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earth belongs to Allah. He bequeathes it to any of His servants He
wills. The successful outcome is for those who guard against evil.'
They said, 'We suffered harm before you came to us and after you
came to us.' He said, 'It may well be that your Lord is going to destroy
your enemy and make you the successors in the land so that He can
see how you behave.' (Surat al-A'raf, 128-129)
Allah's Punishment Imposed on Pharaoh and His People
We seized Pharaoh's people with years of drought and scarcity of
fruits so that hopefully they would pay heed. Whenever a good thing
came to them, they said, 'This is our due.' But if anything bad hap-
pened to them, they would blame their ill fortune on Musa and those
with him. No indeed! In truth the omens of evil are theirs in Allah's
sight. But most of them did not know. They said, 'No matter what kind
of Sign you bring us to bewitch us, we will not believe in you.' So We
sent down on them floods, locusts, lice, frogs and blood, Signs, clear
and distinct, but they proved arrogant and were an evildoing people.
Whenever the plague came down on them they said, 'Musa, pray to
your Lord for us by the contract He has with you. If you remove the
plague from us, we will definitely believe in you and send the tribe of
Israel away with you.' But when We removed the plague from them –
for a fixed term which they fulfilled – they broke their word. (Surat al-
A'raf, 130-135)

Pharaoh's Scornfulness of His People
Pharaoh called to his people, saying, 'My people, does the kingdom
of Egypt not belong to me? Do not all these rivers flow under my con-
trol? Do you not then see? Am I not better than this man who is con-
temptible and can scarcely make anything clear? Why have gold
bracelets not been put upon his arms and why is there not a train of an-
gels accompanying him?' Thus did he make fools of his people, and
they obeyed him: truly were they a people rebellious. (Surat az-
Zukhruf, 51-54)
No one believed in Musa except for a few of his people out of fear
that Pharaoh, and the elders, would persecute them. Pharaoh was
high and mighty in the land. He was one of the profligate. (Surah
Yunus, 83)