Verse. 4376

٤٣ - ٱلْزُّخْرُف

43 - Az-Zukhruf

وَنَادٰى فِرْعَوْنُ فِيْ قَوْمِہٖ قَالَ يٰقَوْمِ اَلَيْسَ لِيْ مُلْكُ مِصْرَ وَہٰذِہِ الْاَنْہٰرُ تَجْرِيْ مِنْ تَحْتِيْ۝۰ۚ اَفَلَا تُبْصِرُوْنَ۝۵۱ۭ
Wanada firAAawnu fee qawmihi qala ya qawmi alaysa lee mulku misra wahathihi alanharu tajree min tahtee afala tubsiroona

English

Ahmed Ali

And the Pharaoh said to his people: "O people, is not mine the kingdom of Egypt and these rivers that flow at my feet? Can you still not comprehend?

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Tafseer

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : (and pharaoh caused a proclamation to be made among his people) pharaoh delivered a sermon to his people, the copts, (saying: o my people! is not mine the sovereignty of egypt) which is 40 square parasangs (and these rivers flowing under me) around me; it is also said what he meant here is: and these horses run around me? (can ye not then discern?

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : and pharaoh proclaimed, boastfully, among his people, ‘o my people, does not the kingdom of egypt belong to me, and these rivers, of the nile, flowing beneath me?, that is to say, beneath my palaces. do you not perceive?, my magnificence.