The Holy Quran 7:136 — Surah Al-A'raf

Arabic text

فَٱنتَقَمْنَا مِنْهُمْ فَأَغْرَقْنَـٰهُمْ فِى ٱلْيَمِّ بِأَنَّهُمْ كَذَّبُوا۟ بِـَٔايَـٰتِنَا وَكَانُوا۟ عَنْهَا غَـٰفِلِينَ

Translation

So We took revenge on them (punished them) and drowned them in the (Red) sea because they rejected Our Aayaat and were negligent (the first son of every person was killed. whilst they were busy with the funeral, Moosa عليه الصلاة والسلام took the Bani Israa'eel out).

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

The drowning of the people of Pharaoh: in the view of some mufassirun (commentators), by رجز (rijz, punishment) is meant plague, as in some hadiths this word has been applied to plague. But most of the mufassirun regard these ayahs as an explanation of the preceding ayahs themselves.

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