The Stories
28. Al-Qaṣaṣ
القصص
al-Qaṣaṣ (The Story)
ٱلْقَصَص
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
The Pharaoh dominated the land and divided its inhabitants into different groups, suppressing one group by killing their sons and keeping their women alive. He was certainly an evil-doer.
