079.020 Y:  Then did (Moses) show him the Great Sign.

P:  And he showed him the tremendous token.

S:  So he showed him the mighty sign.

079.021 Y:  But (Pharaoh) rejected it and disobeyed (guidance);

P:  But he denied and disobeyed,

S:  But he rejected (the truth) and disobeyed.

079.022 Y:  Further, he turned his back, striving hard (against Allah).

P:  Then turned he away in haste,

S:  Then he went back hastily.

079.023 Y:  Then he collected (his men) and made a proclamation,

P:  Then gathered he and summoned

S:  Then he gathered (men) and called out.

079.024 Y:  Saying, “I am your Lord, Most High”.

P:  And proclaimed:  “I (Pharaoh) am your Lord the Highest.”

S:  Then he said:  I am your lord, the most high.

079.025 Y:  But Allah did punish him, (and made an) example of him, — in the Hereafter, as in this life.

P:  So Allah seized him (and made him) an example for the after (life) and for the former.

S:  So Allah seized him with the punishment of the hereafter and the former life.

079.026 Y:  Verily in this is an instructive warning for whosoever feareth (Allah).

P:  Lo! herein is indeed a lesson for him who feareth.

S:  Most surely there is in this a lesson to him who fears.

079.027 Y:  What!  Are ye the more difficult to create or the heaven (above)?  (Allah) hath constructed it: 

P:  Are ye the harder to create, or is the heaven that He built?

S:  Are you the harder to create or the heaven?  He made it.

079.028 Y:  On high hath He raised its canopy, and He hath given it order and perfection.

P:  He raised the height thereof and ordered it;

S:  He raised high its height, then put it into a right good state.

079.029 Y:  Its night doth He endow with darkness, and its splendour doth He bring out (with light).

P:  And He made dark the night thereof, and He brought forth the morn thereof.

S:  And He made dark its night and brought out its light.

079.030 Y:  And the earth, moreover, hath He extended (to a wide expanse);

P:  And after that He spread the earth,

S:  And the earth, He expanded it after that.

079.031 Y:  He draweth out therefrom its moisture and its pasture;

P:  And produced therefrom the water thereof and the pasture thereof,

S:  He brought forth from it its water and its pasturage.

079.032 Y:  And the mountains hath He firmly fixed;-

P:  And He made fast the hills,

S:  And the mountains, He made them firm,

079.033 Y:  For use and convenience to you and your cattle.

P:  A provision for you and for your cattle.

S:  A provision for you and for your cattle.