Ash-Shu'ara 29: (Pharaoh) said, “if you adopt as a deity anyone else but me, I will certainly imprison you.”
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(Pharaoh) said, “if you adopt as a deity anyone else but me, I will certainly imprison you.”
Tafsir
When Hazrat Musa 'alaihis-salâm' told Pharaoh about Allah, Who is One and there is no God but Him, and invited Pharaoh to the Truth, Pharaoh became angry. He said to Hadrat Musa 'alaihis-salâm', "By Allah, if you take anyone other than me as your god, I will make you rot in dungeons.
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Verse twenty-nine of Surah Ash-Shu'ara – what are we reading from? Pharaoh: If you take a god other than me, I swear I will make you one of the imprisoned, he said. To whom did he say it? To Moses. Why did he say it? Because for Moses there was no god other than Allah Almighty, just so.
He recognized no other god besides Him, just so. When he told him that the one Allah created Pharaoh too, and that apart from Allah, of these worlds the absolute Owner, there is no god at all, Pharaoh gets angry. Because Pharaoh's claim to godhood is slipping away. So when he tells Pharaoh the command of Allah Almighty, Pharaoh gets angry. What does he do? When Moses (peace be upon him) explained that One, besides whom there is no god – Allah – to Pharaoh, when he invited Pharaoh to the Truth, Pharaoh grew irritated and angry. As a result of that anger, he said to Moses (peace be upon him): I swear, if you take anyone other than me as god, I will let you rot in dungeons.
Yes.
No one can overcome a person who is with Allah Almighty. The one who is with Allah.
So, since Moses too is carrying out the command of Allah Almighty, the evils Pharaoh has done will prepare his own end. Further on, through the verses, we will learn and see this.