Exegesis of the saying of Allah the Exalted: “And Pharaoh said, ‘Leave me to kill Moses, and let him call upon his Lord. Indeed, I fear that he will change your religion or that he will cause corruption to appear in the land.’”

Then Allah the Exalted said: I seek refuge in Allah. They had proposed to kill the sons of the Children of Israel and keep their women alive, but Pharaoh said: Leave me to kill Moses. He said this because Moses was the leader of the Children of Israel, and it is known that killing the leader causes the followers to become weak and feeble.
And in his saying: is evidence of Pharaoh's deception and that he was a deceiver, a schemer, and a wicked man. It is as if he is saying that the people are restraining me from killing Musa, and were it not that the people are restraining me, I would have killed him. So he says, "Leave me to deal with him; leave me to kill him," even though no one can prevent him from his desire, because he says to them, "I am your supreme Lord." But he feigns, saying, "Let me kill Musa." And "kill" is in the jussive mood because it is the response to a command. The response to a command is in the jussive mood. Is it in the jussive mood because of the command, or because of an implied condition? There are two opinions on this:
The first opinion is that it is in the jussive mood because of the command, and the second is that it is in the jussive mood because of an implied condition. The implied meaning is: “If you leave me, I will kill Moses.” The rule for us in exegesis and in hadith is that when the speech revolves around whether there is an implied meaning or not, the original state is that there is no implied meaning. Accordingly, we say that “kill” (aqtil) is a present tense verb in the jussive mood because it is the response to a command, and the sign of its jussive mood is the sukun (quiescence).