The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 4) — Page 964
PT. 25 وَنَعْمَةٍ كَانُوْا فِيْهَا فَكِهِيْنَ كَذلِكَ وَاَوْرَثْهَا قَوْمًا أَخَرِيْنَ CH. 44 AD-DUKHĀN 28. And the comforts wherein they took delight! 3712 29. Thus it was destined to be. "And We made another people inherit these things. فَمَا بَكَتْ عَلَيْهِمُ السَّمَاءِ وَالْأَرْضُ And the heaven and the. 30 وَمَا كَانُوْا مُنْظَرِينَ earth wept not for them, nor were they respited. 3713 وَلَقَدْ نَجَّيْنَا بَنِي إِسْرَاءِيْلَ مِن delivered the الْعَذَابِ الْمُهِينِ R. 2. 31. "And We children of Israel from the abasing torment3714 مِنْ فِرْعَوْنَ إِنَّهُ كَانَ عَالِيًّا Inflicted by Pharaoh he was. 32 مِنَ الْمُسْرِفِينَ وَلَقَدِ اخْتَرْنُهُمْ عَلَى عِلْمٍ عَلَى them العلمينَ extravagant. surely haughty even among the 33. And We chose knowingly above the peoples of their time. 3715 a7:138; 26:60; 28:7. 2:50; 14:7; 20:81. 3712. Commentary: What a graphic picture of the great material blessings which the people of Pharaoh had enjoyed! 3713. Commentary: Mark the pathos of these words! The ill-fated people of Pharaoh enjoyed all sorts of comforts and luxury. They had wealth, power and influence. A Prophet came to them. They rejected his Message and opposed his mission with the result that heavenly punishment came down upon them sudden and swift and they went to their doom unwept, unhonoured and unsung. The ill-fated monarch who, in his conceit and arrogance, called himself God, went to the depths of the sea (20:79), with the memorable words, "I believe that there is no God but He in Whom the Children of Israel believed," on his lips. He who wanted to have a peep at the God of Moses in the heavens 2878 (40:38) had a taste of His might in the depths of the sea. 3714. Commentary: God delivered the Israelites from the bondage of Pharaoh whom the possession of great wealth, power and influence had made so proud and conceited that he rejected the Divine Message with disdain and contempt. 3715. Commentary: God selected the Israelites for His