They picked up the child through whom they were to be destoyed in the end | It is, however, a different thing that the ignorant people curse Pharaoh but approve these as lawful |
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" Yunus: 78 "O Moses, have you come to drive us out of our land by the power of your sorcery? What he meant was this: "I am the owner of this land of Egypt: I alone will rule here: My law will be the law of the land; I alone shall be accepted as the fountainhead of all commands and prohibitions here | It is, however, a different thing that the ignorant people curse Pharaoh but approve these as lawful |
They thought that if they believed in God, they would never be able to shed the influence and impact of the civilization brought about by the Prophet Joseph.
The Qur'an does not specify whether Pharaoh actually got such a tower built and tried to see God from the top of it, but it only relates what he said | It is not known who told them that the Being Whom the God-worshippers acknowledge as the Lord of the universe resided some where above according to their belief |
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it is indeed Allah Who enlarges the provision or restricts it, to any of His servants He pleases! Aku tidak mengetahui tuhan bagi kalian selain aku sendiri | Likewise; he also did not mean that they had no other deity besides him for the Egyptians worshipped many gods, and the Pharaoh himself had been made the incarnation of the sungod |