20:1  Ta.Ha.

20:2  We have not sent down the Quran to you that you may be unhappy;

20:3  Except a reminder for he who fears,

20:4  A revelation from He who created the earth and the high heavens.

20:5  The Merciful is on the throne, settled.

20:6  For Him is what is in the heavens and what is in the earth and what is between both of them and what is beneath the ground.

20:7  And if you publicize the speech, then indeed, He knows the secret, and more hidden.

20:8  God, there is no god but He. For Him are the best names.

20:9  And has there come to you the story of Moses?

20:10  When he saw a fire, then he said to his family, 'Stay here, indeed I, I have perceived a fire, perhaps I may come to you from it with a firebrand or find guidance by the fire.'

20:11  Then when he came to it, he was called, 'O Moses!

20:12  Indeed I, I am your Lord, so take off your sandals; indeed, you are in the holy valley, Tuwa.

20:13  And I have chosen you. So listen to what is inspired.

20:14  Indeed I, I am God, there is no god except I. So serve Me, and be steadfast in the prayer for My remembrance.

20:15  Indeed, the Hour is coming, I almost conceal it, that every soul may be recompensed for what it strives.

20:16  So definitely do not let he who does not believe in it and has followed his lust hinder you from it, then you perish.

20:17  And what is that in your right hand, O Moses?'

20:18  He said, 'It is my staff; I lean on it, and I beat down leaves for my sheep with it, and for me concerning it there are other goals.'

20:19  He said, 'Throw it down, O Moses!'

20:20  So he threw it down, then behold, it was a snake moving quickly.

20:21  He said, 'Take it and do not fear; soon We will return it, its former position.

20:22  And draw together your hand to your wing, it will come forth white without evil, another sign.

20:23  That We may show you of Our great signs.

20:24  Go to Pharaoh, indeed he, he is immoderate.'

20:25  He said, 'My Lord! Expand my breast for me;

20:26  And make my affair easy for me;

20:27  And untie a knot from my tongue,

20:28  Let them understand my speech;

20:29  And appoint a minister for me from my family,

20:30  Aaron, my brother;

20:31  Strengthen my strength with him,

20:32  And make him a partner in my affair;

20:33  So that we may glorify You much

20:34  And that we may remember You much.

20:35  Indeed, You are seeing us.'

20:36  He said, 'Certainly, you have been given your request, O Moses!

20:37  And surely, certainly We bestowed favour on you another time,

20:38  When We inspired to your mother what is inspired,

20:39  Saying, "Cast him in the chest, then cast it in the sea, then let the sea throw it on the coast; an enemy to Me and an enemy to him will take him;" And I threw upon you love from Me, and that you may be made under My eye.

20:40  When your sister walked, then she said, "Shall I direct you to one who will be responsible for him?" Then We returned you to your mother, so that her eye may be cool and that she may not grieve. And you killed a soul, then We saved you from the grief. And We tried you, trying. Then you tarried years among the people of Midian; then you came, upon a decree, O Moses.

20:41  And I made you for Myself.

20:42  Go, you and your brother, with My signs, and do not be faint in My remembrance.

20:43  Go to Pharaoh; indeed he, he is immoderate.

20:44  Then say to him gentle speech, perhaps he, he may remember or fear.'

20:45  They said, 'Our Lord! Indeed we, we fear that he may trespass against us, or that he may be immoderate.'

20:46  He said, 'Do not fear; indeed, I am with both of you; I hear and I see.

20:47  So come to him, then say, "Indeed, we are two messengers of your Lord; so send the children of Israel with us; and do not torment them. Certainly, we came to you with a sign from your Lord. And peace be on he who followed the guidance.

20:48  Indeed we, certainly, it has been inspired to us that the punishment will be upon he who denies and turns away."'

20:49  He said, 'So who is your Lord, O Moses?'

20:50  He said, 'Our Lord is the one who gave everything its creation, then He guided.'

20:51  He said, 'So what is the condition of the former generations?'

20:52  He said, 'Its knowledge is with my Lord in a book; my Lord does not err and He does not forget.'

20:53  The one who made the earth a bed for you, and made ways in it for you to take; and He sent down water from the heaven, then We brought forth with it diverse kinds of plants.

20:54  Eat and graze your cattle; indeed, in that surely are signs for possessors of intelligence.

20:55  From it We created you and into it We will return you and from it We will bring you forth another time.

20:56  And surely, certainly We showed him Our signs, all of them, then he denied and he refused.

20:57  He said, 'You came to us to drive us out of our land with your magic, O Moses?

20:58  Then we will surely, definitely come to you with magic like it; so make an appointment between us and you; we will not break it, we nor you, an equal place.'

20:59  He said, 'Your appointment is on the day of adornment, and that the people may be gathered at forenoon.'

20:60  Then Pharaoh turned away, and brought together his plot, then he came.

20:61  Moses said to them, 'Woe to you! Do not forge a lie against God; then He will destroy you with a punishment; and certainly, disappointed is he who forged.'

20:62  Then they contended with one another their affair between them; and they concealed the secret discourse.

20:63  They said, 'Indeed these are surely two magicians, they desire to drive you out of your land with their magic and take away your exemplary way.

20:64  So put together your trick, then come in a row; and certainly, he has prospered today who is superior.'

20:65  They said, 'O Moses! Either that you throw or that we be the first who throw.'

20:66  He said, 'Nay, throw,' then behold, their ropes and their staves appeared to him, from their magic, that they were moving quickly.

20:67  Then Moses felt a fear in his soul.

20:68  We said, 'Do not fear, indeed you, you are the higher.

20:69  And throw what is in your right hand, it will swallow what they have made. They have only made a trick of a magician, and the magician will not prosper wherever he comes.'

20:70  Then the magicians were thrown down prostrating. They said, 'We have believed in the Lord of Aaron and Moses.'

20:71  He said, 'You believed him before that I give permission to you. Indeed, he is surely your great one, the one who taught you the magic. So I will surely, definitely cut off your hands and your feet from opposite, and I will surely, definitely crucify you on the trunks of palms; and you will surely, definitely know which of us is more severe in punishment and more lasting.'

20:72  They said, 'We will not prefer you over what came to us of the clear proofs and the one who originated us. So decide what you are deciding. You will only decide this worldly life.

20:73  Indeed we, we have believed in our Lord, that He may forgive us our sins, and what you compelled us of the magic; and God is better and more lasting.'

20:74  Indeed, he who comes to his Lord a sinner, then indeed, for him is Hell; he will not die in it, and he will not live.

20:75  And whoever comes to Him a believer, certainly, he did good works, then those, for them are the high degrees,

20:76  Gardens of Eden beneath which the rivers flow, to dwell forever in it; and that is the recompense of whoever purifies himself.

20:77  And surely, certainly, We inspired to Moses saying, 'Travel by night with My servants, then strike for them a dry way in the sea. Do not fear overtaking and do not fear.'

20:78  Then Pharaoh followed them with his armies, then there overwhelmed them of the sea what overwhelmed them.

20:79  And Pharaoh caused his people to go astray and he guided not.

20:80  O children of Israel! Certainly, We saved you from your enemy; and We made an appointment with you, the right side of the mount; and We sent down to you the manna and the quail.

20:81  'Eat of the good things of what We have provided you and do not be immoderate concerning it, then My anger will alight on you; and he on whom My anger alights, then certainly, he has fallen.

20:82  And indeed, I am surely very forgiving to he who repented and believed and did right, then is guided.

20:83  And what made you hasten from your people, O Moses?'

20:84  He said, 'They, those are upon my track, and I hastened to You, my Lord, that you may be pleased.'

20:85  He said, 'So indeed We, certainly, We have tried your people after you, and As-Samiri has caused them to go astray.'

20:86  So Moses returned to his people, angry, grieving. He said, 'O my people! Did your Lord not promise you a good promise? So was the covenant prolonged upon you, or you desired that anger of your Lord alight on you, so you broke my appointment?'

20:87  They said, 'We broke not your appointment by our control, but we, we were made to bear burdens of the adornment of the people, then we cast them, then thus threw As-Samiri.'

20:88  Then he brought forth for them a body, a calf, it had mooing, then they said, 'This is your god and the god of Moses, then he forgot.'

20:89  So do they not see that it does not return speech to them, and it does not control harm nor profit for them?

20:90  And surely, certainly Aaron said to them before, 'O my people! You are only being tried with it; and indeed, your Lord is the Merciful, so follow me and obey my command.'

20:91  They said, 'We will continue devoting ourselves to it until Moses returns to us.'

20:92  He said, 'O Aaron! What prevented you, when you saw them going astray,

20:93  That you did not follow me? So have you rebelled against my command?'

20:94  He said, 'O son of my mother! Do not seize by my beard, nor by my head. Indeed I, I feared that you would say, "You have made a distinction between the children of Israel, and you did not regard my speech."'

20:95  He said, 'So what is your affair, O Samiri?'

20:96  He said, 'I saw what they did not see, then I grasped a handful of the trace of the messenger, then I threw it; and thus my soul commended to me.'

20:97  He said, 'So go. Then indeed, for you in life that you say, "Touch not." And indeed, for you is an appointment, you will not break it. And look at your god, the one to which you continued devoting yourself, surely we will definitely burn it, then surely, we will definitely blow it away into the sea, blowing.

20:98  Your god is only God, the one who there is no god but He. He has included everything in knowledge.'

20:99  Thus We narrate to you of the information of what certainly has preceded. And certainly We gave you a reminder from Us.

20:100  Whoever has turned away from it, then indeed he, he will bear a burden on the Day of Resurrection,

20:101  To dwell forever in it; and evil a load for them on the Day of Resurrection.

20:102  On the day the horn will be blown in, and We gather the sinners on that day blue-eyed.

20:103  They will whisper to each other between them, 'You tarried not except ten.'

20:104  We know best what they will say when the most exemplary of them in way will say, 'You tarried not except a day.'

20:105  And they ask you about the mountains. So say, 'My Lord will blow them away, blowing.

20:106  Then He will leave it a level plain,

20:107  You will not see in it crookedness nor curvature.'

20:108  On that day they shall follow the caller, no crookedness to him; and the voices will be humbled for the Merciful, so you will not hear except a whisper.

20:109  On that day the intercession will not profit except for him whom the Merciful gives permission and He is pleased with him speaking.

20:110  He knows what is before them and what is behind them, while they do not encompass knowledge of Him.

20:111  And faces will be humbled for the Living, the Everlasting; and certainly, disappointed will be he who carries injustice.

20:112  And he who does of the good works and he is a believer, then he will not fear injustice nor wrong.

20:113  And thus We have sent it down, an Arabic Quran; and We have turned about in it the threat, perhaps they may fear or it may originate remembrance for them.

20:114  So exalted is God, the King, the Truth. And do not hasten with the Quran before that its inspiration is completed to you; and say, 'My Lord! Give me more knowledge.'

20:115  And surely, certainly We covenanted with Adam before, then he forgot, and We did not find determination in him.

20:116  And when We said to the angels, 'Prostrate to Adam,' Then they prostrated, except Iblis, he refused.

20:117  Then We said, 'O Adam! Indeed, this is an enemy to you and to your wife; So definitely do not let him drive both of you forth from the garden, then you will be unhappy.

20:118  Indeed, for you that you not be hungry in it nor be naked.

20:119  And that you, you will not be thirsty in it nor will you be struck by the rays of the sun.'

20:120  Then the devil whispered to him, he said, 'O Adam! Shall I direct you to the tree of immortality, and a kingdom that shall not wane?'

20:121  Then they both ate from it, then their shame became apparent to them; and they began to stitch on them of the leaves of the garden; and Adam rebelled against his Lord, then he erred.

20:122  Then his Lord chose him, then He relented on him, and He guided.

20:123  He said, 'Go down from it all together, some of you an enemy to some. Then if guidance definitely comes to you from Me, then whoever follows My guidance, then he will not go astray and he will not be unhappy.

20:124  And whoever turns away from My reminder, then indeed, for him is a straitened livelihood; and We will gather him on the Day of Resurrection blind.'

20:125  He will say, 'My Lord! Why have you gathered me blind while certainly, I was seeing?'

20:126  He will say, 'Thus Our signs came to you, then you forgot them; and thus today you have been forgotten.'

20:127  And thus We recompense he who was extravagant and did not believe in the signs of his Lord; and surely the punishment of the hereafter is more severe and more lasting.

20:128  So did it not guide them how many of the generations We destroyed before them? They walk in their dwellings; indeed, in that surely are signs for possessors of intelligence.

20:129  And if not for a word which preceded from your Lord and a named term, surely it would have been an obligation.

20:130  So be patient over what they say, and glorify with the praise of your Lord before the rising of the sun, and before its setting, and from the period of the night, then glorify, and at the ends of the day; perhaps you may please.

20:131  And definitely do not extend your two eyes to what We have provided pairs of them with, the flower of the worldly life, that We may try them in it. And the provision of your Lord is better and more lasting.

20:132  And bid your people the prayer, and be patient upon it; We do not ask you for provision. We, We provide for you and the end is for piety.

20:133  And they said, 'If only he comes to us with a sign from his Lord.’ And did clear proof of what is in the former books not come to them?

20:134  And if that We, We had destroyed them with a punishment before him, surely they would have said, 'Our Lord! If only You had sent a messenger to us, then we would have followed Your signs before that we were humiliated and disgraced.'

20:135  Say, 'Each is waiting; so wait. Then soon you will know who are the fellows of the level way, and who is guided.'