The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 4) — Page 431
PT. 19 ASH-SHU'ARĀ' CH. 26 فَفَرَرْتُ مِنْكُمْ لَمَّا خِفْتُكُمْ فَوَهَبَ لِي So I fled from you when I. 22 رَبِّ حُكْمًا وَ جَعَلَنِي مِنَ الْمُرْسَلِينَ granted me right judgment feared you; then my Lord and made me one of the Messengers. 2719A وَتِلْكَ نِعْمَةٌ تَمُنُّهَا عَلَى اَنْ عَبَّدَتَ And this favour of bringing. 23 me up as a child with which thou tauntest me, does thou put forward against thy having enslaved the children of Israel. '2720 24. Pharaoh said, b‘And what is the Lord of the worlds?'2721 "28:22. b20:50. not cause the death of a person. If be taken in the sense of 'being lost in love', the verse would depict Moses as saying that it was on account of his great love for his oppressed people that he came to the help of the Israelite and gave a blow to the Egyptian, which resulted in his death. 2719A. Commentary: بَنِي إِسْرَاعِيلَ قَالَ فِرْعَوْنُ وَمَا رَبُّ الْعَلَمِينَ ) for the manifold favours which, he said, he had done to his people. The present verse constitutes a crushing reply from Moses' mouth to Pharaoh's impudent remark. Moses is described as saying to Pharaoh that he should be ashamed of referring to any good that he thinks he had done to his people as he (Pharaoh) had kept them for generations under the most debasing and degrading form of bondage which had killed in them all sense of dignity, initiative and ambition to rise to their full stature. 2721. Commentary: Moses' reply Pharaoh as mentioned in the preceding verse seemed utterly to have confounded him and he (Pharaoh) at once When Moses presented to Pharaoh changed the subject, seeking to the Divine Message and called upon involve Moses in a metaphysical him to accept it, Pharaoh began to discussion about the existence and recount the supposed evil deeds of Person of the Divine Being and the Moses and accused him of ingratitude | nature of His attributes. By the words, "made me one of the Messengers," Moses means that the very fact that God has made him a Prophet is a proof that what he had done was not an intentional wrong but an unwitting act done on the spur of the moment. 2720. Commentary: 2345 to