English - Chapter 20 - Ta-Ha

Ta-ha

We have not sent down the Quran upon you to cause you distress

It is but a Memorandum for one who fears Allah

It is a bestowal from the One Who created the earth and the lofty heavens

From the Gracious One, firmly established on the throne of absolute authority

Everything — that which is in the heavens, on the earth, in between the two, and underneath the ground — is all His

And if you say anything aloud, mind you, He knows the secret, and the hidden

Allah — there is no god but He; His are the very best attributes

And has Moses' story come down to you

When he saw some fire, he said to his wife escorting him, "Wait! I do indeed see a fire. Maybe, I can bring to you therefrom a live burning coal or come to know about the right way from someone at the fire

And when he came to it (the fire), he was called out, "O Moses

Verily, I am your Lord; so take off your shoes! You are indeed in the sacred valley of Tuwa

And I have chosen you, so then listen to what is revealed

Indeed, I, Myself, am Allah! There is no god but I. So worship Me and establish regular prayer to remember Me

The Hour (Last Day) is indeed coming. I will unravel it anytime so that every soul is recompensed for what it strived

So let him not, who does not believe in it (the Hour) and follows his low desires, turn you away from it so that you should perish

And what is this in your right hand, Moses

Moses said, "It is my staff. I lean upon it and I beat the leaves with it to make them fall upon my sheep, and I have other uses for it

Allah said, "Cast it down, O Moses

And as Moses cast his staff down, it instantly became a serpent moving

Allah said, "Hold it and be not afraid! We will restore it to its original state

And, another sign: put your hand under your arm, it shall come out perfectly white

That We may show you some of Our great signs

Go to Pharaoh! He has indeed exceeded all bounds

He said, "O my Lord! Broaden my mind for me

And make my task easy for me

And correct the stammer in my speech

Make them understand what I say

And appoint, from my family, an assistant for me

My brother, Aaron

Strengthen me with his support

And make him my associate in my work

So that we should glorify You much

And remember You often

You do indeed see us

Allah said, "Your petition stands granted, O Moses

And We did confer a favour on thee another time

When We revealed to your mother that which was revealed

That she should put him into a chest, and then put the chest onto the river. Then the river should throw him on the shore. There, one, who is an enemy to Me and enemy to him, should pick him up. And I made you lovable so that you might be brought up under My watchful eye

When your sister went and said, `May I lead you to one who will feed him?' Thus We returned you to your mother so that she should be comforted and not grieved. And you killed a man, and then We delivered you from that worry. And We tried you variously. Then you stayed for years among the people of Madyan. Then you came here as ordained, O Moses

And I have made you for Myself

Now go, you and your brother, with My signs and be not remiss in remembering Me

Go both of you to Pharaoh! He has indeed committed transgression

And speak to him gently. Maybe he takes heed or refrains from further evil

Both said, "O our Lord! We do indeed fear that he may take no heed of us or that he may commit some transgression

Allah said, "Fear not! I, Myself, am indeed with you both; I hear and I see

So go you both to him and say, `We two are, indeed, Messengers of your Lord. Send the Children of Israel with us and torment them not! Verily, we have brought to you a sign from your Lord. And peace on him who follows the guidance

It has indeed been revealed to us that punishment will come upon him who rejects and turns away

Pharaoh asked, "And who is the Lord of you two, O Moses

Moses said, "Our Lord is He Who gave everything its creation, and then guided it

Pharaoh asked, "Then what about the earlier generations

Moses said, "The knowledge thereof is in a record with my Lord. My Lord errs not, nor does He forget

The Lord Who made the earth for you a flattened expanse and laid for you therein paths. And He sent down water from the sky. Then thereby We have brought out diverse herbs/plants in pairs

Eat and tend your cattle. There are indeed signs in this for those who are prudent

From it (earth) We created you and into it We shall send you back and from it will We raise you a second time

And verily We showed him Our signs, all of them, but he rejected and turned arrogant

Pharaoh said, "Have you come to drive us out of our land by your magic, O Moses

We shall certainly then bring to you similar magic. Let us then, between us and you, have an appointment at a mutually convenient place, which we should neither of us fail to keep

Moses said, "Let your appointment be on the day of the Festival and let the people be gathered together in the morning

So Pharaoh withdrew, devised his plan of action, and then came

Moses said to them, "Woe to you! Do not fabricate a lie against Allah, lest He should destroy you by a punishment. And he, who fabricates, does indeed fail

And the magicians debated among themselves their response to Moses, but kept the discourse secret

They said (among themselves), "Indeed, these two are just magicians. They wish to turn you out of your land by their magic and to deprive you of your best traditions

So do combine your plan, and then come in line. And he that is superior will certainly win this day

They said (aloud), "O Moses! Will you do your act, or shall we be the first to do it

He said, "No! You do it." And lo! Their ropes and their sticks appeared to him (Moses), by their magic, as if they were moving

So Moses felt a fear rising within him

WE said, "Fear not, you shall indeed have the upper hand

And cast down that which is in your right hand. It shall devour what they have contrived. They have contrived only what a magician could plan. And the magician shall not succeed wherever he may have come from

And the magicians were obliged to fall prostrate! They said, "We believe in the Lord of Aaron and Moses

Pharaoh said, "You believed in him before I gave you leave. He ought to have been your superior who taught you magic. I will then certainly cut off your hands and your feet from opposite sides, and I will certainly crucify you on the trunks of the palm trees. And certainly you will come to know which of us is the more severe and the more persistent in punishing

The magicians said, "There is no question of our preferring you over Him Who made us, after what has come to us of clear signs. So decide whatever you want to. You can only decide about life in this world

We do indeed believe in our Lord. May He forgive us our sins and that magic which you forced upon us. And Allah is better and everlasting

Whoever comes to his Lord as a sinner, for him indeed is Hell. He shall not die therein, nor shall he live

And whoever comes to Him as a believer with righteous deeds to his credit, he shall be among those who shall enjoy high ranks

Gardens of perpetuity, beneath which rivers flow, to abide therein. And this is the reward of one who purifies oneself

And We did reveal to Moses that he should "travel by night with My devotees, then make for them a dry path in the sea, without any fear of being overtaken or of any other sort

And Pharaoh followed them with his armies. And so there came upon them from the sea that which came upon them

And Pharaoh led his people astray and guided them not

O Children of Israel! We did verily deliver you from your enemy, and We made a covenant with you on the right side of the mountain, and We sent to you the manna and the quails

Make use of the good things We have provided you with, and be not inordinate therein lest My wrath should become due upon you. And he, upon whom My wrath becomes due, certainly perishes

And I am indeed most forgiving to him who repents and believes and does good deeds, and then follows the right direction

And what made you come here earlier than your people, O Moses

Moses said, "They are close behind me. And I hastened to You, my Lord, that You might be pleased

Allah said, "But then We put your people on trial after you had left them behind, and the Samiri has led them astray

Then Moses returned to his people, angry and sorrowful. He Said, "O my people! Did not your Lord give you a good promise? Did then the time for fulfillment of the promise seem too long to you? Or did you wish to incur wrath from your Lord, so you broke your promise to me

They said, "We did not break our promise to you of our own accord, but we were made to bear the burden of the ornaments of the people. So we got rid of that burden just as the Samiri did

Then he (Samiri) brought out for them a body of a calf, from which emanated a low sound. Then he told them, "This is your god and the god of Moses. But he (Moses) has forgotten it

Could they not see that it did not respond to them at all, and that it did have no power to do any harm or to bring any benefit to them

And certainly had Aaron told them earlier, "O my people! You are only being tried therewith. And, indeed, your Lord is the Gracious One. Follow me then and obey my order

They had said, "We will not abandon worshipping it until Moses returns to us

Moses said, "O Aaron! What prevented you, when you saw them going astray

From following me? Did you then go against my instruction

Aaron said, "O son of my mother! Seize me not by my beard and by my head. I was indeed afraid you might say, `You have caused a rift among the children of Israel and not waited for my word

Moses then asked, "What have you to say on this, O Samiri

He said, "I saw what they did not see. And I took a handful of traces from the messenger and flung it. And this is what my own self prompted me to do

Moses said, "Begone! Indeed, it is ordained for you in this life to say, `Touch me not!' And indeed there is a prediction for you that shall not fail. And look at your god that you hovered around! We will certainly burn it. Then we will certainly reduce it to dust and scatter it in the sea

None but Allah is worthy of your worship! He knows everything

Thus do We narrate to you some stories from the past. And We have verily given you the account (in the Qur'aan) from Ourselves

One who turns oneself away therefromhshall indeed bear a burden on the Day of Resurrection

Burdened they shall remain. And too bad for them the burden, On the Day of Resurrection

The Day, the trumpet is blown — the Day, We gather the sinful, blue with fear

Whispering among them, "You stayed but ten days

We know best what they say; and the one among them, with the exemplary method of giving estimates, would say, "You stayed but a day

And they ask you about the mountains. Say, "My Lord will pull them down to their roots

And reduce it to a smooth, levelled plain

You shall not see therein any ups and downs

That Day they shall follow the caller, and they shall have no alternative but to follow him. And the voices shall be low in deference to the Gracious One and you shall not hear but a soft murmur

That day no intercession shall benefit anyone except from him whom the Gracious One permits and whose word of intercession He approves

HE knows what they are aware of, and what they are not aware of, and what is beyond the sphere of their knowledge

And the faces shall be bent down before the Living, Everlasting One. And he who bears the burden of wrongdoing is certainly doomed

And he who does some good work and is also a believer, he shall have no fear of injustice or of usurpation

And so have We sent it down as a Qur'aan in Arabic, and have detailed therein some of the things that are going to happen in the future so that they may fear Allah and take heed or that it may serve them as a Reminder of things that have gone by

And exalted is Allah, the true Sovereign! And make no haste with reciting the Quran before its revelation to you is completed. And say, "O my Lord! Increase my knowledge

And We had verily given a commandment to Adam in the past, but he forgot! And We did not find in him the trait of resoluteness

And when We asked the angels to prostrate before Adam, prostrated they all except for Iblees. He (Iblees) refused

And We said, "O Adam! This is an enemy to you and to your wife; so let him not drive you both out from the garden and thus make you miserable

It is indeed ordained for you that you shall not be hungry therein nor be naked

And that you shall not be thirsty therein nor shall you feel hot

Then the Satan seduced him, saying, "O Adam! Shall I show you the tree of immortality and a kingdom that shall not decay

And they both succumbed to the satanic seduction, and then their sexuality got opened to them, and they both began to cover themselves with leaves of the garden. And Adam disobeyed his Lord and thus deviated from the right path

Allah said, "Down you both (Adam & Satan) go, together, in reciprocal enmity. And whenever Guidance comes to you from Me, then all those who follow My Guidance shall not go astray or be miserable

And he who turns away from My Reminder shall lead a hard life. and We will raiseh him on the Day of Resurrection, blind

He will say, "My Lord! Why have You raised me blind? And I was certainly one able to see

Allah will say, "Just as Our Verses/signs came to you but you neglected them, so shall you be neglected this day

And thus do We recompense him who is negligent and believes not in the Verses/signs of his Lord. And certainly the punishment in the Hereafter is severe and abiding

Do they not take a lesson from the fact that We had destroyed many a generation before theirs, in whose dwelling-places they now move about? Indeed, there are signs in this for those who are prudent

And had it not been that the Word had already gone forth from your Lord and an appointed term fixed, the same fate (of destruction in this world) that the earlier generations met with, would certainly be theirs (the generation addressed to in this Verse) too

Exercise patience then over what they say. And glorify your Lord with His praise before the rising of the sun and before its going down. And glorify Him, during the night and during parts of the day, so that you get peace of mind

And covet not that — which We have provided some couples among them with — of the glitter of this worldly life, whereby We try them. And what the Lord provides you with is better and lasting

And enjoin prayer on your followers, and be regular and steadfast thereon. We do not ask you for any provision; We give it to you. And in the end it is those who fear Allah, and abide by His instructions, that get all the good things to enjoy

And they say, "Why does he not bring to us a sign from his Lord?" Has not there come to them a clear exposition of what the earlier scriptures contain

And had We destroyed them with punishment before this, they would certainly have said, "O our Lord! Why did You not send us a Messenger? For, we should then have followed Your Verses/signs before we met disgrace and shame

Say, "Everyone is waiting, so you too wait! You will soon come to know who is following the right path and who is guided