إِنَّكَ كُنتَ بِنَا بَصِيرًا
Innaka kunta binaa baseeraa
You are always watching over us.’
Indeed, you have always seen us clearly.
The petition closes on a statement rather than another request. Every clause before it was singular, and this line says bi-nā, of us, so Musa speaks for the brother he has just asked to be given him, before any answer has come. Kāna with the participle sets the seeing in a settled past, something continuous behind him rather than a glance in the moment.