The Heights
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[7:145]
And We ordained for him in the tablets [of the Law] all manner of admonition, clearly spelling out everything. And [We said:] "Hold fast unto them with [all thy] strength, and bid thy people to hold fast to their most goodly rules."
I will show you the way the iniquitous shall go.

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* v.145 : See sūrah 6, note 156.
* Lit., “I will show you the abode of the iniquitous.” The rendering adopted by me corresponds to the interpretations given by Tabarī (on the authority of Mujāhid and Al-Hasan al-Basrī) and by Ibn Kathīr; regarding the meaning of dār (“abode”) in this context, see sūrah 6, note 118. Some of the commentators are of the opinion that the above sentence concludes God’s admonition to Moses, but the plural form of address in “I will show you” makes it more probable that it is the beginning of a parenthetic passage connected, no doubt, with the preceding one, but having a general import not confined to Moses.