THE FINAL STAGE OF THE COMBAT (VERSES NO. 90 - 93)

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Quran,Translation and Commentary in Brief (Vol. 03)
Verses 94-97Verses 90-93

      Here the final stage of the combat with Pharaoh and his hosts is described in brief, but clear and subtle:ِ

      ``We passed the children of Israel over the sea, when pharaoh and his hosts pursued them with insolence and enmity, until drowning over took him.''

      How was the pass over, and what sort of a miracle saved these, and drowned those; is to be explained in detail in S 2b:63, if God speeds us. However, pharaoh found himself like a leaf of straw floating upon the sea water with God's wrath all round him! He therefore, cried loudly:ِ

      ``I believe that there is no god except He in whom the children of Israel have believed, and I have submitted.''

      This was, infact, a death bed repentance, forced by terror, and would not be accepted. The repentance of those who continue with evil deeds until death faces them, is not a real repentance and therefore Allah will not accept it. The answer to him when declaring faith, was therefore:ِ

      ``Now!? And you have rebelled before and were a corruptor! So, to-day we

shall deliever your dead body to the land to make it a sign of our justice for those who come after you; that they may take lesson of your fate, although a lot of people pay no heed to our signs!''

      If pharaoh's body was not thrown up, out of the water by the sea waves, the laymen would compose fairy tales, and many fictions about him, and introducing him as a god or deify him, for not believing that he was really drowned! So, as per order of God, the waves threw up his fat and big body, and according to Egyption custom he was embalmed and mummified with preservatives for burial.

      At present a couple of mummified bodies of the Egyptian Pharaohs are preserved and exhibited in the British and Egyption museums; but we are not sure enough if the pharaoh who was contemporary to Moses is among them or not.

      Pharaoh and his hosts were thus vanquished, and their land and possessions fell in the hands of the Hebrews, who lived there in Egypt for a period before the OXODUS.

 

 

 

 

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