's support. Pharaoh responds with denial and a grand construction order, but power without justice cannot secure the final outcome.", "reflection": "When does confidence become an unwillingness to listen?" }, { "start": 43, "end": 60, "title": "Revelation, receptive hearts and lasting security", "summary": "The earlier account becomes guidance for the present audience. Some recognize the message with patience and generosity; others fear losing a security they have already received as a gift.", "reflection": "What would make your response to a difficult truth more honest?" }, { "start": 61, "end": 82, "title": "Korah and the measure of wealth", "summary": "Scenes of accountability expose imagined protection. Night and day invite gratitude, while Korah's display of treasure reveals the dangers of pride and the ease with which envy mistakes possession for success.", "reflection": "How can a material advantage become a benefit to someone else?" }, { "start": 83, "end": 88, "title": "The home that outlasts domination", "summary": "The final verses value goodness, repentance and a life free from corruption. An assurance of return accompanies the messenger's task, and all passing power is set beneath divine command.", "reflection": "What would you choose differently if lasting value guided the decision?" } ], "timeline": [ { "title": "Before 622 CE · Makkan classification", "year": 622, "body": "The Surah is broadly classified as Makkan. The year is the Hijrah boundary used to explain the period, not a claim that the whole Surah was revealed in that particular year.", "source": "https://quran.com/al-qasas/info" }, { "title": "Moses' early life · an undated narrative", "year": null, "body": "The sequence moves from infancy in Pharaoh's household to maturity, departure and refuge in Madyan. No absolute ancient dates or named Egyptian dynasty are supplied in the text.", "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/028.htm" }, { "title": "Eight years, with ten offered voluntarily", "year": null, "body": "Verses 27–29 describe the service agreement and its eventual completion. They provide a relative term within the narrative, not a calendar date for the marriage or departure.", "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/028.htm" }, { "title": "The promised return · interpretation and setting", "year": null, "body": "Commentary preserves several readings of the return in verse 85, including return to Makkah. Reports about its occasion should not be treated as an undisputed exact revelation date.", "source": "https://quran.com/28:85/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir" } ], "places": [ { "id": "river-egypt", "name": "The river and Pharaoh's household", "body": "The opening story connects the river with the ruling household and the child's return to his mother. No modern palace footprint, river landing or dynastic capital is established by these verses.", "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/028.htm", "image": 0 }, { "id": "madyan-water", "name": "Madyan's water-place · exact well unverified", "body": "Verse 23 places the encounter at Madyan's water. Later local identifications do not by themselves establish which surviving well was involved. The scene illustrates the Quranic setting without asserting an authenticated site.", "source": "https://quran.com/28:23/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir", "image": 1 }, { "id": "al-bad", "name": "Al-Bad · an archaeological landscape associated with Madyan", "body": "Saudipedia describes the Madyan Shuaib site in Al-Bad, with wells and rock-cut remains. Its traditional associations are distinguished from the dating of surviving archaeology; no displayed tomb is identified here as a prophet's grave.", "source": "https://saudipedia.com/en/madyan-shuaib", "image": 1 }, { "id": "mount", "name": "The Mount and the blessed valley", "body": "The narrative recalls a call beside a tree and later refers to the Mount. This reader does not turn a proposed modern mountain identification into an established coordinate or depict the divine address.", "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/028.htm", "image": 2 }, { "id": "makkah", "name": "Makkah · sanctuary, provision and promised return", "body": "The Makkan setting frames the audience's concerns about security. Commentary also reads the promised return in verse 85 as Makkah, among other interpretations. This marker identifies the city broadly.", "lat": 21.4225, "lon": 39.8262, "source": "https://quran.com/28:85/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir", "image": 3 } ], "people": [ { "id": "moses", "title": "Moses · growth, repentance and an entrusted mission", "body": "The Surah follows several stages of his life without an absolute ancient chronology. No authenticated portrait or burial identification is offered. His request for Aaron's help gives shared ability a place within the mission.", "verse": 34 }, { "id": "women-care", "title": "The mother, sister and Pharaoh's wife · care within danger", "body": "Each contributes to the infant's survival through a distinct action. The passage does not give their personal names, so the reader follows what the verses say without inventing biographical details.", "verse": 7 }, { "id": "madyan-family", "title": "The household in Madyan · hospitality and trust", "body": "Two daughters and their father welcome Moses into a new setting. The father is unnamed in the Quranic passage; his identification as Shuayb in later tradition is not treated as settled Quranic wording.", "verse": 25 }, { "id": "pharaoh", "title": "Pharaoh and Haman · authority exercised unjustly", "body": "The story criticizes oppression, arrogance and refusal of accountability. It does not name Ramesses II or another dynasty, and no tomb, mummy or surviving construction is asserted to belong to its Pharaoh.", "verse": 38 }, { "id": "korah", "title": "Korah · wealth is no exemption", "body": "A member of Moses' people, he oppresses them and attributes his treasure to his own knowledge. His story questions pride and envy without declaring every wealthy person corrupt or every financial loss a punishment.", "verse": 76 } ], "history": [ { "title": "A story told for its present hearers", "body": "The predominantly Makkan Surah connects Moses' deliverance with guidance for Muhammad's audience. Reports about particular verses are kept distinct from the general classification, avoiding an exact date for every passage.", "source": "https://quran.com/al-qasas/info" }, { "title": "Archaeology and local sacred tradition", "body": "The Al-Bad site preserves wells and rock-cut structures associated with several periods. Saudipedia also relates a local prophetic tradition. Those associations do not establish the precise water-place, a prophet's grave or the identity of every surviving structure.", "source": "https://saudipedia.com/en/madyan-shuaib" }, { "title": "What the Madyan agreement actually states", "body": "The passage gives terms, voluntary additional service and an intention to avoid hardship. Its father remains unnamed in the Quran itself; later narrative elaboration should be identified as commentary rather than inserted into the verse.", "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/028.htm" }, { "title": "Return in verse 85", "body": "Ibn Kathir transmits readings that include Makkah, resurrection and other understandings. Pickthall's homeward wording is retained, while the note makes the interpretive range visible instead of reducing it to one dated journey.", "source": "https://quran.com/28:85/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir" }, { "title": "Two faces of domination", "body": "Pharaoh's state power and Korah's private wealth receive parallel moral scrutiny. Their narratives do not assign inherited guilt to contemporary peoples; they ask the reader to examine arrogance, corruption and misplaced reliance in conduct.", "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/028.htm" } ], "revelationNote": "Broadly Makkan, with reported differences about individual verses and the occasion of 28:85. Calendar markers describe classification boundaries only. The life of Moses, Pharaoh's dynasty and the Madyan water-place are not assigned speculative exact dates or sites.", "translationNote": "English translation: Sahih International, via AlQuran Cloud. Original source wording is preserved.", "verses": [ { "n": 1, "arabic": "طسٓمٓ", "translation": "Ta, Seen, Meem." }, { "n": 2, "arabic": "تِلْكَ ءَايَٰتُ ٱلْكِتَٰبِ ٱلْمُبِينِ", "translation": "These are the verses of the clear Book." }, { "n": 3, "arabic": "نَتْلُوا۟ عَلَيْكَ مِن نَّبَإِ مُوسَىٰ وَفِرْعَوْنَ بِٱلْحَقِّ لِقَوْمٍۢ يُؤْمِنُونَ", "translation": "We recite to you from the news of Moses and Pharaoh in truth for a people who believe." }, { "n": 4, "arabic": "إِنَّ فِرْعَوْنَ عَلَا فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ وَجَعَلَ أَهْلَهَا شِيَعًۭا يَسْتَضْعِفُ طَآئِفَةًۭ مِّنْهُمْ يُذَبِّحُ أَبْنَآءَهُمْ وَيَسْتَحْىِۦ نِسَآءَهُمْ ۚ إِنَّهُۥ كَانَ مِنَ ٱلْمُفْسِدِينَ", "translation": "Indeed, Pharaoh exalted himself in the land and made its people into factions, oppressing a sector among them, slaughtering their [newborn] sons and keeping their females alive. Indeed, he was of the corrupters." }, { "n": 5, "arabic": "وَنُرِيدُ أَن نَّمُنَّ عَلَى ٱلَّذِينَ ٱسْتُضْعِفُوا۟ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ وَنَجْعَلَهُمْ أَئِمَّةًۭ وَنَجْعَلَهُمُ ٱلْوَٰرِثِينَ", "translation": "And We wanted to confer favor upon those who were oppressed in the land and make them leaders and make them inheritors" }, { "n": 6, "arabic": "وَنُمَكِّنَ لَهُمْ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ وَنُرِىَ فِرْعَوْنَ وَهَٰمَٰنَ وَجُنُودَهُمَا مِنْهُم مَّا كَانُوا۟ يَحْذَرُونَ", "translation": "And establish them in the land and show Pharaoh and [his minister] Haman and their soldiers through them that which they had feared." }, { "n": 7, "arabic": "وَأَوْحَيْنَآ إِلَىٰٓ أُمِّ مُوسَىٰٓ أَنْ أَرْضِعِيهِ ۖ فَإِذَا خِفْتِ عَلَيْهِ فَأَلْقِيهِ فِى ٱلْيَمِّ وَلَا تَخَافِى وَلَا تَحْزَنِىٓ ۖ إِنَّا رَآدُّوهُ إِلَيْكِ وَجَاعِلُوهُ مِنَ ٱلْمُرْسَلِينَ", "translation": "And We inspired to the mother of Moses, \"Suckle him; but when you fear for him, cast him into the river and do not fear and do not grieve. Indeed, We will return him to you and will make him [one] of the messengers.\"" }, { "n": 8, "arabic": "فَٱلْتَقَطَهُۥٓ ءَالُ فِرْعَوْنَ لِيَكُونَ لَهُمْ عَدُوًّۭا وَحَزَنًا ۗ إِنَّ فِرْعَوْنَ وَهَٰمَٰنَ وَجُنُودَهُمَا كَانُوا۟ خَٰطِـِٔينَ", "translation": "And the family of Pharaoh picked him up [out of the river] so that he would become to them an enemy and a [cause of] grief. Indeed, Pharaoh and Haman and their soldiers were deliberate sinners." }, { "n": 9, "arabic": "وَقَالَتِ ٱمْرَأَتُ فِرْعَوْنَ قُرَّتُ عَيْنٍۢ لِّى وَلَكَ ۖ لَا تَقْتُلُوهُ عَسَىٰٓ أَن يَنفَعَنَآ أَوْ نَتَّخِذَهُۥ وَلَدًۭا وَهُمْ لَا يَشْعُرُونَ", "translation": "And the wife of Pharaoh said, \"[He will be] a comfort of the eye for me and for you. Do not kill him; perhaps he may benefit us, or we may adopt him as a son.\" And they perceived not." }, { "n": 10, "arabic": "وَأَصْبَحَ فُؤَادُ أُمِّ مُوسَىٰ فَٰرِغًا ۖ إِن كَادَتْ لَتُبْدِى بِهِۦ لَوْلَآ أَن رَّبَطْنَا عَلَىٰ قَلْبِهَا لِتَكُونَ مِنَ ٱلْمُؤْمِنِينَ", "translation": "And the heart of Moses' mother became empty [of all else]. She was about to disclose [the matter concerning] him had We not bound fast her heart that she would be of the believers." }, { "n": 11, "arabic": "وَقَالَتْ لِأُخْتِهِۦ قُصِّيهِ ۖ فَبَصُرَتْ بِهِۦ عَن جُنُبٍۢ وَهُمْ لَا يَشْعُرُونَ", "translation": "And she said to his sister, \"Follow him\"; so she watched him from a distance while they perceived not." }, { "n": 12, "arabic": "۞ وَحَرَّمْنَا عَلَيْهِ ٱلْمَرَاضِعَ مِن قَبْلُ فَقَالَتْ هَلْ أَدُلُّكُمْ عَلَىٰٓ أَهْلِ بَيْتٍۢ يَكْفُلُونَهُۥ لَكُمْ وَهُمْ لَهُۥ نَٰصِحُونَ", "translation": "And We had prevented from him [all] wet nurses before, so she said, \"Shall I direct you to a household that will be responsible for him for you while they are to him [for his upbringing] sincere?\"" }, { "n": 13, "arabic": "فَرَدَدْنَٰهُ إِلَىٰٓ أُمِّهِۦ كَىْ تَقَرَّ عَيْنُهَا وَلَا تَحْزَنَ وَلِتَعْلَمَ أَنَّ وَعْدَ ٱللَّهِ حَقٌّۭ وَلَٰكِنَّ أَكْثَرَهُمْ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ", "translation": "So We restored him to his mother that she might be content and not grieve and that she would know that the promise of Allah is true. But most of the people do not know." }, { "n": 14, "arabic": "وَلَمَّا بَلَغَ أَشُدَّهُۥ وَٱسْتَوَىٰٓ ءَاتَيْنَٰهُ حُكْمًۭا وَعِلْمًۭا ۚ وَكَذَٰلِكَ نَجْزِى ٱلْمُحْسِنِينَ", "translation": "And when he attained his full strength and was [mentally] mature, We bestowed upon him judgement and knowledge. And thus do We reward the doers of good." }, { "n": 15, "arabic": "وَدَخَلَ ٱلْمَدِينَةَ عَلَىٰ حِينِ غَفْلَةٍۢ مِّنْ أَهْلِهَا فَوَجَدَ فِيهَا رَجُلَيْنِ يَقْتَتِلَانِ هَٰذَا مِن شِيعَتِهِۦ وَهَٰذَا مِنْ عَدُوِّهِۦ ۖ فَٱسْتَغَٰثَهُ ٱلَّذِى مِن شِيعَتِهِۦ عَلَى ٱلَّذِى مِنْ عَدُوِّهِۦ فَوَكَزَهُۥ مُوسَىٰ فَقَضَىٰ عَلَيْهِ ۖ قَالَ هَٰذَا مِنْ عَمَلِ ٱلشَّيْطَٰنِ ۖ إِنَّهُۥ عَدُوٌّۭ مُّضِلٌّۭ مُّبِينٌۭ", "translation": "And he entered the city at a time of inattention by its people and found therein two men fighting: one from his faction and one from among his enemy. And the one from his faction called for help to him against the one from his enemy, so Moses struck him and [unintentionally] killed him. [Moses] said, \"This is from the work of Satan. Indeed, he is a manifest, misleading enemy.\"" }, { "n": 16, "arabic": "قَالَ رَبِّ إِنِّى ظَلَمْتُ نَفْسِى فَٱغْفِرْ لِى فَغَفَرَ لَهُۥٓ ۚ إِنَّهُۥ هُوَ ٱلْغَفُورُ ٱلرَّحِيمُ", "translation": "He said, \"My Lord, indeed I have wronged myself, so forgive me,\" and He forgave him. Indeed, He is the Forgiving, the Merciful." }, { "n": 17, "arabic": "قَالَ رَبِّ بِمَآ أَنْعَمْتَ عَلَىَّ فَلَنْ أَكُونَ ظَهِيرًۭا لِّلْمُجْرِمِينَ", "translation": "He said, \"My Lord, for the favor You bestowed upon me, I will never be an assistant to the criminals.\"" }, { "n": 18, "arabic": "فَأَصْبَحَ فِى ٱلْمَدِينَةِ خَآئِفًۭا يَتَرَقَّبُ فَإِذَا ٱلَّذِى ٱسْتَنصَرَهُۥ بِٱلْأَمْسِ يَسْتَصْرِخُهُۥ ۚ قَالَ لَهُۥ مُوسَىٰٓ إِنَّكَ لَغَوِىٌّۭ مُّبِينٌۭ", "translation": "And he became inside the city fearful and anticipating [exposure], when suddenly the one who sought his help the previous day cried out to him [once again]. Moses said to him, \"Indeed, you are an evident, [persistent] deviator.\"" }, { "n": 19, "arabic": "فَلَمَّآ أَنْ أَرَادَ أَن يَبْطِشَ بِٱلَّذِى هُوَ عَدُوٌّۭ لَّهُمَا قَالَ يَٰمُوسَىٰٓ أَتُرِيدُ أَن تَقْتُلَنِى كَمَا قَتَلْتَ نَفْسًۢا بِٱلْأَمْسِ ۖ إِن تُرِيدُ إِلَّآ أَن تَكُونَ جَبَّارًۭا فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ وَمَا تُرِيدُ أَن تَكُونَ مِنَ ٱلْمُصْلِحِينَ", "translation": "And when he wanted to strike the one who was an enemy to both of them, he said, \"O Moses, do you intend to kill me as you killed someone yesterday? You only want to be a tyrant in the land and do not want to be of the amenders.\"" }, { "n": 20, "arabic": "وَجَآءَ رَجُلٌۭ مِّنْ أَقْصَا ٱلْمَدِينَةِ يَسْعَىٰ قَالَ يَٰمُوسَىٰٓ إِنَّ ٱلْمَلَأَ يَأْتَمِرُونَ بِكَ لِيَقْتُلُوكَ فَٱخْرُجْ إِنِّى لَكَ مِنَ ٱلنَّٰصِحِينَ", "translation": "And a man came from the farthest end of the city, running. He said, \"O Moses, indeed the eminent ones are conferring over you [intending] to kill you, so leave [the city]; indeed, I am to you of the sincere advisors.\"" }, { "n": 21, "arabic": "فَخَرَجَ مِنْهَا خَآئِفًۭا يَتَرَقَّبُ ۖ قَالَ رَبِّ نَجِّنِى مِنَ ٱلْقَوْمِ ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ", "translation": "So he left it, fearful and anticipating [apprehension]. He said, \"My Lord, save me from the wrongdoing people.\"" }, { "n": 22, "arabic": "وَلَمَّا تَوَجَّهَ تِلْقَآءَ مَدْيَنَ قَالَ عَسَىٰ رَبِّىٓ أَن يَهْدِيَنِى سَوَآءَ ٱلسَّبِيلِ", "translation": "And when he directed himself toward Madyan, he said, \"Perhaps my Lord will guide me to the sound way.\"" }, { "n": 23, "arabic": "وَلَمَّا وَرَدَ مَآءَ مَدْيَنَ وَجَدَ عَلَيْهِ أُمَّةًۭ مِّنَ ٱلنَّاسِ يَسْقُونَ وَوَجَدَ مِن دُونِهِمُ ٱمْرَأَتَيْنِ تَذُودَانِ ۖ قَالَ مَا خَطْبُكُمَا ۖ قَالَتَا لَا نَسْقِى حَتَّىٰ يُصْدِرَ ٱلرِّعَآءُ ۖ وَأَبُونَا شَيْخٌۭ كَبِيرٌۭ", "translation": "And when he came to the well of Madyan, he found there a crowd of people watering [their flocks], and he found aside from them two women driving back [their flocks]. He said, \"What is your circumstance?\" They said, \"We do not water until the shepherds dispatch [their flocks]; and our father is an old man.\"" }, { "n": 24, "arabic": "فَسَقَىٰ لَهُمَا ثُمَّ تَوَلَّىٰٓ إِلَى ٱلظِّلِّ فَقَالَ رَبِّ إِنِّى لِمَآ أَنزَلْتَ إِلَىَّ مِنْ خَيْرٍۢ فَقِيرٌۭ", "translation": "So he watered [their flocks] for them; then he went back to the shade and said, \"My Lord, indeed I am, for whatever good You would send down to me, in need.\"" }, { "n": 25, "arabic": "فَجَآءَتْهُ إِحْدَىٰهُمَا تَمْشِى عَلَى ٱسْتِحْيَآءٍۢ قَالَتْ إِنَّ أَبِى يَدْعُوكَ لِيَجْزِيَكَ أَجْرَ مَا سَقَيْتَ لَنَا ۚ فَلَمَّا جَآءَهُۥ وَقَصَّ عَلَيْهِ ٱلْقَصَصَ قَالَ لَا تَخَفْ ۖ نَجَوْتَ مِنَ ٱلْقَوْمِ ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ", "translation": "Then one of the two women came to him walking with shyness. She said, \"Indeed, my father invites you that he may reward you for having watered for us.\" So when he came to him and related to him the story, he said, \"Fear not. You have escaped from the wrongdoing people.\"" }, { "n": 26, "arabic": "قَالَتْ إِحْدَىٰهُمَا يَٰٓأَبَتِ ٱسْتَـْٔجِرْهُ ۖ إِنَّ خَيْرَ مَنِ ٱسْتَـْٔجَرْتَ ٱلْقَوِىُّ ٱلْأَمِينُ", "translation": "One of the women said, \"O my father, hire him. Indeed, the best one you can hire is the strong and the trustworthy.\"" }, { "n": 27, "arabic": "قَالَ إِنِّىٓ أُرِيدُ أَنْ أُنكِحَكَ إِحْدَى ٱبْنَتَىَّ هَٰتَيْنِ عَلَىٰٓ أَن تَأْجُرَنِى ثَمَٰنِىَ حِجَجٍۢ ۖ فَإِنْ أَتْمَمْتَ عَشْرًۭا فَمِنْ عِندِكَ ۖ وَمَآ أُرِيدُ أَنْ أَشُقَّ عَلَيْكَ ۚ سَتَجِدُنِىٓ إِن شَآءَ ٱللَّهُ مِنَ ٱلصَّٰلِحِينَ", "translation": "He said, \"Indeed, I wish to wed you one of these, my two daughters, on [the condition] that you serve me for eight years; but if you complete ten, it will be [as a favor] from you. And I do not wish to put you in difficulty. You will find me, if Allah wills, from among the righteous.\"" }, { "n": 28, "arabic": "قَالَ ذَٰلِكَ بَيْنِى وَبَيْنَكَ ۖ أَيَّمَا ٱلْأَجَلَيْنِ قَضَيْتُ فَلَا عُدْوَٰنَ عَلَىَّ ۖ وَٱللَّهُ عَلَىٰ مَا نَقُولُ وَكِيلٌۭ", "translation": "[Moses] said, \"That is [established] between me and you. Whichever of the two terms I complete - there is no injustice to me, and Allah, over what we say, is Witness.\"" }, { "n": 29, "arabic": "۞ فَلَمَّا قَضَىٰ مُوسَى ٱلْأَجَلَ وَسَارَ بِأَهْلِهِۦٓ ءَانَسَ مِن جَانِبِ ٱلطُّورِ نَارًۭا قَالَ لِأَهْلِهِ ٱمْكُثُوٓا۟ إِنِّىٓ ءَانَسْتُ نَارًۭا لَّعَلِّىٓ ءَاتِيكُم مِّنْهَا بِخَبَرٍ أَوْ جَذْوَةٍۢ مِّنَ ٱلنَّارِ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَصْطَلُونَ", "translation": "And when Moses had completed the term and was traveling with his family, he perceived from the direction of the mount a fire. He said to his family, \"Stay here; indeed, I have perceived a fire. Perhaps I will bring you from there [some] information or burning wood from the fire that you may warm yourselves.\"" }, { "n": 30, "arabic": "فَلَمَّآ أَتَىٰهَا نُودِىَ مِن شَٰطِئِ ٱلْوَادِ ٱلْأَيْمَنِ فِى ٱلْبُقْعَةِ ٱلْمُبَٰرَكَةِ مِنَ ٱلشَّجَرَةِ أَن يَٰمُوسَىٰٓ إِنِّىٓ أَنَا ٱللَّهُ رَبُّ ٱلْعَٰلَمِينَ", "translation": "But when he came to it, he was called from the right side of the valley in a blessed spot - from the tree, \"O Moses, indeed I am Allah, Lord of the worlds.\"" }, { "n": 31, "arabic": "وَأَنْ أَلْقِ عَصَاكَ ۖ فَلَمَّا رَءَاهَا تَهْتَزُّ كَأَنَّهَا جَآنٌّۭ وَلَّىٰ مُدْبِرًۭا وَلَمْ يُعَقِّبْ ۚ يَٰمُوسَىٰٓ أَقْبِلْ وَلَا تَخَفْ ۖ إِنَّكَ مِنَ ٱلْءَامِنِينَ", "translation": "And [he was told], \"Throw down your staff.\" But when he saw it writhing as if it was a snake, he turned in flight and did not return. [Allah said], \"O Moses, approach and fear not. Indeed, you are of the secure." }, { "n": 32, "arabic": "ٱسْلُكْ يَدَكَ فِى جَيْبِكَ تَخْرُجْ بَيْضَآءَ مِنْ غَيْرِ سُوٓءٍۢ وَٱضْمُمْ إِلَيْكَ جَنَاحَكَ مِنَ ٱلرَّهْبِ ۖ فَذَٰنِكَ بُرْهَٰنَانِ مِن رَّبِّكَ إِلَىٰ فِرْعَوْنَ وَمَلَإِي۟هِۦٓ ۚ إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا۟ قَوْمًۭا فَٰسِقِينَ", "translation": "Insert your hand into the opening of your garment; it will come out white, without disease. And draw in your arm close to you [as prevention] from fear, for those are two proofs from your Lord to Pharaoh and his establishment. Indeed, they have been a people defiantly disobedient.\"" }, { "n": 33, "arabic": "قَالَ رَبِّ إِنِّى قَتَلْتُ مِنْهُمْ نَفْسًۭا فَأَخَافُ أَن يَقْتُلُونِ", "translation": "He said, \"My Lord, indeed, I killed from among them someone, and I fear they will kill me." }, { "n": 34, "arabic": "وَأَخِى هَٰرُونُ هُوَ أَفْصَحُ مِنِّى لِسَانًۭا فَأَرْسِلْهُ مَعِىَ رِدْءًۭا يُصَدِّقُنِىٓ ۖ إِنِّىٓ أَخَافُ أَن يُكَذِّبُونِ", "translation": "And my brother Aaron is more fluent than me in tongue, so send him with me as support, verifying me. Indeed, I fear that they will deny me.\"" }, { "n": 35, "arabic": "قَالَ سَنَشُدُّ عَضُدَكَ بِأَخِيكَ وَنَجْعَلُ لَكُمَا سُلْطَٰنًۭا فَلَا يَصِلُونَ إِلَيْكُمَا ۚ بِـَٔايَٰتِنَآ أَنتُمَا وَمَنِ ٱتَّبَعَكُمَا ٱلْغَٰلِبُونَ", "translation": "[Allah] said, \"We will strengthen your arm through your brother and grant you both supremacy so they will not reach you. [It will be] through Our signs; you and those who follow you will be the predominant.\"" }, { "n": 36, "arabic": "فَلَمَّا جَآءَهُم مُّوسَىٰ بِـَٔايَٰتِنَا بَيِّنَٰتٍۢ قَالُوا۟ مَا هَٰذَآ إِلَّا سِحْرٌۭ مُّفْتَرًۭى وَمَا سَمِعْنَا بِهَٰذَا فِىٓ ءَابَآئِنَا ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ", "translation": "But when Moses came to them with Our signs as clear evidences, they said, \"This is not except invented magic, and we have not heard of this [religion] among our forefathers.\"" }, { "n": 37, "arabic": "وَقَالَ مُوسَىٰ رَبِّىٓ أَعْلَمُ بِمَن جَآءَ بِٱلْهُدَىٰ مِنْ عِندِهِۦ وَمَن تَكُونُ لَهُۥ عَٰقِبَةُ ٱلدَّارِ ۖ إِنَّهُۥ لَا يُفْلِحُ ٱلظَّٰلِمُونَ", "translation": "And Moses said, \"My Lord is more knowing [than we or you] of who has come with guidance from Him and to whom will be succession in the home. Indeed, wrongdoers do not succeed.\"" }, { "n": 38, "arabic": "وَقَالَ فِرْعَوْنُ يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلْمَلَأُ مَا عَلِمْتُ لَكُم مِّنْ إِلَٰهٍ غَيْرِى فَأَوْقِدْ لِى يَٰهَٰمَٰنُ عَلَى ٱلطِّينِ فَٱجْعَل لِّى صَرْحًۭا لَّعَلِّىٓ أَطَّلِعُ إِلَىٰٓ إِلَٰهِ مُوسَىٰ وَإِنِّى لَأَظُنُّهُۥ مِنَ ٱلْكَٰذِبِينَ", "translation": "And Pharaoh said, \"O eminent ones, I have not known you to have a god other than me. Then ignite for me, O Haman, [a fire] upon the clay and make for me a tower that I may look at the God of Moses. And indeed, I do think he is among the liars.\"" }, { "n": 39, "arabic": "وَٱسْتَكْبَرَ هُوَ وَجُنُودُهُۥ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ بِغَيْرِ ٱلْحَقِّ وَظَنُّوٓا۟ أَنَّهُمْ إِلَيْنَا لَا يُرْجَعُونَ", "translation": "And he was arrogant, he and his soldiers, in the land, without right, and they thought that they would not be returned to Us." }, { "n": 40, "arabic": "فَأَخَذْنَٰهُ وَجُنُودَهُۥ فَنَبَذْنَٰهُمْ فِى ٱلْيَمِّ ۖ فَٱنظُرْ كَيْفَ كَانَ عَٰقِبَةُ ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ", "translation": "So We took him and his soldiers and threw them into the sea. So see how was the end of the wrongdoers." }, { "n": 41, "arabic": "وَجَعَلْنَٰهُمْ أَئِمَّةًۭ يَدْعُونَ إِلَى ٱلنَّارِ ۖ وَيَوْمَ ٱلْقِيَٰمَةِ لَا يُنصَرُونَ", "translation": "And We made them leaders inviting to the Fire, and on the Day of Resurrection they will not be helped." }, { "n": 42, "arabic": "وَأَتْبَعْنَٰهُمْ فِى هَٰذِهِ ٱلدُّنْيَا لَعْنَةًۭ ۖ وَيَوْمَ ٱلْقِيَٰمَةِ هُم مِّنَ ٱلْمَقْبُوحِينَ", "translation": "And We caused to overtake them in this world a curse, and on the Day of Resurrection they will be of the despised." }, { "n": 43, "arabic": "وَلَقَدْ ءَاتَيْنَا مُوسَى ٱلْكِتَٰبَ مِنۢ بَعْدِ مَآ أَهْلَكْنَا ٱلْقُرُونَ ٱلْأُولَىٰ بَصَآئِرَ لِلنَّاسِ وَهُدًۭى وَرَحْمَةًۭ لَّعَلَّهُمْ يَتَذَكَّرُونَ", "translation": "And We gave Moses the Scripture, after We had destroyed the former generations, as enlightenment for the people and guidance and mercy that they might be reminded." }, { "n": 44, "arabic": "وَمَا كُنتَ بِجَانِبِ ٱلْغَرْبِىِّ إِذْ قَضَيْنَآ إِلَىٰ مُوسَى ٱلْأَمْرَ وَمَا كُنتَ مِنَ ٱلشَّٰهِدِينَ", "translation": "And you, [O Muhammad], were not on the western side [of the mount] when We revealed to Moses the command, and you were not among the witnesses [to that]." }, { "n": 45, "arabic": "وَلَٰكِنَّآ أَنشَأْنَا قُرُونًۭا فَتَطَاوَلَ عَلَيْهِمُ ٱلْعُمُرُ ۚ وَمَا كُنتَ ثَاوِيًۭا فِىٓ أَهْلِ مَدْيَنَ تَتْلُوا۟ عَلَيْهِمْ ءَايَٰتِنَا وَلَٰكِنَّا كُنَّا مُرْسِلِينَ", "translation": "But We produced [many] generations [after Moses], and prolonged was their duration. And you were not a resident among the people of Madyan, reciting to them Our verses, but We were senders [of this message]." }, { "n": 46, "arabic": "وَمَا كُنتَ بِجَانِبِ ٱلطُّورِ إِذْ نَادَيْنَا وَلَٰكِن رَّحْمَةًۭ مِّن رَّبِّكَ لِتُنذِرَ قَوْمًۭا مَّآ أَتَىٰهُم مِّن نَّذِيرٍۢ مِّن قَبْلِكَ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَتَذَكَّرُونَ", "translation": "And you were not at the side of the mount when We called [Moses] but [were sent] as a mercy from your Lord to warn a people to whom no warner had come before you that they might be reminded." }, { "n": 47, "arabic": "وَلَوْلَآ أَن تُصِيبَهُم مُّصِيبَةٌۢ بِمَا قَدَّمَتْ أَيْدِيهِمْ فَيَقُولُوا۟ رَبَّنَا لَوْلَآ أَرْسَلْتَ إِلَيْنَا رَسُولًۭا فَنَتَّبِعَ ءَايَٰتِكَ وَنَكُونَ مِنَ ٱلْمُؤْمِنِينَ", "translation": "And if not that a disaster should strike them for what their hands put forth [of sins] and they would say, \"Our Lord, why did You not send us a messenger so we could have followed Your verses and been among the believers?\"..." }, { "n": 48, "arabic": "فَلَمَّا جَآءَهُمُ ٱلْحَقُّ مِنْ عِندِنَا قَالُوا۟ لَوْلَآ أُوتِىَ مِثْلَ مَآ أُوتِىَ مُوسَىٰٓ ۚ أَوَلَمْ يَكْفُرُوا۟ بِمَآ أُوتِىَ مُوسَىٰ مِن قَبْلُ ۖ قَالُوا۟ سِحْرَانِ تَظَٰهَرَا وَقَالُوٓا۟ إِنَّا بِكُلٍّۢ كَٰفِرُونَ", "translation": "But when the truth came to them from Us, they said, \"Why was he not given like that which was given to Moses?\" Did they not disbelieve in that which was given to Moses before? They said, \"[They are but] two works of magic supporting each other, and indeed we are, in both, disbelievers.\"" }, { "n": 49, "arabic": "قُلْ فَأْتُوا۟ بِكِتَٰبٍۢ مِّنْ عِندِ ٱللَّهِ هُوَ أَهْدَىٰ مِنْهُمَآ أَتَّبِعْهُ إِن كُنتُمْ صَٰدِقِينَ", "translation": "Say, \"Then bring a scripture from Allah which is more guiding than either of them that I may follow it, if you should be truthful.\"" }, { "n": 50, "arabic": "فَإِن لَّمْ يَسْتَجِيبُوا۟ لَكَ فَٱعْلَمْ أَنَّمَا يَتَّبِعُونَ أَهْوَآءَهُمْ ۚ وَمَنْ أَضَلُّ مِمَّنِ ٱتَّبَعَ هَوَىٰهُ بِغَيْرِ هُدًۭى مِّنَ ٱللَّهِ ۚ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَا يَهْدِى ٱلْقَوْمَ ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ", "translation": "But if they do not respond to you - then know that they only follow their [own] desires. And who is more astray than one who follows his desire without guidance from Allah? Indeed, Allah does not guide the wrongdoing people." }, { "n": 51, "arabic": "۞ وَلَقَدْ وَصَّلْنَا لَهُمُ ٱلْقَوْلَ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَتَذَكَّرُونَ", "translation": "And We have [repeatedly] conveyed to them the Qur'an that they might be reminded." }, { "n": 52, "arabic": "ٱلَّذِينَ ءَاتَيْنَٰهُمُ ٱلْكِتَٰبَ مِن قَبْلِهِۦ هُم بِهِۦ يُؤْمِنُونَ", "translation": "Those to whom We gave the Scripture before it - they are believers in it." }, { "n": 53, "arabic": "وَإِذَا يُتْلَىٰ عَلَيْهِمْ قَالُوٓا۟ ءَامَنَّا بِهِۦٓ إِنَّهُ ٱلْحَقُّ مِن رَّبِّنَآ إِنَّا كُنَّا مِن قَبْلِهِۦ مُسْلِمِينَ", "translation": "And when it is recited to them, they say, \"We have believed in it; indeed, it is the truth from our Lord. Indeed we were, [even] before it, Muslims [submitting to Allah].\"" }, { "n": 54, "arabic": "أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ يُؤْتَوْنَ أَجْرَهُم مَّرَّتَيْنِ بِمَا صَبَرُوا۟ وَيَدْرَءُونَ بِٱلْحَسَنَةِ ٱلسَّيِّئَةَ وَمِمَّا رَزَقْنَٰهُمْ يُنفِقُونَ", "translation": "Those will be given their reward twice for what they patiently endured and [because] they avert evil through good, and from what We have provided them they spend." }, { "n": 55, "arabic": "وَإِذَا سَمِعُوا۟ ٱللَّغْوَ أَعْرَضُوا۟ عَنْهُ وَقَالُوا۟ لَنَآ أَعْمَٰلُنَا وَلَكُمْ أَعْمَٰلُكُمْ سَلَٰمٌ عَلَيْكُمْ لَا نَبْتَغِى ٱلْجَٰهِلِينَ", "translation": "And when they hear ill speech, they turn away from it and say, \"For us are our deeds, and for you are your deeds. Peace will be upon you; we seek not the ignorant.\"" }, { "n": 56, "arabic": "إِنَّكَ لَا تَهْدِى مَنْ أَحْبَبْتَ وَلَٰكِنَّ ٱللَّهَ يَهْدِى مَن يَشَآءُ ۚ وَهُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِٱلْمُهْتَدِينَ", "translation": "Indeed, [O Muhammad], you do not guide whom you like, but Allah guides whom He wills. And He is most knowing of the [rightly] guided." }, { "n": 57, "arabic": "وَقَالُوٓا۟ إِن نَّتَّبِعِ ٱلْهُدَىٰ مَعَكَ نُتَخَطَّفْ مِنْ أَرْضِنَآ ۚ أَوَلَمْ نُمَكِّن لَّهُمْ حَرَمًا ءَامِنًۭا يُجْبَىٰٓ إِلَيْهِ ثَمَرَٰتُ كُلِّ شَىْءٍۢ رِّزْقًۭا مِّن لَّدُنَّا وَلَٰكِنَّ أَكْثَرَهُمْ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ", "translation": "And they say, \"If we were to follow the guidance with you, we would be swept from our land.\" Have we not established for them a safe sanctuary to which are brought the fruits of all things as provision from Us? But most of them do not know." }, { "n": 58, "arabic": "وَكَمْ أَهْلَكْنَا مِن قَرْيَةٍۭ بَطِرَتْ مَعِيشَتَهَا ۖ فَتِلْكَ مَسَٰكِنُهُمْ لَمْ تُسْكَن مِّنۢ بَعْدِهِمْ إِلَّا قَلِيلًۭا ۖ وَكُنَّا نَحْنُ ٱلْوَٰرِثِينَ", "translation": "And how many a city have We destroyed that was insolent in its [way of] living, and those are their dwellings which have not been inhabited after them except briefly. And it is We who were the inheritors." }, { "n": 59, "arabic": "وَمَا كَانَ رَبُّكَ مُهْلِكَ ٱلْقُرَىٰ حَتَّىٰ يَبْعَثَ فِىٓ أُمِّهَا رَسُولًۭا يَتْلُوا۟ عَلَيْهِمْ ءَايَٰتِنَا ۚ وَمَا كُنَّا مُهْلِكِى ٱلْقُرَىٰٓ إِلَّا وَأَهْلُهَا ظَٰلِمُونَ", "translation": "And never would your Lord have destroyed the cities until He had sent to their mother a messenger reciting to them Our verses. And We would not destroy the cities except while their people were wrongdoers." }, { "n": 60, "arabic": "وَمَآ أُوتِيتُم مِّن شَىْءٍۢ فَمَتَٰعُ ٱلْحَيَوٰةِ ٱلدُّنْيَا وَزِينَتُهَا ۚ وَمَا عِندَ ٱللَّهِ خَيْرٌۭ وَأَبْقَىٰٓ ۚ أَفَلَا تَعْقِلُونَ", "translation": "And whatever thing you [people] have been given - it is [only for] the enjoyment of worldly life and its adornment. And what is with Allah is better and more lasting; so will you not use reason?" }, { "n": 61, "arabic": "أَفَمَن وَعَدْنَٰهُ وَعْدًا حَسَنًۭا فَهُوَ لَٰقِيهِ كَمَن مَّتَّعْنَٰهُ مَتَٰعَ ٱلْحَيَوٰةِ ٱلدُّنْيَا ثُمَّ هُوَ يَوْمَ ٱلْقِيَٰمَةِ مِنَ ٱلْمُحْضَرِينَ", "translation": "Then is he whom We have promised a good promise which he will obtain like he for whom We provided enjoyment of worldly life [but] then he is, on the Day of Resurrection, among those presented [for punishment in Hell]?" }, { "n": 62, "arabic": "وَيَوْمَ يُنَادِيهِمْ فَيَقُولُ أَيْنَ شُرَكَآءِىَ ٱلَّذِينَ كُنتُمْ تَزْعُمُونَ", "translation": "And [warn of] the Day He will call them and say, \"Where are My 'partners' which you used to claim?\"" }, { "n": 63, "arabic": "قَالَ ٱلَّذِينَ حَقَّ عَلَيْهِمُ ٱلْقَوْلُ رَبَّنَا هَٰٓؤُلَآءِ ٱلَّذِينَ أَغْوَيْنَآ أَغْوَيْنَٰهُمْ كَمَا غَوَيْنَا ۖ تَبَرَّأْنَآ إِلَيْكَ ۖ مَا كَانُوٓا۟ إِيَّانَا يَعْبُدُونَ", "translation": "Those upon whom the word will have come into effect will say, \"Our Lord, these are the ones we led to error. We led them to error just as we were in error. We declare our disassociation [from them] to You. They did not used to worship us.\"" }, { "n": 64, "arabic": "وَقِيلَ ٱدْعُوا۟ شُرَكَآءَكُمْ فَدَعَوْهُمْ فَلَمْ يَسْتَجِيبُوا۟ لَهُمْ وَرَأَوُا۟ ٱلْعَذَابَ ۚ لَوْ أَنَّهُمْ كَانُوا۟ يَهْتَدُونَ", "translation": "And it will be said, \"Invoke your 'partners' \" and they will invoke them; but they will not respond to them, and they will see the punishment. If only they had followed guidance!" }, { "n": 65, "arabic": "وَيَوْمَ يُنَادِيهِمْ فَيَقُولُ مَاذَآ أَجَبْتُمُ ٱلْمُرْسَلِينَ", "translation": "And [mention] the Day He will call them and say, \"What did you answer the messengers?\"" }, { "n": 66, "arabic": "فَعَمِيَتْ عَلَيْهِمُ ٱلْأَنۢبَآءُ يَوْمَئِذٍۢ فَهُمْ لَا يَتَسَآءَلُونَ", "translation": "But the information will be unapparent to them that Day, so they will not [be able to] ask one another." }, { "n": 67, "arabic": "فَأَمَّا مَن تَابَ وَءَامَنَ وَعَمِلَ صَٰلِحًۭا فَعَسَىٰٓ أَن يَكُونَ مِنَ ٱلْمُفْلِحِينَ", "translation": "But as for one who had repented, believed, and done righteousness, it is promised by Allah that he will be among the successful." }, { "n": 68, "arabic": "وَرَبُّكَ يَخْلُقُ مَا يَشَآءُ وَيَخْتَارُ ۗ مَا كَانَ لَهُمُ ٱلْخِيَرَةُ ۚ سُبْحَٰنَ ٱللَّهِ وَتَعَٰلَىٰ عَمَّا يُشْرِكُونَ", "translation": "And your Lord creates what He wills and chooses; not for them was the choice. Exalted is Allah and high above what they associate with Him." }, { "n": 69, "arabic": "وَرَبُّكَ يَعْلَمُ مَا تُكِنُّ صُدُورُهُمْ وَمَا يُعْلِنُونَ", "translation": "And your Lord knows what their breasts conceal and what they declare." }, { "n": 70, "arabic": "وَهُوَ ٱللَّهُ لَآ إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ ۖ لَهُ ٱلْحَمْدُ فِى ٱلْأُولَىٰ وَٱلْءَاخِرَةِ ۖ وَلَهُ ٱلْحُكْمُ وَإِلَيْهِ تُرْجَعُونَ", "translation": "And He is Allah; there is no deity except Him. To Him is [due all] praise in the first [life] and the Hereafter. And His is the [final] decision, and to Him you will be returned." }, { "n": 71, "arabic": "قُلْ أَرَءَيْتُمْ إِن جَعَلَ ٱللَّهُ عَلَيْكُمُ ٱلَّيْلَ سَرْمَدًا إِلَىٰ يَوْمِ ٱلْقِيَٰمَةِ مَنْ إِلَٰهٌ غَيْرُ ٱللَّهِ يَأْتِيكُم بِضِيَآءٍ ۖ أَفَلَا تَسْمَعُونَ", "translation": "Say, \"Have you considered: if Allah should make for you the night continuous until the Day of Resurrection, what deity other than Allah could bring you light? Then will you not hear?\"" }, { "n": 72, "arabic": "قُلْ أَرَءَيْتُمْ إِن جَعَلَ ٱللَّهُ عَلَيْكُمُ ٱلنَّهَارَ سَرْمَدًا إِلَىٰ يَوْمِ ٱلْقِيَٰمَةِ مَنْ إِلَٰهٌ غَيْرُ ٱللَّهِ يَأْتِيكُم بِلَيْلٍۢ تَسْكُنُونَ فِيهِ ۖ أَفَلَا تُبْصِرُونَ", "translation": "Say, \"Have you considered: if Allah should make for you the day continuous until the Day of Resurrection, what deity other than Allah could bring you a night in which you may rest? Then will you not see?\"" }, { "n": 73, "arabic": "وَمِن رَّحْمَتِهِۦ جَعَلَ لَكُمُ ٱلَّيْلَ وَٱلنَّهَارَ لِتَسْكُنُوا۟ فِيهِ وَلِتَبْتَغُوا۟ مِن فَضْلِهِۦ وَلَعَلَّكُمْ تَشْكُرُونَ", "translation": "And out of His mercy He made for you the night and the day that you may rest therein and [by day] seek from His bounty and [that] perhaps you will be grateful." }, { "n": 74, "arabic": "وَيَوْمَ يُنَادِيهِمْ فَيَقُولُ أَيْنَ شُرَكَآءِىَ ٱلَّذِينَ كُنتُمْ تَزْعُمُونَ", "translation": "And [warn of] the Day He will call them and say, \"Where are my 'partners' which you used to claim?\"" }, { "n": 75, "arabic": "وَنَزَعْنَا مِن كُلِّ أُمَّةٍۢ شَهِيدًۭا فَقُلْنَا هَاتُوا۟ بُرْهَٰنَكُمْ فَعَلِمُوٓا۟ أَنَّ ٱلْحَقَّ لِلَّهِ وَضَلَّ عَنْهُم مَّا كَانُوا۟ يَفْتَرُونَ", "translation": "And We will extract from every nation a witness and say, \"Produce your proof,\" and they will know that the truth belongs to Allah, and lost from them is that which they used to invent." }, { "n": 76, "arabic": "۞ إِنَّ قَٰرُونَ كَانَ مِن قَوْمِ مُوسَىٰ فَبَغَىٰ عَلَيْهِمْ ۖ وَءَاتَيْنَٰهُ مِنَ ٱلْكُنُوزِ مَآ إِنَّ مَفَاتِحَهُۥ لَتَنُوٓأُ بِٱلْعُصْبَةِ أُو۟لِى ٱلْقُوَّةِ إِذْ قَالَ لَهُۥ قَوْمُهُۥ لَا تَفْرَحْ ۖ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَا يُحِبُّ ٱلْفَرِحِينَ", "translation": "Indeed, Qarun was from the people of Moses, but he tyrannized them. And We gave him of treasures whose keys would burden a band of strong men; thereupon his people said to him, \"Do not exult. Indeed, Allah does not like the exultant." }, { "n": 77, "arabic": "وَٱبْتَغِ فِيمَآ ءَاتَىٰكَ ٱللَّهُ ٱلدَّارَ ٱلْءَاخِرَةَ ۖ وَلَا تَنسَ نَصِيبَكَ مِنَ ٱلدُّنْيَا ۖ وَأَحْسِن كَمَآ أَحْسَنَ ٱللَّهُ إِلَيْكَ ۖ وَلَا تَبْغِ ٱلْفَسَادَ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ ۖ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَا يُحِبُّ ٱلْمُفْسِدِينَ", "translation": "But seek, through that which Allah has given you, the home of the Hereafter; and [yet], do not forget your share of the world. And do good as Allah has done good to you. And desire not corruption in the land. Indeed, Allah does not like corrupters.\"" }, { "n": 78, "arabic": "قَالَ إِنَّمَآ أُوتِيتُهُۥ عَلَىٰ عِلْمٍ عِندِىٓ ۚ أَوَلَمْ يَعْلَمْ أَنَّ ٱللَّهَ قَدْ أَهْلَكَ مِن قَبْلِهِۦ مِنَ ٱلْقُرُونِ مَنْ هُوَ أَشَدُّ مِنْهُ قُوَّةًۭ وَأَكْثَرُ جَمْعًۭا ۚ وَلَا يُسْـَٔلُ عَن ذُنُوبِهِمُ ٱلْمُجْرِمُونَ", "translation": "He said, \"I was only given it because of knowledge I have.\" Did he not know that Allah had destroyed before him of generations those who were greater than him in power and greater in accumulation [of wealth]? But the criminals, about their sins, will not be asked." }, { "n": 79, "arabic": "فَخَرَجَ عَلَىٰ قَوْمِهِۦ فِى زِينَتِهِۦ ۖ قَالَ ٱلَّذِينَ يُرِيدُونَ ٱلْحَيَوٰةَ ٱلدُّنْيَا يَٰلَيْتَ لَنَا مِثْلَ مَآ أُوتِىَ قَٰرُونُ إِنَّهُۥ لَذُو حَظٍّ عَظِيمٍۢ", "translation": "So he came out before his people in his adornment. Those who desired the worldly life said, \"Oh, would that we had like what was given to Qarun. Indeed, he is one of great fortune.\"" }, { "n": 80, "arabic": "وَقَالَ ٱلَّذِينَ أُوتُوا۟ ٱلْعِلْمَ وَيْلَكُمْ ثَوَابُ ٱللَّهِ خَيْرٌۭ لِّمَنْ ءَامَنَ وَعَمِلَ صَٰلِحًۭا وَلَا يُلَقَّىٰهَآ إِلَّا ٱلصَّٰبِرُونَ", "translation": "But those who had been given knowledge said, \"Woe to you! The reward of Allah is better for he who believes and does righteousness. And none are granted it except the patient.\"" }, { "n": 81, "arabic": "فَخَسَفْنَا بِهِۦ وَبِدَارِهِ ٱلْأَرْضَ فَمَا كَانَ لَهُۥ مِن فِئَةٍۢ يَنصُرُونَهُۥ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ وَمَا كَانَ مِنَ ٱلْمُنتَصِرِينَ", "translation": "And We caused the earth to swallow him and his home. And there was for him no company to aid him other than Allah, nor was he of those who [could] defend themselves." }, { "n": 82, "arabic": "وَأَصْبَحَ ٱلَّذِينَ تَمَنَّوْا۟ مَكَانَهُۥ بِٱلْأَمْسِ يَقُولُونَ وَيْكَأَنَّ ٱللَّهَ يَبْسُطُ ٱلرِّزْقَ لِمَن يَشَآءُ مِنْ عِبَادِهِۦ وَيَقْدِرُ ۖ لَوْلَآ أَن مَّنَّ ٱللَّهُ عَلَيْنَا لَخَسَفَ بِنَا ۖ وَيْكَأَنَّهُۥ لَا يُفْلِحُ ٱلْكَٰفِرُونَ", "translation": "And those who had wished for his position the previous day began to say, \"Oh, how Allah extends provision to whom He wills of His servants and restricts it! If not that Allah had conferred favor on us, He would have caused it to swallow us. Oh, how the disbelievers do not succeed!\"" }, { "n": 83, "arabic": "تِلْكَ ٱلدَّارُ ٱلْءَاخِرَةُ نَجْعَلُهَا لِلَّذِينَ لَا يُرِيدُونَ عُلُوًّۭا فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ وَلَا فَسَادًۭا ۚ وَٱلْعَٰقِبَةُ لِلْمُتَّقِينَ", "translation": "That home of the Hereafter We assign to those who do not desire exaltedness upon the earth or corruption. And the [best] outcome is for the righteous." }, { "n": 84, "arabic": "مَن جَآءَ بِٱلْحَسَنَةِ فَلَهُۥ خَيْرٌۭ مِّنْهَا ۖ وَمَن جَآءَ بِٱلسَّيِّئَةِ فَلَا يُجْزَى ٱلَّذِينَ عَمِلُوا۟ ٱلسَّيِّـَٔاتِ إِلَّا مَا كَانُوا۟ يَعْمَلُونَ", "translation": "Whoever comes [on the Day of Judgement] with a good deed will have better than it; and whoever comes with an evil deed - then those who did evil deeds will not be recompensed except [as much as] what they used to do." }, { "n": 85, "arabic": "إِنَّ ٱلَّذِى فَرَضَ عَلَيْكَ ٱلْقُرْءَانَ لَرَآدُّكَ إِلَىٰ مَعَادٍۢ ۚ قُل رَّبِّىٓ أَعْلَمُ مَن جَآءَ بِٱلْهُدَىٰ وَمَنْ هُوَ فِى ضَلَٰلٍۢ مُّبِينٍۢ", "translation": "Indeed, [O Muhammad], He who imposed upon you the Qur'an will take you back to a place of return. Say, \"My Lord is most knowing of who brings guidance and who is in clear error.\"" }, { "n": 86, "arabic": "وَمَا كُنتَ تَرْجُوٓا۟ أَن يُلْقَىٰٓ إِلَيْكَ ٱلْكِتَٰبُ إِلَّا رَحْمَةًۭ مِّن رَّبِّكَ ۖ فَلَا تَكُونَنَّ ظَهِيرًۭا لِّلْكَٰفِرِينَ", "translation": "And you were not expecting that the Book would be conveyed to you, but [it is] a mercy from your Lord. So do not be an assistant to the disbelievers." }, { "n": 87, "arabic": "وَلَا يَصُدُّنَّكَ عَنْ ءَايَٰتِ ٱللَّهِ بَعْدَ إِذْ أُنزِلَتْ إِلَيْكَ ۖ وَٱدْعُ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ ۖ وَلَا تَكُونَنَّ مِنَ ٱلْمُشْرِكِينَ", "translation": "And never let them avert you from the verses of Allah after they have been revealed to you. And invite [people] to your Lord. And never be of those who associate others with Allah." }, { "n": 88, "arabic": "وَلَا تَدْعُ مَعَ ٱللَّهِ إِلَٰهًا ءَاخَرَ ۘ لَآ إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ ۚ كُلُّ شَىْءٍ هَالِكٌ إِلَّا وَجْهَهُۥ ۚ لَهُ ٱلْحُكْمُ وَإِلَيْهِ تُرْجَعُونَ", "translation": "And do not invoke with Allah another deity. There is no deity except Him. Everything will be destroyed except His Face. His is the judgement, and to Him you will be returned." } ], "glosses": [ [ "Ta Seem Meem." ], [ "These", "(are the) Verses", "(of) the Book", "the clear." ], [ "We recite", "to you", "from", "(the) news", "(of) Musa", "and Firaun", "in truth", "for a people", "who believe." ], [ "Indeed,", "Firaun", "exalted himself", "in", "the land", "and made", "its people", "(into) sects,", "oppressing", "a group", "among them,", "slaughtering", "their sons", "and letting live", "their women.", "Indeed, he", "was", "of", "the corrupters." ], [ "And We wanted", "to", "bestow a favor", "upon", "those who", "were oppressed", "in", "the land", "and make them", "leaders", "and make them", "the inheritors," ], [ "And [We] establish", "them", "in", "the land", "and show", "Firaun", "and Haman", "and their hosts", "through them", "what", "they were", "fearing." ], [ "And We inspired", "[to]", "(the) mother", "(of) Musa", "that,", "\"Suckle him,", "but when", "you fear", "for him,", "then cast him", "in(to)", "the river", "and (do) not", "fear", "and (do) not", "grieve.", "Indeed, We", "(will) restore him", "to you", "and (will) make him", "of", "the Messengers.\"" ], [ "Then picked him up", "(the) family", "(of) Firaun", "so that he might become", "to them", "an enemy", "and a grief.", "Indeed,", "Firaun", "and Haman", "and their hosts", "were", "sinners." ], [ "And said", "(the) wife", "(of) Firaun,", "\"A comfort", "(of the) eye", "for me", "and for you;", "(Do) not", "kill him;", "perhaps", "(that)", "he may benefit us,", "or", "we may take him", "(as) a son.\"", "And they", "(did) not", "perceive." ], [ "And became", "(the) heart", "(of the) mother", "(of) Musa", "empty.", "That,", "she was near", "(to) disclosing", "about him,", "if not", "that", "We strengthened", "[over]", "her heart,", "so that she would be", "of", "the believers." ], [ "And she said", "to his sister,", "\"Follow him.\"", "So she watched", "him", "from", "a distance", "while they", "(did) not", "perceive." ], [ "And We had forbidden", "for him", "the wet nurses", "[from]", "before", "so she said,", "\"Shall I", "direct you", "to", "(the) people", "(of) a house", "who will rear him", "for you", "while they", "to him", "(will be) sincere?\"" ], [ "So We restored him", "to", "his mother", "that", "might be comforted", "her eye,", "and not", "she may grieve", "and that she would know,", "that", "the promise of", "Allah", "(is) true.", "But", "most of them", "(do) not", "know." ], [ "And when", "he reached", "his full strength", "and became mature,", "We bestowed upon him", "wisdom", "and knowledge.", "And thus", "We reward", "the good-doers." ], [ "And he entered", "the city", "at", "a time", "(of) inattention", "of", "its people", "and found", "therein", "two men", "fighting each other;", "this", "of", "his party", "and this", "of", "his enemy.", "And called him for help", "the one who", "(was) from", "his party", "against", "the one who", "(was) from", "his enemy,", "so struck him with his fist", "Moses", "and caused death", "to him", "He said,", "\"This (is)", "of", "(the) deed", "(of) Shaitaan.", "Indeed, he", "(is) an enemy -", "one who misleads", "clearly.\"" ], [ "He said,", "\"My Lord!", "Indeed, I", "[I] have wronged", "my soul,", "so forgive", "[for] me.\"", "Then He forgave", "[for] him.", "Indeed He,", "He (is)", "the Oft-Forgiving,", "the Most Merciful." ], [ "He said,", "\"My Lord!", "Because", "You have favored", "[on] me,", "so not", "I will be", "a supporter", "(of) the criminals.\"" ], [ "In the morning he was", "in", "the city", "fearful", "(and) was vigilant,", "when behold!", "The one who", "sought his help", "the previous day", "cried out to him for help.", "Said", "to him", "Musa,", "\"Indeed, you", "(are) surely a deviator", "clear.\"" ], [ "Then when", "[that]", "he wanted", "to", "strike", "the one who", "[he] (was)", "an enemy", "to both of them,", "he said,", "\"O Musa!", "Do you intend", "to", "kill me", "as", "you killed", "a person", "yesterday?", "Not", "you want", "but", "that", "you become", "a tyrant", "in", "the earth,", "and not", "you want", "that", "you be", "of", "the reformers.\"" ], [ "And came", "a man", "from", "(the) farthest end", "(of) the city", "running.", "He said,", "\"O Musa!", "Indeed,", "the chiefs", "are taking counsel", "about you", "to kill you,", "so leave;", "indeed, I am", "to you", "of", "the sincere advisors.\"" ], [ "So he left", "from it", "fearing,", "(and) vigilant.", "He said,", "\"My Lord!", "Save me", "from", "the people -", "the wrongdoers.\"" ], [ "And when", "he turned his face", "towards", "Madyan,", "he said,", "\"Perhaps", "my Lord", "[that]", "will guide me", "(to the) sound", "way.\"" ], [ "And when", "he came", "(to the) water", "(of) Madyan,", "he found", "on it", "a group", "of", "men", "watering,", "and he found", "[from]", "apart from them", "two women", "keeping back.", "He said,", "\"What", "(is the) matter with both of you?\"", "They said,", "not", "do we water", "until", "take away", "the shepherds;", "and our father", "an old man", "advanced in age" ], [ "So he watered", "for them.", "Then", "he turned back", "to", "the shade", "and said,", "\"My Lord!", "Indeed, I am", "of whatever", "You send", "to me", "of", "good", "(in) need.\"" ], [ "Then came to him", "one of the two women", "walking", "with", "shyness.", "She said,", "\"Indeed,", "my father", "calls you,", "that he may reward you", "(the) reward", "(for) what", "you watered", "for us.\"", "So when", "he came to him", "and narrated", "to him", "the story,", "he said,", "\"(Do) not", "fear.", "You have escaped", "from", "the people -", "the wrongdoers.\"" ], [ "Said", "one of them,", "\"O my father!", "Hire him.", "Indeed,", "(the) best", "whom", "you (can) hire", "(is) the strong,", "the trustworthy.\"" ], [ "He said,", "\"Indeed, I", "[I] wish", "to", "marry you to", "one", "(of) my daughters", "(of) these two", "on", "that", "you serve me,", "(for) eight", "years;", "but if", "you complete", "ten,", "then from", "you.", "And not", "I wish", "to", "make it difficult", "for you.", "You will find me,", "if", "wills", "Allah", "of", "the righteous.\"" ], [ "He said,", "\"That", "(is) between me", "and between you.", "Whichever", "(of) the two terms", "I complete", "then no", "injustice", "to me,", "and Allah,", "over", "what", "we say", "(is) a Witness.\"" ], [ "Then when", "fulfilled", "Moses", "the term", "and was traveling", "with his family,", "he saw", "in", "(the) direction", "(of) Mount Tur", "a fire.", "He said", "to his family,", "\"Stay here;", "indeed, I", "[I] perceive", "a fire.", "Perhaps", "I will bring you", "from there", "some information", "or", "a burning wood", "from", "the fire", "so that you may", "warm yourselves.\"" ], [ "But when", "he came (to) it,", "he was called", "from", "(the) side", "(of) the valley -", "the right", "in", "the place even,", "blessed,", "from", "the tree", "that,", "\"O Musa!", "Indeed,", "I Am", "Allah,", "(the) Lord", "(of) the worlds." ], [ "And [that]", "throw", "your staff.\"", "But when", "he saw it", "moving", "as if it", "(were) a snake", "he turned", "(in) flight", "and (did) not", "return.", "\"O Musa!", "Draw near", "and (do) not", "fear.", "Indeed, you", "(are) of", "the secure." ], [ "Insert", "your hand", "in", "your bosom", "it will come forth", "white", "[from]", "without", "any harm.", "And draw", "to yourselves", "your hand", "against", "fear.", "So these", "(are) two evidences", "from", "your Lord,", "to", "Firaun", "and his chiefs.", "Indeed, they", "are", "a people", "defiantly disobedient.\"" ], [ "He said,", "\"My Lord!", "Indeed,", "I killed", "of them", "a man,", "and I fear", "that", "they will kill me." ], [ "And my brother", "Harun,", "he", "(is) more eloquent", "than me", "(in) speech,", "so send him", "with me", "(as) a helper,", "who will confirm me.", "Indeed,", "I fear", "that", "they will deny me.\"" ], [ "He said,", "\"We will strengthen", "your arm", "through your brother", "and We will make", "for both of you", "an authority,", "so not", "they will reach", "to both of you.", "Through Our Signs", "you two", "and (those) who", "follow you,", "(will) be the dominant.\"" ], [ "But when", "came to them", "Musa", "with Our Signs", "clear,", "they said,", "\"Not", "(is) this", "except", "a magic", "invented,", "and not", "we heard", "of this", "among", "our fathers", "the earlier ones" ], [ "And said", "Moses", "\"My Lord", "knows best", "of who", "has come", "with [the] guidance", "from", "His presence", "and who -", "will be", "for him", "the final outcome of", "the abode", "Indeed,", "not", "will be successful", "the wrongdoers.\"" ], [ "And said", "Pharaoh", "O", "chiefs", "Not", "I know", "for you", "any", "god", "other than me.", "So kindle", "for me", "O Haman!", "Upon", "the clay", "and make,", "for me", "a lofty tower", "so that [I]", "I may look", "at", "(the) God", "(of) Musa.", "And indeed, I", "[I] think that he", "(is) of", "the liars.\"" ], [ "And acted arrogantly", "he", "and his hosts", "in", "the land", "without", "right,", "and they thought", "that they", "to Us", "not", "will be returned." ], [ "So We seized him", "and his hosts,", "and We threw them", "in", "the sea.", "So see", "how", "was", "(the) end", "(of) the wrongdoers." ], [ "And We made them", "leaders", "inviting", "to", "the Fire,", "and (on the) Day", "(of) the Resurrection", "not", "they will be helped." ], [ "And We caused to follow them", "in", "this", "world", "a curse,", "and (on the) Day", "(of) the Resurrection", "they", "(will be) of", "the despised." ], [ "And verily,", "We gave", "Musa", "the Scripture,", "[from]", "after", "what", "We had destroyed", "the generations", "former", "(as) an enlightenment", "for the mankind", "and a guidance", "and mercy", "that they may", "remember." ], [ "And not", "you were", "on (the) side", "western", "when", "We decreed", "to", "Musa", "the Commandment", "and not", "you were", "among", "the witnesses." ], [ "But We", "[We] produced", "generations", "and prolonged", "for them", "the life.", "And not", "you were", "a dweller", "among", "(the) people", "(of) Madyan,", "reciting", "to them", "Our Verses,", "but We", "[We] were", "the Senders." ], [ "And not", "you were", "at (the) side", "(of) the Tur", "when", "We called.", "But", "(as) a mercy", "from", "your Lord", "so that you warn", "a people", "not", "(had) come to them", "any", "warner", "[from]", "before you", "so that they may", "remember." ], [ "And if not", "[that]", "struck them", "a disaster", "for what", "had sent forth", "their hands", "and they would say,", "\"Our Lord!", "Why not", "You sent", "to us", "a Messenger", "so we (could have) followed", "Your Verses", "and we (would) have been", "of", "the believers?\"" ], [ "But when", "came to them", "the truth", "from", "Our presence", "they said,", "\"Why not", "he was given", "(the) like", "(of) what", "was given", "(to) Musa?\"", "Did not", "they disbelieve", "in what", "was given", "(to) Musa", "[from]", "before", "They said,", "\"Two magic (works)", "supporting each other.\"", "And they said,", "\"Indeed, we", "in all", "(are) disbelievers.\"" ], [ "Say,", "\"Then bring", "a Book", "from", "the presence of", "Allah", "which", "(is) a better guide", "than both of them", "that I may follow it,", "if", "you are", "truthful.\"" ], [ "But if", "not", "they respond", "to you,", "then know", "that only", "they follow", "their desires.", "And who", "(is) more astray", "than (one) who", "follows", "his own desire", "without", "guidance", "from", "Allah?", "Indeed,", "Allah", "(does) not", "guide", "the people -", "the wrongdoers." ], [ "And indeed,", "We have conveyed", "to them", "the Word", "so that they may", "remember." ], [ "Those who,", "We gave them", "the Scripture", "[from]", "before it", "they", "in it", "believe." ], [ "And when", "it is recited", "to them", "they say,", "\"We believe", "in it.", "Indeed, it", "(is) the truth", "from", "our Lord.", "Indeed, we", "[we] were", "[from]", "before it", "Muslims.\"" ], [ "Those", "will be given", "their reward", "twice", "because", "they are patient", "and they repel", "with good -", "the evil", "and from what", "We have provided them", "they spend." ], [ "And when", "they hear", "vain talk,", "they turn away", "from it", "and say,", "\"For us", "our deeds", "and for you", "your deeds.", "Peace (be)", "on you;", "not", "we seek", "the ignorant.\"" ], [ "Indeed, you", "(can) not", "guide", "whom", "you love,", "but", "Allah", "guides", "whom", "He wills.", "And He", "(is) most knowing", "(of) the guided ones." ], [ "And they say,", "\"If", "we follow", "the guidance", "with you,", "we would be swept", "from", "our land.\"", "Have not", "We established", "for them", "a sanctuary", "secure,", "are brought", "to it", "fruits", "(of) all", "things,", "a provision", "from", "Us?", "But", "most of them", "(do) not", "know." ], [ "And how many", "We have destroyed", "of", "a town", "which exulted,", "(in) its means of livelihood.", "And these", "(are) their dwellings", "not", "have been inhabited", "[from]", "after them", "except", "a little.", "And indeed, [We]", "We", "(are) the inheritors." ], [ "And not", "was", "your Lord", "(the) one to destroy", "the towns", "until", "He (had) sent", "in", "their mother (town)", "a Messenger", "reciting", "to them", "Our Verses.", "And not", "We would be", "(the) one to destroy", "the towns", "except", "while their people", "(were) wrongdoers." ], [ "And whatever", "you have been given", "from", "things,", "(is) an enjoyment", "(of the) life", "(of) the world", "and its adornment.", "And what", "(is) with", "Allah,", "(is) better", "and more lasting.", "So (will) not", "you use intellect?" ], [ "Then is (he) whom", "We have promised him", "a promise", "good,", "and he", "(will) meet it,", "like (the one) whom", "We provided him", "enjoyment", "(of the) life", "(of) the world", "then", "he", "(on the) Day", "(of) the Resurrection", "(will be) among", "those presented?" ], [ "And (the) Day", "He will call them", "and say,", "\"Where,", "(are) My partners", "whom", "you used (to)", "claim?\"" ], [ "(Will) say", "those -", "(has) come true", "against whom", "the Word,", "\"Our Lord!", "These", "(are) those whom", "we led astray.", "We led them astray", "as", "we were astray.", "We declare our innocence", "before You.", "Not", "they used (to)", "us", "they worshipped" ], [ "And it will be said,", "\"Call", "your partners.\"", "And they will call them,", "but not", "they will respond", "to them", "and they will see", "the punishment.", "If only", "[that] they", "had been", "guided!" ], [ "And (the) Day", "He will call them", "and say,", "\"What", "did you answer", "the Messengers?\"" ], [ "But (will) be obscure", "to them", "the information", "that day,", "so they", "not", "will they question one another" ], [ "But as for", "(him) who", "repented", "and believed,", "and did", "righteousness,", "then perhaps", "[that]", "he will be", "of", "the successful ones." ], [ "And your Lord", "creates", "what", "He wills", "and chooses.", "Not", "they have", "for them", "the choice.", "Glory be", "(to) Allah", "and High is He", "above what", "they associate (with Him)." ], [ "And your Lord", "knows", "what", "conceals", "their breasts", "and what", "they declare." ], [ "And He", "(is) Allah;", "(there is) no", "god", "but", "He.", "To Him", "(are due) all praises", "in", "the first", "and the last.", "And for Him", "(is) the Decision,", "and to Him", "you will be returned." ], [ "Say,", "\"Have you seen", "if", "made", "Allah", "for you", "the night", "continuous", "till", "(the) Day", "(of) the Resurrection,", "who", "(is the) god", "besides", "Allah", "who could bring you", "light?", "Then will not", "you hear?\"" ], [ "Say,", "\"Have you seen", "if", "made", "Allah", "for you", "the day", "continuous", "till", "(the) Day", "(of) the Resurrection,", "who", "(is the) god", "besides", "Allah", "who could bring you", "night", "(for) you (to) rest", "in it?", "Then will not", "you see?\"" ], [ "And from", "His Mercy", "He made", "for you", "the night", "and the day,", "that you may rest", "therein", "and that you may seek", "from", "His Bounty,", "and so that you may", "be grateful." ], [ "And (the) Day", "He will call them", "and say,", "\"Where", "(are) My partners", "whom", "you used (to)", "claim?\"" ], [ "And We will draw forth", "from", "every", "nation", "a witness", "and We will say,", "\"Bring", "your proof?\"", "Then they will know", "that", "the truth", "(is) for Allah", "and (will be) lost", "from them", "what", "they used (to)", "invent." ], [ "Indeed,", "Qarun,", "was", "from", "(the) people", "(of) Musa,", "but he oppressed", "[on] them.", "And We gave him", "of", "the treasures", "which", "indeed", "(the) keys of it", "would burden", "a company (of men)", "possessors of", "strength", "When", "said", "to him", "his people,", "\"(Do) not", "exult.", "Indeed,", "Allah", "(does) not", "love", "the exultant." ], [ "But seek,", "through what", "has given you", "Allah", "the home", "(of) the Hereafter,", "and (do) not", "forget", "your share", "of", "the world.", "And do good", "as", "has been good", "Allah", "to you.", "And (do) not", "seek", "corruption", "in", "the earth.", "Indeed,", "Allah", "(does) not", "love", "the corrupters.\"" ], [ "He said,", "\"Only", "I have been given it", "on (account)", "(of) knowledge", "I have.\"", "Did not", "he know", "that", "Allah", "indeed", "destroyed", "[from]", "before him", "of", "the generations", "who", "[they]", "(were) stronger", "than him", "(in) strength", "and greater", "(in) accumulation.", "And not", "will be questioned", "about", "their sins", "the criminals." ], [ "So he went forth", "to", "his people", "in", "his adornment.", "Said", "those who", "desire", "the life", "(of) the world,", "\"O! 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That", "not", "will succeed", "the disbelievers.\"" ], [ "That", "the Home", "(of) the Hereafter", "We assign it", "to those who", "(do) not", "desire", "exaltedness", "in", "the earth", "and not", "corruption.", "And the good end", "(is) for the righteous." ], [ "Whoever", "comes", "with a good (deed)", "then for him,", "(will be) better", "than it;", "and whoever", "comes", "with an evil (deed)", "then not", "will be recompensed", "those who", "do", "the evil (deeds)", "except", "what", "they used (to)", "do." ], [ "Indeed,", "He Who", "ordained", "upon you", "the Quran", "(will) surely take you back", "to", "a place of return.", "Say,", "\"My Lord", "(is) most knowing", "(of him) who", "comes", "with the guidance,", "and who -", "he", "(is) in", "an error", "manifest.\"" ], [ "And not", "you were", "expecting", "that", "would be sent down", "to you", "the Book,", "except", "(as) a mercy", "from", "your Lord.", "So (do) not", "be", "an assistant", "to the disbelievers." ], [ "And (let) not", "avert you", "from", "(the) Verses", "(of) Allah", "after", "[when]", "they have been revealed", "to you.", "And invite (people)", "to", "your Lord.", "And (do) not", "be", "of", "the polytheists." ], [ "And (do) not", "invoke", "with", "Allah", "god", "other.", "(There is) no", "god", "except", "Him.", "Every", "thing", "(will be) destroyed", "except", "His Face.", "To Him", "(is) the Decision,", "and to Him", "you will be returned." ] ], "glossNote": "English word hints follow the Quranic Arabic Corpus. Where the Corpus repeats a phrase across adjacent Arabic words, it is divided into individual word meanings for hover and audio; these editorial splits are recorded in the source audit. Brackets identify connective or grammatical senses that English does not translate separately. Literal Image labels joined to the retrieved Corpus glosses in 28:72–75 and 84–85 are removed; every cleanup is recorded alongside the phrase adaptations." }