He said, "Begone; but whosoever of them shall follow thee, verily, Hell shall be your recompense; an ample recompense! And entice such of them as thou canst by thy voice; assault them with thy horsemen and thy footmen;21 be their partner in their riches and in their children, and make them promises: but Satan shall make them only deceitful promises. As to my servants, no power over them shalt thou have; And thy Lord will be their sufficient guardian." It is your Lord who speedeth onward the ships for you in the sea, that ye may seek of his abundance; for he is merciful towards you. When a misfortune befalleth you out at sea, they whom ye invoke are not to be found: God alone is there: yet when he bringeth you safe to dry land, ye place yourselves at a distance from Him. Ungrateful is man. What! are ye sure, then, that he will not cleave the sides of the earth for you? or that he will not send against you a whirlwind charged with sands? Then shall ye find no protector. Or are ye sure that he will not cause you to put back to sea a second time, and send against you a storm blast, and drown you, for that ye have been thankless? Then shall ye find no helper against us therein. And now have we honoured the children of Adam: by land and by sea have we carried them: food have we provided for them of good things, and with endowments beyond many of our creatures have we endowed them. One day we will summon all men with their leaders: they whose book shall be given into their right hand, shall read their book, and not be wronged a thread: And he who has been blind here, shall be blind hereafter, and wander yet more from the way. And, verily, they had well nigh beguiled thee from what we revealed to thee, and caused thee to invent some other thing in our name: but in that case they would surely have taken thee as a friend;22 And had we not settled thee, thou hadst well nigh leaned to them a little: In that case we would surely have made thee taste of woe23 in life and of woe in death: then thou shouldest not have found a helper against us. And truly they had almost caused thee to quit the land, in order wholly to drive thee forth from it:24 but then, themselves should have tarried but a little after thee. This was our way with the Apostles we have already sent before thee, and in this our way thou shalt find no change. Observe prayer at sunset, till the first darkening of the night, and the daybreak reading-for the daybreak reading hath its witnesses, And watch unto it in the night: this shall be an excess in service:25 it may be that thy Lord will raise thee to a glorious station: And say, "O my Lord, cause me to enter26 with a perfect entry, and to come forth with a perfect forthcoming, and give me from thy presence a helping power:" And SAY: Truth is come and falsehood is vanished. Verily, falsehood is a thing that vanisheth.