وَنَادَىٰ And called out wanādā Firaun fir'ʿawnu among fī his people qawmihi he said qāla O my people yāqawmi Is not alaysa for me lī (the) kingdom mul'ku (of) Egypt miṣ'ra and these wahādhihi [the] rivers l-anhāru flowing tajrī underneath me min underneath me taḥtī Then do not afalā you see tub'ṣirūna
And Pharaoh called out among his people; he said, "O my people, does not the kingdom of Egypt belong to me, and these rivers flowing beneath me; then do you not see?
أَمْ Or am am I anā better khayrun than min this hādhā one who alladhī he huwa (is) insignificant mahīnun and hardly walā and hardly yakādu clear yubīnu
Or am I [not] better than this one [i.e., Moses] who is insignificant and hardly makes himself clear?
فَلَوْلَآ Then why not falawlā are placed ul'qiya on him ʿalayhi bracelets aswiratun of min gold dhahabin or aw come jāa with him maʿahu the Angels l-malāikatu accompanying (him) muq'tarinīna
Then why have there not been placed upon him bracelets of gold or come with him the angels in conjunction?"
فَٱسْتَخَفَّ So he bluffed fa-is'takhaffa his people qawmahu and they obeyed him fa-aṭāʿūhu Indeed, they innahum were kānū a people qawman defiantly disobedient fāsiqīna
So he bluffed his people, and they obeyed him. Indeed, they were [themselves] a people defiantly disobedient [of Allāh].
فَلَمَّآ So when falammā they angered Us āsafūnā We took retribution intaqamnā from them min'hum and We drowned them fa-aghraqnāhum all ajmaʿīna
And when they angered Us, We took retribution from them and drowned them all.
فَجَعَلْنَـٰهُمْ And We made them fajaʿalnāhum a precedent salafan and an example wamathalan for the later (generations) lil'ākhirīna
And We made them a precedent and an example for the later peoples.