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Surah 20. Ta-Ha, Ayah 59

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قَالَ مَوْعِدُكُمْ يَوْمُ ٱلزِّينَةِ وَأَن يُحْشَرَ ٱلنَّاسُ ضُحًى
Q a la mawAAidukum yawmu a l zzeenati waan yu h shara a l nn a su d u ha n
Answered [Moses]: "Your tryst shall be the day of the Festival;41 and let the people assemble when the sun is risen high."
  - Mohammad Asad

Lit., "the day of adornment" - possibly the Egyptian New Year's Day. The expression "your tryst" has the connotation of "the tryst proposed by you".

Musa replied: "Let it be the Day of Festival and let the people be assembled before noon".
  - Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik
Moses said, 'Your appointment is on the Day of the Festival, and let the people be gathered mid-morning.'
  - Mustafa Khattab
(Moses) said: Your tryst shall be the day of the feast, and let the people assemble when the sun hath risen high.
  - Marmaduke Pickthall
Moses said: "Your tryst is the Day of the Festival and let the people be assembled when the sun is well up." 2583
  - Abdullah Yusuf Ali

A great day of a Temple Festival, when the temples and streets were decorated, and people were on holiday, free from work. Moses makes this appointment in order to collect as large a number as possible, for his first duty is to preach the Truth. And he apparently did it with some effect with some Egyptians (xx. 70, 72-76), though the Pharaoh and his high and mighty officers rejected the Truth and afterwards paid the Penality.

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