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watchful eye.
'Your sister went to them and said: 'Shall I bring you one who will
nurse him?'
Thus We restored you to your mother, so that her mind might be set
at ease and that shemight not grieve.
'And when you killed a man We delivered you from affliction and
then proved you by other trials.
You stayed among the people of Madian for a number of years, and
at length came here as I ordained, I have chosen you for Myself. Go,
you and your brother, with My signs, and do not cease to remember
Me. Go both of you to Pharaoh, for he has transgressed all bounds.
Speak to himwith gentle words; hemay yet heed and fear (God).'
'Lord,' they said, 'We fear. lest he should hasten to do evil to us or
transgress all bounds.'
He replied: 'Have no fear. I shall be with you. I see all and hear all.
Go to him and say: “We are the messengers of your Lord. Let the
Children of Israel depart with us, and torment themnot.We have come
to you with a sign from your Lord: peace be on him who follows the
guidance. It is revealed to us that His scourge will fall on those who
deny and turn away.”
Pharaoh said; 'Andwho is your Lord. Musa? '
'Our Lord,' he replied, 'is HeWho gave all creatures their distinctive
formand then rightly guided them.'
'Howwas it, then, with the ancients?' asked Pharaoh.
He answered: 'My Lord alone has knowledge of that; it is recorded
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