Page 45 - The Prophet Moses (pbuh)

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

He said, "Our Lord is He Who gives each thing its created form and
then guides it."
He (Pharaoh) said, "What about the previous generations?"
He said, "Knowledge of them is with my Lord in a Book. My Lord
does not misplace nor does He forget."
It is He Who made the earth a cradle for you and threaded pathways
for you through it and sent down water from the sky by which We
have brought forth various different types of plants. Eat and pas-
ture your cattle. Certainly there are Signs in that for men of under-
standing. From it We created you, to it We will return you, and from
it We will bring you forth a second time. (Surah Ta-Ha: 49-55)
Rather than evaluating this message with a sound mind and clear con-
science, Pharaoh and his inner circle assessed it based on their accustomed
way of thinking, founded on the deviant religion of their ancestors.

According to their superstitious beliefs, Pharaoh was a deity (Allah is be-
yond that), far from admitting the idea of the existence of Allah:
But when Moses brought them Our Clear Signs they said, "This is
nothing but trumped-up magic. We never heard anything like this
among our earlier forefathers." (Surat al-Qasas: 36)
As the above verse makes clear, Pharaoh's people were deluded to

think the Prophet Moses' (pbuh) intention in proclaiming the existence and
unity of Allah, was to seize power in the land, by abolishing the perverted
religion inherited from their ancestors. The perverted religion entitled
Pharaoh and his inner circle to obvious advantages, and the change of this
perverted religion implied a loss of power for Pharaoh and the shift of au-
thority to the Prophet Moses (pbuh). They considered the Prophet Moses
(pbuh) and the religion revealed to him by our Lord with this deviant view-
point and believed that the Prophet Moses (pbuh) had simply come to op-
press the people, just as Pharaoh had. This narrow understanding of theirs
is best expressed in the answer of Pharaoh and his inner circle offered to

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