5 Preface وَنُريدُ أَن نَمُنَّ عَلَى الَّذينَ استُضعِفوا فِي الأَرضِ وَنَجعَلَهُم أَئِمَّةً وَنَجعَلَهُمُ الوارِثينَYusuf AliAnd We wished to be Gracious to those who were being depressed on the land.1 To make them leaders (in Faith) and make them heirs,What Pharaoh wished was to crush them. But God’s Plan was to protect them as they were weak, and indeed to make them custodians and leaders in His Faith, and to give them in inheritance a land “flowing with milk and honey”. Here they were established in authority for such time as they followed God’s Law. As regards Pharaoh and his ministers and hosts, they were to be shown that they would suffer, at the hands of the Israelites, the very calamities against which they were so confidently taking precautions for themselves.