سورة الشعراء، الآية ٢٢
وَتِلْكَ نِعْمَةٌ تَمُنُّهَا عَلَىَّ أَنْ عَبَّدتَّ بَنِىٓ إِسْرَٰٓءِيلَ ٢٢
watil'ka niʿ'matun tamunnuhā ʿalayya an ʿabbadtta banī is'rāīla
And is this a favor of which you remind me - that you have enslaved the Children of Israel?"
Verse 22 of Surah Ash-Shu’ara (26:22), a Meccan surah, is in juz 19, on page 368 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 74 reciters.
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Your bringing me up without enslaving me after you enslaved the Israelites is a favour that you are reminding me of?!
Is this a favor that you remind me with, that you have enslaved the Children of Israel?8
[8] i.e., If you had not been cruel to the Israelites, I should not have been brought to your house for upbringing.
"And this is the past favour with which you reproach me: that you have enslaved the Children of Israel."
And this is the past favour wherewith thou reproachest me: that thou hast enslaved the Children of Israel.
"And this is the favour with which thou dost reproach me,- that thou hast enslaved the Children of Israel!"
And is it a favor of which you remind me that you have enslaved the children of Israel?
And is that a favor you oblige me with, that you have taken the Seeds (Or: sons) of Israel) as slaves."
