Tafseer of The Stories · Al-Qasas · 28:37
And Moses said, "My Lord is more knowing [than we or you] of who has come with guidance from Him and to whom will be succession in the home. Indeed, wrongdoers do not succeed."
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The word of Allah, the Exalted: وَقَالَ مُوسَى رَبِّي أَعْلَمُ بِمَنْ جَاءَ بِالْهُدَى مِنْ عِنْدِهِ وَمَنْ تَكُونُ لَهُ عَاقِبَةُ الدَّارِ إِنَّهُ لا يُفْلِحُ الظَّالِمُونَ (37)
Allah, the Exalted, says: وَقَالَ مُوسَى — in answer to Pharaoh: رَبِّي أَعْلَمُ — "My Lord knows best which of us, O Pharaoh, brings the truth and which the falsehood, and who it is that has been granted right guidance upon the path of what is correct and the clear proof from His side, and which of us will have the praiseworthy final abode in the Hereafter." This is a rejoinder from the prophet of Allah Mūsā, peace be upon him, to Pharaoh, and a most excellent manner of address, because he refrained from saying: "No, it is the one who has misled his people, destroyed his troops, and led his followers astray — that is you, not I." Instead he said: رَبِّي أَعْلَمُ بِمَنْ جَاءَ بِالْهُدَى مِنْ عِنْدِهِ وَمَنْ تَكُونُ لَهُ عَاقِبَةُ الدَّارِ . Then he reached the utmost depth of censure of the enemy of Allah in the most excellent manner, saying: إِنَّهُ لا يُفْلِحُ الظَّالِمُونَ — that is to say: those who disbelieve in Allah, the Exalted, do not succeed and do not attain their goal. By this he means Pharaoh — that he will have no success on account of his disbelief.
