The Stories
28. Al-Qaṣaṣ
القصص
Page #385
28:4
إِنَّ
فِرْعَوْنَ
عَلَا
فِي
الْأَرْضِ
وَجَعَلَ
أَهْلَهَا
شِيَعًا
يَسْتَضْعِفُ
طَائِفَةً
مِّنْهُمْ
يُذَبِّحُ
أَبْنَاءَهُمْ
وَيَسْتَحْيِي
نِسَاءَهُمْ
إِنَّهُ
كَانَ
مِنَ
الْمُفْسِدِينَ
ʾinna firʿawna ʿalā fī l-ʾarḍi wa-jaʿala ʾahlahā shiyaʿan yastaḍʿifu ṭāʾifatan minhum yudhabbiḥu ʾabnāʾahum wa-yastaḥyī nisāʾahum ʾinnahū kāna mina l-mufsidīna
Indeed Pharaoh tyrannized over the land, reducing its people to factions, abasing one group of them, slaughtering their sons, and sparing their women. Indeed, He was one of the agents of corruption.
— Ali Quli Qarai
Truly Pharaoh elated himself in the land and broke up its people into sections, depressing a small group among them: their sons he slew, but he kept alive their females: for he was indeed a maker of mischief.
