The Qur'an (Oxford World's Classics)

26. THE POETS
A Meccan sura which takes its name from the reference to poets in verse 224. It
talks about the disbelievers who belittle the Quran, and gives examples of
God’s power and grace in nature. It recounts several stories of earlier prophets,
the reactions of their people, and punishments that afflicted them, ending by
confirming the divine origin of the Quran. It is not something brought down
by the jinn, nor is it poetry.
In the name of God, the Lord of Mercy, the Giver of Mercy
1 Ta Sin Mim
2 These are the verses of the Scripture that makes things clear:
3 [Prophet], are you going to worry yourself to death because they
will not believe? 4 If We had wished, We could have sent them down a
sign from heaven, at which their necks would stay bowed in utter
humility. 5 Whenever they are brought a new revelation from the
Lord of Mercy, they turn away: 6 they deny it, but the truth of what
they scorned will soon hit them. 7 Do they not see the earth, and
what noble kinds of thing We grow in it? 8 There truly is a sign in
this, though most of them do not believe: 9 your Lord alone is the
Almighty, the Merciful.
10 Your Lord called to Moses: ‘Go to those wrongdoers, 11 the
people of Pharaoh. Will they not take heed?’ 12 Moses said, ‘My
Lord, I fear they will call me a liar, 13 and I will feel stressed and
tongue-tied, so send Aaron too; 14 besides, they have a charge a
against me, and I fear they may kill me.’ 15 God said, ‘No [they will
not]. Go, both of you, with Our signs––We shall be with you, listening.
16 Go, both of you, to Pharaoh and say, “We bring a message
from the Lord of the Worlds: 17 let the Children of Israel leave
with us.” ’
18 Pharaoh said, ‘Did we not bring you up as a child among us?
Did you not stay with us for many years? 19 And then you committed
that crime of yours: you were so ungrateful.’ 20 Moses replied, ‘I was
a Cf. 28: 15–20.