The avenues of the heavens, and may ascend to the God of Moses: but verily I hold him a liar.”
And thus the wickedness of his deed seemed good to Pharaoh, and he was turned away from the right path; but the plot of Pharaoh only came to ruin.
And he who believed said, “O my people, follow me: I will guide you the right way.
O my people, the life of this world is but a passing joy; but the life to come, that is the abode imperishable.
Whosoever doeth evil shall not be rewarded save with its like; and whosoever doeth right, whether male or female, being a believer—these shall enter paradise; and be provided therein without count.
And O my people! how is it that I bid you to salvation, but that ye bid me to the Fire?
Ye call me to disbelieve in God and join to Him that of which I have no knowledge: and I call you to the Mighty, the Very Forgiving.
There is no doubt but that those ye call me to are not to be called on in this world or in the world to come, and that we shall return unto God, and the transgressors shall be inmates of the Fire.
Then shall ye call to mind what I said to you: and I commit my case to God: verily God regardeth His servants.”
So God kept him from the evil which they devised, and there encompassed the people of Pharaoh the woeful torment—