moses you said we will no longer be patient with one type of food. call on your lord to bring forth for us some of the produce of the earth green herbs and cucumbers corn lentils and onions what he answered would you exchange that which is lesser for what is better? go down into egypt there you shall find all that you have asked humiliation and abasement were pitched upon them and they incurred the anger of allah because they disbelieved his signs and slew his prophets unjustly because they disobeyed and were transgressors.
وإذ قلتم يا موسى لن نصبر على طعام واحد فادع لنا ربك يخرج لنا مما تنبت الأرض من بقلها وقثائها وفومها وعدسها وبصلها قال أتستبدلون الذي هو أدنى بالذي هو خير اهبطوا مصرا فإن لكم ما سألتم وضربت عليهم الذلة والمسكنة وباءوا بغضب من الله ذلك بأنهم كانوا يكفرون بآيات الله ويقتلون النبيين بغير الحق ذلك بما عصوا وكانوا يعتدون