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so that your father will look to you alone, and then you can be
people who do right." (Surah Yusuf, 9)
Those who set the trap claim to be good people. In fact, this is a
major ploy that the unbelievers use to "prove" that they are

working for the good of society. Leaders of unbelievers, who have
literally become expert at portraying good as evil, and evil as
good, strive to spread propaganda against believers by way of
lies, slanders and false accusations, and carefully wage a
campaign of psychological warfare. Pharaoh tried to justify
threatening the Prophet Moses (as) with martyrdom because he
lied that he did not want to impugn religion and to unleash
disorder. In spite of his cruelty and oppression, he proclaimed
himself to be the protector of society's values. The real aim here, of
course, was to try to turn society against the Prophet Moses (as) by
misusing areas in which people are particularly sensitive.
Pharaoh's words are revealed in the Qur'an:

Pharaoh said: "Let me kill Moses, and let him call upon his
Lord. I am afraid that he may change your religion and bring
about corruption in the land." (Surah Ghafir, 26)
In other words, Pharaoh supposedly wanted to save the people
from the Prophet Moses (as). But it was actually Pharaoh himself
causing corruption on Earth, while society's true savior was the
Prophet Moses (as) and the true path he called people to. This
disingenuousness is a common characteristic of all unbelievers.
The following conversation between the Prophet Noah (as) and
the leaders of his people is related in the Qur'an:

The ruling circle of his people – those who did not believe and
denied the encounter of the hereafter and to whom We had
given opulence in this world – said: "This is nothing but a