Moses said, "Lord, open my breast for me14 and make my task easy for me, and remove the impediment from my tongue so that people may understand my speech,15 and appoint a counselor for me from my own family, and strengthen my hands by means of Aaron, who is my brother,16 and make him my associate in my work so that we may glorify Thee and remember Thee always. Thou hast always been watching over us." He said, "Your request is granted, O Moses. We have shown favor to you for the second time.17 Recall the time when We inspired your mother with this idea by means of a Revelation: `Place this child in a box and put the box in the river; the river will cast it on to the bank and My enemy and his enemy will pick it up. I Myself made you an object of love and so arranged things that you should be brought up under My supervision. Recall the time when your sister was walking along; then she said: `May I inform you of one, who will bring up this child in the best manner?' Thus We returned you to your mother so that her .eye might be cooled and she might not be grieved. And (also remember that) you killed a certain person and We freed you from its evil (consequences) and put you through various trials and you stayed with the people of Midian for several years. Now you have come back at the right time: O Moses, I have molded you for My Mission. You and your brother should go (on the Mission) with My Signs. And see that you do not show any negligence in remembering Me." "Go both of you to Pharaoh, for he has transgressed all bounds. Talk to him in a gentle manner; may be that he is convinced by admonition or imbued with fear."18 The two19 said, "Lord, we dread that he will behave unjustly towards us or treat us cruelly." He answered, "Have no fear: I am with you: I hear everything and see everything. Go to him and say, “We are Messengers from your Lord, so let the Israelites go with us, and do not oppress them. We have come to you with Signs from your lord; and peace is for him who follows the Right Way. We have been informed by Revelation that there is scourge for him who rejects it and turns away.”20 Pharaoh21 said, "Well, who is the Lord of you both, O Moses?"22 Moses replied, "Our Lord is He23 Who has given a distinctive form to everything and then guided it aright."24 Pharaoh said, "And what was the position of the generations who have passed before?"25 Moses replied, "The knowledge of that is with my Lord, secure in a writing; my Lord neither errs nor forgets."26