And Fir`awn with Al-Awtad,Al-`Awfi reported from Ibn `Abbas that he said,"Al-Awtad are the armies who enforced his commands for him."It has also been said that Fir`awn used to nail their hands and their feet into pegs (Awtad) of iron that he would hang them from.A similar statement was made by Mujahid when he said,"He used to nail the people (up) on pegs."Sa`id bin Jubayr, Al-Hasan and As-Suddi all said the same thing.Allah said,الَّذِينَ طَغَوْا فِي الْبِلَدِ