وَ إِنَّمَا قَالَ ذَلِكَ لِقَوْمِهِ‏ «أَنَا رَبُّكُمُ...

وَ إِنَّمَا قَالَ ذَلِكَ لِقَوْمِهِ‏ «أَنَا رَبُّكُمُ الْأَعْلى‏» حِينَ انْتَهَى إِلَى الْبَحْرِ فَرَآهُ قَدْ يَبِسَتْ فِيهِ الطَّرِيقُ فَقَالَ لِقَوْمِهِ: تَرَوْنَ الْبَحْرَ قَدْ يَبِسَ مِنْ فَرَقِي فَصَدَّقُوهُ لَمَّا رَأَوْا وَ ذَلِكَ قَوْلُهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ: «وَ أَضَلَّ فِرْعَوْنُ قَوْمَهُ وَ ما هَدى‏ And rather he -la said that to his -la people: ‘I am your lord, the most exalted!’ [79:24] , when he -la ended up to the sea. So I -as saw him -la , the path had been dried up in it.

So he -la said to his -la people: Do you all see the sea to have dried up due to my -la separating it?’ So they ratified him -la when they saw, and these are the Words of the Mighty and Majestic: And Pharaoh led his people astray and did not guide [20:79] ’’. [26] قال: و روى أبو بصير، عن أبي جعفر (عليه السلام)، قال: «قال رسول الله (صلى الله عليه و آله): قال جبرئيل (عليه السلام): قلت: يا رب، تدع فرعون و قد قال: أَنَا رَبُّكُمُ الْأَعْلى!

فقال: إنما يقول هذا مثلك من يخاف الفوت (Al-Tabarsy) said, ‘It has been reported by Abu Baseer: ‘Abu Ja’far -asws has said that the Rasool-Allah -saww said: ‘Jibraeel -as said: ‘I -as said: ‘O Lord -azwj ! You -azwj have left Pharaoh -la to be, and he -la has said, ‘I am your lord, the most exalted!’ [79:24] ?’ He -azwj Said: “But rather, he -la is saying this like the (saying of the) one who fears the death’.

[27] و فيه بإسناده‏ إلى إسحاق بن عمّار الصّيرفيّ، عن أبي الحسن الماضي، في حديث طويل يقول في آخره: و إنّ في جوف تلك الحيّة، لسبع صناديق، فيها خمسة من الأمم السّالفة و اثنان من هذه الأمّة And in it (Sawaab Al-Amaal), by his chain going up to Is’haq Bin Ammar Al-Sayrafi, from Abu Al-Hassan Al-Maazy -asws (7 th Imam -asws ), in a lengthy Hadeeth, he -asws is saying at the end of it: ‘And in the interior of that serpent would be seven boxes wherein would be five from the past communities and two from this community’.

قال: قلت: جعلت فداك! و من الخمسة؟ و من الاثنان؟ قال: أمّا الخمسة: فقابيل الّذي قتل هابيل، و نمرود الّذي حاجّ إبراهيم في ربّه، قال: أَنَا أُحْيِي وَ أُمِيتُ.، و فرعون الّذي قال: أَنَا رَبُّكُمُ الْأَعْلى‏.، و يهود الّذي هوّد اليهود، و بولس الّذي نصر النّصارى. و من هذه الأمة، أعرابيّان He (the narrator) said, ‘I said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you -asws ! And who are the five?

And who are the two?’ He -asws said: ‘As for the five – so it is Qabeel -la who killed Habeel, and Nimrod -la who disputed against Ibrahim -as regarding his -as Lord -azwj . He said: ‘I cause to live and I cause to die’ [2:258] .

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