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(pbuh) to meet with his own magicians. When the Prophet Moses
(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 pro-
duced an extremely powerful magic. (Qur’an, 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 immediately
swallowed up what they had forged. So the Truth took place and
what they did was shown to be false. (Qur’an, 7:117-118)

The Prophet Moses’ throwing his staff of inanimate wood and
then that staff coming to life and instantly overthrowing the decep-
tions of the Pharaoh and his followers is like breaking the spell of evo-
lution. When people realized that a spell had been cast upon them and

that what they saw was just an illusion, Pharaoh’s magicians lost all
credibility. In the present day too, unless those who, under the influ-
ence of a similar spell believe in these ridiculous claims of evolution
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 advocating the theory of evolution for some sixty 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 history books