Ash-Shu'ara 35: “He wants to drive you out of your home with his magic. What do you suggest?”

A. Metin Saruhan · 24 September 2017 · Ash-Shu'ara

Translation

“He wants to drive you out of your home with his magic. What do you suggest?”

Tafsir

In the face of these miracles, when Pharaoh himself claimed to be a god, he was left with nothing to say or do in the face of the miracles he saw, and he became desperate and helpless. He asked for help from those around him and said to Hadrat Musa 'alaihis-salâm', "This magician wants to drive you out of your homes with his magic. He says what do you think about them?

If a person claims to be an inventor or a scholar of something and then fails to do it and asks for help from others, such people are liars. They are prideful and arrogant people who want to show themselves superior to others, who are caught up in their own egoistic desires.

Pharaoh, like Pharaoh, shamelessly claimed godhood, saying that he was a god when he himself needed to be cared for and ruled, and then asking for help from those around him, made him the most liar of liars, and he could not make anyone believe him.

What is said in the video

We have now come to Surah Ash-Shu'ara, verse 35.

He wants to drive you out of your land with his magic; what do you command now? Who is saying this? Oh dear! His vizier, those beside him: He wants to drive you out of your land with his magic, what do you command now? That is, in the sense of: let us kill him.

But if they killed him, an innocent person, or a person practicing sorcery, would be murdered though he had committed no crime, and this time Pharaoh finds that beneath his dignity.

Faced with these miracles, Pharaoh himself, in his claim to divinity, having nothing left to say or do against the miracles he saw when he made that claim, falls into a helpless and desperate state. Reduced to hoping for help from those around him, about Moses (peace be upon him): This sorcerer wants to drive you out of your lands with his magic. What do you think about them? he says. If a person claims to be the inventor or the expert of a work, then cannot manage the task he is to do and asks those around him for help, such people are liars.

They are people who want to show themselves greater than they are, carried away by the whims of the ego, living in pride and arrogance. Like Pharaoh himself. Pharaoh too, likewise, shamelessly laid claim to divinity; while he himself needed to be looked after and governed, his saying I am god and then asking those around him for help makes him the greatest liar of all liars. (?) He could not make anyone believe in him.