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Sura 23
Aya 46
46
إِلىٰ فِرعَونَ وَمَلَئِهِ فَاستَكبَروا وَكانوا قَومًا عالينَ

Muhammad Asad

unto Pharaoh and his great ones;1 but these behaved with arrogance, for they were people wont to glorify [only] themselves.
  • Moses and Aaron are mentioned here by name because their case was different from that of all other prophets: they were rejected not by their own community but by their community's oppressors.