Ahsan Hanif – Quran Tafseer – Page 164 – The Miracles Of Prophet Musa

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The use of backwards language and misogyny is discussed in the modern world, as it is used to spread false and backwards language. The story of the Prophet universal source for Islam is highlighted, along with the importance of learning from the people who use it. The transcript describes the importance of trusting in Islam and the use of sticks to help people walk through mountains, as well as the use of signs and language to signal that the Prophet is a master sorcerer and willing to fight Muslims. The importance of gathering and using the messages of Islam is emphasized, along with the need for people to gather in cities to prepare for a festival.

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			I seek refuge with Allah from Satan the
		
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			accursed.
		
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			In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most
		
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			Merciful.
		
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			Welcome to another episode of our Tafsir page
		
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			by page and insha'Allah ta'ala today
		
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			we are on page 164 of the Quran
		
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			which is in the 9th juz Suratul A
		
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			'raf.
		
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			In the previous episode we mentioned those verses
		
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			which Allah gives to us almost like a
		
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			summary or a conclusion of the way that
		
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			people reacted and behaved when Allah sent messengers
		
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			and prophets to those nations.
		
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			And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says that
		
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			if only they had believed and had taqwa
		
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			of Allah azza wa jal then Allah would
		
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			have blessed them in this life and the
		
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			next and Allah would have opened up for
		
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			them the doors and the gates of the
		
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			heavens and the earth in terms of blessings
		
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			and bounties and grace and favors.
		
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			But because of their rejection then they were
		
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			punished by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			And Allah azza wa jal says that no
		
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			one should feel secure from Allah's punishment.
		
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			No one should feel secure of it by
		
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			night or by day irrespective of what they
		
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			are doing or what they are engaged in.
		
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			And no one should feel secure that Allah
		
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			azza wa jal doesn't have a plan for
		
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			them if they turn away from Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala and they turn away from
		
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			the message that Allah azza wa jal sends
		
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			to them.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala then addresses the
		
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			people who came after those past nations and
		
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			says that those people who come after them
		
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			should take lessons and heed from those who
		
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			preceded them.
		
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			They should be people who look and see
		
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			the signs of Allah azza wa jal in
		
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			those past nations.
		
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			And that is why it is commonly in
		
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			the Qur'an that Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala says, أَوَلَمْ يَسِيرُوا فِي الْأَرْضِ فَيَنظُرُوا كَيْفَ
		
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			كَانَ عَقِيبَةُ الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِمْ Will the people
		
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			not travel upon the earth and see the
		
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			end result of those who came before them.
		
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			So Allah azza wa jal encourages us to
		
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			travel for that purpose.
		
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			To see the signs of Allah azza wa
		
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			jal in the civilizations and the generations that
		
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			lived before us, the nations that have come
		
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			and gone.
		
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			Because we know now from history that there
		
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			were numerous nations that used to exist and
		
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			no longer exist.
		
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			And that is the same whether you go
		
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			to places like South America or you go
		
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			to Africa or you go to Asia or
		
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			you come to Europe.
		
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			The people that used to live and exist
		
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			there and we gave to them names like
		
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			the ancient Egyptians and the Greeks and the
		
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			Romans and the Vikings and all of these
		
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			different nations, they no longer exist.
		
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			So we should take heed from that.
		
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			The fact that they are no longer there,
		
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			what happened to them?
		
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			What happened to them in terms of their
		
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			Iman or their disbelief?
		
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			What happened to them?
		
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			Do they accept the message or not the
		
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			message?
		
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			Especially those stories that we have and we
		
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			know of within the book of Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala.
		
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			And so the believer is the one who
		
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			takes lessons from those, from them and the
		
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			disbelievers or those people who are negligent of
		
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			this or those people who are heedless of
		
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			such lessons.
		
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			In today's episode we continue from verse 102
		
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			and this is now the story of the
		
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			Prophet Musa alayhi salatu wasalam.
		
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			And the Prophet Musa alayhi salam is one
		
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			of the greatest messengers of Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala that he sent to humankind.
		
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			And the story of Musa alayhi salam is
		
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			the story that is most repeated in the
		
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			Quran.
		
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			It is mentioned most frequently in the book
		
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			of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			And Allah azzawajal more or less gives us
		
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			the whole life of Musa alayhi salam from
		
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			when he is a baby and a child
		
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			all the way up to more or less
		
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			the end of his life.
		
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			But it is not done in one place
		
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			like for example Surah Yusuf but rather it
		
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			is spread out throughout the Quran.
		
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			And that is because the story of Musa
		
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			alayhi salam and Bani Israel, his nation, very
		
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			closely mimics the story of our Prophet salallahu
		
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			alayhi wasalam and this nation, the nation of
		
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			Islam.
		
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			And there are many lessons that we can
		
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			benefit from, many lessons that we can take
		
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			and learn from.
		
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			And that is why Allah azzawajal mentions this
		
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			story in so much detail in so many
		
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			places in his book.
		
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			So Allah azzawajal says in verse 103, sorry
		
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			we begin from verse 103 and that is
		
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			the statement of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			A'udhu billahi min ash-shaytani r-rajeem
		
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			Thumma ba'athna min ba'dihim Musa bi-ayatina
		
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			ila fir'auna wa malaihi fa-dhalamu biha
		
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			fa-nzur kayfa kana aqibatul-mufsidin After these,
		
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			We sent Moses to Pharaoh and his leading
		
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			supporters with Our signs.
		
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			But they rejected them.
		
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			So see the fate of those who used
		
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			to spread corruption.
		
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			Thumma ba'athna min ba'dihim Allah azzawajal says
		
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			and then We sent after them.
		
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			Meaning after all of these prophets that we
		
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			mentioned before, Nuh and Hud and Salih and
		
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			Lut and Shu'ayb alaihimu s-salatu wa
		
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			s-salam.
		
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			After all of that had taken place, Allah
		
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			azzawajal said that then We sent Musa alaihi
		
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			salam with Our signs to Pharaoh and his
		
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			mala.
		
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			Pharaoh and his nobility, Pharaoh and his closest
		
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			advisors, Pharaohs and the leadership of those people
		
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			of Pharaoh.
		
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			And so the Egyptians had Pharaoh as their
		
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			ultimate leader.
		
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			And Pharaoh as all of the leaders do,
		
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			he has his entourage, he has his advisors,
		
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			he has his ministers, he has the people
		
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			that are closest to him.
		
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			And Allah azzawajal names some of them in
		
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			the Quran for example Haman and Qarun.
		
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			And so Allah azzawajal tells us who they
		
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			are in certain places in the Quran.
		
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			But Allah azzawajal is saying that these are
		
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			the people that Musa alaihi salam was sent
		
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			to.
		
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			Fa-dhalamu biha.
		
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			But they rejected the signs of Allah.
		
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			And they rejected Musa alaihi salatu wa salam
		
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			just as those previous nations before also did.
		
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			Fa-ndhur kayfa kana aqibatul mufsidin.
		
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			But see the fate of those who used
		
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			to spread corruption.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala then continues in
		
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			verse 104.
		
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			Wa qala Musa ya fir'aunu inni rasulun
		
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			min rabbil alamin.
		
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			Allah azzawajal now tells us about the story
		
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			of Musa alaihi salam and Pharaoh.
		
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			Now as we said Musa alaihi salam his
		
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			story is mentioned in the Quran more or
		
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			less from the beginning to the end.
		
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			So in certain places in the Quran for
		
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			example in Suratul Qasas we're told much about
		
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			his birth and his childhood and his upbringing
		
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			and early years.
		
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			So we're told for example of what happens
		
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			at the time of his birth and childhood.
		
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			We're told about how he goes and is
		
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			brought up in the household of Pharaoh in
		
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			the palace of Pharaoh.
		
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			We're told about what happens as a result
		
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			of which he exiles himself from Egypt and
		
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			he goes to a different land.
		
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			We're told how he settles there and gets
		
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			married there.
		
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			And we're told how then he's returning back
		
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			to Egypt when Allah azzawajal anoints him as
		
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			a prophet and a messenger.
		
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			All of that background is found in the
		
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			Quran but it is not mentioned here.
		
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			Here Allah azzawajal is concentrating on one thing
		
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			and that is because Suratul A'raf as
		
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			we can see is a surah that speaks
		
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			about the Tawheed of Allah azzawajal and the
		
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			way people responded to the Tawheed of Allah
		
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			azzawajal as is manifest in these surahs.
		
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			And so Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala often
		
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			in the Quran he will relay to us
		
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			a part of the story that is most
		
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			pertinent to the subject and the theme matter
		
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			of that surah.
		
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			So Allah azzawajal does not just give us
		
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			everything in one place because the Quran is
		
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			not a storybook, it's not a biography, it's
		
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			not a book of history in the conventional
		
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			sense that we understand it and so the
		
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			Quran is unique in the way that it
		
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			formats and formulates these things in the order
		
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			of the Quran, in the theme of the
		
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			Quran, in the way that it goes from
		
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			one topic to another, the Quran is unique.
		
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			And so Allah azzawajal doesn't give to us
		
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			the whole of the story of Musa a
		
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			.s. just because it's the first time that
		
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			his story is being mentioned.
		
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			That background you will find elsewhere in the
		
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			Quran and that is why the student of
		
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			the Quran and the student of knowledge, he
		
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			brings all of that together and then he
		
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			understands it in its correct order, meaning in
		
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			a chronological order for to help him or
		
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			herself to orientate themselves with regards to that
		
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			story.
		
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			But in terms of how it relates to
		
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			Suratul A'raf, the here and now, the
		
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			principle, the message that Allah wants us to
		
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			understand from this Surah, we don't need that
		
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			background necessarily here.
		
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			What we need to know is this aspect
		
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			that Allah azzawajal is going to focus straight
		
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			in and that is now that Musa a
		
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			.s. has been appointed as Allah's messenger alongside
		
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			his brother Harun a.s. and the both
		
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			of them are being told now go to
		
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			Pharaoh and speak to him and invite him
		
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			to the path of Allah azzawajal and Pharaoh
		
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			is a despot, he's a tyrant, he's an
		
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			oppressor but you must go and you must
		
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			invite him to the message of Allah azzawajal
		
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			and that is what Musa a.s. does
		
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			and that is what Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala says, وَقَالَ مُوسَىٰ يَا فِرْعُونَ So Musa
		
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			came to him and he said, O Pharaoh,
		
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			إِنِّي رَسُولٌ مِنْ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ I am a
		
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			messenger from the Lord of the worlds.
		
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			I am the messenger from the Lord of
		
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			the worlds and so now he is calling
		
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			him to Allah azzawajal and that is why
		
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			the prophets of Allah were men of strength
		
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			and courage and extreme bravery, that he would
		
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			go to someone who was known to be
		
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			one of the worst despots ever seen in
		
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			history and is able to stand before him
		
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			alone even though Pharaoh has all of his
		
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			wealth and his armies and all of his
		
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			advisors.
		
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			He owns a kingdom that he has at
		
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			his disposal and Musa a.s. and his
		
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			brother are just two simple men, don't have
		
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			wealth, don't have an army, the people that
		
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			are theirs, Ben Israel are people in bondage
		
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			and slavery so they can't really help or
		
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			do anything, they're already being severely persecuted but
		
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			the two of them stand before Pharaoh and
		
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			they say to them, we are the messengers
		
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			of our Lord, the Lord of all that
		
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			exists.
		
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			In verse 105 Allah azzawajal then tells us
		
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			that he continued and said, حَقِقٌ عَلَىٰ أَلَّا
		
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			أَقُولَ عَلَىٰ اللَّهِ إِلَّا الْحَقَّ قَدَ جِئْتُكُم مِّ
		
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			بَيِّنَةٍ مِّنْ رَبِّكُمْ فَأَرْسِلْ مَعِيَ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلٍ Duty
		
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			bound we are to say nothing about Allah
		
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			but the truth and I have brought to
		
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			you a clear sign from your Lord so
		
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			let the children of Israel go with me.
		
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			So Musa a.s. had a dual purpose,
		
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			his first purpose is to call Pharaoh and
		
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			his people to Allah azzawajal, invite them to
		
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			the message of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
		
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			to the tawhid of Allah azzawajal because they
		
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			are upon shirk, Pharaoh believed and his people
		
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			believed in other gods and they used to
		
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			believe that the Pharaoh is one of the
		
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			manifestations of their gods that he is God
		
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			upon earth and that's why he used to
		
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			claim divinity for himself as Allah azzawajal mentions
		
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			in a couple of places in the Quran
		
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			and his second purpose, the purpose of Musa
		
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			and Harun a.s. is to give freedom
		
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			to the people of Bani Israel who have
		
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			for now generations been in bondage and slavery
		
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			and they are people who already believe in
		
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			Allah, they already believe in the prophets of
		
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			Allah and they are expecting a messenger to
		
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			come from Allah azzawajal who will deliver them
		
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			from this bondage and this slavery by the
		
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			permission of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala so
		
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			for them it is not necessarily an issue
		
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			of iman or kufr even though as we
		
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			know they will have a number of challenges
		
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			that Allah azzawajal will relate to us in
		
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			the Quran but Allah azzawajal tells them that
		
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			this is what we want from you, we
		
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			want you to believe in Allah or Pharaoh,
		
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			we want you to stop oppressing those people
		
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			because it is oppression what you are doing
		
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			to them and it is evil what you
		
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			are doing to them and I have brought
		
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			to you signs from your Lord, signs that
		
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			if you see and you are sincere you
		
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			will see them and you will realize that
		
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			this is from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			and you will realize that this is a
		
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			message from your Lord and as we know
		
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			already and it is mentioned or we don't
		
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			know already rather in terms of this story
		
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			but it is mentioned also in the Quran
		
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			that Allah azzawajal bin Musa alayhi salam is
		
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			anointed a messenger on the mountain of At
		
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			-Tur and he is holding the staff that
		
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			he would use to walk with like as
		
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			a walking stick or an aid to help
		
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			him walk but at the same time because
		
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			he is going through mountains and rocks and
		
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			so on and so people often use sticks
		
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			to help them walk in those areas but
		
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			also at the same time he was a
		
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			shepherd so he would use it for his
		
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			flock also so it was a multi-purpose
		
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			stick that he had and Allah azzawajal gives
		
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			to it a nobler purpose and that is
		
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			that Allah azzawajal turns it into a serpent
		
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			by his command and that is a sign
		
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			from the signs of Allah azzawajal and so
		
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			here Musa alayhi salam is saying that I
		
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			have only come with the truth from your
		
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			Lord, I don't have anything else to say
		
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			to you, I don't want your money or
		
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			your position or your kingdom or anything else
		
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			I only want you to know the truth
		
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			from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and I
		
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			have brought to you a sign so that
		
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			you will know my truthfulness, that you will
		
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			know that I am not just a charlatan,
		
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			that I am not just someone who is
		
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			a fake, not just someone who is making
		
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			a claim for the sake of the dunya
		
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			but I have come with the message from
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			Allah azzawajal then continues in verse 106 قال
		
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			إن كنت جئت بآية فأتي بها إن كنت
		
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			من الصادقين He said produce this sign that
		
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			you have brought if you are telling the
		
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			truth.
		
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			So Pharaoh is now intrigued, he is interested
		
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			because remember as Allah azzawajal tells us elsewhere
		
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			in the Quran that Musa alayhi salam arrives
		
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			in Egypt and he says to Allah azzawajal
		
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			that I feared that they would kill me
		
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			because the reason I ran away from Egypt,
		
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			I fled from Egypt was because I killed
		
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			that Egyptian man, unintentionally yes but I killed
		
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			him and I knew that as a result
		
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			they would kill me.
		
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			So I fled from them because they are
		
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			an evil people.
		
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			Now if I go back they will take
		
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			me for the same issue and they will
		
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			execute me and they will kill me and
		
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			Allah azzawajal says don't fear, don't fear oh
		
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			Musa, I am with you and with your
		
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			brother Harun, I will protect you, you are
		
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			under my divine protection and care and that
		
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			is why Musa alayhi salam leaves and he
		
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			goes back to Egypt and he goes and
		
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			confronts Pharaoh.
		
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			So there is this issue that is already
		
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			in the room or already in the presence
		
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			of Musa alayhi salam and Pharaoh will mention
		
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			this, he will say you did what you
		
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			did before, we know what you are like,
		
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			we know what you did already and Musa
		
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			will say that was a mistake and I
		
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			turned back to my Lord and I repented,
		
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			I didn't intend to kill the man, I
		
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			was trying to stop an altercation between him
		
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			and another person and accidentally he died as
		
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			a result, it wasn't intentional.
		
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			So Musa alayhi salam is expecting this from
		
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			Pharaoh but Pharaoh is a tyrant and a
		
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			despot but now when he comes, Musa alayhi
		
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			salam with this claim and he says that
		
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			I have a sign and I can prove
		
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			it to you, Pharaoh is intrigued.
		
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			So he says to him produce the sign,
		
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			let us see, let us see what you
		
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			are, what you have if you are telling
		
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			the truth and remember that Pharaoh knows Musa,
		
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			Musa alayhi salam grew up in his household,
		
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			Musa alayhi salam took him as his son
		
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			as is mentioned elsewhere in the Quran that
		
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			the wife of Pharaoh, that the wife of
		
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			Pharaoh Asiyah who as we know becomes a
		
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			believer alayhi salatu wa salam, she is a
		
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			mu'mina, a believer in Allah azawajal and from
		
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			the righteous women that are praised within our
		
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			religion, Asiyah says to her husband Pharaoh let
		
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			us take this baby when Musa alayhi salam
		
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			came to them first time, let us take
		
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			him perhaps we will treat him like a
		
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			son and he will benefit us and grow
		
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			us and grow up to benefit us in
		
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			a number of ways.
		
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			So Pharaoh knows Musa and now Musa alayhi
		
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			salam is saying that I have a sign,
		
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			so he says to him bring the sign,
		
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			in verse 107, so Musa threw down his
		
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			staff and lo and behold there was a
		
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			snake clear to all and that is the
		
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			sign that Allah azawajal gives to him from
		
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			the signs that Musa was given to Pharaoh
		
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			from the nine signs that Allah mentions elsewhere
		
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			in the Quran, one of them is the
		
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			staff that turns into a serpent and that
		
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			is because it is said that the people
		
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			of Pharaoh were into their sorcery, they were
		
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			into their magic and they like to see
		
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			these magical displays or these displays of sorcery.
		
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			The second sign that he was given is
		
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			mentioned then in verse 108, وَنَزَعَ يَدَهُ فَإِذَا
		
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			هِيَ بَيْضَاءُ لِلنَّاظِرِينَ and then he pulled out
		
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			his hand and lo and behold it was
		
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			white for all to see, meaning that there
		
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			was no harm in it, that the snake
		
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			and the serpent of touching it, it wasn't
		
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			harmed in any way but rather it was
		
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			clear and it was white and it was
		
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			bright illuminated for all to see and these
		
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			were two signs that Musa a.s. showed
		
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			to Pharaoh that he would be able to
		
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			see them as signs from Allah azawajal, that
		
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			even if he dismissed the first one then
		
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			he wasn't able to easily dismiss the second
		
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			one and Musa a.s. is showing him
		
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			signs from Allah azawajal and as we've said
		
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			before that the people of noble hearts and
		
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			pure hearts can see the smallest sign and
		
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			it is enough for them to accept Islam
		
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			whereas those people who in their hearts it
		
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			is full of arrogance and disbelief and rejection
		
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			even the greatest signs of Allah will not
		
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			sway them, even the greatest signs of Allah
		
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			they will rationalize to be something else just
		
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			as Pharaoh will do the same here as
		
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			Allah the mentioned subhanahu ta'ala in verse
		
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			109 قَالَ الْمَلَأُ مِن قَوْمِ فِرْعَوْنَ إِنَّ هَذَا
		
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			لَسَاحِرٌ عَلِيمٌ The leaders amongst Pharaoh's people said
		
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			this man is a learned sorcerer, how do
		
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			they justify this, how do they rationalize what
		
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			they just saw, do they say these are
		
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			signs from Allah no one can do this,
		
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			let us understand this, let us accept this,
		
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			let us learn about this, no, they say
		
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			in their own rationale oh that's clearly sorcery,
		
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			that is just magic, this man's come and
		
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			yes we'll give it to him, he's a
		
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			skilled magician, he knows what he's doing, he's
		
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			learned, he's clearly someone who's very proficient, very
		
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			expert in what he's doing but he's still
		
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			just a magician and he's only coming to
		
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			manipulate you, he's only coming to take you
		
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			away from the religion of your forefathers and
		
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			the religion of your ancestors, just as the
		
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			Quraysh said when the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
		
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			sallam came with the Quran and he came
		
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			with those signs that Allah Azawajal gave to
		
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			him they were like that's amazing, yes that
		
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			truly is eloquent what you're saying is amazing
		
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			but it's not really true you're just you
		
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			took it from someone else or you're a
		
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			sorcerer or you're mad or you're a poet
		
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			or whatever it may be even though beforehand
		
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			they knew that he wasn't any of those
		
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			things just as Pharaoh knows as Musa grew
		
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			up he never practiced sorcery, wasn't a magician,
		
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			didn't have any interest, didn't have anything and
		
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			this kind of thing is isn't something that
		
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			you just learn for in five years or
		
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			ten years this is a lifetime's pursuit to
		
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			be at the highest of your level, the
		
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			people who excel in any discipline are those
		
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			who dedicate their whole life to it not
		
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			just a few years here and there, the
		
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			people who whether it's sports or whether it's
		
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			engineering or whether it's medicine or whatever it
		
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			may be are those who dedicate their lives
		
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			to this and he knows that Musa didn't
		
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			dedicate his life to this so he knows
		
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			deep down but he's not going to accept
		
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			it, this is a man who is a
		
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			learned sorcerer they say and why has he
		
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			come in verse 110 Allah Azzawajal tells us
		
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			يُرِيدُ أَن يُغْرِجَكُم مِنْ أَرْضِكُم فَمَاذَا تَأْمُورُونَ he
		
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			means to drive you out of your land
		
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			so Pharaoh said what do you suggest so
		
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			they say that he's only come here because
		
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			he wants you to drive out our land
		
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			or he wants you to drive he wants
		
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			you he wants to drive you out of
		
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			his land or out of your land and
		
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			he wants to take over he's come for
		
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			some worldly pursuit he's come to benefit in
		
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			some way of the dunya he's come so
		
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			that he can be powerful and he can
		
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			be a leader he can be in this
		
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			position and so therefore tell him to also
		
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			Pharaoh rather asks his people so then what
		
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			do you suggest what do we do with
		
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			him now because there's both this sign and
		
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			that's going to play on the minds of
		
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			people they're going to think about this they're
		
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			going to have some element of doubt how
		
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			can we deal with this man in a
		
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			way that will humiliate him before we punish
		
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			him as well so they say as Allah
		
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			tells us in verse 111 قَالُوا أَرْجِهْ وَأَخَاهُ
		
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			وَأَرْسِلْ فِي الْمَدَاءِنِ حَاشِرِينَ they said delay him
		
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			and his brother for a while and send
		
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			messengers to all the cities so they said
		
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			wait tell him to wait keep him let
		
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			him wait and we will show and prove
		
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			that he is someone who is a liar
		
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			however we do this we will send out
		
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			callers and messengers to all of the cities
		
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			المدائن is the plural of the word مدينة
		
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			مدينة means city because pharaoh has a kingdom
		
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			he has an empire it's not just Egypt
		
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			or Cairo it is a whole empire and
		
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			he's saying send out messengers to all of
		
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			my cities now in those days they would
		
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			have to go by fast horse and that
		
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			would even though it is fast will still
		
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			take a number of days why does he
		
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			want them to go as Allah would tell
		
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			us in verse 112 يَأْتُوكَ بِكُلِّ سَاحِلٍ عَلِيمٍ
		
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			to summon every learned sorcerer to you so
		
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			send out these messengers on fast horse tell
		
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			them to go to the very distant corners
		
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			of my kingdom all of the cities that
		
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			they come across and to say to the
		
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			most learned magicians there come the Pharaoh has
		
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			need of you and let them all gather
		
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			together and we will show this man what
		
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			true sorcery is we will show him who
		
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			are the experts who are the learned proficient
		
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			sorcerers when it comes to these types of
		
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			issues and so look at the extent that
		
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			he is willing to go in order to
		
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			fight and object to and oppose the Tawheed
		
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			of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and that
		
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			is something that you will find in all
		
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			of these stories even in the time of
		
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			the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasalam look at the
		
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			extent that they're willing to go to in
		
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			order to fight the Muslims the harm they're
		
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			willing to do the propaganda they're willing to
		
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			use the the persecution and violence that they're
		
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			willing to employ in order to stop people
		
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			from believing in the religion of Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala so imagine this now Pharaoh
		
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			is saying you have to wait we will
		
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			keep you here and we will hold you
		
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			until we are ready to deal with you
		
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			that's going to take time because I will
		
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			send out heralds and messengers to my vast
		
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			kingdom different cities find all of these amazing
		
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			sorcerers that I have tell them to come
		
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			here that will take time for the messengers
		
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			to go for the call to be made
		
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			for those people to prepare for them then
		
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			to travel and come to me and then
		
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			they will have to gather because some of
		
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			them are closer by some of them are
		
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			further away all of them have to come
		
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			and when they come we will have it
		
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			and that is why Allah is mentioned also
		
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			in the Quran for example in Surah Taha
		
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			that Musa a.s says or he's asked
		
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			give to us an appointment a day that
		
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			we can use and he says make it
		
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			the day of your festival there was sufficient
		
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			time for those people to come and it's
		
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			a deadline for them to work towards and
		
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			so that's something which is mentioned elsewhere in
		
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			the Quran but it is not mentioned here
		
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			in Surah Al-A'raf and so the
		
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			the sorcerers arrived as Allah Azawajal mentions then
		
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			in verse 113 وَجَاءَ السَّحَارَةُ فِي رَعَوْنَ قَالُوا
		
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			إِنَّ لَنَا لَأَجْرًا إِن كُنَّا نَحْنُ الْغَالِبِينَ the
		
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			sorcerers came to Pharaoh and they said shall
		
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			we be rewarded if we win so these
		
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			sorcerers now gather and they unite and they
		
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			come to Pharaoh and they come because they
		
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			know as always is the case in these
		
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			types of kingdoms and in these types of
		
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			of systems of governance that the person who
		
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			is at the top of that chain the
		
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			king the pharaoh the emperor he's someone is
		
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			extremely wealthy can do as he pleases give
		
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			to you what he pleases and so these
		
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			people have come because they're not believers at
		
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			that time the sorcerers they've come for the
		
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			dunya they've come to curry favor to take
		
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			wealth to take benefit from their leader so
		
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			they come and they say if we win
		
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			in this duel because it's clearly a big
		
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			issue to you oh pharaoh you've gathered us
		
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			all from the different corners of your empire
		
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			and you brought us here if it was
		
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			a small issue you would have just gone
		
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			to the ones locally to you or the
		
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			ones close by you've gathered us all here
		
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			and you've appointed this time clearly this man
		
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			who's your opponent Musa a.s he's someone
		
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			that you have a very big deal to
		
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			a very very big issue to deal with
		
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			and so what do we get will we
		
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			will be rewarded if we win we overcome
		
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			him in this duel that you're about to
		
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			set up and so pharaoh responds as allah
		
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			mentioned in verse 114 and he replied yes
		
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			and you will join my inner court you
		
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			will be from those that i bring close
		
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			to you and this is from the eloquence
		
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			of the quran that allah says rather than
		
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			him listing out the many benefits that they
		
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			will receive the many rewards that they will
		
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			gain you'll get money and i'll give you
		
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			a palace and i'll give you wealth and
		
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			i'll give you servants as well he says
		
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			to them you'll be very close to me
		
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			and those people who are closest to the
		
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			people of power and wealth and richness will
		
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			undoubtedly benefit from that they will be given
		
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			that and they will benefit from it and
		
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			that proximity often is a is a sign
		
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			of their influence and their and their and
		
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			their position and their status within the empire
		
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			within that setup and so people always try
		
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			and that's why often you will find people
		
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			of leadership there are always people around them
		
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			who are trying to find that influence trying
		
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			to curry favor trying to become close to
		
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			them because that influence gives them a great
		
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			deal of leeway in terms of these other
		
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			things that they will benefit from in terms
		
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			of the dunya and so he says to
		
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			them yes you will be from the muqarrabin
		
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			you'll be from amongst those who are close
		
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			to me and as you draw close to
		
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			me then so you will benefit from the
		
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			many other things as well and so then
		
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			allah azza wa jal will now go into
		
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			the story of what takes place when they
		
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			duel and the duel will be mentioned here
		
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			inshallah or we will mention in the next
		
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			episode in more detail because it is a
		
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			passage that goes into slightly more detail but
		
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			here i want to mention a couple of
		
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			points and that is that in this story
		
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			we see how allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			is number one focusing on this element of
		
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			tawheed and shirk this is the point of
		
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			the story being mentioned in this context the
		
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			wider context of surat al-araf and the
		
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			stories that we've already mentioned of these prophets
		
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			and messengers of allah that was sent to
		
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			the various nations pharaoh too is receiving a
		
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			sign receiving a messenger receiving guidance from allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala but how does he
		
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			choose to respond he chooses to respond with
		
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			arrogance with oppression with the threat of violence
		
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			and punishment and not only that but he
		
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			goes to extreme lengths in order to combat
		
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			this just as the people of the prophet
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wasallam did during his lifetime the
		
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			quraish and the arabs the extreme lengths that
		
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			they went to in order to combat and
		
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			oppose the muslims and islam pharaoh is doing
		
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			the same and he's willing to spend from
		
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			his wealth and this is also one of
		
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			the things that you find across the different
		
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			nations including our prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam and
		
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			the quraish those people often willing to spend
		
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			from their wealth their influence their power they're
		
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			willing to dedicate their resources in order to
		
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			fight islam so likewise the believers they have
		
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			to also be willing to dedicate their time
		
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			and their effort and the resources that allah
		
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			azawajal has put at their disposal in order
		
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			to spread the religion of islam and so
		
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			allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us here
		
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			that musa alaihi salam has come to pharaoh
		
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			has called him to allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala pharaoh has rejected this so musa alaihi
		
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			salam has showed him the signs of allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala and pharaoh has responded
		
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			by gathering all of these sorcerers together in
		
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			order for them to combat what musa alaihi
		
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			salam will bring and this is where inshallah
		
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			we will pick up the story in the
		
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			next episode you