We had tried the people of Pharaoh before them. A respected prophet had come to them (saying):
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (and verily we tried before them) before the quraysh (pharaoh's folk) by punishing them, (when there came unto them a noble messenger) i.e. moses,
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : and certainly we tried, we tested, before them the people of pharaoh, together with him, when a messenger came to them, namely, moses, peace be upon him, who was honoured, before god, exalted be he,
