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but similar types have existed throughout history. Employing the

same methods, these leaders carried out atrocities against their

peoples, distanced the masses from true religion, and dragged them to

destruction in both this world and the Hereafter.

In our century leaders such as Adolph Hitler (known for his

merciless and bloody massacres throughout Europe), Vladimir Lenin,

Joseph Stalin and Mao Tse Tung, and their mentors, Karl Marx and

Friedrich Engels, can be compared with Pharaoh. Charles Darwin

nurtured the cruel views of those leaders and supported disbelief with

his theory of evolution.

As declared in the Qur’an, Allah's messengers and pious

believers always encountered cruel leaders as fierce enemies

whenever they came to warn a society. Therefore, the messengers

always presented an ideological argument to the imperious elite of

societies rather than to the people themselves because convincing the

leaders means winning over the peoples that follow them. The

messengers spoke first to the leaders of nations and conveyed their

message to them. The Qur’an points out that Moses was sent first to

Pharaoh:

And We did certainly send Moses with Our Signs and a

clear authority to Pharaoh and his establishment, but they

43 See Surah al-Qasas, 28:41.

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