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Scriptures, and do not be the first to deny them. Do not sell My
revelations for a paltry price and guard yourselves from me. Do not
confound truth with falsehood, nor knowingly hide the truth. Attend to
your prayers, pay the alms-tax, and bow down with those who bow
down. Would you enjoin righteousness on others and forget it
yourselves?Yet you read the Scriptures. Have you no sense?
Fortify yourselves with patience and prayer. This may indeed be an
exacting discipline, but not to the devout, who know that they will
meet their Lord and that toHim theywill return.
Children of Israel, remember the blessing I have bestowed on you,
and that I have exalted you above the nations. Guard yourselves
against the day when no soul can avail another in the least: when
neither intercession nor ransom shall be accepted from it, nor will they
be helped.
(Remember) howWe delivered you from Pharaoh's people who had
oppressed you cruelly, slaying your sons and sparing your women.
Surely that was a great trial from your Lord. We parted the sea for you
and, taking you to safety, drowned Pharaoh's men before your very
eyes.We treated withMusa for forty nights, but in his absence you took
up the calf and worshipped it, thus committing evil. Yet after that We
pardoned you, so that youmight give thanks.
And (recall) when We gave Musa the Scriptures and knowledge of
right and wrong, so that you might be rightly guided; and when Musa
said to his people: 'You have wronged yourselves, my people, in
worshipping the calf. Turn in repentance to your Creator and slay the
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