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wa-ʾawrathnā l-qawma lladhīna kānū yustaḍʿafūna mashāriqa l-ʾarḍi wa-maghāribahā llatī bāraknā fīhā wa-tammat kalimatu rabbika l-ḥusnā ʿalā banī ʾisrāʾīla bi-mā ṣabarū wa-dammarnā mā kāna yaṣnaʿu firʿawnu wa-qawmuhū wa-mā kānū yaʿrishūna
We made the people who were abased the heirs to the east and west of the land which We had blessed, and your Lord’s best word [of promise] was fulfilled for the Children of Israel because of their patience, and We destroyed what Pharaoh and his people had built and what they used to erect.
— Ali Quli Qarai
Surah al-‘Araf – Verse 137
137 . “And We made the people, who were abased, the inheritors to the east (parts) of the land and the west (parts) of it which We had blessed therein, and the good word of your Lord about the Children of Israel was fulfilled for what they endured patiently, and We destroyed what Pharaoh and his people had built and what they used to erect.”
The region that the Children of Israel inherited included of Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon and present Palestine. Those lands contained both material bounties and spiritual bounties, where the great prophets raised and were buried. The lands which were under the control of Pharaoh and his people were so vast that there were different horizons and with different hours of risings and settings of the sun therein. From the points of industry, agriculture, and interesting buildings of their time, the people of Pharaoh were very developed. The verse says:
Yet, since the governments of divine prophets have been the governments of the oppressed, and Allah fulfills His promises, those oppressed people who show patience and perseverance can become the inheritors of the earth, as the verse indicates: