The Holy Quran 26:22 — Surah Ash-Shu'ara

Arabic text

وَتِلْكَ نِعْمَةٌ تَمُنُّهَا عَلَىَّ أَنْ عَبَّدتَّ بَنِىٓ إِسْرَٰٓءِيلَ

Translation

"The favour you remind me of (that you raised me as a child) is because you (wish to overshadow the fact that you) enslaved the Bani Israa'eel. (However, the wrongs you do cannot be justified by the good you did)."

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

that is, it does not befit you to remind me of the favour of my upbringing in childhood. Can raising one child of the Children of Israel be an answer for your having enslaved his entire people? All the more so when the raising of that child itself came about precisely as a result of your own heart-rending cruelties.

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