Tafsir Al-Jalalayn: Ash-Shu'araa, Ayah 29

Ash-Shu'araa · Ayah 29 · View Ayah
قَالَ لَئِنِ ٱتَّخَذْتَ إِلَٰهًا غَيْرِى لَأَجْعَلَنَّكَ مِنَ ٱلْمَسْجُونِينَ
[Pharaoh] said, "If you take a god other than me, I will surely place you among those imprisoned."

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Al-Jalalayn Commentary

He Pharaoh said to Moses ‘If you choose any god other than me I will surely make you a prisoner!’. His Pharaoh’s prison was very harsh for a person would be shut up in a dungeon underground alone where he could neither see nor hear anyone else.

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((Pharaoh) said: If thou choosest) if you worship (a god other than me) O Moses, (I assuredly shall place thee among the prisoners) his prisons were worse than death, for he used to put people in complete isolation, unable to see or hear anyone.

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