139 Preface إِنَّ هٰؤُلاءِ مُتَبَّرٌ ما هُم فيهِ وَباطِلٌ ما كانوا يَعمَلونَYusuf Ali“As to these folk,- the cult they are in is (but) a fragment of a ruin,1 and vain is the (worship) which they practise.”If conjecture 2 in the last note is correct, this idolatrous worship was but the fragment of a ruin from Egypt, and Moses’s reproach is biting: 'You, who have been rescued from the bondage of living Egypt-do you hanker after the bondage of a dead cult debased even from that from which you have been rescued?” Mutabbar- broken in pieces, smashed into fragments, destroyed.