Palestine Reimagined #09 Arrogance

When you sift through the Quran for Ayat

verses that speak of the pharaoh of Egypt,

one thing jumps out so blatantly,

arrogance.

It's like a thread weaving through different parts

across various verses. Each snippet, each verse that

touches on the pharaoh is like a spotlight

on his towering

arrogance.

You see this theme again and again, painting

a vivid picture of his character in the

Qur'anic narrative. And let me share with you

a few of those ayaats. Allah Almighty said

Indeed the pharaoh elevated himself

in the land.

Allah Almighty said

And indeed the Pharaoh was haughty in the

land. Similar word to the word before it.

Arrogance, haughtiness.

Allah Almighty said,

He and his soldiers behaved arrogantly

in the land with no

right, thinking that they would never be returned

to us.

In another ayah Allah Almighty said, and pick

out the same word, the same theme of

arrogance,

haughtiness,

Allah said

We sent upon them the flood,

the locusts,

the lice,

the frogs,

and the blood,

as separate signs

but they were arrogant

and became people of criminals.

Allah said in yet another ayah in the

Quran,

Moses

said, I seek refuge in my Lord and

your Lord from every arrogant one who does

not believe in the day of reckoning.

Arrogance,

oppression

are among the primary causes

of the downfall of individuals and civilizations

alike.

Because it leads to the loss of balance

in all aspects of life,

where one no longer views the events of

life as they are, but as he is.

Pharaoh and his people were among the most

arrogant

and that arrogance was one of the primary

causes of their downfall.

But here's where the observation becomes that much

more remarkable.

Not only does the feature of arrogance appear

almost every time the pharaoh is mentioned,

but it is a common theme in almost

every one of the nations that were destroyed

in the past. Each time,

right before these nations collapsed,

it was arrogance steering the ship.

So take with me these examples.

Shortly before the people of Noah

were drowned,

what did they say to their prophet?

Bring

us what you threaten us.

Bring us what you threaten us with, if

you are truthful.

Arrogance.

Similarly, shortly before the people of Hud were

destroyed.

What did they say to their prophet?

The same words.

Bring us what you threaten us with, if

you are one of the truthful ones. Arrogance.

Shortly before the people of Prophet Salih were

destroyed, these are perished nations, what did they

say to their Prophet

Bring us that which you threatened us with,

if you are truly a messenger of Allah.

Do you see how it's a common theme?

Now, having said this, let's fast forward to

the pharaohs of today.

Arrogance or haughtiness,

as mentioned by Gerald Steinberg, an Israeli political

scientist,

is the trait that is responsible for Israel's

existential political crisis.

What was the word he used? Arrogance?

Gideon Levy, an Israeli journalist. He said behind

all this lies Israeli arrogance. You said, we'll

arrest, kill, harass, dispossess,

protect the settlers busy with their pogroms.

We'll fire at innocent people, take out people's

eyes, smash their faces, expel, confiscate, rob, grab

people from their beds, carry out ethnic cleansing,

and, of course,

continue with the unbelievable siege of Gaza Strip

everything will be alright.

And the threats of flattening Gaza prove only

one thing.

We haven't learned

a thing,

and that arrogance is here to stay.

See, when journalists are targeted,

and the act is openly acknowledged with a

sign and nod from the global community.

When Christian worshipers are met with spitting,

when the 3rd oldest church in the world

is reduced to rubble,

When the bombing of Gaza

turns into a ghastly show with people lounging

on a cliffside,

snacking and cheering as if it was a

spectacle.

When

Jewish women in Israel are given long term

birth control injections by their government, because their

skin is the wrong color.

When you see

Benjamin Netanyahu

standing before the UN,

carrying a regional map, which

completely amidst Palestine now.

When Israeli ministers

call again and again for the new king

of Gaza,

what does it speak of?

It speaks of profound

arrogance

and it speaks

of a countdown

because Allah does not tolerate arrogance on that

end.

Ibn Khaldun, who is considered by the way

as the father of historiography and sociology and

economics,

demography studies.

He made an observation,

that was the sum total of decades worth

of travel, observation

and reflection.

He said

injustice

announces

the ruin of civilizations.

Allah supports a just state.

Even if it's non believing.

And Allah does not support an oppressive state

even if it is believing.

Only the blind therefore cannot see how falsehood

has started to collapse and how illegitimacy

has rotted to its core and how the

repercussions of Zionist arrogance have already started to

manifest.

Both scripture

and history have shown

that several things are needed for the world

to finally fall on any empire.

is arrogance.

is arrogance.