Watilka niAAmatun tamunnuha AAalayya an AAabbadta banee israeela
English
Ahmed Ali
But the favour you oblige me with is that you have enslaved the children of Israel."
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (and this is the past favour wherewith) with which (thou reproachest me) o pharaoh, but you do not recall your aloofness towards me: (that thou hast enslaved the children of israel.
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : that is a favour with which you now reproach me that you have enslaved the children of israel’ (an ‘abbadta banī isrā’īl, is explicative of tilka, ‘that’) in other words, you have enslaved them but not me: there is no favour in that, for your enslavement of them is wrong (some [scholars] have reckoned there to be an interrogative hamza of denial at the beginning of this verse [a-tilka ni‘matun, ‘is that a favour?’]).
