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Scholarly commentary explaining a verse — its context, its meaning and how the scholars have understood it.

Taha 20:78

Word by word

فَأَتْبَعَهُمْ فِرْعَوْنُ بِجُنُودِهِۦ فَغَشِيَهُم مِّنَ ٱلْيَمِّ مَا غَشِيَهُمْ

So Pharaoh pursued them with his soldiers, and there covered them from the sea that which covered them,

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Tafsir Muyassar

Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Saudi Arabia

فأسرى موسى ببني إسرائيل، وعبر بهم طريقًا في البحر، فأتبعهم فرعون بجنوده، فغمرهم من الماء ما لا يعلم كنهه إلا الله، فغرقوا جميعًا ونجا موسى وقومه.

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