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Surah al-Qasas (The Stories) 28 : 40

فَأَخَذْنَٰهُ وَجُنُودَهُۥ فَنَبَذْنَٰهُمْ فِى ٱلْيَمِّ ۖ فَٱنظُرْ كَيْفَ كَانَ عَٰقِبَةُ ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ

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 Muhsin Khan
 Pickthall
 Yusuf Ali
Quran Project
So We took him and his soldiers and threw them into the sea. So see how was the end of the wrongdoers.

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Word Arabic word
(28:40:1)
fa-akhadhnāhu
So We seized him
(28:40:2)
wajunūdahu
and his hosts
(28:40:3)
fanabadhnāhum
and We threw them
(28:40:4)
(28:40:5)
l-yami
the sea
(28:40:6)
fa-unẓur
So see
(28:40:7)
kayfa
how
(28:40:8)
kāna
was
(28:40:9)
ʿāqibatu
(the) end
(28:40:10)
l-ẓālimīna
(of) the wrongdoers

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Explanatory Note

Hence, God’s punishment was quick. Pharaoh was seized with force and cast into the sea as though he was a little stone. We note the contrast between Moses being cast into the river when he was a newborn baby and he finds in it a safe shelter, and Pharaoh, the tyrant king, being cast into the sea, only to be destroyed. Safety and security are ensured when one is on God’s side, while fear and destruction are attendant with the other side. We note that in the Arabic text, the same word, yamm, is used for both river and sea as this signifies a great body of water.

“Look what happened in the end to those wrongdoers.” It is an end that is met in full view, so as to serve as a lesson and a warning for all who deny God’s messages. It shows how God’s power overwhelms tyrants and despots in no time at all, so as to make their end easy to describe in just half a line or even less.

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According to Ibn Abbas (a great companion of the Prophet) the Surah 26: ash-Shu’ara’ (The Poets), Surah 27: an-Naml (The Ants) and Surah 28: al-Qasas (The Story) were sent down one after the other. The language, the style and the theme also show that the period of the revelation of these three Surahs is nearly the same. Another reason for their close resemblance is that the different parts of the story of Prophet Moses are mentioned in these Surahs together to make up a complete story.

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