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[🧵THREAD]
☪️Proofs for Islam
└📖Miracles of The Quran
└⏳Historical Miracles of The Quran
The Qur'an makes the following claims about Pharoah
1️⃣ His courtmen took him as God
2️⃣ Claimed to be the one God
3️⃣ Worshipped his Gods
We’ll test the historicity of this
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🔷 INTRODUCTION
Let’s look at the claims first and it’s criticism by Christian missionaries. After that we’ll be jumping into the test of it’s historicity

🔹 [📖Qur’an 79:15-24]
When Moses calls The Pharoah to worship the One God, Allah, he immediately rejects and gathers his men and 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗺𝘀 𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗯𝘆 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝗶𝗺𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗟𝗼𝗿𝗱

🔹 [📖Qur’an 28:38]
When Moses went to Pharoah and showed him signs from Allah, he rejected it as magic and said 𝗵𝗲 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗻𝗼 𝗚𝗼𝗱 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗵𝗶𝗺𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳

🔹 [📖Qur’an 7:127]
Here, the the chiefs of Pharoah advise him in context of Moses winning against the magicians whether he should allow Moses to continue otherwise the people would 𝗮𝗯𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗻 𝗵𝗶𝗺 (𝗣𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗵) 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗴𝗼𝗱𝘀

Claims made by 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗻 Missionaries
🔹 Internal contradiction - Pharoah claimed to the only God while worshipping other Gods
🔹 External contradiction - No record of this in Egyptian history
I’ll be demonstrating how this is false with reference to historical records

It should be clarified at this point that the story of Moses in both the Bible and Quran is set out during the 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐝𝐨𝐦 period, specifically during the time of Ramesses II or Merneptah.

1️⃣ PHARAOH AS GOD - THE VIEW OF THE KING'S SUBJECTS
Allah says in the Qur'an that Pharaoh addressed his chiefs by saying that he knows for them of no god but himself [📖Qur'an 28:38] and in [📖Qur’an 79:15-24] he claims himself to be the Lord after Moses invited him to Islam

This statement can be verified by simply checking the views of the king's subjects i.e -
🔹 court officials
🔹 common folk.

🔹 Let's start with the accounts of the court 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹𝘀
According to the autobiographical tomb of Rekhmere, a famous vizier, the king of Egypt was a god by whose decree one lives. 𝗛𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗲, 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗻𝗼 𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹 and takes care of his subjects like a parent.

This affirms that the officials in ancient Egypt considered Pharaoh to be their principal god, thus indirectly 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 made by Pharaoh to his chiefs, as reported 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗤𝘂𝗿'𝗮𝗻, that he knew of no god for them but himself.

Furthermore, Rekhmere adds that the ruler of Egypt had divine qualities such as 𝗼𝗺𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲.
The King was also recognized as the 𝘀𝘂𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗻-𝗴𝗼𝗱 𝗥𝗲’

🔹 Let’s look at the beliefs of the 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗼𝗻 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 regarding Pharoah’s divinity
Here we see Ramesses II in four different aspects, viz., as god, herald, vizier and mayor. This is as if to show that he was everything to the capital, esp. God, and commanded everything

Ramesses II (the Pharoah at the time of Moses) is called 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗼𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗲 𝗣𝗯ē𝘀.
This again confirms the fact that even the common folk treated the king as a divinity just like the officials

2️⃣ PHARAOH AS GOD - FROM PHARAOH'S OWN WORDS
The view of the Pharaohs about themselves is best seen in the 𝗵𝗶𝗲𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗹𝘆𝗽𝗵𝘀. The rulers of Egypt were not themselves responsible for construction of temples, obelisks, etc., where the inscriptions were engraved;

rather they had a team of architects who were responsible for executing the orders of the Pharaoh. The hieroglyphs give good information about the Pharaoh, his family, his cult and his courtiers.
Let us 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲 hieroglyphs from the time of Ramesses II

🔹 Stela no. 410 of Hildesheim Museum shows two people, one is standing wearing the double crown and holds the seal in one hand.
He is called: "King of Upper and Lower Egypt, the Lord of the Two Lands ‘𝗥𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀-𝗺𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗮𝗺𝘂𝗻, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗼𝗱’".

🔹 Stela no. 1079 of Hildesheim Museum shows a man in a long garment.
Above these two statues and before them are the words: "Lord of the two Lands ‘Usermaatre-setpenre’ Monthu-in-the-Two-Lands" and "Lord of the diadems ‘Ramesses-meryamun’, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗼𝗱".

🔹 Great Temple of Abu Simbel shows Ramesses II venerating Ramesses II
Point to be noted here is that Ramesses II is not simply 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 himself, but his 𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳
We have thus proved that Pharoah too exalted himself as lord with the three eg. shown

3️⃣ PHARAOH AND HIS GODS
In the earlier sections we have seen what the views of Pharaoh and his subjects were concerning the divinity of The Pharoah. In this section, let us deal with the issue of 𝗺𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗶𝘁𝘆 of Egyptian gods and their relation to the ruler of Egypt.

🔹 Professor Kitchen writes “Not only 𝗔𝗺𝘂𝗻, 𝗥𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝘁𝗮𝗵, but also other gods (Seth, Herishef, etc.) 𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗴𝗼𝗱𝘀 "𝗼𝗳 𝗥𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀", - and even goddesses: Udjo, Hathor, Nephthys, and Anath from Canaan”

🔹 “Ramesses II consolidated his holy state by building numerous temples in which he was worshipped in the image of the 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗴𝗼𝗱𝘀”
Source: wou.edu

wou.edu/history/files/…

🔷 CONCLUSION
A careful examination of primary sources from the New Kingdom period such as papyri, hieroglyphs and associated iconography, reveal the Pharaoh was considered as God by his people while he worshipped the other gods and his own divine nature.

The Qur'an reports the statements the Pharaoh and his chiefs made which are in consonance with established ancient Egyptian religious precepts. The Qur'an, however, condemns the claim of the Pharaoh being the god as false. The Pharaoh was neither God, nor the Lord most high.

These claims about the history of Ancient Egypt was lost to mankind for about 3000 years until efforts were made in the 19th century to decipher the Hieroglyphs under the study of Egyptology and uncover the secrets of Ancient Egypt
The Rosetta stone was key in decoding it

It is impossible for the author of The Quran to have known this information when it was physically impossible to access it.
Moreover this also refutes the objection that the Qur'an copied the Bible since The Bible is either silent on these issues or says on the contrary

It is stupid to make the claim that the Quran copied other books around it as some orientalists do
Refer to this for more info on the topic 👇

The only way the Author of The Quran had access to this information is iff he had knowledge of the unseen ie. Ilm al Ghayb
Thus the Quran is a divine revelation from God

Some resources for further reading on this topic
islamic-awareness.org
A short thread 👇

islamic-awareness.org/quran/contrad/…