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17: 2 [ al-Israa, Mecca 50 ]

Yusuf Ali We gave Moses the Book and made it a Guide to the Children of Israel (commanding): "Take not other than Me as Disposer of (your) affairs."

Pickthall We gave unto Moses the Scripture, and We appointed it a guidance for the Children of Israel, saying: Choose no guardian beside Me.

Transliteration Wa a_taina_ mu_sal kita_ba wa ja'alna_hu hudal libani isra_'ila alla_ tattakhiztu_ min du_ni wakila_(n).

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25:35 [al-Furqan, Mecca 42]

AND, INDEED, [long before Muhammad] We vouchsafed revelation unto Moses, and appointed his brother Aaron to help him to bear his burden;[ 32

(25:36) and We said, "Go you both unto the people who have given the lie to Our messages!" - and thereupon We broke those [sinners] to smithereens.

25:37

And [think of] the people of Noah: when they gave the lie to [one of] the apostles, We caused them to drown, and made them a symbol for all mankind: for, grievous suffering have We readied for all who [knowingly] do wrong!

(25:38) And [remember how We punished the tribes of] Ad and Thamud, and the people of Ar-Rass, 33 and many generations [of sinners] in- between:

(25:39) and unto each of them did We proffer lessons, 34 and each of them did We destroy with utter destruction.

[Asad’s notes - 32 For this rendering of the term wazir, see note 18 on 20:29. The mention, at this place, of Moses and Aaron - and of Noah, etc., in the following verses - is intended to remind us of the statement in verse 31 above that "against every prophet We have set up enemies from among those who are lost 33 Regarding the tribes of Ad and Thamud, see surah 7, notes 48 and 56. As for Ar-Rass, a town of that name exists to this day in the Central- Arabian province of Al-Qasim; in the ancient times referred to it seems to have been inhabited by descendants of the Nabataean tribe of Thamud Tabari). There is, however no agreement among the commentators as to the real meaning of this name or designation; Razi cites several of the current, conflicting interpretations and rejects all of them as purely conjectural.

34 Sc, "which they failed to heed". For my rendering of mathal, in this context, as "lesson see note 104 on 17:89. ]]