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your mother when I reinforced you with the only avenging yourself on us because we be-
Purest Spirit so that you could speak to people in lieved in our Lord’s Signs when they came to us.
the cradle and when you were fully grown; and Our Lord, pour down steadfastness upon us and
when I taught you the Book and Wisdom, and take us back to You as Muslims.’ (7:109-126)
the Torah and the Gospel; and when you created Do people find it so surprising that We should re-
a bird-shape out of clay by My permission, and veal to a man among them: ‘Warn mankind and
then breathed into it and it became a bird by My give good news to those who believe that they
permission; and healed the blind and the leper are on a sure footing with their Lord’? The disbe-
by My permission; and when you brought forth lievers say, ‘This is downright magic!’ (10:2)
the dead by My permission; and when I held When the truth came to them from Us, they said,
back the tribe of Israel from you, when you ‘This is downright magic!’ Musa said, ‘Do you
brought them the Clear Signs and those of them say to the truth when it comes to you, "This is
who disbelieved said, "This is nothing but down- magic"? Magicians are not successful.’ They said,
right magic"’ (5:110) ‘Have you come to us to turn us from what we
Even if We were to send down a book to you on found our fathers doing, and to gain greatness in
parchment pages and they were actually to touch the land? We do not believe you.’ Pharaoh said,
it with their own hands, those who disbelieve ‘Bring me every knowledgeable magician.’
would still say, ‘This is nothing but downright When the magicians came, Musa said to them,
magic.’ (6:7) ‘Throw whatever you have to throw!’ When they
The ruling circle of Pharaoh’s people said, ‘This had thrown, Musa said, ‘What you have brought
is certainly a skilled magician who desires to is magic. Allah will certainly prove it false. Allah
expel you from your land, so what do you rec- does not uphold the actions of corrupters.’
ommend?’ They said, ‘Detain him and his (10:76-81)
brother and send out marshals to the cities, to It is He Who created the heavens and the earth in
bring you all the skilled magicians.’ The magi- six days when His Throne was on the water, in
cians came to Pharaoh and they asked, ‘Will we order to test which of you has the best actions. If
receive a reward if we are the winners?’ He said, you say, ‘You will be raised up after death,’ those
‘Yes, and you will be among those brought near.’ who disbelieve will say, ‘This is nothing but
They said, ‘Musa, will you throw first or shall we downright magic.’ (11:7)
be the ones to throw?’ He said, ‘You throw.’ And He said, ‘Have you come to us to expel us from
when they threw, they cast a spell on the peo- our land by means of your magic, Musa? We will
ple's eyes and caused them to feel great fear of bring you magic to match it. So fix a time be-
them. They produced an extremely powerful tween us and you which neither we nor you will
magic. We revealed to Musa, ‘Throw down your fail to keep at a place where we can meet
staff.’ And it immediately swallowed up what halfway.’ He said, ‘Your time is the day of the
they had forged. So the Truth took place and Festival. The people should gather in the morn-
what they did was shown to be false. They were ing.’ So Pharaoh went away and concocted his
defeated then and there, transformed into hum- scheme and then he arrived. Musa said to them,
bled men. The magicians threw themselves ‘Woe to you! Do not fabricate lies against Allah
down in prostration. They said, ‘We believe in or He will annihilate you with His punishment.
the Lord of all the worlds, the Lord of Musa and Fabricators of lies are bound to fail.’ They argued
Harun.’ Pharaoh said, ‘Have you believed in him among themselves about the matter and had a
before I authorised you to do so? This is just some secret conference. They said, ‘These two magi-
plot you have concocted in the city to drive its cians desire by their magic to expel you from
people from it. I will cut off your alternate hands your land and abolish your most excellent way of
and feet and then I will crucify every one of you.’ life, so decide on your scheme and then arrive
They said, ‘We are returning to our Lord. You are together in force. He who gains the upper hand
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