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                                   The Chiefs of the Nations

                  What really disturbed the chiefs of the people is the fact
              that, despite their power, esteem and authority, a person,
              who was not one of them, and more, who denounced their
              system, had been accepted by the rest of society, by spreading
              the message of the religion. They took this entirely as a
              personal attack and could never, therefore, accept the
              prophets' superiority. This they adopted as a personal cause
              and persisted in their hostility towards the Prophet (saas),
              and wished instead for a member of theirs to have been the
              prophet. They said:

                  "Why was this Qur' an not sent down to one of the great
                  men of the two cities?" (Surat az-Zukhruf: 31)
                  In reply to this wish of the chiefs of the nation, Allah
              stated the following:
                  Is it, then, they who allocate the mercy of your Lord?...
                  (Surat az-Zukhruf: 32)


                  Through Various Methods, They Strive to
                  Cause Harm to Messengers

                  The chiefs of Pharaoh' s people said, "This is certainly a
                  skilled magician." (Surat al-A' raf: 109)

                  The chiefs of Pharaoh' s people said, "Are you going to
                  leave Musa and his people to cause corruption in the
                  earth and abandon you and your gods?" He (Pharaoh)
                  said, "We will kill their sons and let their women live.
                  We have absolute power over them!" (Surat al-A' raf:
                  127)
                  As the verses clearly imply, as was Pharaoh, the chiefs of
              his people was also insolent. In fact, they were the ones who
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