Tabari (1 passage)

1. Full Dutch translation of Tabari's text

   The explanation of the saying of Allah: وَإِذْ أَنْجَيْنَاكُمْ مِنْ آلِ فِرْعَوْنَ يَسُومُونَكُمْ سُوءَ الْعَذَابِ يُقَتِّلُونَ أَبْنَاءَكُمْ وَيَسْتَحْيُونَ نِسَاءَكُمْ وَفِي ذَلِكُمْ بَلاءٌ مِنْ رَبِّكُمْ عَظِيمٌ (141) (And when We saved you from the people of Pharaoh, who imposed upon you the worst punishment, killing your sons and letting your women live; and therein lay a tremendous trial from your Lord. (141))

   Abū Jaʿfar said: Allah, exalted is His mention, says to the Jews of the Children of Israel who were dwelling in the midst of the abode to which the Messenger of Allah ﷺ had emigrated: remember, alongside this saying of yours which you directed to Mūsā after you had seen the signs and the lessons, and after the favors which had come to you from Me in former times, and the benefactions that preceded — namely what you did — (when We saved you from the people of Pharaoh), and they were those who followed his way and his path in disbelief in Allah, from his people (13) = (who imposed upon you the worst punishment), He says: when they imposed upon you the most hideous and most evil punishment. (14)

   And we have already previously explained in this book of ours what the punishment was, the evil of which they imposed upon them. (15)

   = (They killed your sons), the male offspring among their children = (and let your women live), He says: they let their female offspring live (16) = (and therein lay a tremendous trial from your Lord), He says: and in their imposing upon you of the worst punishment lay a trial from Allah for you and a tremendous favor. (17)

   Footnotes: (13) See the explanation of "the people (āl)" earlier 2: 37 / 3: 222, note 3 / 6: 326 / 8: 480. (14) See the explanation of "the imposing (al-sawm)" earlier 2: 40. (15) See what has preceded 2: 40, 41. (16) See the explanation of "the letting live (al-istiḥyāʾ)" earlier 2: 41-48 / 13: 41. (17) See the explanation of "the trial (al-balāʾ)" earlier 12: 289, note 2, and the references therein. And in the printed edition it read: "wa-taʿammud ʿaẓīm", which has no meaning, and the correct reading is what has been adopted; see what has preceded in the explanation of the counterpart verse of this verse 2: 48, 49, for from it I derived the correct reading.

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   القول في تأويل قوله : وَإِذْ أَنْجَيْنَاكُمْ مِنْ آلِ فِرْعَوْنَ يَسُومُونَكُمْ سُوءَ الْعَذَابِ يُقَتِّلُونَ أَبْنَاءَكُمْ وَيَسْتَحْيُونَ نِسَاءَكُمْ وَفِي ذَلِكُمْ بَلاءٌ مِنْ رَبِّكُمْ عَظِيمٌ (141) قال أبو جعفر: يقول تعالى ذكره لليهود من بني إسرائيل الذين كانوا بين ظهراني مهاجَر رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم: واذكروا مع قيلكم هذا الذي قلتموه لموسى بعد رؤيتكم من الآيات والعبر, وبعد النعم التي سلفت مني إليكم, والأيادي التي تقدمت = فعلَكم ما فعلتم =(إذ أنجيناكم من آل فرعون)، وهم الذين كانوا على منهاجه وطريقته في الكفر بالله من قومه (13) =(يسومونكم سوء العذاب)، يقول: إذ يحملونكم أقبح العذاب وسيئه. (14) * * * وقد بينا فيما مضى من كتابنا هذا ما كان العذاب الذي كان يسومهم سيئه. (15) * * * =(يقتلون أبناءكم)، الذكورَ من أولادهم =(ويستحيون نساءكم)، يقول: يستبقون إناثهم (16) =(وفي ذلكم بلاء من ربكم عظيم)، يقول: وفي سومهم إياكم سوء العذاب, اختبار من الله لكم ونعمة عظيمة. (17) ----------------------- الهوامش : (13) انظر تفسير (( الآل )) فيما سلف 2 : 37 / 3 : 222 ، تعليق 3 / 6 : 326 / 8 : 480 . (14) انظر تفسير (( السوم )) فيما سلف 2 : 40 . (15) انظر ما سلف 2 : 40 ، 41 . (16) انظر تفسير (( الاستحياء )) فيما سلف 2 : 41 - 48 / 13 : 41 . (17) انظر تفسير (( البلاء )) فيما سلف 12 : 289 ، تعليق : 2 ، والمراجع هناك . وكان في المطبوعة : (( وتعمد عظيم )) ، ولا معنى له ، والصواب ما أثبت ، وانظر ما سلف في تفسير نظيرة هذه الآية 2 : 48 ، 49 ، فمنه استظهرت الصواب .