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中文字幕志愿者 李宗盛

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字幕志愿者 李宗盛

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字幕志愿者 李宗盛

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built in southern Arabia in the 11th century B.C. was a great civilization.

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The Quran relates the story of the Queen of Sabah and the Prophet Suleiman in considerable detail.

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However, there is another story in the Quran regarding this people who appear before us in a violent act of destruction.

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The oldest texts who refer to the people of Sabah are the annual war chronicles from the time of the Assyrian king Sargon II.

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According to these inscriptions, Sargon mentions Sabah as one of the states that pays tribute to him.

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This record is the oldest text giving firm information about the state of Sabah.

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Ancient texts that speak of the people of Sabah say that like the Phoenicians,

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they were a state that engaged in wide commercial activities

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and that some of the most important trade routes in northern Arabia were in their hands.

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The Sabahians were known in history as a civilized people.

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The inscriptions of the Sabahian rulers frequently speak of restoring, endowing, and building.

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dawning

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The Sabahian rulers

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The Sabahian rulers

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The Sabahian rulers

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The Sabahian ust flavor

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The falsification

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The Sabahian cuk

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The Mahrib Dam, the ruins of which have survived down to the present day, is a major indication

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of Sabayan technology.

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Thanks to that dam, a bright green world was built in the middle of the desert.

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The capital that benefited from the dam was Mahrib, which had grown wealthy because of

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its many geographical advantages.

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The capital stood close by the Arhana River.

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The Sabayans made use of this and built a dam here as they were constructing their civilization

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and began irrigating the area.

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They prospered and they were thus able to enjoy high levels of well-being.

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The capital Mahrib was one of the most beautiful cities of the time.

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The Greek writer Pliny, who traveled in the area and had great praise for this land, spoke

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in his works of the way it was all so verdant.

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The dam at Mahrib was 16 meters high, 60 meters wide and 620 meters long.

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Calculations have shown that the two wide plains on both sides of the city could be watered

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by means of it.

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These two plains are sometimes described on Sabayan inscriptions as Mahrib and the twin plains.

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The expression two gardens to the right and to the left in the Koran in all probability

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refers to the impressive vineyards and gardens in these two valleys.

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Thanks to the dam and its watering facilities, the region became famous as the best irrigated

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and most fertile in Yemen.

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When we examine the verses in the Koran in the light of these historical facts, we can

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see enormous compatibility between them.

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Archaeological discoveries and historical facts are totally compatible with what is written

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in the Koran.

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The people refused to heed the warnings of the Prophet who was sent to them and were ungrateful

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for the blessings of God and were eventually punished with a terrible catastrophe.

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There was also a sign for Saba in their dwelling place.

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Two gardens, one to the right and one to the left.

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Eat of your Lord's provisions and give thanks to Him, a bountiful land and a forgiving Lord.

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But they turned away, so we unleashed against them the flood from the great dam and exchanged

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their two gardens for two others containing bitter-tasting plants and tamarisk and a few

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loat trees.

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That is how we repaid them for their ingratitude.

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Are any but the ungrateful repaid like this?

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The people of Saba lived in a strikingly beautiful area with fertile vineyards and gardens.

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The country of Saba lay across trade routes and thus enjoyed a high level of prosperity,

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making it one of the most prominent cities of the age.

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What the people of Saba needed to do under such agreeable conditions was to eat of the sustenance

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provided by their Lord and be grateful to Him.

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Yet they did not do so.

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As a verse puts it, they turned away from God.

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Their arrogance in their well-being caused them to lose it.

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The whole country was flattened in a terrible flood.

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The vineyards and gardens of the people of Saba were suddenly left under the waters.

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The punishment visited on the people of Saba is described in the Koran as the Sel Al-Arim or

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the Arim flood.

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This term in the Koran also tells us the way this disaster occurred.

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The word Arim means dam or dike.

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Sel Al-Arim describes the way a flood occurs after a dike has been breached.

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The Christian archaeologist Werner Keller agrees that the Arim flood came about in line with

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the description of the Koran.

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He writes, For 1,500 years this garden of spices bloomed around Marib.

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That was until 542 BC.

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Then the dam burst.

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The importunate desert crept over the fertile lands and destroyed them.

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The people of Sheba, says the Koran, had beautiful gardens in which the most costly fruits ripened.

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But then the people turned their backs upon God.

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Wherefore he punished them by causing the dam to burst.

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Thereafter nothing but bitter fruit grew in the gardens of Sheba.

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The dam, that may be considered the most important source of the people of Sheba's wealth and

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well-being, was also the means of that ungrateful people's destruction.

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After the disaster of the Arim flood, the area turned into a desert.

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And as the agricultural fields disappeared, the people of Sheba lost their most important

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source of revenue.

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The people of Sheba, who ignored God's call to believe in Him and give thanks, were thus

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chastised.

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Following the terrible damage wreaked by the flood, the people of Sheba began to fall apart.

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They abandoned their homes and migrated to Northern Arabia, Mecca and Syria.

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Marib, where the people of Sheba had once dwelt, was now a desolate ruin and is most definitely

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a warning to everyone who commits the same mistakes as the people of Sheba.

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and has depuis itself a while for us a rare time.

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中文字幕志愿者 中文字幕志愿者 李宗盛

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Ancient Egypt rested on one of the world's great natural wonders, the River Nile.

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The River Nile

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which stretches from one end of the continent of Africa to the other.

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The Egyptians were able to engage in agriculture without having to depend on the rainy seasons.

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The historian Ernst Gombrich makes the following comments on the subject.

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Africa is hot.

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It does not rain for months.

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Many parts of the continent are therefore arid.

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Those regions are covered in desert.

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That is the case to the right and left of Egypt.

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It rains very infrequently in Egypt.

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But there is not that much need for rain.

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because the River Nile flows right through the middle of the country.

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Given its enormous strategic importance,

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he who controlled the Nile also controlled Egypt's most important source of trade and agriculture.

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In other words, its very life.

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Ancient Egyptian rulers built a mighty kingdom by that means.

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They would later come to be known as Pharaoh.

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for its own hardware.

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According to our

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sichern eiw jobs á быть,

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He loves a horse.

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In other words,

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good news.

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ph temporada should be made ofThere looks like someone's in the mor tea.

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He's out 10 square foot.

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He's out 11скую school.

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Lord Washington.

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Before his mind is aLE four- answered.

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中文字幕志愿者 中文字幕志愿者 李宗盛

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中文字幕志愿者 李宗盛

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中文字幕志愿者 李宗盛

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中文字幕志愿者 李宗盛

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The Egyptians remained isolated from the external world thanks to these natural factors.

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Over the centuries, that separation turned into harsh bigotry.

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Closed to new developments and reform, they clung fiercely to their beliefs.

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Closed to be washington in the middle of October 2020.

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作詞・作曲 李宗盛

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It was believed that the soul survived after the death of the body

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and that the soul of the deceased was held to account.

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Scales were brought and witnesses summoned,

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and the good and bad deeds of the deceased were discussed.

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Then the judge God reached his verdict.

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Those whose good deeds weighed heaviest in the scales

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would lead a life of endless joy,

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and those whose evil deeds weighed heaviest

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would suffer eternal torment.

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It is impossible not to see that the Egyptians' belief in the afterlife

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showed parallels with monotheistic belief and the true religion.

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This shows that ancient Egyptian civilization

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had once been part of the true religion and its revelation.

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That religion was later corrupted, however,

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and belief in one God turned into belief in many.

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We know that from time to time messengers were sent

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to warn people of the oneness of God and to serve Him.

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One of these was the Prophet Yusuf,

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whose life is set out in the Koran in some detail.

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The Prophet Yusuf migrated to Egypt with the people of Israel

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and settled there.

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After his death,

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there began a period of enslavement of the children of Israel.

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That age would end with the sending of the Prophet Musa

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as an ambassador

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and his leading the children of Israel out of Egypt.

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and his leading the children of Israel out of Egypt.

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The pharaohs of Egypt were cruel, oppressive, warlike, and ruthless.

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One thing they had in common

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was that they all regarded themselves as great beings

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within the twisted Egyptian polytheistic system

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and could shed blood without a moment's remorse.

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However, one pharaoh in Egyptian history was different to the others.

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That pharaoh maintained that there was but one creator.

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For that reason alone,

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he was subjected to terrible pressure by the priests of Amman

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and eventually killed.

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That pharaoh was Amenhotep IV,

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who rose to power at the beginning of the 14th century BC.

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When Amenhotep assumed the throne in 1375 BC,

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he encountered a conservatism that had grown over the centuries

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and was subjected to great strife.

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The reason for that pressure was that he changed the polytheistic Egyptian religion,

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instilling a belief in one god in his place

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and embarked on wide-ranging changes in all areas.

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However, the leaders in the capital, Thebes, fought Amenhotep.

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Those who supported him left the city and migrated to another region.

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Here, Amenhotep changed his name to Ak-en-Anton,

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which meant the servant of Aton.

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Aton, according to Amenhotep,

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was the creator of the heavens and the earth,

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which indicates that he believed in God alone.

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Other cruel pharaohs ascended the throne after Amenhotep.

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They set about spreading their traditional polytheistic religion once again

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and did all in their power to return to the past.

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A century or so later,

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Ramses II came to the throne,

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who would enjoy the longest reign in the history of Egypt.

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According to a great many historians,

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it was Ramses who opposed the children of Israel

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and struggled against the Prophet Musa.

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The ancient Egyptians refused to give up their pagan beliefs

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because of their blind fanaticism.

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The ancient Egyptians refused to give up their pagan beliefs

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because of their blind fanaticism.

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Messengers had come to warn them to believe in one God,

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but the people of Pharaoh had always returned to their old beliefs.

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Eventually, God sent the Prophet Musa as his messenger

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at a time when the children of Israel had been enslaved.

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The Prophet Musa was charged with both calling the Egyptians

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to the true religion

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and with guiding them to the true path

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by freeing them from slavery.

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We recite to you with truth

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some news of Musa and Pharaoh

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for people who believe.

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Pharaoh exalted himself arrogantly in the land

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and divided its people into camps,

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oppressing one group of them

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by slaughtering their sons

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and letting their women live.

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He was one of the corrupters.

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We desired to show kindness

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to those who were oppressed in the land

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and to make them leaders

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and make them inheritors

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and establish them firmly in the land

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and to show Pharaoh and Haman

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and their troops

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the very thing that they were fearing from them.

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In obedience to God's commandment,

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the Prophet Musa and his brother Harun

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went to Pharaoh and told him of God's commands.

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What they wanted was for Pharaoh

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to cease suppressing the children of Israel

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and set them free.

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On the other hand,

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the religion proclaimed by the Prophet Musa

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was undermining Pharaoh's power

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and portraying him as a being

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on the same level as everyone else.

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Furthermore,

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if he freed the children of Israel,

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he would lose some important manpower.

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For all these reasons then,

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Pharaoh refused to listen

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to what the Prophet Musa told him.

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He accused the Prophet

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and his brother Harun

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of trying to disturb the established order

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and portrayed them as criminals.

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Leading members of the people of Pharaoh

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also refused to obey

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the Prophet Musa and Harun.

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They refused to abide by the religion

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that had been revealed to them.

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They had no intention

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of abandoning the religion

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of their ancestors.

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At that point,

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God visited a number of disasters

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on their heads.

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Pharaoh and those close to him

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were so fanatically devoted

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to their polytheistic system

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and pagan beliefs,

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in other words,

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the religion of their ancestors,

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that they were totally unwilling

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to give it up.

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Not even the miracles

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performed by the Prophet Musa

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could turn them

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from their superstitions.

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They openly stated the fact.

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According to Surah 7,

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verse 132,

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they said,

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No matter what kind of sign

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you bring us

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to bewitch us,

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we will not believe in you.

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In the face of that obstinacy,

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God visited a number of disasters

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on them

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so they could have a taste

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of suffering

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while still in this world.

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The first of these

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was drought

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and scarcity of crops.

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We seized Pharaoh's people

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with years of drought

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and scarcity of fruits

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so that hopefully

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they would pay heed.

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The Egyptians

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had based

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their agricultural system

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on the Nile

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for which reason

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changes in natural conditions

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did not affect them.

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However,

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the arrogance of Pharaoh

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and his close circles

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towards God

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and their refusal

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to recognize his prophet

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led to a totally

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unexpected disaster

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being inflicted on them.

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In all probability,

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water levels

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in the river Nile

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dropped enormously

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for various reasons

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and the irrigation canals

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from the river

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were unable

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to carry enough water

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to the fields.

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Extreme heat

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led to crops drying up.

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In this way,

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Pharaoh and his prominent followers

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encountered a disaster

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stemming from a most

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unexpected source,

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the river Nile itself.

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Surah 43, verse 51

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reveals how this catastrophe

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dismayed Pharaoh

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who previously used

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to call to his people

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to call to his people saying,

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My people,

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does the kingdom of Egypt

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not belong to me?

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Do not all these rivers

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flow under my control?

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Do you not then see?

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Yet that was not the end

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of their problems.

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In fact,

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it was only the beginning.

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A whole string

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of other disasters

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followed the drought

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and the failure

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of the crops.

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These consisted,

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as the Quran tells us,

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of floods,

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locusts,

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frogs,

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and blood.

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Despite all these things

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that had happened to them,

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Pharaoh and his people

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still refused

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to take the advice

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given to them

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and turn to God.

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In other words,

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they remained fixed

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in their arrogance.

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Yet that would not last long.

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Since Pharaoh still refused

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to accept the might of God,

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despite everything

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that had happened,

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God told the prophet Musa

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to lead the children

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of Israel out of Egypt.

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They obeyed the prophet Musa

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and set out with him

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to leave Egypt.

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to leave Egypt

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but Pharaoh could not accept

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their departure

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without his permission.

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he therefore gathered his army together

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and set out to follow the children of Israel

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Pharaoh and his army caught up with the children of Israel

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just as they reached the sea

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when the children of Israel saw this

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some of them began to rise up against the Prophet Musa

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according to the Old Testament they said

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why did you take us away from our homeland

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there we were slaves but we could lead our lives

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now we will die

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the Quran describes that weakness of theirs in these words

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and when the two hosts came into sight of one another

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Musa's companion said

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we will surely be overtaken

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according to Surah 26 verse 62

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the Prophet Musa reassured those people

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who were afraid they would be recaptured saying

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never

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my lord is with me and he will guide me

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at that point

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God again showed his support for the Prophet Musa

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what happened next is described in the Quran

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so we revealed to Musa

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strike to sea with your staff

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and it split in two

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each part like a towering cliff

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and we brought the others right up to it

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we rescued Musa and all those who were with him

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then we drowned the rest

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there is certainly a sign in that

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yet most of them do not believe

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truly your Lord is the Almighty

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the Most Merciful

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Quran 26 63 to 68

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As Pharaoh and his men began to enter the sea

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God miraculously closed the waters over their heads

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the Quran states that as Pharaoh realized

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that he was about to die

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he stated that he believed in God

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when he was on the point of drowning

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he, Pharaoh, said

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I believe that there is no God but him

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in whom the tribe of Israel believe

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I am one of the Muslims

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Quran 10 90

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Yet Pharaoh and his army were not saved from drowning

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This fact is reported in the verses thus

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What? Now?

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When previously you rebelled and were one of the corruptors?

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Today we will preserve your body

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so you can be a sign for people who come after you

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Surely many people are heedless of our signs

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Quran 10 91 to 92

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So God exacted retribution from them

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and ground them in the sea

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because they rejected His signs

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and failed to take warning from them

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Following Pharaoh's violent death

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the people of Israel set out for the land promised them by God

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And we bequeathed to the people who had been oppressed

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the easternmost part of the land we had blessed

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and its westernmost part as well

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The most excellent word of your Lord

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was fulfilled for the tribe of Israel

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on account of their steadfastness

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As we have seen

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historical and archaeological discoveries

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regarding the peoples mentioned in the Quran

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reveal once more

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that the Quran is the word of God

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People must learn from what befell these peoples

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and look for means to draw closer to God

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Only in that way

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can they hope to be successful in the hereafter

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As I said, it's superstars

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So I don't think so

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