Misfortune of the Children of Israel (L-80)
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وَإِذْ نَجَّيْنَٰكُم مِّنْ ءَالِ فِرْعَوْنَ يَسُومُونَكُمْ
سُوٓءَ ٱلْعَذَابِ يُذَبِّحُونَ أَبْنَآءَكُمْ وَيَسْتَحْيُونَ نِسَآءَكُمْ
وَفِى ذَٰلِكُم بَلَآءٌ مِّن رَّبِّكُمْ عَظِيمٌ49. |
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49. Wa ‘iz
najjay-Naakum-min –‘Aali- Fir-‘awna yasuu-muuna- kum suuu-‘al-‘azaabi
yuzab-bihuuna ‘abnaaa-‘akum wa yas-tah-yuuna nisaaa-‘akum. Wa fii
zaalikum balaaa-‘um-mir-Rabbikum ‘aziim. |
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49. And
(remember) when We did deliver you from Pharaoh’s folk, who were afflicting
you with dreadful torment, slaying your sons and sparing your women. And that
was a tremendous trial from your Lord. |
‘Aali- Fir-‘awna – (Folk, people, near relatives, religion fellows, servants and children of Pharaoh), Pharaoh was title of the King of Egypt. Usually the people imagine a king of the Egypt who was named as Pharaoh. In fact it was not the name of one person. But it was surname of the entire kings of Egypt as the title of the king of China was “Khaqan” (Emperor) and the surname of the King of Rome was ‘Caesar’.
Prophet Joseph (Peace be upon him) brought and populated the Israelites in Egypt. They lived in Egypt hundreds of years and their population reached in many hundred thousands. The King of Egypt made them his slaves and treated them extremely disgracefully and contemptibly.
Once, the King dreamed at night. He gathered soothsayers and asked them to interpret his dream in the morning, “I have seen a fire coming from the Temple of Jerusalem. It has besieged the Egypt and begun to burn the ‘Qabtees’ (Egyptians) choosing one by one”. Listening to it the soothsayers told the King that a child would be born among the Israelites, who would become cause of your death and fall of your Emperor.
Pharaoh collected the entire nurses and midwives of the country and ordered them, “Kill the sons of the Israelites at once when and where anyone of them comes into world by birth. However the girls must be left alive.” Due to orders of the King thousands of the sons of Israelites were killed. After all, the Chieftains of Egypt thought, “If all the boys of Israelites are killed in this manner, who will serve us?”
Listening to it, Pharaoh ordered, “Continue killing process for one year and stop it for the next year regularly”. The year in which killing process was postponed, in that year Prophet Aaron (peace be upon him) was born and in the year when killing process was in force, during that period Prophet Moses (Peace be upon him) came in this world. But Allaah, the Most High saved his life with His sound policy and he could not be slain.
Above mentioned verse indicates
towards such event. Folk of Pharaoh had put the children of Israel in
so much difficult calamity and labor. Finally God Almighty set them free from
these afflictions by means of His Prophet Moses (Peace be upon him).
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