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Adnan Oktar
Harun Yahya

(pbuh) did so, he told them to demonstrate their abilities first. The
verses continue:

He said: "You throw." And when they threw, they cast a spell on
the people's eyes and caused them to feel great fear of them. They
produced an extremely powerful magic. (Koran, 7:116)

As we have seen, Pharaoh's magicians were able to deceive every-
one, apart from the Prophet Moses (pbuh) and those who believed in
him. However, his evidence broke the spell, or "swallowed up what
they had forged," as revealed in the verse:

We revealed to Moses: "Throw down your staff." And it immedi-
ately swallowed up what they had forged. So the Truth took place
and what they did was shown to be false. (Koran, 7:117-118)

As we can see, when people realized that a spell had been cast up-
on them and that what they saw was just an illusion, Pharaoh's magi-
cians lost all credibility. In the present day too, unless those who, un-
der the influence of a similar spell, believe in these ridiculous claims
under their scientific disguise and spend their lives defending them,
abandon their superstitious beliefs, they also will be humiliated when
the full truth emerges and the spell is broken. In fact, world-renowned
British writer and philosopher Malcolm Muggeridge, who was an

atheist defending evolution for some 60 years, but who subsequently
realized the truth, reveals the position in which the theory of evolution
would find itself in the near future in these terms:

I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially the extent
to which it's been applied, will be one of the great jokes in the histo-
ry books in the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and du-
bious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity that it
has. (Malcolm Muggeridge, The End of Christendom, Grand Rapids:
Eerdmans, 1980, p. 43)

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