The Pharaoh asked: "And what is the Lord of all the worlds?"
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (pharaoh said) to moses: (and what is the lord of the worlds) who is the lord of the worlds? is it me you are referring to?
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : pharaoh said, to moses, ‘and what is “the lord of the worlds” ’, the one whose messenger you say you indeed are? in other words: what exactly is he? and since there is no way for creation to know the true nature of god, but only to know him through [an articulation of] his attributes, moses, blessings and peace be upon him, responds to him with [mention of] some of these [attributes]:
