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Then the people of Pharaoh Picked him up (from the river): (It was intended) that (Moses) Should be to them an adversary And a cause of sorrow: 3334 For Pharaoh and Haman And (all) their hosts were Men of sin. 9.
The wife of Pharaoh said: "(Here is) a joy of the eye,333; For me and for thee: Slay him not. It may be That he will be of use To us, or we may adopt Him as a son." And they Perceived not (what they Were doing)!3336
10. And the heart Of the mother of Moses Became void: She was going almost to Disclose his (case), had We Not strengthened her heart (With faith), so that she Might remain a (firm) believer. 3337
3334. This was the Plan of Providence: that the wicked might cast a net round themselves by fostering the man who was to bring them to naught and be the instrument of their punishment,-or (looking at it from the other side) that Moses might learn all the wisdom of the Egyptians in order to expose all that was hollow and wicked in it. 3335. He was a darling to look at, and Pharaoh had apparently no son, but only a daughter, who afterwards shared his throne. This is on the supposition that the Pharaoh was Thothmes. 3336. In all life Providence so orders things that Evil is defeated by its own weapons. Not only is it defeated, but it actually, though unwittingly, advances the cause of Good! 3337. The mother's heart felt the gaping void at parting from her son; but her Faith in Allah's Providence kept her from betraying herself.
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