Verse. 4159

٤٠ - غَافِر

40 - Ghafir

وَقَالَ فِرْعَوْنُ ذَرُوْنِيْۗ اَقْتُلْ مُوْسٰى وَلْيَدْعُ رَبَّہٗ۝۰ۚ اِنِّىْۗ اَخَافُ اَنْ يُّبَدِّلَ دِيْنَكُمْ اَوْ اَنْ يُّظْہِرَ فِي الْاَرْضِ الْفَسَادَ۝۲۶
Waqala firAAawnu tharoonee aqtul moosa walyadAAu rabbahu innee akhafu an yubaddila deenakum aw an yuthhira fee alardi alfasada

English

Ahmed Ali

"Let me kill Moses," the Pharaoh said, "and let him call to his Lord. I fear that he will change your faith and spread corruption in the land."

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Tafseer

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : and pharaoh said: suffer me to kill moses, and let him cry unto his lord) whom he claims sent him to me. (lo! i fear that he will alter your religion) you presently practise (or that he will cause confusion in the land) or that he will kill your sons and use your daughters as servants, as you did yourself with his people; it is also said that this means: or they will cause confusion in the land by leaving your religion and the religion of your forefathers and accepting his religion.

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : and pharaoh said, ‘let me slay moses — for they used to restrain him from slaying him — and let him call to his lord, to defend him against me. indeed i fear that he may change your religion, [involving] your worship of me, so that you will then follow him [in his religion], or that he may cause corruption to appear in the land’, by [initiating] killing and otherwise (a variant reading [for wa-an, ‘and that’] is aw-an, ‘or that’; a variant reading [for an yuzhira fī’l-ardi’l-fasāda] is [the impersonal construction] an yazhara fī’l-ardi’l-fasādu, ‘that corruption may appear in the land’).