Therefore, hold fast to that which is revealed to you, indeed, you are on the Straight Path. (43)

It is indeed a Reminder to you and to your nation, and without doubt you shall be questioned. (44)

Ask Our Messengers whom We sent before you if We have ever made gods, other than the Merciful, to be worshipped. (45)

We sent Moses with Our signs to Pharaoh and his Council, and he said: 'I am the Messenger of the Lord of the Worlds. ' (46)

But when he showed them Our signs they laughed at them, (47)

yet there was not a sign that We showed them that was not greater than its sister, and We seized them with the punishment so that they might return. (48)

'Sorcerer, ' they said, 'pray to your Lord for us in accordance to the covenant He has made with you, and surely we shall be rightly guided! ' (49)

But when We had relieved them of their punishment they broke their promise. (50)

Then Pharaoh made a proclamation to his people: 'My people, is the kingdom of Egypt not mine and these rivers which flow beneath me? What, can you not see? (51)

Am I not better than this contemptible (man), who can scarcely make things clear (because of the impediment of his speech)? (52)