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¹⁶ How his Lord called him in the holy vale of Ṭuwa,
¹⁷ (Saying:) Go thou unto Pharaoh—Lo! he hath rebelled—
¹⁸ And say (unto him): Hast thou (will) to grow (in grace)?
¹⁹ Then I will guide thee to thy Lord and thou shalt fear (Him).
²⁰ And he showed him the tremendous token.
²¹ But he denied and disobeyed,
²² Then turned he away in haste,
²³ Then gathered he and summoned
²⁴ And proclaimed: "I (Pharaoh) am your Lord the Highest."
²⁵ So Allah seized him (and made him) an example for the after (life) and for the former.
²⁶ Lo! herein is indeed a lesson for him who feareth.
²⁷ Are ye the harder to create, or is the heaven that He built?
²⁸ He raised the height thereof and ordered it;
²⁹ And He made dark the night thereof, and He brought forth the morn thereof.
³⁰ And after that He spread the earth,
³¹ And produced therefrom the water thereof and the pasture thereof,
³² And He made fast the hills,
³³ A provision for you and for your cattle.
³⁴ But when the great disaster cometh,
³⁵ The day when man will call to mind his (whole) endeavour,
³⁶ And hell will stand forth visible to him who seeth,
³⁷ Then, as for him who rebelled
³⁸ And chose the life of the world,
³⁹ Lo! hell will be his home.