He said: The knowledge thereof is with my Lord in a Record. My Lord neither erreth nor forgetteth

Who hath appointed the earth as a bed and hath threaded roads for you therein and hath sent down water from the sky and thereby We have brought forth divers kinds of vegetation

(Saying): Eat ye and feed your cattle. Lo! herein verily are portents for men of thought

Thereof We created you, and thereunto We return you, and thence We bring you forth a second time

And We verily did show him all Our tokens, but he denied them and refused

He said: Hast come to drive us out from our land by thy magic, O Moses

But we surely can produce for thee magic the like thereof; so appoint a tryst between us and you, which neither we nor thou shall fail to keep, at a place convenient (to us both)

(Moses) said: Your tryst shall be the day of the feast, and let the people assemble when the sun hath risen high

Then Pharaoh went and gathered his strength, then came (to the appointed tryst)

Moses said unto them: Woe unto you! Invent not a lie against Allah, lest He extirpate you by some punishment. He who lieth faileth miserably

Then they debated one with another what they must do, and they kept their counsel secret

They said: Lo! these are two wizards who would drive you out from your country by their magic, and destroy your best traditions

So arrange your plan, and come in battle line. Whoso is uppermost this day will be indeed successful