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أَسْبَابَ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ فَأَطَّلِعَ إِلَىٰ إِلَـٰهِ مُوسَىٰ وَإِنِّي لأَظُنُّهُ كَاذِباً وَكَـذَلِكَ زُيِّنَ لِفِرْعَوْنَ سُوۤءُ عَمَلِهِ وَصُدَّ عَنِ ٱلسَّبِيلِ وَمَا كَـيْدُ فِرْعَوْنَ إِلاَّ فِي تَبَابٍ
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Tafsir al-Jalalayn

the routes of the heavens — the paths that lead to it, and look upon (read [indicative] fa-attali‘u as a supplement to ablughu, ‘I may reach’; or read [subjunctive] fa-attali‘a, as the response to ibni lī, ‘build for me’) the God of Moses; for I truly think that he, that is, Moses, is lying’, about his having a god other than me — Pharaoh said this in order to disguise [the truth]. And that is how the evil [nature] of his conduct was made to seem fair to Pharaoh, and [that is how] he was barred from the [right] way, the path to guidance (read sadda, ‘[that is how] he barred [others]’, or sudda, ‘[that is how] he was barred’). And Pharaoh’s guile ended only in ruin, loss.


Tafsir al-Jalalayn, trans. Feras Hamza
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