وَإِنِّي

عُذۡتُ

بِرَبِّي

وَرَبِّكُمۡ

أَن

تَرۡجُمُونِ

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And indeed, I seek refuge with my Lord and your Lord so you do not stone me ˹to death˺.

˹But˺ if you do not believe me, then let me be.”

Ultimately, he cried out to his Lord, “These are a wicked people!”

˹Allah responded,˺ “Leave with My servants at night, for you will surely be pursued.

And leave the sea parted, for they are certainly an army bound to drown.”

˹Imagine˺ how many gardens and springs the tyrants¹ left behind,

as well as ˹various˺ crops and splendid residences,

and luxuries which they fully enjoyed.

So it was. And We awarded it ˹all˺ to another people.

Neither heaven nor earth wept over them, nor was their fate delayed.

And We certainly delivered the Children of Israel from the humiliating torment

of Pharaoh. He was truly a tyrant, a transgressor.

And indeed, We chose the Israelites knowingly above the others.

And We showed them signs in which there was a clear test.

Indeed, these ˹Meccans˺ say,

“There is nothing beyond our first death, and we will never be resurrected.

Bring ˹back˺ our forefathers, if what you say is true.”

Are they superior to the people of Tubba’¹ and those before them? We destroyed them ˹all˺, ˹for˺ they were truly wicked.

We did not create the heavens and the earth and everything in between for sport.

We only created them for a purpose, but most of these ˹pagans˺ do not know.