Surah 2. Al-Baqara, Ayah 49
| وَإِذْ نَجَّيْنَاكُمْ مِنْ آلِ فِرْعَوْنَ يَسُومُونَكُمْ سُوءَ الْعَذَابِ يُذَبِّحُونَ أَبْنَاءَكُمْ وَيَسْتَحْيُونَ نِسَاءَكُمْ ۚ وَفِي ذَٰلِكُمْ بَلَاءٌ مِنْ رَبِّكُمْ عَظِيمٌ |
| Transliteration | : | wa- 'idh najjaynaa -kum min 'aal fircawn yasomon -kum so' al- cadhaab yudhabbih.on abnaa' -kum wa- yastah.yon nisaa' -kum wa- fe dhaalikum balaa' min rabb -kum caz.em |
| Pickthall | : | And (remember) when We did deliver you from Pharaoh's folk, who were afflicting you with dreadful torment, slaying your sons and sparing your women: That was a tremendous trial from your Lord. |
| Asad | : | And [remember the time] when We saved you from Pharaoh's people, who afflicted you with cruel suffering, slaughtering your sons and sparing [only] your women36 - which was an awesome trial from your Sustainer; |
| Malik | : | Remember how We delivered you from the people of Fir'on (Pharaoh): they had subjected you to severe torment, killing your sons and sparing your daughters; you were facing a tremendous trial from your Rabb. |
| Yusuf Ali | : | And remember We delivered you from the people of Pharaoh: they set you hard tasks and punishments slaughtered your sons and let your womenfolk live; therein was a tremendous trial from your Lord. 64 |
Note - 36See Exodus i, 15-16, 22.
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Note - 64The bondage of Egypt was indeed a tremendous trial. Even
the Egyptians' wish to spare the lives of Israel's
females when the males were slaughtered, added to the
bitterness of Israel. Their hatred was cruel, but their
"love" was still more cruel. About the hard tasks, see
Exod. i. 14: "They made their lives bitter with hard
bondage, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of
service in the field; all their service, wherein they
made them serve, was with rigour." Pharaoh's taskmasters
gave no straw, yet ordered the Israelites to make bricks
without straw: Exod. v 5-19. Pharoah's decree was:
"Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and
every daughter ye shall save alive": Exod. i. 22. It
was in consequence of this decree that Moses was hidden
three months after he was born, and when he could be
hidden no longer, he was put into an ark of bulrushes and
cast into the Nile, where he was found by Pharoah's
daughter and wife (xxviii. 9), and adopted into the
family: Exod. ii. 2-10. Cf. xx. 37-40. Thus Moses was
brought up by the enemies of his people. He was chosen
by God to deliver his people, and God's wisdom made the
learning and experience and even cruelties of the
Egyptian enemies themselves to contribute to the
salvation of his people.
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The bondage of Egypt was indeed a tremendous trial. Even the Egyptians' wish to spare the lives of Israel's females when the males were slaughtered, added to the bitterness of Israel. Their hatred was cruel, but their "love" was still more cruel. About the hard tasks, see Exod. i. 14: "They made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field; all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour." Pharaoh's taskmasters gave no straw, yet ordered the Israelites to make bricks without straw: Exod. v 5-19. Pharoah's decree was: "Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive": Exod. i. 22. It was in consequence of this decree that Moses was hidden three months after he was born, and when he could be hidden no longer, he was put into an ark of bulrushes and cast into the Nile, where he was found by Pharoah's daughter and wife (xxviii. 9), and adopted into the family: Exod. ii. 2-10. Cf. xx. 37-40. Thus Moses was brought up by the enemies of his people. He was chosen by God to deliver his people, and God's wisdom made the learning and experience and even cruelties of the Egyptian enemies themselves to contribute to the salvation of his people. |
