20. Taa-Haa سُورَةُ طه

Saheeh InternationalTa, Ha

Saheeh InternationalWe have not sent down to you the Qur'an that you be distressed

Saheeh InternationalBut only as a reminder for those who fear [Allah]

Saheeh InternationalA revelation from He who created the earth and highest heavens

Saheeh InternationalThe Most Merciful [who is] above the Throne established

Saheeh InternationalTo Him belongs what is in the heavens and what is on the earth and what is between them and what is under the soil

Saheeh InternationalAnd if you speak aloud - then indeed, He knows the secret and what is [even] more hidden

Saheeh InternationalAllah - there is no deity except Him. To Him belong the best names

Saheeh InternationalAnd has the story of Moses reached you

Saheeh InternationalWhen he saw a fire and said to his family, "Stay here; indeed, I have perceived a fire; perhaps I can bring you a torch or find at the fire some guidance

Saheeh InternationalAnd when he came to it, he was called, "O Moses

Saheeh InternationalIndeed, I am your Lord, so remove your sandals. Indeed, you are in the sacred valley of Tuwa

Saheeh InternationalAnd I have chosen you, so listen to what is revealed [to you]

Saheeh InternationalIndeed, I am Allah. There is no deity except Me, so worship Me and establish prayer for My remembrance

Saheeh InternationalIndeed, the Hour is coming - I almost conceal it - so that every soul may be recompensed according to that for which it strives

Saheeh InternationalSo do not let one avert you from it who does not believe in it and follows his desire, for you [then] would perish

Saheeh InternationalAnd what is that in your right hand, O Moses

Saheeh InternationalHe said, "It is my staff; I lean upon it, and I bring down leaves for my sheep and I have therein other uses

Saheeh International[Allah] said, "Throw it down, O Moses

Saheeh InternationalSo he threw it down, and thereupon it was a snake, moving swiftly

Saheeh International[Allah] said, "Seize it and fear not; We will return it to its former condition

Saheeh InternationalAnd draw in your hand to your side; it will come out white without disease - another sign

Saheeh InternationalThat We may show you [some] of Our greater signs

Saheeh InternationalGo to Pharaoh. Indeed, he has transgressed

Saheeh International[Moses] said, "My Lord, expand for me my breast [with assurance]

Saheeh InternationalAnd ease for me my task

Saheeh InternationalAnd untie the knot from my tongue

Saheeh InternationalThat they may understand my speech

Saheeh InternationalAnd appoint for me a minister from my family

Saheeh InternationalAaron, my brother

Saheeh InternationalIncrease through him my strength

Saheeh InternationalAnd let him share my task

Saheeh InternationalThat we may exalt You much

Saheeh InternationalAnd remember You much

Saheeh InternationalIndeed, You are of us ever Seeing

Saheeh International[Allah] said, "You have been granted your request, O Moses

Saheeh InternationalAnd We had already conferred favor upon you another time

Saheeh InternationalWhen We inspired to your mother what We inspired

Saheeh International[Saying], 'Cast him into the chest and cast it into the river, and the river will throw it onto the bank; there will take him an enemy to Me and an enemy to him.' And I bestowed upon you love from Me that you would be brought up under My eye

Saheeh International[And We favored you] when your sister went and said, 'Shall I direct you to someone who will be responsible for him?' So We restored you to your mother that she might be content and not grieve. And you killed someone, but We saved you from retaliation and tried you with a [severe] trial. And you remained [some] years among the people of Madyan. Then you came [here] at the decreed time, O Moses

Saheeh InternationalAnd I produced you for Myself

Saheeh InternationalGo, you and your brother, with My signs and do not slacken in My remembrance

Saheeh InternationalGo, both of you, to Pharaoh. Indeed, he has transgressed

Saheeh InternationalAnd speak to him with gentle speech that perhaps he may be reminded or fear [Allah]

Saheeh InternationalThey said, "Our Lord, indeed we are afraid that he will hasten [punishment] against us or that he will transgress

Saheeh International[Allah] said, "Fear not. Indeed, I am with you both; I hear and I see

Saheeh InternationalSo go to him and say, 'Indeed, we are messengers of your Lord, so send with us the Children of Israel and do not torment them. We have come to you with a sign from your Lord. And peace will be upon he who follows the guidance

Saheeh InternationalIndeed, it has been revealed to us that the punishment will be upon whoever denies and turns away

Saheeh International[Pharaoh] said, "So who is the Lord of you two, O Moses

Saheeh InternationalHe said, "Our Lord is He who gave each thing its form and then guided [it]

Saheeh International[Pharaoh] said, "Then what is the case of the former generations

Saheeh International[Moses] said, "The knowledge thereof is with my Lord in a record. My Lord neither errs nor forgets

Saheeh International[It is He] who has made for you the earth as a bed [spread out] and inserted therein for you roadways and sent down from the sky, rain and produced thereby categories of various plants

Saheeh InternationalEat [therefrom] and pasture your livestock. Indeed, in that are signs for those of intelligence

Saheeh InternationalFrom the earth We created you, and into it We will return you, and from it We will extract you another time

Saheeh InternationalAnd We certainly showed Pharaoh Our signs - all of them - but he denied and refused

Saheeh InternationalHe said, "Have you come to us to drive us out of our land with your magic, O Moses

Saheeh InternationalThen we will surely bring you magic like it, so make between us and you an appointment, which we will not fail to keep and neither will you, in a place assigned

Saheeh International[Moses] said, "Your appointment is on the day of the festival when the people assemble at mid-morning

Saheeh InternationalSo Pharaoh went away, put together his plan, and then came [to Moses]

Saheeh InternationalMoses said to the magicians summoned by Pharaoh, "Woe to you! Do not invent a lie against Allah or He will exterminate you with a punishment; and he has failed who invents [such falsehood]

Saheeh InternationalSo they disputed over their affair among themselves and concealed their private conversation

Saheeh InternationalThey said, "Indeed, these are two magicians who want to drive you out of your land with their magic and do away with your most exemplary way

Saheeh InternationalSo resolve upon your plan and then come [forward] in line. And he has succeeded today who overcomes

Saheeh InternationalThey said, "O Moses, either you throw or we will be the first to throw

Saheeh InternationalHe said, "Rather, you throw." And suddenly their ropes and staffs seemed to him from their magic that they were moving [like snakes]

Saheeh InternationalAnd he sensed within himself apprehension, did Moses

Saheeh InternationalAllah said, "Fear not. Indeed, it is you who are superior

Saheeh InternationalAnd throw what is in your right hand; it will swallow up what they have crafted. What they have crafted is but the trick of a magician, and the magician will not succeed wherever he is

Saheeh InternationalSo the magicians fell down in prostration. They said, "We have believed in the Lord of Aaron and Moses

Saheeh International[Pharaoh] said, "You believed him before I gave you permission. Indeed, he is your leader who has taught you magic. So I will surely cut off your hands and your feet on opposite sides, and I will crucify you on the trunks of palm trees, and you will surely know which of us is more severe in [giving] punishment and more enduring

Saheeh InternationalThey said, "Never will we prefer you over what has come to us of clear proofs and [over] He who created us. So decree whatever you are to decree. You can only decree for this worldly life

Saheeh InternationalIndeed, we have believed in our Lord that He may forgive us our sins and what you compelled us [to do] of magic. And Allah is better and more enduring

Saheeh InternationalIndeed, whoever comes to his Lord as a criminal - indeed, for him is Hell; he will neither die therein nor live

Saheeh InternationalBut whoever comes to Him as a believer having done righteous deeds - for those will be the highest degrees [in position]

Saheeh InternationalGardens of perpetual residence beneath which rivers flow, wherein they abide eternally. And that is the reward of one who purifies himself

Saheeh InternationalAnd We had inspired to Moses, "Travel by night with My servants and strike for them a dry path through the sea; you will not fear being overtaken [by Pharaoh] nor be afraid [of drowning]

Saheeh InternationalSo Pharaoh pursued them with his soldiers, and there covered them from the sea that which covered them

Saheeh InternationalAnd Pharaoh led his people astray and did not guide [them]

Saheeh InternationalO Children of Israel, We delivered you from your enemy, and We made an appointment with you at the right side of the mount, and We sent down to you manna and quails

Saheeh International[Saying], "Eat from the good things with which We have provided you and do not transgress [or oppress others] therein, lest My anger should descend upon you. And he upon whom My anger descends has certainly fallen

Saheeh InternationalBut indeed, I am the Perpetual Forgiver of whoever repents and believes and does righteousness and then continues in guidance

Saheeh International[Allah] said, "And what made you hasten from your people, O Moses

Saheeh InternationalHe said, "They are close upon my tracks, and I hastened to You, my Lord, that You be pleased

Saheeh International[Allah] said, "But indeed, We have tried your people after you [departed], and the Samiri has led them astray

Saheeh InternationalSo Moses returned to his people, angry and grieved. He said, "O my people, did your Lord not make you a good promise? Then, was the time [of its fulfillment] too long for you, or did you wish that wrath from your Lord descend upon you, so you broke your promise [of obedience] to me

Saheeh InternationalThey said, "We did not break our promise to you by our will, but we were made to carry burdens from the ornaments of the people [of Pharaoh], so we threw them [into the fire], and thus did the Samiri throw

Saheeh InternationalAnd he extracted for them [the statue of] a calf which had a lowing sound, and they said, "This is your god and the god of Moses, but he forgot

Saheeh InternationalDid they not see that it could not return to them any speech and that it did not possess for them any harm or benefit

Saheeh InternationalAnd Aaron had already told them before [the return of Moses], "O my people, you are only being tested by it, and indeed, your Lord is the Most Merciful, so follow me and obey my order

Saheeh InternationalThey said, "We will never cease being devoted to the calf until Moses returns to us

Saheeh International[Moses] said, "O Aaron, what prevented you, when you saw them going astray

Saheeh InternationalFrom following me? Then have you disobeyed my order

Saheeh International[Aaron] said, "O son of my mother, do not seize [me] by my beard or by my head. Indeed, I feared that you would say, 'You caused division among the Children of Israel, and you did not observe [or await] my word

Saheeh International[Moses] said, "And what is your case, O Samiri

Saheeh InternationalHe said, "I saw what they did not see, so I took a handful [of dust] from the track of the messenger and threw it, and thus did my soul entice me

Saheeh International[Moses] said, "Then go. And indeed, it is [decreed] for you in [this] life to say, 'No contact.' And indeed, you have an appointment [in the Hereafter] you will not fail to keep. And look at your 'god' to which you remained devoted. We will surely burn it and blow it into the sea with a blast

Saheeh InternationalYour god is only Allah, except for whom there is no deity. He has encompassed all things in knowledge

Saheeh InternationalThus, [O Muhammad], We relate to you from the news of what has preceded. And We have certainly given you from Us the Qur'an

Saheeh InternationalWhoever turns away from it - then indeed, he will bear on the Day of Resurrection a burden

Saheeh International[Abiding] eternally therein, and evil it is for them on the Day of Resurrection as a load

Saheeh InternationalThe Day the Horn will be blown. And We will gather the criminals, that Day, blue-eyed

Saheeh InternationalThey will murmur among themselves, "You remained not but ten [days in the world]

Saheeh InternationalWe are most knowing of what they say when the best of them in manner will say, "You remained not but one day

Saheeh InternationalAnd they ask you about the mountains, so say, "My Lord will blow them away with a blast

Saheeh InternationalAnd He will leave the earth a level plain

Saheeh InternationalYou will not see therein a depression or an elevation

Saheeh InternationalThat Day, everyone will follow [the call of] the Caller [with] no deviation therefrom, and [all] voices will be stilled before the Most Merciful, so you will not hear except a whisper [of footsteps]

Saheeh InternationalThat Day, no intercession will benefit except [that of] one to whom the Most Merciful has given permission and has accepted his word

Saheeh InternationalAllah knows what is [presently] before them and what will be after them, but they do not encompass it in knowledge

Saheeh InternationalAnd [all] faces will be humbled before the Ever-Living, the Sustainer of existence. And he will have failed who carries injustice

Saheeh InternationalBut he who does of righteous deeds while he is a believer - he will neither fear injustice nor deprivation

Saheeh InternationalAnd thus We have sent it down as an Arabic Qur'an and have diversified therein the warnings that perhaps they will avoid [sin] or it would cause them remembrance

Saheeh InternationalSo high [above all] is Allah, the Sovereign, the Truth. And, [O Muhammad], do not hasten with [recitation of] the Qur'an before its revelation is completed to you, and say, "My Lord, increase me in knowledge

Saheeh InternationalAnd We had already taken a promise from Adam before, but he forgot; and We found not in him determination

Saheeh InternationalAnd [mention] when We said to the angels, "Prostrate to Adam," and they prostrated, except Iblees; he refused

Saheeh InternationalSo We said, "O Adam, indeed this is an enemy to you and to your wife. Then let him not remove you from Paradise so you would suffer

Saheeh InternationalIndeed, it is [promised] for you not to be hungry therein or be unclothed

Saheeh InternationalAnd indeed, you will not be thirsty therein or be hot from the sun

Saheeh InternationalThen Satan whispered to him; he said, "O Adam, shall I direct you to the tree of eternity and possession that will not deteriorate

Saheeh InternationalAnd Adam and his wife ate of it, and their private parts became apparent to them, and they began to fasten over themselves from the leaves of Paradise. And Adam disobeyed his Lord and erred

Saheeh InternationalThen his Lord chose him and turned to him in forgiveness and guided [him]

Saheeh International[Allah] said, "Descend from Paradise - all, [your descendants] being enemies to one another. And if there should come to you guidance from Me - then whoever follows My guidance will neither go astray [in the world] nor suffer [in the Hereafter]

Saheeh InternationalAnd whoever turns away from My remembrance - indeed, he will have a depressed life, and We will gather him on the Day of Resurrection blind

Saheeh InternationalHe will say, "My Lord, why have you raised me blind while I was [once] seeing

Saheeh International[Allah] will say, "Thus did Our signs come to you, and you forgot them; and thus will you this Day be forgotten

Saheeh InternationalAnd thus do We recompense he who transgressed and did not believe in the signs of his Lord. And the punishment of the Hereafter is more severe and more enduring

Saheeh InternationalThen, has it not become clear to them how many generations We destroyed before them as they walk among their dwellings? Indeed in that are signs for those of intelligence

Saheeh InternationalAnd if not for a word that preceded from your Lord, punishment would have been an obligation [due immediately], and [if not for] a specified term [decreed]

Saheeh InternationalSo be patient over what they say and exalt [Allah] with praise of your Lord before the rising of the sun and before its setting; and during periods of the night [exalt Him] and at the ends of the day, that you may be satisfied

Saheeh InternationalAnd do not extend your eyes toward that by which We have given enjoyment to [some] categories of them, [its being but] the splendor of worldly life by which We test them. And the provision of your Lord is better and more enduring

Saheeh InternationalAnd enjoin prayer upon your family [and people] and be steadfast therein. We ask you not for provision; We provide for you, and the [best] outcome is for [those of] righteousness

Saheeh InternationalAnd they say, "Why does he not bring us a sign from his Lord?" Has there not come to them evidence of what was in the former scriptures

Saheeh InternationalAnd if We had destroyed them with a punishment before him, they would have said, "Our Lord, why did You not send to us a messenger so we could have followed Your verses before we were humiliated and disgraced

Saheeh InternationalSay, "Each [of us] is waiting; so wait. For you will know who are the companions of the sound path and who is guided