Prophet Musa Part 1C

We afflicted Fir'aun's people with several years of famine and shortages of fruit so that they may come to their senses.  But whenever they had good times they said, "It is our due,"  and whenever bad times befell them, they ascribed that bad luck to Musa and those with him.  Behold!  In fact their misfortune was in the hands of Allah; yet most of them do not know.  They said to Musa, "No matter what sign you may bring us to put your magic spell on us, we are not going to believe in you."  so We plagued them with flood, locusts, lice, frogs and blood: clear cut signs, yet they persisted in their arrogance, for they were a criminal people.  Everytime the plague befell them, they said, "O Musa!  Pray for us to your Rabb as He has made the promise with you, if you help to remove the plague from us, we shall truely believe in you and send the children of Israel with you."  But every time We removed the plague from them to a fixed term that they had to reach, lo! they broke their promise.

 

Therefore, We inflicted retribution on them and drowned them in the sea; for they denied our signs and became heedless of them.  Thus We made the people who were oppressed, the inheritors of the eastern and western regions of the land which We had blessed.  Thus the fair promise of your Rabb was fulfilled for the children because they had endured with patience, and We levelled to the ground the great works and fine building which Fir'aun and his people had erected with such pride.

 

We made the children of Israel cross the Red Sea.  On their way they came across people wo were worshipping their idols.  They said, "O Musa! fashion for us a god like the gods of these people.  He replied, "You are indeed very ignorant people.  what these people are following is doomed to distruction and their deeds are in vain."  He further said, " Should I seek for you a god other than Allah: when it is He who has exalted you above all the worlds."  Remember that We rescued  you from the people of Fir'aun, who subjected you to clear torment, putting your sons to death and sparing your women and in that condition of slavery, there was a great trial from your Rabb.   Quran Al-Araf 7: 130-141