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The Prophet Muhammad (saas)

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Words cannot express just how astonishing it is that this spell
should hold such a wide community in thrall, keep people from the
truth, and not be broken for 150 years. It is understandable that one or a
few people might believe in impossible scenarios and claims full of stu-
pidity and illogicality. However, "magic" is the only possible explanation
for people from all over the world believing that unconscious and lifeless
atoms suddenly decided to come together and form a universe that func-
tions with a flawless system of organization, discipline, reason and con-
sciousness, the planet Earth with all its features so perfectly suited to life,
and living things full of countless complex systems.
In fact, Allah reveals in the Qur'an in the incident of the Prophet
Musa and Pharaoh that some people who support atheistic philosophies
actually influence others by magic. When Pharaoh was told about the
true religion, he told the Prophet Musa to meet with his own magicians.
When the Prophet Musa did so, he told them to demonstrate their abili-
ties first. The verses continue:

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As we have seen, Pharaoh's magicians were able to deceive every-
one, apart from the Prophet Musa and those who believed in him.
However, the evidence put forward by the Prophet Musa broke that
spell, or "swallowed up what they had forged" as the verse puts it.
We revealed to Musa, "Throw down your staff." And it im-
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As we can see from that verse, when it was realized that what these
people who had first cast a spell over others had done was just an illu-
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