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Surah 44. Ad-Dukhan, Ayah 17

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وَلَقَدْ فَتَنَّا قَبْلَهُمْ قَوْمَ فِرْعَوْنَ وَجَآءَهُمْ رَسُولٌ كَرِيمٌ Qur’an Ad-Dukhan (44:17)
Walaqad fatann a qablahum qawma firAAawna waj a ahum rasoolun kareem un
AND, INDEED, [long] before their time did We try Pharaoh's people [in the same way]: for there came unto them a noble apostle, [who said:]
  - Mohammad Asad
Mohammad Asad
Before them We had put the people of Fir'on (Pharaoh) to the same test, when an honorable Rasool came to them,
  - Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik
Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik
Indeed, before them We tested Pharaoh's people: a noble messenger came to them,
  - Mustafa Khattab
Mustafa Khattab
And verily We tried before them Pharaoh's folk, when there came unto them a noble messenger,
  - Marmaduke Pickthall
Marmaduke Pickthall
We did before them try the people of Pharaoh: there came to them and apostle most honorable 4700 4701
  - Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Abdullah Yusuf Ali

This reference is to the pride of Pharaoh and his Egyptians, and their fall, rather than to the story of Moses himself; just as in xliv. 30-33 the reference is to the blessings bestowed on Israel, contrasted with their pride, unbelief, and fall; and in xliv. 37, to the ancient Himyar kingdom in Yaman, which similarly fell for its sins.

Most honourable: this epithet is specially applied to Moses here, as expressing the truth, in contrast to the Pharaoh's false characterisation of him as "a contemptible wretch". (xliii. 52).

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