In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
“Nothing is the life of this world but play and amusement, but best is the Home in the Hereafter, for those who are righteous, will you not then understand?” (6:32)

The Holy Quran, Sura Ash-Shuara - الشعراء

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قَوْمَ فِرْعَوْنَ أَلَا يَتَّقُونَ
"The people of the Pharaoh: will they not fear Allah?"
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قَالَ رَبِّ إِنِّي أَخَافُ أَن يُكَذِّبُونِ
He said: "O my Lord! I do fear that they will charge me with falsehood:
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وَيَضِيقُ صَدْرِي وَلَا يَنطَلِقُ لِسَانِي فَأَرْسِلْ إِلَى هَارُونَ
"My breast will be straitened. And my speech may not go (smoothly): so send unto Aaron.
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وَلَهُمْ عَلَيَّ ذَنبٌ فَأَخَافُ أَن يَقْتُلُونِ
"And (further), they have a charge of crime against me; and I fear they may slay me."
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قَالَ كَلَّا فَاذْهَبَا بِآيَاتِنَا إِنَّا مَعَكُم مُّسْتَمِعُونَ
Allah said: "By no means! proceed then, both of you, with Our Signs; We are with you, and will listen (to your call).
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فَأْتِيَا فِرْعَوْنَ فَقُولَا إِنَّا رَسُولُ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ
"So go forth, both of you, to Pharaoh, and say: 'We have been sent by the Lord and Cherisher of the worlds;
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أَنْ أَرْسِلْ مَعَنَا بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ
"'Send thou with us the Children of Israel.'"
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قَالَ أَلَمْ نُرَبِّكَ فِينَا وَلِيداً وَلَبِثْتَ فِينَا مِنْ عُمُرِكَ سِنِينَ
(Pharaoh) said: "Did we not cherish thee as a child among us, and didst thou not stay in our midst many years of thy life?
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وَفَعَلْتَ فَعْلَتَكَ الَّتِي فَعَلْتَ وَأَنتَ مِنَ الْكَافِرِينَ
"And thou didst a deed of thine which (thou knowest) thou didst, and thou art an ungrateful (wretch)!"
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قَالَ فَعَلْتُهَا إِذاً وَأَنَا مِنَ الضَّالِّينَ
Moses said: "I did it then, when I was in error.