:1. Ta. Sin. Mim.
:2. These are verses of the Book that makes (things) clear.
:3. It may be thou frettest thy soul with grief, that they do not become Believers.
:4. If (such) were Our Will, We could send down to them from the sky a Sign, to which they would bend their necks in humility.
:5. But there comes not to them a newly-revealed Message from (Allah) Most Gracious, but they turn away therefrom.
:6. They have indeed rejected (the Message): so they will know soon (enough) the truth of what they mocked at!
:7. Do they not look at the earth,- how many noble things of all kinds We have produced therein?
:8. Verily, in this is a Sign: but most of them do not believe.
:9. And verily, thy Lord is He, the Exalted in Might, Most Merciful.
:10. Behold, thy Lord called Moses: "Go to the people of iniquity,-
:11. "The people of the Pharaoh: will they not fear Allah?"
:12. He said: "O my Lord! I do fear that they will charge me with falsehood:
:13. "My breast will be straitened. And my speech may not go (smoothly): so send unto Aaron.
:14. "And (further), they have a charge of crime against me; and I fear they may slay me."
:15. Allah said: "By no means! proceed then, both of you, with Our Signs; We are with you, and will listen (to your call).
:16. "So go forth, both of you, to Pharaoh, and say: 'We have been sent by the Lord and Cherisher of the worlds;
:17. "'Send thou with us the Children of Israel.'"
:18. (Pharaoh) said: "Did we not cherish thee as a child among us, and didst thou not stay in our midst many years of thy life?
:19. "And thou didst a deed of thine which (thou knowest) thou didst, and thou art an ungrateful (wretch)!"
