And when you said, “O Mūsā! We can never be content with one kind of food,[1] so supplicate for us to your Lord to bring forth that which the earth grows such as spinach, cucumber, wheat, lentils, and onions.” He said, “Do you seek something inferior in place of something superior? ˹As you wish,˺ reside in the region of Egypt or in a city; there you will have everything you asked for.” And ˹then˺ they were subjected to humiliation and indigence, and they[2] became deserving of the wrath of Allah; this was because they were rejecting the verses of Allah, and they were unjustly martyring Prophets. This is because they disobeyed and they were transgressing.

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