Min firAAawna innahu kana AAaliyan mina almusrifeena
English
Ahmed Ali
They (had experienced) under the Pharaoh. He was certainly a tyrant, guilty of excess.
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : ((we delivered them) from pharaoh) and his folk who slaughtered their males and used their females as servants. (lo! he was a tyrant) he was an arrogant transgressor (of the wanton ones) steeped in idolatry.
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : from pharaoh (min fir‘awna, is said to be a substitution for al-‘adhābi, on the basis of an implied annexation, that is to say, [min] ‘adhābi [fir‘awna]; or it is said to be a circumstantial qualifier referring to al-‘adhāb, ‘the chastisement’). truly he was a tyrant of the wanton ones.
