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[quote][quote]salam

can any one detail me what led firaun to eliminate all the newly born hebrews?[/quote] [blue]Allah says, [/blue] 28:4 - -

[blue] إِنَّ فِرْعَوْنَ عَلَا فِي الْأَرْضِ وَجَعَلَ أَهْلَهَا شِيَعًا يَسْتَضْعِفُ طَائِفَةً مِّنْهُمْ يُذَبِّحُ أَبْنَاءهُمْ وَيَسْتَحْيِي نِسَاءهُمْ إِنَّهُ كَانَ مِنَ الْمُفْسِدِينَ (28:4) [/blue]

28:4 (Asad)[b] Behold, Pharaoh exalted himself in the land and divided its people into castes. One group of them he deemed utterly low; he would slaughter their sons and spare (only) their women: for, behold, he was one of those who spread corruption [on earth]. -[/b]

Notes: Lit., &quot;parties&quot; or &quot;sects&quot; - here undoubtedly referring to the division of people into &quot;high&quot; and &quot;low-born&quot;: a division which the Qur’an utterly condemns. The group which, as mentioned in the next sentence, Pharaoh &quot;deemed utterly low&quot; were the Israelites, who had been placed on the lowest rung of the Egyptian social scale and were deprived of almost all human rights..(Quran Ref: 28:4 )

The Egyptians - obviously remembering the earlier, alien Hyksos dynasty that had invaded Egypt and subsequently allied itself with the Hebrews (see surah 12 note 42) - feared that the latter might in the future, too, make common cause with foreign invaders (cf. Exodus i, 10): and to protect themselves against this danger, they decided - as mentioned in several places in the Qur’an as well as in the Bible - to have every male Hebrew child killed.(Quran Ref: 28:6 )

(Translation and notes by Mohammed Asad)[/quote]

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