59 Preface قالَ مَوعِدُكُم يَومُ الزّينَةِ وَأَن يُحشَرَ النّاسُ ضُحًىYusuf AliMoses said: “Your tryst is the Day of the Festival,1 and let the people be assembled when the sun is well up.”A great day of a Temple Festival, when the temples and streets were decorated, and people were on holiday, free from work (Cf. 26:38). Moses makes this appointment in order to collect as large a number Possible, for his first duty is to preach the Truth. And he apparently did it with some effect with some Egyptians (20:70, 72-76), though the Pharaoh and his high and mighty officers rejected the Truth and afterwards Paid the Penalty.