And when the truth came to them from us, they said, “This is clear sorcery indeed.”
Moses said, “Say ye of the truth when it is come to you, Is this sorcery?—but sorcerers shall not prosper.”
They said, “Art thou come to us to hinder us from what we found our fathers in, and in order that for you twain there shall be majesty in the land? but we are not going to believe in you!”
And Pharaoh said, “Fetch me every wise sorcerer.” And when the sorcerers came, Moses said to them, “Cast down what ye have to cast.”
And when they had cast them down, Moses said, “What ye come with is sorcery: verily God will make it vain; aye, God doth not prosper the work of evildoers;
And God will establish the truth by his word, though loth be the sinners.”
And none believed in Moses but the children of his own folk, for fear of Pharaoh and his nobles, lest he should afflict them: for of a truth Pharaoh was mighty in the earth, and verily he was of the transgressors.
And Moses said, “O my people! if ye believe in God, put your trust in Him, if ye are resigned.”
And they said, “In God do we put our trust. O our Lord, make us not a trial to the folk of the wicked,
And deliver us in Thy mercy from the folk of the unbelievers.”