The Poets (Al-Shu‘ara’)
Verses 15-19 GROUP_943 26.15-19
15
قَالَ كَلَّا فَاذْهَبَا بِآيَاتِنَا إِنَّا مَعَكُم مُّسْتَمِعُونَ
God said, ‘Indeed not; go both of you with Our signs, We shall be with you, listening [to your call].
16
فَأْتِيَا فِرْعَوْنَ فَقُولَا إِنَّا رَسُولُ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ
Go to Pharaoh, both of you, and say, “We are messengers from the Lord of the Worlds:
17
أَنْ أَرْسِلْ مَعَنَا بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ
let the Children of Israel go with us!”’
18
قَالَ أَلَمْ نُرَبِّكَ فِينَا وَلِيدًا وَلَبِثْتَ فِينَا مِنْ عُمُرِكَ سِنِينَ
Pharaoh said to Moses, ‘Did we not bring you up among us as a child? And you spent several years of your life with us.
19
وَفَعَلْتَ فَعْلَتَكَ الَّتِي فَعَلْتَ وَأَنتَ مِنَ الْكَافِرِينَ
Yet you committed the deed you did, surely you are one of the ingrates.’
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Commentary
(a) One chosen by God to represent Him is in every way under His protection. Moreover, he is given some special signs which indicate clearly that his mission is an affair of God. But, in spite of that, man has gone so far in transgression as not to admit this. The Quran does not specify the details of the demand made by Moses on Pharaoh with regard to the Children of Israel. But the Torah elaborates upon the subject in the following sections: Exodus 4/18, 5/1, 8/25-27. According to the description in the Bible, it appears that this journey of Moses was not for the purpose of migration but for instruction. In Egypt, the cow was considered holy. Due to this centuries-old tradition, even the the Children of Israel had been influenced by this belief. Now, Moses wanted to take the Children of Israel out of the polytheistic atmosphere of Egypt for a few days, keep them in a pure atmosphere and re-educate them.