The Qur'an (Oxford World's Classics)

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The Quran 2: 42
do not sell My messages for a small price: I am the One of whom you
should be mindful. 42 Do not mix truth with falsehood, or hide the
truth when you know it. 43 Keep up the prayer, pay the prescribed
alms, and bow your heads [in worship] with those who bow theirs.
44 How can you tell people to do what is right and forget to do it
yourselves, even though you recite the Scripture? Have you no
sense? 45 Seek help with steadfastness and prayer – though this is
hard indeed for anyone but the humble, 46 who know a that they will
meet their Lord and that it is to Him they will return.
47 Children of Israel, remember how I blessed you and favoured
you over other people. 48 Guard yourselves against a Day when no
soul will stand in place of another, no intercession will be accepted
for it, nor any ransom; nor will they be helped. 49 Remember when
We saved you from Pharaoh’s people, who subjected you to terrible
torment, slaughtering your sons and sparing only your women –
this was a great trial from your Lord – 50 and when We parted the
sea for you, so saving you and drowning Pharaoh’s people right
before your eyes. 51 We appointed forty nights for Moses [on Mount
Sinai] and then, while he was away, you took to worshipping the
calf – a terrible wrong. 52 Even then We forgave you, so that you
might be thankful.
53 Remember when We gave Moses the Scripture, and the means
to distinguish [right and wrong], so that you might be guided.
54 Moses said to his people, ‘My people, you have wronged yourselves
by worshipping the calf, so repent to your Maker and kill [the guilty
among] you. That is the best you can do in the eyes of your Maker.’
He accepted your repentance: He is the Ever Relenting and the Most
Merciful. 55 Remember when you said, ‘Moses, we will not believe
you until we see God face to face.’ At that, thunderbolts struck you
as you looked on. 56 Then We revived you after your death, so that
you might be thankful. 57 We made the clouds cover you with shade,
and sent manna and quails down to you, saying, ‘Eat the good things
We have provided for you.’ It was not Us they wronged; they
wronged themselves.
58 Remember when We said, ‘Enter this town and eat freely there
as you will, but enter its gate humbly and say, “Relieve us!” Then We
a One of the classical meanings of zanna is ‘to know’ rather than the predominant
modern sense of ‘to think’. This term is used in the sense of knowledge several times in
the Quran.