The Poets

In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.

[26:1]

Ta. Sin. Mim.

[26:2]

These are revelations of the Scripture that maketh plain.

[26:3]

It may be that thou tormentest thyself (O Muhammad) because they believe not.

[26:4]

If We will, We can send down on them from the sky a portent so that their necks would remain bowed before it.

[26:5]

Never cometh there unto them a fresh reminder from the Beneficent One, but they turn away from it.

[26:6]

Now they have denied (the Truth); but there will come unto them tidings of that whereat they used to scoff.

[26:7]

Have they not seen the earth, how much of every fruitful kind We make to grow therein ?

[26:8]

Lo! herein is indeed a portent; yet most of them are not believers.

[26:9]

And lo! thy Lord! He is indeed the Mighty, the Merciful.

[26:10]

And when thy Lord called Moses, saying: Go unto the wrongdoing folk,

[26:11]

The folk of Pharaoh. Will they not ward off (evil) ?

[26:12]

He said: My Lord! Lo! I fear that they will deny me,

[26:13]

And I shall be embarrassed, and my tongue will not speak plainly, therefor send for Aaron (to help me).

[26:14]

And they have a crime against me, so I fear that they will kill me.

[26:15]

He said: Nay, verily. So go ye twain with Our tokens. Lo! We shall be with you, Hearing.

[26:16]

And come together unto Pharaoh and say: Lo! we bear a message of the Lord of the Worlds,

[26:17]

(Saying): Let the Children of Israel go with us.

[26:18]

(Pharaoh) said (unto Moses): Did we not rear thee among us as a child ? And thou didst dwell many years of thy life among us,

[26:19]

And thou didst that thy deed which thou didst, and thou wast one of the ingrates.