Allah Straitened Pharaoh's Folk With the Dearth of Vegetation Year After Year


by Safaa Abdel-Aziz - Date: 2008-11-07 - Word Count: 1012 Share This!

Many people do not know Allah. This series (1-58) is an attempt to help them to know their Creator.


Verses 7:128-130 of the Noble Quran talk about: 1) Moses said unto his people: Seek help in Allah and endure the affliction, and He said also: The land is Allah's. He gives it for an inheritance to whom He will, 2) The Israelites said to Moses: We suffered hurt before you came to us and since you have come to us, 3) Moses said: Be patient, the sequel Paradise is for those who keep their duty unto Allah , 4) Moses said: Allah will destroy Pharaoh, that He may see how you shall act,  5) Allah straitened Pharaoh's folk with the dearth of vegetation year after year and 6) Allah seized them with famine that they might take admonition


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In the previous articles (58-62)


Pharaoh has every one of the Egyptian sorcerers crucified after cutting their hands and feet.


Then the chiefs of Pharaoh's people said to Pharaoh:


O King, Will you leave Moses and his people to work corruption in the land, by calling to disobedience against you, and flout you and your gods?


Will you leave Moses and his people to make mischief in the land by changing the religion and worship, and abandon you and the worship of your gods?


It is also said that this means, according to a different reading: and leave worshipping you as a god?


Pharaoh said:


We will slay their sons, their young sons, as we did the first time and spare their grown up women,


We shall slaughter their new-born sons and spare their women, keeping them alive, as we did with them before.  For lo! we are in power over them; we have dominance and supremacy over them, and they did this to them, and so the Children of Israel grieved.  Then what?


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The meaning of verse 7:128



Moses said unto his people:


Seek help in Allah and endure the affliction. Be patient, their (the Egyptians) persecution. Lo! the land of Egypt is Allah's.  He bequeaths it, He gives it for an inheritance to whom He will from among His servants. And lo! the sequel Paradise is for those who keep their duty unto Allah; those who ward off disbelief, idolatry and indecencies.  The, praiseworthy, sequel belongs to those who are wary, of Allah.



The meaning of verse 7:129



They (Moses' people) said:


‘We suffered hurt, we were tormented by the killing of our sons, the use of our women and also by working before you came to us, and since you have come to us with the message.'


Moses said unto them:


it may be that your Lord is going to destroy your adversary, Pharaoh and his council by means of drought and hunger etc.; and make you vicegerents in the earth, make you in the inhabitants of the land of Egypt, that Allah may see how you behave with regard to obeying Him.


In other words, Moses said unto his people: Perhaps your Lord, Allah, will destroy your enemy and make you successors in the land, that He may observe how you shall act in it.



The meaning of verse 7:130



And verily Allah seized Pharaoh's folk with the years, of drought, and dearth of fruits, so that they might remember, that they might heed the admonition, and become believers.


In other words, Allah straitened Pharaoh's folk with famine and hunger, year after year and the dearth of vegetation, that they might take admonition.


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Verses 7:128--130 in different English translations of the meanings of Arabic Quran:



Verse 7:128



QARIB: moses said to his nation: 'seek help from Allah and be patient. the earth belongs to Allah; he gives it as a heritage to whom he chooses amongst his worshipers. the outcome is for the cautious. '


SHAKIR: musa said to his people: ask help from Allah and be patient; surely the land is Allah's; he causes such of his servants to inherit it as he pleases, and the end is for those who guard (against evil)


PICKTHAL: and moses said unto his people: seek help in Allah and endure. lo! the earth is Allah's. he giveth it for an inheritance to whom he will. and lo! the sequel is for those who keep their duty (unto him).


YUSUFALI: said moses to his people: "pray for help from Allah, and (wait) in patience and constancy: for the earth is Allah's, to give as a heritage to such of his servants as he pleaseth; and the end is (best) for the righteous.



Verse 7:129



QARIB: they replied: 'we were hurt before you came to us, and after you came to us. ' he said: 'your lord may destroy your enemies and make you inheritors in the land. then he will see how you conduct yourselves. '


SHAKIR: they said: we have been persecuted before you came to us and since you have come to us. he said: it may be that your lord will destroy your enemy and make you rulers in the land, then he will see how you act


PICKTHAL: they said: we suffered hurt before thou camest unto us, and since thou hast come unto us. he said: it may be that your lord is going to destroy your adversary and make you viceroys in the earth, that he may see how ye behave.


YUSUFALI: they said: "we have had (nothing but) trouble, both before and after thou camest to us." he said: "it may be that your lord will destroy your enemy and make you inheritors in the earth; that so he may try you by your deeds."



Verse 7:130



QARIB: we seized pharaoh's people with years of drought and scarcity of fruit so that they might remember.


SHAKIR: and certainly we overtook firon's people with droughts and diminution of fruits that they may be mindful


PICKTHAL: and we straitened pharaoh's folk with famine and dearth of fruits, that peradventure they might heed.


YUSUFALI: we punished the people of pharaoh with years (of droughts) and shortness of crops; that they might receive admonition.


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