Verse. 2399

٢٠ - طه

20 - Ta-Ha

قَالَ فَمَا بَالُ الْقُرُوْنِ الْاُوْلٰى۝۵۱
Qala fama balu alqurooni aloola

English

Ahmed Ali

(The Pharaoh) said: "And what about the former generations?"

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Tafseer

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : (he said) pharaoh said to moses: (what then is the state of the generations of old?) what is the events of the people of old? how did they perish?

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : he, pharaoh, said, ‘so what of, the status [of], the generations, the communities, of old?’, such as the people of noah, hūd, lot and sālih, with regard to their having worshipped graven images.