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PT. 20 AL-QAŞAŞ CH. 28 وَاسْتَكْبَرَ هُوَ وَجُنُودُهُ فِي الْأَرْضِ بِغَيْرِ And he and his hosts. 40 behaved arrogantly in the land without any justification. And they thought that they would never be brought back to Us. الْحَقِّ وَظَنُّوا أَنَّهُمْ إِلَيْنَا لَا يُرْجَعُونَ فَأَخَذْتُهُ وَجُنُودَهُ فَنَبَذْنُهُمْ فِي الْيَمِّ So We seized him and his. 41 hosts, and cast them into the sea. See, then, how evil was the فَانْظُرْ كَيْفَ كَانَ عَاقِبَةُ الظَّلِمِينَ end of the wrongdoers! 2904 وَجَعَلْنَهُمْ أَبِمَّةً يَدْعُونَ إِلَى النَّارِ ۚ وَيَوْمَ And We made them leaders. 42 "who invited people unto the Fire; and on the Day of Resurrection they will not be الْقِيمَةِ لَا يُنْصَرُونَ helped. وَأَتْبَعْتُهُمْ فِي هَذِهِ الدُّنْيَا لَعْنَةً وَيَوْمَ And We caused them to be. 43 الْقِيمَةِ هُمْ مِّنَ الْمَقْبُوْحِيْنَ followed by a curse in this world; and on the Day of 7:134. 2:51; 7:137; 17:104; 20:79; 26:67; 79:26. 11:99. 11:61,100. the kilns. Pharaoh alludes to this ignoble condition of theirs and seems derisively to say to Hāmān: "These people do not appear to have sufficient work to do. Having more than enough leisure they have begun to dream of prophethood. They must be put to hard labour; then will they come to their senses and give up having false illusions about God and prophethood. " (2) The Egyptians were well-versed in astronomy. They built high observatories for observing the movements of the stars. So Pharaoh jeeringly asked Hāmān to build for him a lofty observatory so that he might have a peep at the God of Moses. The verse may also imply a reference to an ancient belief of the Egyptians that heavenly spirits descended upon lofty places and therefore in order to achieve spiritual perfection they constructed high buildings. 2904. Commentary: The use of the word ~ (sea) in this verse and v. 8 above seems to suggest a curious coincidence. In order to save the child Moses from being killed by Pharaoh, Moses' mother cast him into the from which he was later rescued. But Pharaoh and his mighty hosts while endeavouring to cross the in order to overtake the Israelites, drowned. See also 20:79. 2445 یم were