Verses about Prophets Moses and Aaron -Moussa and Haroun

And Moses said, ‘ O Pharaoh, I am a messenger from the Lord of the worlds

[Who is] obligated not to say about Allah except the truth. I have come to you with clear evidence from your Lord, so send with me the Children of Israel.’

[Pharaoh] said, ‘ If you have come with a sign, then bring it forth, if you should be of the truthful.’

So Moses threw his staff, and suddenly it was a serpent, manifest.

And he drew out his hand; thereupon it was white [with radiance] for the observers.

Said the eminent among the people of Pharaoh, ‘ Indeed, this is a learned magician

Who wants to expel you from your land [through magic], so what do you instruct?’

They said, ‘ Postpone [the matter of] him and his brother and send among the cities gatherers

Who will bring you every learned magician.’

And the magicians came to Pharaoh. They said, ‘ Indeed for us is a reward if we are the predominant.’

He said, ‘ Yes, and, [moreover], you will be among those made near [to me].’

They said, ‘ O Moses, either you throw [your staff], or we will be the ones to throw [first].’

He said, ‘ Throw,’ and when they threw, they bewitched the eyes of the people and struck terror into them, and they presented a great [feat of] magic.

And We inspired to Moses, ‘ Throw your staff,’ and at once it devoured what they were falsifying.

So the truth was established, and abolished was what they were doing.

And Pharaoh and his people were overcome right there and became debased.

And the magicians fell down in prostration [to Allah].

They said, ‘ We have believed in the Lord of the worlds,

The Lord of Moses and Aaron.’

Said Pharaoh, ‘ You believed in him before I gave you permission. Indeed, this is a conspiracy which you conspired in the city to expel therefrom its people. But you are going to know.

I will surely cut off your hands and your feet on opposite sides; then I will surely crucify you all.’

They said, ‘ Indeed, to our Lord we will return.

And you do not resent us except because we believed in the signs of our Lord when they came to us. Our Lord, pour upon us patience and let us die as Muslims [in submission to You].’

And the eminent among the people of Pharaoh said,’ Will you leave Moses and his people to cause corruption in the land and abandon you and your gods?’ [Pharaoh] said, ‘ We will kill their sons and keep their women alive; and indeed, we are subjugators over them.’

Said Moses to his people, ‘ Seek help through Allah and be patient. Indeed, the earth belongs to Allah. He causes to inherit it whom He wills of His servants. And the [best] outcome is for the righteous.’

They said, ‘ We have been harmed before you came to us and after you have come to us.’ He said, ‘ Perhaps your Lord will destroy your enemy and grant you succession in the land and see how you will do.’

And We certainly seized the people of Pharaoh with years of famine and a deficiency in fruits that perhaps they would be reminded.

But when good came to them, they said, ‘ This is ours [by right].’ And if a bad [condition] struck them, they saw an evil omen in Moses and those with him. Unquestionably, their fortune is with Allah, but most of them do not know.

And they said, ‘ No matter what sign you bring us with which to bewitch us, we will not be believers in you.’

So We sent upon them the flood and locusts and lice and frogs and blood as distinct signs, but they were arrogant and were a criminal people.

And when the punishment descended upon them, they said, ‘ O Moses, invoke for us your Lord by what He has promised you. If you [can] remove the punishment from us, we will surely believe you, and we will send with you the Children of Israel.’

But when We removed the punishment from them until a term which they were to reach, then at once they broke their word.

So We took retribution from them, and We drowned them in the sea because they denied Our signs and were heedless of them.

And We caused the people who had been oppressed to inherit the eastern regions of the land and the western ones, which We had blessed. And the good word of your Lord was fulfilled for the Children of Israel because of what they had patiently endured. And We destroyed [all] that Pharaoh and his people were producing and what they had been building.

And We took the Children of Israel across the sea; then they came upon a people intent in devotion to [some] idols of theirs. They said, ‘ O Moses, make for us a god just as they have gods.’ He said, ‘ Indeed, you are a people behaving ignorantly.

Indeed, those [worshippers] - destroyed is that in which they are [engaged], and worthless is whatever they were doing.’

He said, ‘ Is it other than Allah I should desire for you as a god while He has preferred you over the worlds?’

And [recall, O Children of Israel], when We saved you from the people of Pharaoh, [who were] afflicting you with the worst torment - killing your sons and keeping your women alive. And in that was a great trial from your Lord.

And We made an appointment with Moses for thirty nights and perfected them by [the addition of] ten; so the term of his Lord was completed as forty nights. And Moses said to his brother Aaron, ‘ Take my place among my people, do right [by them], and do not follow the way of the corrupters.’

And when Moses arrived at Our appointed time and his Lord spoke to him, he said, ‘ My Lord, show me [Yourself] that I may look at You.’ [Allah] said, ‘ You will not see Me, but look at the mountain; if it should remain in place, then you will see Me.’ But when his Lord appeared to the mountain, He rendered it level, and Moses fell unconscious. And when he awoke, he said, ‘ Exalted are You! I have repented to You, and I am the first of the believers.’

[Allah] said, ‘ O Moses, I have chosen you over the people with My messages and My words [to you]. So take what I have given you and be among the grateful.’

And We wrote for him on the tablets [something] of all things - instruction and explanation for all things, [saying], ‘ Take them with determination and order your people to take the best of it. I will show you the home of the defiantly disobedient.’

I will turn away from My signs those who are arrogant upon the earth without right; and if they should see every sign, they will not believe in it. And if they see the way of consciousness, they will not adopt it as a way; but if they see the way of error, they will adopt it as a way. That is because they have denied Our signs and they were heedless of them.

Those who denied Our signs and the meeting of the Hereafter - their deeds have become worthless. Are they recompensed except for what they used to do?

And the people of Moses made, after [his departure], from their ornaments a calf - an image having a lowing sound. Did they not see that it could neither speak to them nor guide them to a way? They took it [for worship], and they were wrongdoers.

And when regret overcame them and they saw that they had gone astray, they said, ‘ If our Lord does not have mercy upon us and forgive us, we will surely be among the losers.’

And when Moses returned to his people, angry and grieved, he said, ‘ How wretched is that by which you have replaced me after [my departure]. Were you impatient over the matter of your Lord?’ And he threw down the tablets and seized his brother by [the hair of] his head, pulling him toward him. [Aaron] said, ‘ O son of my mother, indeed the people oppressed me and were about to kill me, so let not the enemies rejoice over me and do not place me among the wrongdoing people.’

[Moses] said, ‘ My Lord, forgive me and my brother and admit us into Your mercy, for You are the most merciful of the merciful.’

Indeed, those who took the calf [for worship] will obtain anger from their Lord and humiliation in the life of this world, and thus do We recompense the inventors [of falsehood].

But those who committed misdeeds and then repented after them and believed - indeed your Lord, thereafter, is Forgiving and Merciful.

And when the anger subsided in Moses, he took up the tablets; and in their inscription was guidance and mercy for those who are fearful of their Lord.

And Moses chose from his people seventy men for Our appointment. And when the earthquake seized them, he said, ‘ My Lord, if You had willed, You could have destroyed them before and me [as well]. Would You destroy us for what the foolish among us have done? This is not but Your trial by which You send astray whom You will and guide whom You will. You are our Protector, so forgive us and have mercy upon us; and You are the best of forgivers.

And decree for us in this world [that which is] good and [also] in the Hereafter; indeed, we have turned back to You.’ [Allah] said, ‘ My punishment - I afflict with it whom I will, but My mercy encompasses all things.’ So I will decree it [especially] for those who fear Me and give zakah and those who believe in Our verses -

Those who follow the Messenger, the unlettered prophet, whom they find written in what they have of the Torah and the Gospel, who enjoins upon them what is right and forbids them what is wrong and makes lawful for them the good things and prohibits for them the evil and relieves them of their burden and the shackles which were upon them. So they who have believed in him, honored him, supported him and followed the light which was sent down with him - it is those who will be the successful.

Say, [O Muhammad], ‘ O mankind, indeed I am the Messenger of Allah to you all, [from Him] to whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth. There is no deity except Him; He gives life and causes death.’ So believe in Allah and His Messenger, the unlettered prophet, who believes in Allah and His words, and follow him that you may be guided.

And among the people of Moses is a community which guides by truth and by it establishes justice.

And We divided them into twelve descendant tribes [as distinct] nations. And We inspired to Moses when his people implored him for water, ‘ Strike with your staff the stone,’ and there gushed forth from it twelve springs. Every people knew its watering place. And We shaded them with clouds and sent down upon them manna and quails, [saying], ‘ Eat from the good things with which We have provided you.’ And they wronged Us not, but they were [only] wronging themselves.

And [mention, O Muhammad], when it was said to them, ‘ Dwell in this city and eat from it wherever you will and say, ‘Relieve us of our burdens,’ and enter the gate bowing humbly; We will [then] forgive you your sins. We will increase the doers of good [in goodness and reward].’

But those who wronged among them changed [the words] to a statement other than that which had been said to them. So We sent upon them a punishment from the sky for the wrong that they were doing.

And We called him from the side of the mount at [his] right and brought him near, confiding [to him].

And We gave him out of Our mercy his brother Aaron as a prophet.

When he saw a fire and said to his family, ‘ Stay here; indeed, I have perceived a fire; perhaps I can bring you a torch or find at the fire some guidance.’

[Moses] said, ‘ You have already known that none has sent down these [signs] except the Lord of the heavens and the earth as evidence, and indeed I think, O Pharaoh, that you are destroyed.’

So he intended to drive them from the land, but We drowned him and those with him all together.

And We said after Pharaoh to the Children of Israel, ‘ Dwell in the land, and when there comes the promise of the Hereafter, We will bring you forth in [one] gathering.’

So when there came to them the truth from Us, they said, ‘ Indeed, this is obvious magic.’

Moses said, ‘ Do you say [thus] about the truth when it has come to you? Is this magic? But magicians will not succeed.’

They said, ‘ Have you come to us to turn us away from that upon which we found our fathers and so that you two may have grandeur in the land? And we are not believers in you.’

And Pharaoh said, ‘ Bring to me every learned magician.’

So when the magicians came, Moses said to them, ‘ Throw down whatever you will throw.’

And when they had thrown, Moses said, ‘ What you have brought is [only] magic. Indeed, Allah will expose its worthlessness. Indeed, Allah does not amend the work of corrupters.

And Allah will establish the truth by His words, even if the criminals dislike it.’

But no one believed Moses, except [some] youths among his people, for fear of Pharaoh and his establishment that they would persecute them. And indeed, Pharaoh was haughty within the land, and indeed, he was of the transgressors

And Moses said, ‘ O my people, if you have believed in Allah, then rely upon Him, if you should be Muslims.’

So they said, ‘ Upon Allah do we rely. Our Lord, make us not [objects of] trial for the wrongdoing people

And save us by Your mercy from the disbelieving people.’

And We inspired to Moses and his brother, ‘ Settle your people in Egypt in houses and make your houses [facing the] qiblah and establish prayer and give good tidings to the believers.’

And Moses said, ‘ Our Lord, indeed You have given Pharaoh and his establishment splendor and wealth in the worldly life, our Lord, that they may lead [men] astray from Your way. Our Lord, obliterate their wealth and harden their hearts so that they will not believe until they see the painful punishment.’

[Allah] said, ‘ Your supplication has been answered.’ So remain on a right course and follow not the way of those who do not know.’

And We took the Children of Israel across the sea, and Pharaoh and his soldiers pursued them in tyranny and enmity until, when drowning overtook him, he said, ‘ I believe that there is no deity except that in whom the Children of Israel believe, and I am of the Muslims.’

Now? And you had disobeyed [Him] before and were of the corrupters?

So today We will save you in body that you may be to those who succeed you a sign. And indeed, many among the people, of Our signs, are heedless

And We had certainty settled the Children of Israel in an agreeable settlement and provided them with good things. And they did not differ until [after] knowledge had come to them. Indeed, your Lord will judge between them on the Day of Resurrection concerning that over which they used to differ

To Pharaoh and his establishment, but they followed the command of Pharaoh, and the command of Pharaoh was not [at all] discerning.

He will precede his people on the Day of Resurrection and lead them into the Fire; and wretched is the place to which they are led.

And they were followed in this [world] with a curse and on the Day of Resurrection. And wretched is the gift which is given.

And We gave to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob - all [of them] We guided. And Noah, We guided before; and among his descendants, David and Solomon and Job and Joseph and Moses and Aaron. Thus do We reward the doers of good.

That is the guidance of Allah by which He guides whomever He wills of His servants. But if they had associated others with Allah, then worthless for them would be whatever they were doing.

Those are the ones to whom We gave the Scripture and authority and prophethood. But if the disbelievers deny it, then We have entrusted it to a people who are not therein disbelievers.

Those are the ones whom Allah has guided, so from their guidance take an example. Say, ‘ I ask of you for this message no payment. It is not but a reminder for the worlds.’

And they did not appraise Allah with true appraisal when they said, ‘ Allah did not reveal to a human being anything.’ Say, ‘ Who revealed the Scripture that Moses brought as light and guidance to the people? You [Jews] make it into pages, disclosing [some of] it and concealing much. And you were taught that which you knew not - neither you nor your fathers.’ Say, ‘ Allah [revealed it].’ Then leave them in their [empty] discourse, amusing themselves.

But when they reached the junction between them, they forgot their fish, and it took its course into the sea, slipping away.

So when they had passed beyond it, [Moses] said to his boy, ‘ Bring us our morning meal. We have certainly suffered in this, our journey, [much] fatigue.’

He said, ‘ Did you see when we retired to the rock? Indeed, I forgot [there] the fish. And none made me forget it except Satan - that I should mention it. And it took its course into the sea amazingly’ .

[Moses] said, ‘ That is what we were seeking.’ So they returned, following their footprints.

And they found a servant from among Our servants to whom we had given mercy from us and had taught him from Us a [certain] knowledge.

Moses said to him, ‘ May I follow you on [the condition] that you teach me from what you have been taught of sound judgement?’

He said, ‘ Indeed, with me you will never be able to have patience.

And how can you have patience for what you do not encompass in knowledge?’

[Moses] said, ‘ You will find me, if Allah wills, patient, and I will not disobey you in [any] order.’

He said, ‘ Then if you follow me, do not ask me about anything until I make to you about it mention.’

So they set out, until when they had embarked on the ship, al-Khidh r tore it open. [Moses] said, ‘ Have you torn it open to drown its people? You have certainly done a grave thing.’

[Al-Khidh r] said, ‘ Did I not say that with me you would never be able to have patience?’

[Moses] said, ‘ Do not blame me for what I forgot and do not cover me in my matter with difficulty.’

So they set out, until when they met a boy, al-Khidh r killed him. [Moses] said, ‘ Have you killed a pure soul for other than [having killed] a soul? You have certainly done a deplorable thing.’

[Al-Khidh r] said, ‘ Did I not tell you that with me you would never be able to have patience?’

[Moses] said, ‘ If I should ask you about anything after this, then do not keep me as a companion. You have obtained from me an excuse.’

So they set out, until when they came to the people of a town, they asked its people for food, but they refused to offer them hospitality. And they found therein a wall about to collapse, so al-Khidh r restored it. [Moses] said, ‘ If you wished, you could have taken for it a payment.’

[Al-Khidh r] said, ‘ This is parting between me and you. I will inform you of the interpretation of that about which you could not have patience.

As for the ship, it belonged to poor people working at sea. So I intended to cause defect in it as there was after them a king who seized every [good] ship by force.

And as for the boy, his parents were believers, and we feared that he would overburden them by transgression and disbelief.

So we intended that their Lord should substitute for them one better than him in purity and nearer to mercy.

And as for the wall, it belonged to two orphan boys in the city, and there was beneath it a treasure for them, and their father had been righteous. So your Lord intended that they reach maturity and extract their treasure, as a mercy from your Lord. And I did it not of my own accord. That is the interpretation of that about which you could not have patience.’

And [recall, O Children of Israel], when Moses said to His people, ‘ Remember the favor of Allah upon you when He saved you from the people of Pharaoh, who were afflicting you with the worst torment and were slaughtering your [newborn] sons and keeping your females alive. And in that was a great trial from your Lord.

And [remember] when your Lord proclaimed, ‘If you are grateful, I will surely increase you [in favor]; but if you deny, indeed, My punishment is severe.’ ‘

And Moses said, ‘ If you should disbelieve, you and whoever is on the earth entirely - indeed, Allah is Free of need and Praiseworthy.’

And fear a Day when no soul will suffice for another soul at all, nor will intercession be accepted from it, nor will compensation be taken from it, nor will they be aided.

And [recall] when We saved your forefathers from the people of Pharaoh, who afflicted you with the worst torment, slaughtering your [newborn] sons and keeping your females alive. And in that was a great trial from your Lord.

And [recall] when We parted the sea for you and saved you and drowned the people of Pharaoh while you were looking on.

And [recall] when We made an appointment with Moses for forty nights. Then you took [for worship] the calf after him, while you were wrongdoers.

Then We forgave you after that so perhaps you would be grateful.

And [recall] when We gave Moses the Scripture and criterion that perhaps you would be guided.

And [recall] when Moses said to his people, ‘ O my people, indeed you have wronged yourselves by your taking of the calf [for worship]. So repent to your Creator and kill yourselves. That is best for [all of] you in the sight of your Creator.’ Then He accepted your repentance; indeed, He is the Accepting of repentance, the Merciful.

And [recall] when you said, ‘ O Moses, we will never believe you until we see Allah outright’ ; so the thunderbolt took you while you were looking on.

Then We revived you after your death that perhaps you would be grateful.

And We shaded you with clouds and sent down to you manna and quails, [saying], ‘ Eat from the good things with which We have provided you.’ And they wronged Us not - but they were [only] wronging themselves.

And [recall] when We said, ‘ Enter this city and eat from it wherever you will in [ease and] abundance, and enter the gate bowing humbly and say, ‘Relieve us of our burdens.’ We will [then] forgive your sins for you, and We will increase the doers of good [in goodness and reward].’

But those who wronged changed [those words] to a statement other than that which had been said to them, so We sent down upon those who wronged a punishment from the sky because they were defiantly disobeying.

And [recall] when Moses prayed for water for his people, so We said, ‘ Strike with your staff the stone.’ And there gushed forth from it twelve springs, and every people knew its watering place. ‘ Eat and drink from the provision of Allah, and do not commit abuse on the earth, spreading corruption.’

And [recall] when you said, ‘ O Moses, we can never endure one [kind of] food. So call upon your Lord to bring forth for us from the earth its green herbs and its cucumbers and its garlic and its lentils and its onions.’ [Moses] said, ‘ Would you exchange what is better for what is less? Go into [any] settlement and indeed, you will have what you have asked.’ And they were covered with humiliation and poverty and returned with anger from Allah [upon them]. That was because they [repeatedly] disbelieved in the signs of Allah and killed the prophets without right. That was because they disobeyed and were [habitually] transgressing.

Indeed, those who believed and those who were Jews or Christians or Sabeans [before Prophet Muhammad] - those [among them] who believed in Allah and the Last Day and did righteousness - will have their reward with their Lord, and no fear will there be concerning them, nor will they grieve.

And [recall] when We took your covenant, [O Children of Israel, to abide by the Torah] and We raised over you the mount, [saying], ‘ Take what We have given you with determination and remember what is in it that perhaps you may become righteous.’

Then you turned away after that. And if not for the favor of Allah upon you and His mercy, you would have been among the losers.

And you had already known about those who transgressed among you concerning the sabbath, and We said to them, ‘ Be apes, despised.’

And We made it a deterrent punishment for those who were present and those who succeeded [them] and a lesson for those who fear Allah.

And [recall] when Moses said to his people, ‘ Indeed, Allah commands you to slaughter a cow.’ They said, ‘ Do you take us in ridicule?’ He said, ‘ I seek refuge in Allah from being among the ignorant.’

They said, ‘ Call upon your Lord to make clear to us what it is.’ [Moses] said, ‘ [Allah] says, ‘It is a cow which is neither old nor virgin, but median between that,’ so do what you are commanded.’

They said, ‘ Call upon your Lord to show us what is her color.’ He said, ‘ He says, ‘It is a yellow cow, bright in color - pleasing to the observers.’ ‘

They said, ‘ Call upon your Lord to make clear to us what it is. Indeed, [all] cows look alike to us. And indeed we, if Allah wills, will be guided.’

He said, ‘ He says, ‘It is a cow neither trained to plow the earth nor to irrigate the field, one free from fault with no spot upon her.’ ‘ They said, ‘ Now you have come with the truth.’ So they slaughtered her, but they could hardly do it.

And We raised over them the mount for [refusal of] their covenant; and We said to them, ‘ Enter the gate bowing humbly’ , and We said to them, ‘ Do not transgress on the sabbath’ , and We took from them a solemn covenant.

And [We sent] messengers about whom We have related [their stories] to you before and messengers about whom We have not related to you. And Allah spoke to Moses with [direct] speech.

O my people, enter the Holy Land which Allah has assigned to you and do not turn back [from fighting in Allah ‘s cause] and [thus] become losers.’

They said, ‘ O Moses, indeed within it is a people of tyrannical strength, and indeed, we will never enter it until they leave it; but if they leave it, then we will enter.’

Said two men from those who feared [to disobey] upon whom Allah had bestowed favor, ‘ Enter upon them through the gate, for when you have entered it, you will be predominant. And upon Allah rely, if you should be believers.’

They said, ‘ O Moses, indeed we will not enter it, ever, as long as they are within it; so go, you and your Lord, and fight. Indeed, we are remaining right here.’

[Moses] said, ‘ My Lord, indeed I do not possess except myself and my brother, so part us from the defiantly disobedient people.’

[Allah] said, ‘ Then indeed, it is forbidden to them for forty years [in which] they will wander throughout the land. So do not grieve over the defiantly disobedient people.’