ٱلْقَصَص : ١٥

  • وَدَخَلَ And he entered
  • ٱلۡمَدِينَةَ the city
  • عَلَىٰ at
  • حِينِ a time
  • غَفۡلَةٖ (of) inattention
  • مِّنۡ of
  • أَهۡلِهَا its people
  • فَوَجَدَ and found
  • فِيهَا therein
  • رَجُلَيۡنِ two men
  • يَقۡتَتِلَانِ fighting each other
  • هَٰذَا this
  • مِن of
  • شِيعَتِهِۦ his party
  • وَهَٰذَا and this
  • مِنۡ of
  • عَدُوِّهِۦۖ his enemy
  • فَٱسۡتَغَٰثَهُ And called him for help
  • ٱلَّذِي the one who
  • مِن (was) from
  • شِيعَتِهِۦ his party
  • عَلَى against
  • ٱلَّذِي the one who
  • مِنۡ (was) from
  • عَدُوِّهِۦ his enemy
  • فَوَكَزَهُۥ so struck him with his fist
  • مُوسَىٰ Musa
  • فَقَضَىٰ and killed him
  • عَلَيۡهِۖ and killed him
  • قَالَ He said
  • هَٰذَا This (is)
  • مِنۡ of
  • عَمَلِ (the) deed
  • ٱلشَّيۡطَٰنِۖ (of) Shaitaan
  • إِنَّهُۥ Indeed, he
  • عَدُوّٞ (is) an enemy
  • مُّضِلّٞ one who misleads
  • مُّبِينٞ clearly
And he entered the city at a time of inattention by its people1 and found therein two men fighting: one from his faction and one from among his enemy. And the one from his faction called for help to him against the one from his enemy, so Moses struck him and [unintentionally] killed him. [Moses] said, "This is from the work of Satan. Indeed, he is a manifest, misleading enemy."
Footnotes
1 - i.e., during the noon period of rest.
And he, Moses, entered the city, Pharaoh's city, Memphis, having been absent from it for a while, at a time when its people were oblivious, the time of the afternoon nap, and found therein two men fighting, one of his own faction, namely, an Israelite, and the other of his enemies, in other words, an Egyptian, who was exploiting an Israelite to carry firewood to Pharaoh's kitchen. So the one who was of his faction called to him for help against the one who was of his enemies, and so Moses said to him, 'Leave him be!', and it is said that he replied to Moses [thus]: 'I am truly considering making you carry this [firewood]!'. So Moses punched him, that is, he hit him with his fist clenched - he [Moses] was a strong man with a powerful strike, and did away with him, that is, he killed him, but he had not intended to kill him. He buried him in the sand. He said, 'This, killing of him, is of Satan's doing, inciting my anger. Indeed he is an enemy, to the son of Adam, a manifest misleader', of him.