ٱلنَّازِعَات : ٢٥

  • فَأَخَذَهُ So seized him
  • ٱللَّهُ Allah
  • نَكَالَ (with) an exemplary punishment
  • ٱلۡأٓخِرَةِ (for) the last
  • وَٱلۡأُولَىٰٓ and the first
So Allāh seized him in exemplary punishment for the last and the first [transgression].1.
Footnotes
1 i.e., for Pharaoh's setting himself up as a deity and for his previous oppression of the people and denial of Moses.
So God seized him, He destroyed him by drowning him, as punishment for the latter, that is to say, these [last] words [of his], and for the former, that is to say, his saying previously, 'I do not know of any god for you other than me' [Q. 28:38] - and between the two [claims made by Pharaoh] was an interval of forty years.