The walls of water waved and...
The walls of water waved and, like an old building the base of which is broken, fell down all of a sudden. The verse says: “…so (the bellows) of the sea covered them, as they were covered (completely drowned).” And, in this way, an unjust cruel power together with its powerful forces were wholly covered by the masses of water in the sea and were swallowed by the fish of that sea in the form of a ready made food.
Yes, it is true that the verse says: “And Pharaoh led his people astray and he did not guide them (aright).” However, the Arabic word /’isra’/ means ‘to travel by night’. The word /yabas/ is called to a place where it has become dry now. The term /darak/ means the losses which encompasses a person. And, the objective meaning of the Qur’anic term /‘ibadi/, mentioned in this holy verse, is the Children of Israel.
We delivered you from your enemy, and We made a covenant with you on the right side of Tur (the Mount Sinai), and We sent down unto you Manna and quails.” The subject of the deliverance of the Children of Israel from the cruelty of Pharaoh, and the descent of Manna and the quails for them when they were wandering in the desert, have been mentioned in the Qur’an several times.
The Arabic term /manna/ apparently means: ‘honey and hedysarum’, while /salwa/ means ‘quails’, a kind of bird the meat of which is delicious and lawful for eating. The phrase: “ and We made a covenant with you on the right side of Tur ”, mentioned in the verse, is an indication to the event of the tryst of Tur, the Mount Sinai, where Moses, accompanied with a group of the Children of Israel, went. There, Allah sent down the Tablets of Turah to Moses (as).
Law is usually the most important necessity of a community after dismissing the tyrannical ruler and formation of a government. This holy verse addresses the Children of Israel and, in general, all human being in any time, and reminds them the great bounties that Allah has bestowed on them and leads them to the path of salvation. At first it says: “O Children of Israel!