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"Go to Pharaoh. Indeed, he has transgressed.

And say to him, 'Would you [be willing to] purify yourself

And let me guide you to your Lord so you would fear [Him]?'"

And he showed him the greatest sign,

But he [i.e., Pharaoh] denied and disobeyed.

Then he turned his back, striving [i.e., plotting].

And he gathered [his people] and called out

And said, "I am your most exalted lord."

So Allāh seized him in exemplary punishment for the last and the first [transgression]..

Indeed in that is a lesson [i.e., warning] for whoever would fear [Allāh].

Are you a more difficult creation or is the heaven? He [i.e., Allāh] constructed it.

He raised its ceiling and proportioned it.

And He darkened its night and extracted its brightness.

And after that He spread the earth.

He extracted from it its water and its pasture,

And the mountains He set firmly

As enjoyment [i.e., provision] for you and your grazing livestock.

But when there comes the greatest Overwhelming Calamity -

The Day when man will remember that for which he strove,

And Hellfire will be exposed for [all] those who see -

So as for he who transgressed

And preferred the life of the world,

Then indeed, Hellfire will be [his] refuge.

But as for he who feared the position of his Lord and prevented the soul from [unlawful] inclination,

Then indeed, Paradise will be [his] refuge.

They ask you, [O Muḥammad], about the Hour: when is its arrival?

In what [position] are you that you should mention it?

To your Lord is its finality.

You are only a warner for those who fear it.

It will be, on the Day they see it, as though they had not remained [in the world] except for an afternoon or a morning thereof.