Then revealed we to Moses and to his brother: “Build houses for your people in Egypt, and make your houses with a Kibla, and perform prayer, and give good tidings to the believers.”
And Moses said, “O our Lord, thou hast indeed given to Pharaoh and his nobles adornments and riches in the life of this world: O our Lord! may they err from thy way; O our Lord, confound their riches, and harden their hearts, so shall they not believe until they see the aching torment.”
God said: “Your prayer is heard, then stand ye upright, and follow not the path of those who know not.”
And we brought the Children of Israel across the sea; and Pharaoh and his host followed them, eager and hostile, until when drowning overtook him he said, “I believe that there is no God but He in whom the Children of Israel believe, and I am one of the resigned.”
“Now! thou hast been rebellious aforetime, and wast one of the evildoers,
This day will we raise thee in thy flesh, to be a sign to those who come after thee: but verily many men are heedless of our signs!”
Moreover we lodged the Children of Israel in a firm abode, and provided them with good things: and they did not differ until the knowledge came to them; verily thy Lord will decide between them on the Day of Resurrection concerning that on which they differed.
And if thou art in doubt of what we have sent down to thee, inquire of those who read the Scriptures before thee. Now hath truth come unto thee from thy Lord: then be not thou of those who doubt,
Neither be of those who deny the signs of God lest thou be among the losers.
Verily they against whom the word of thy Lord is passed shall not believe,—