The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 4) — Page 519
PT. 20 AL-QAŞAŞ CH. 28 source of sorrow. Verily, Pharaoh and Hāmān and their فَالْتَقَطَةَ أَلُ فِرْعَوْنَ لِيَكُونَ لَهُمْ عَدُوًّا And the people of Pharaoh. 9 picked him up that he might وَحَزَنَا اِنَّ فِرْعَوْنَ وَهَانَ وَجُنُودَهُمَا become for them an enemy and كَانُوا خَطِينَ a وَقَالَتِ امْرَاتُ فِرْعَوْنَ قُرَّتُ عَيْنٍ لِي ,And Pharaoh's wife said. 10 وَلَكَ لَا تَقْتُلُوهُ عَلَى أَنْ يَنْفَعَنَا أَو. me and for thee. Slay him not نَتَّخِذَهُ وَلَدًا وَهُمْ لَا يَشْعُرُونَ hosts were wrongdoers. 2883 'He will be a joy of the eye for Haply he will be useful to us, or we may adopt him as a son. " And they perceived not the consequences thereof. 28 2884 "20:40. implication had referred to the mission of the Holy Prophet and in fact to the mission of every Prophet of God. From this verse, however, begins the actual story of Moses. Whereas Moses was cast into the river by his mother to escape being killed by the people of Pharaoh, the Holy Prophet's mother had to entrust him, while yet a child, to the care of a poor wet-nurse, to whom all the well- to-do families of Mecca had refused to entrust their babies on account of her poverty. 2883. Important Words: abe (picked him up) is derived from which means, he picked it up, took it up from the ground. be means, he picked up the thing; he stumbled upon it unexpectedly without seeking it. bland means, I met him unexpectedly (Lane & Aqrab). The particle Jin (that he might become) is called as) and denotes result and consequence, as in the well-known Arabic couplet: لدو اللموت وابنوا للخراب فكلكم يسير الى تباب i. e. bear children that they should die and build houses that they should fall into ruins, for all of you are marching towards destruction. Thus the first part of the verse would mean, "And the family of Pharaoh picked him up with the result that ultimately he became an enemy and a source of great grief and sorrow for them. " 2884. Commentary: 2433 God's ways indeed are inscrutable. Pharaoh did not know that the very child upon whom he had lavished so much care and love will one day prove an instrument of punishment for him in the hands of Destiny because he had flouted and defied Divine commandments and had held the Israelites in bondage and had tyrannized over them for a long time.