14 Preface وَلَهُم عَلَيَّ ذَنبٌ فَأَخافُ أَن يَقتُلونِYusuf Ali“And (further), they have a charge of crime against me;1 and I fear they may slay me.”Moses was brought up in the palace of Pharaoh, as narrated in his personal story in 20:39-40 and n. 2563. When he was grown-up he saw an Egyptian smiting an Israelite, and as the Israelites were being generally oppressed by the Egyptians, Moses’s anger was roused, and he slew the Egyptian. He then fled to the Midianite country in the Sinai peninsula, where he received the divine commission. But the charge of slaying the Egyptian was hanging against him. He was also apparently irascible. But God’s grace cured his temper and he became wise; his impediment in speech, for he stood up boldly to speak to Pharaoh; and his fear, for he dared the Egyptians with God’s Signs, and they were afraid of him.