وَأَوْرَثْنَا الْقَوْمَ الَّذِينَ كَانُوا يُسْتَضْعَفُونَ مَشَارِقَ الْأَرْضِ وَمَغَارِبَهَا الَّتِي بَارَكْنَا فِيهَا
“And We caused the people who had been oppressed to inherit the eastern regions of the land and the western ones, which We had blessed”
Cited by the lecturer as a parallel to Bani Israel eventually becoming leaders despite early oppression, paralleling the low social status of the earliest converts to Islam.