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Al-Baqarah 2:61

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وَإِذْ قُلْتُمْ يَـٰمُوسَىٰ لَن نَّصْبِرَ عَلَىٰ طَعَامٍ وَٰحِدٍ فَٱدْعُ لَنَا رَبَّكَ يُخْرِجْ لَنَا مِمَّا تُنۢبِتُ ٱلْأَرْضُ مِنۢ بَقْلِهَا وَقِثَّآئِهَا وَفُومِهَا وَعَدَسِهَا وَبَصَلِهَا ۖ قَالَ أَتَسْتَبْدِلُونَ ٱلَّذِى هُوَ أَدْنَىٰ بِٱلَّذِى هُوَ خَيْرٌ ۚ ٱهْبِطُوا۟ مِصْرًا فَإِنَّ لَكُم مَّا سَأَلْتُمْ ۗ وَضُرِبَتْ عَلَيْهِمُ ٱلذِّلَّةُ وَٱلْمَسْكَنَةُ وَبَآءُو بِغَضَبٍ مِّنَ ٱللَّهِ ۗ ذَٰلِكَ بِأَنَّهُمْ كَانُوا۟ يَكْفُرُونَ بِـَٔايَـٰتِ ٱللَّهِ وَيَقْتُلُونَ ٱلنَّبِيِّـۧنَ بِغَيْرِ ٱلْحَقِّ ۗ ذَٰلِكَ بِمَا عَصَوا۟ وَّكَانُوا۟ يَعْتَدُونَ

And [recall] when you said, "O Moses, we can never endure one [kind of] food. So call upon your Lord to bring forth for us from the earth its green herbs and its cucumbers and its garlic and its lentils and its onions." [Moses] said, "Would you exchange what is better for what is less? Go into [any] settlement and indeed, you will have what you have asked." And they were covered with humiliation and poverty and returned with anger from Allāh [upon them]. That was because they [repeatedly] disbelieved in the signs of Allāh and killed the prophets without right. That was because they disobeyed and were [habitually] transgressing.

Tafsir Muyassar

Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Saudi Arabia

واذكروا حين أنزلنا عليكم الطعام الحلو، والطير الشهي، فبطِرتم النعمة كعادتكم، وأصابكم الضيق والملل، فقلتم: يا موسى لن نصبر على طعام ثابت لا يتغير مع الأيام، فادع لنا ربك يخرج لنا من نبات الأرض طعامًا من البقول والخُضَر، والقثاء والحبوب التي تؤكل، والعدس، والبصل. قال موسى -مستنكرًا عليهم-: أتطلبون هذه الأطعمة التي هي أقل قدرًا، وتتركون هذا الرزق النافع الذي اختاره الله لكم؟ اهبطوا من هذه البادية إلى أي مدينة، تجدوا ما اشتهيتم كثيرًا في الحقول والأسواق. ولما هبطوا تبيَّن لهم أنهم يُقَدِّمون اختيارهم -في كل موطن- على اختيار الله، ويُؤْثِرون شهواتهم على ما اختاره الله لهم; لذلك لزمتهم صِفَةُ الذل وفقر النفوس، وانصرفوا ورجعوا بغضب من الله; لإعراضهم عن دين الله، ولأنهم كانوا يكفرون بآيات الله ويقتلون النبيين ظلمًا وعدوانًا; وذلك بسبب عصيانهم وتجاوزهم حدود ربهم.

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