THE CHAMPION OF CONTEST AGAINST PHARAOH  (VERSES NO. 96 - 99)

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Quran,Translation and Commentary in Brief (Vol. 03)
Verses 100-104Verses 96-99

      The story of Moses and Pharaoh has been referred to, in many passages of Qurän; and much more than any other apostle. In more than 30 chapters and in over than a hundred passages, the story is referred to, and in each case with some special points to be illustrated.

      The peculiarity of the incident of Moses, compared with the other apostles, lays in the strive and struggle of Moses against an arrogant and selfish dictator king, who misled his people against the truth; while the other apostles strived to amend and reform their people.

      Water must be refined at its source and spring. When some false leaders and arrogant governors rule people according to their caprices and fancies through dictatorship, it is very difficult to put things aright in that realm and dominion. This was why Moses and Aaron were sent first to advise and admonish Pharaoh:ِ

      ``We sent Moses with our signs and perspicuous authority to Pharaoh and his high officials.''

      Pharaoh's courtiers and high officials found their secular interests endangered by the spiritual and Divine message of Moses. They frightened Pharaoh of the advent of the Messenger of God, and so he began his propagations against Moses, and accused him by saying:ِ

      ``The two brothers have come here to discharge you from your native country! (S 7:110) And I am afraid of him to change your religion, and to corrupt your faith and land! (S 40:26)''

      Pharaoh's people believed him and followed him and obeyed his order, and Pharaoh's order was not matured. He therefore misled his people towards an everlasting misfortune. As a matter of fact, man falls under false leadership, by his own Free-Will, and deliberate choice, and perishes with his false leader accordingly. Pharaoh was an example of such false, selfish, arrogant, and ignorant, leaders who not only ruin themselves, that also mislead their people to misery and perdition:ِ

      ``They followed Pharaoh's order, and the command of him was not matured and reasonable.''

      He led them into a pit of fire instead of a spring of cold clean water.

      The Arabic, ©VERD¨ is the watering place that Man or cattle arrive at, and the metaphor here is very suited and fit. Instead of taking his followers to a cool and clean watering place, Pharaoh led his people down to the Fire of eternal torment and everlasting misery, in the life to come.

      Next world is a life in which our deeds and conducts that we have done here, will take form and shape there, and all things that exist there, are the very incarnation of our deeds here in the present life!

 

 

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