So the truth was confirmed, and that which they had wrought became vain; and they were overcome there, and were rendered contemptible. And the enchanters cast themselves down prostrate:[275] they said, We believe in the Lord of the worlds, the Lord of Moses and Aaron. Pharaoh said, Have ye believed in Him before I have given you permission? Verily this is a plot that ye have contrived in the city, that ye may cause its inhabitants to go forth from it. But ye shall know _what shall happen unto you at my hand_. I will assuredly cut off your hands and your feet on the opposite sides—_the right hand of each and his left foot_: then I will crucify you all.—They replied. Verily unto our Lord shall we return, _after our death, of whatever kind it be_; and thou dost not take vengeance on us but because we believed in the signs of our Lord when they came unto us. O our Lord, pour upon us patience, and cause us to die Muslims![276] (vii. 101-123.) And Pharaoh said, Let me alone, that I may kill Moses, (_for they had diverted him from killing him_,) and let him call upon his Lord _to defend him from me_. Verily I fear lest he change your religion, _and prevent your worshipping me_, or that he may cause corruption to appear in the earth (_that is, slaughter, and other offences_).—And Moses said _unto his people, having heard this_, Verily I have recourse for defence unto my Lord and your Lord from every proud person who believeth not in the day of account. And a man [who was] a believer, of the family of Pharaoh (_it is said that he was the son of his paternal uncle_,)[277] who concealed his faith, said, Will ye kill a man because he saith, My Lord is God,—when he hath come unto you with evident proofs from your Lord? And if he be a liar, on him [will be] _the evil consequence of_ his lie; but if he be a speaker of truth, somewhat of that _punishment with_ which he threateneth you will befall you _speedily_. Verily God directeth not him who is a transgressor, _or polytheist_, [and] a liar. O my people, ye have the dominion to-day, being overcomers in the land _of Egypt_; but who will defend us from the punishment of God _if ye kill his favourite servants_, if it come unto us?[278]—Pharaoh said, I will not advise you to do [aught] save what I see to be advisable, _which is, to kill Moses_; and I will not direct you save into the right way. And he who had believed said, O my people, verily I fear for you the like of the day of the confederates,[279] the like of the condition of the people of Noah and ´Ád and Thamood and those who [have lived] after them: and God willeth not injustice unto [His] servants. And, O my people, verily I fear for you the day of calling (_that is, the day of resurrection, when the people of Paradise and those of Hell shall often call one to another_). On the day when ye shall turn back _from the place of reckoning unto hell_, ye shall have no protector against God. And he whom God shall cause to err shall have no director.