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Surah 20. Ta-Ha, Ayah 51

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قَالَ فَمَا بَالُ ٱلْقُرُونِ ٱلْأُولَىٰ
Q a la fam a b a lu alqurooni alool a
Said [Pharaoh]: "And what of all the past generations?"32
  - Mohammad Asad

Sc., "who used to worship a plurality of deities: are they, in thy view, irretrievably doomed?"

Fir'on asked: "What do you say about the condition of previous generations?"
  - Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik
Pharaoh asked, 'And what about previous peoples?'
  - Mustafa Khattab
He said : What then is the state of the generations of old?
  - Marmaduke Pickthall
(Pharaoh) said: "What then is the condition of previous generations?" 2574
  - Abdullah Yusuf Ali

But Pharaoh was not the man to accept teaching from the despised Israelite-one, too, who in his eyes was a renegade from the higher Egyptian civilisation. "If," he says in effect, "there is only one God, to Whom all things are referred, this is a new religion. What of the religion of our ancestors? Were they wrong in worshipping the Egyptian gods? And if they were wrong, are they in misery now? He wanted to trap Moses into a scathing denunciation of his ancestors, which would at once have deprived him of the sympathy or the hearing of the Egyptian crowd.

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