Moses in Qur’an and Bible
Ali Musa Raza Muhajir
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Chapter 1: The Tyranny of Pharaoh over the Israelites
Surely Fir’aun0 exalted himself in the land and divided its people into parties, oppressing one party from among them by killing their sons and sparing their women. Surely he was one of the mischief-makers. And We desired to bestow a favour upon those who were Oppressed in the land and to make them leaders and the heirs and to grant them power in the land to make Fir’aun and Haman1 and their hosts see from them what they feared. (28: 4-6)
The two parties were the Israelites and the Egyptians, the latter being the task-masters of the former corresponding to the parties at Mecca, the idolatrous Quraish who were the Oppressors and the followers of the Prophet who were the oppressed. Pharaoh and his Counsellors, fearing that the Israelites, who were aliens in the land of Egypt, might one day become powerful and supreme in the land, oppressed and persecuted them in various ways.