Verse. 5240

٦٦ - ٱلتَّحْرِيم

66 - At-Tahreem

وَضَرَبَ اللہُ مَثَلًا لِّلَّذِيْنَ اٰمَنُوا امْرَاَتَ فِرْعَوْنَ۝۰ۘ اِذْ قَالَتْ رَبِّ ابْنِ لِيْ عِنْدَكَ بَيْتًا فِي الْجَنَّۃِ وَنَجِّــنِيْ مِنْ فِرْعَوْنَ وَعَمَلِہٖ وَنَجِّــنِيْ مِنَ الْقَوْمِ الظّٰلِــمِيْنَ۝۱۱ۙ
Wadaraba Allahu mathalan lillatheena amanoo imraata firAAawna ith qalat rabbi ibni lee AAindaka baytan fee aljannati wanajjinee min firAAawna waAAamalihi wanajjinee mina alqawmi alththalimeena

English

Ahmed Ali

And God presents the example of Pharaoh's wife for those who believe, when she said: "O Lord, build me a house in Paradise, and save me from Pharaoh and his deeds, and save me from a wicked people;"

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Tafseer

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : allah then encouraged them to repent and be good and follow the example of asiyah bint muzahim and mary daughter of amran, saying: (and allah citeth an example) allah explained the trait to be followed (for those who believe) giving the example of two muslim women: (the wife of pharaoh) asiyah bint muzahim (when she said) regarding pharaoh's torture of her: (my lord! build for me a home with thee in the garden) so that pharaoh's torture becomes bearable for me, (and deliver me from pharaoh) from the religion of pharaoh (and his work) and his torture, (and deliver me from evil doing folk) the disbelievers. thus the disbelief of her husband did not harm her because of her faith and sincerity;

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : and god has struck a similitude for those who believe: the wife of pharaoh — she believed in moses, her name was Āsiya; pharaoh chastised her by tying her hands and feet to pegs and placing a huge millstone on her chest, and having her laid out in the sun; but when those in charge of her would leave her, the angels would [come to] shade her — when she said, during her torture, ‘my lord, build for me a home near you in paradise, — so he disclosed for her [a veil of the unseen] and she saw it, which in turn alleviated for her the torture — and deliver me from pharaoh and his work, his torture, and deliver me from the evildoing folk’, the followers of his [pharaoh’s] religion, whereat god took [unto himself] her spirit [in death]. ibn kaysān said, ‘she was raised to paradise alive, where she eats and drinks’.