428. The abode of criminals.
In verse (7:145) it is said ‘Will show you the abode of criminals’.
Some opine the abode of criminals refers to hell, this cannot be accepted.
In the hereafter the Almighty would display hell for everyone to witness, and the paradise dwellers also would pass by it.
Hence this is a meaningless interpretation.
Prophet Musa and his community feared Firon and relinquished all their belongings and fled away from him.
This phrase has been made use of in the sense, the people who fled Egypt would return, and be shown the abodes of the perpetrators, and resettle them there. This interpretation we find as appropriate.
Verses (7:137, 17:103,104, 44:23,28, 26:57-59) of the Quran that talk about the return of these people to Egypt to resettle confirms this interpretation.
