Writings
Qur'an, Sura 40:2
"40.26": And Firon said: Let me alone that I may slay Musa and let him call upon his Lord; surely I fear that he will change your religion or that he will make mischief to appear in the land.
"40.27": And Musa said: Surely I take refuge with my Lord and -- your Lord from every proud one who does not believe in the day of reckoning.
"40.28": And a believing man of Firon's people who hid his faith said: What! will you slay a man because he says: My Lord is Allah, and indeed he has brought to you clear arguments from your Lord? And if he be a liar, on him will be his lie, and if he be truthful, there will befall you some of that which he threatens you (with); surely Allah does not guide him who is extravagant, a liar:
"40.29": O my people! yours is the kingdom this day, being masters in the land, but who will help us against the punishment of Allah if it come to us? Firon said: I do not show you aught but that which I see (myself), and I do not make you follow any but the right way.
"40.30": And he who believed said: O my people! surely I fear for you the like of what befell the parties:
"40.31": The like of what befell the people of Nuh and Ad and Samood and those after them, and Allah does not desire injustice for (His) servants;
"40.32": And, O my people! I fear for you the day of calling out,
"40.33": The day on which you will turn back retreating; there shall be no savior for you from Allah, and whomsoever Allah causes to err, there is no guide for him:
"40.34": And certainly Yusuf came to you before with clear arguments, but you ever remained in doubt as to what he brought; until when he died, you said: Allah will never raise an apostle after him. Thus does Allah cause him to err who is extravagant, a doubter
"40.35": Those who dispute concerning the communications of Allah without any authority that He has given them; greatly hated is it by Allah and by-those who believe. Thus does Allah set a seal over the heart of every proud, haughty one.
"40.36": And Firon said: O Haman! build for me a tower that I may attain the means of access,
"40.37": The means of access to the heavens, then reach the God of Musa, and I surely think him to be a liar. And thus the evil of his deed was made fairseeming to Firon, and he was turned away from the way; and the struggle of Firon was not (to end) in aught but destruction.
"40.38": And he who believed said: O my people! follow me, I will guide you to the right course;
"40.39": O my people! this life of the world is only a (passing) enjoyment, and surely the hereafter is the abode to settle;
"40.40": Whoever does an evil, he shall not be recompensed (with aught) but the like of it, and whoever does good, whether male or female, and he is a believer, these shall enter the garden, in which they shall be given sustenance without measure.
"40.41": And, O my people! how is it that I call you to salvation and you call me to the fire?
"40.42": You call on me that I should disbelieve in Allah and associate with Him that of which I have no knowledge, and I call you to the Mighty, the most Forgiving;
"40.43": No doubt that what you call me to has no title to be called to in this world, nor in the hereafter, and that our turning back is to Allah, and that the extravagant are the inmates of the fire;
"40.44": So you shall remember what I say to you, and I entrust my affair to Allah, Surely Allah sees the servants.
"40.45": So Allah protected him from the evil (consequences) of what they planned, and the most evil punishment overtook Firon's people:
