Surah Taha Tafseer

Musa's fear of Fir`awn and Allah's strengthening Him

Allah, the Exalted, informs that Musa and Harun pleaded to Allah, expressing their grievance to him:

قَالَاا رَبَّنَا إِنَّنَا نَخَافُ أَن يَفْرُطَ عَلَيْنَا أَوْ أَن يَطْغَى

Both of them said:"Verily, we fear lest he should hasten to punish us or lest he should transgress."

They meant that Fir`awn might seize them unexpectedly with a punishment, or transgress against them by tormenting them, when they actually did not deserve it.

Ad-Dahhak reported from Ibn Abbas that he said that;

transgress here means, "To exceed the bounds."

قَالَ لَاا تَخَافَا إِنَّنِي مَعَكُمَا أَسْمَعُ وَأَرَى