humankind, just as harmful creatures from snakes to Satan do not obey man and are hostile to him. And with the people of Moses (Upon whom be peace) slaughtering a cow, they state that the concept of cow-worship – which was taken from the worship of cows in Egypt and showed its effect in the event of the calf – was slaughtered by Moses’ knife. And with water gushing forth from the rock and springs flowing out and spreading, they also state that the rock layer which is under the soil layer acts as the source of both water springs and the soil.

Second Example: This is the whole and the parts of the story of Moses (Upon whom be peace), which is frequently repeated in the Qur’an, and each of the repetitions of which is shown to be the tip of a universal rule, with each repetition stating the rule in question. For example:

O Haman! Build me a lofty palace.(40:36)

Pharaoh is commanding his minister: “Build me a high tower so that I can take a look at the heavens and observe them. I wonder if there is a God who governs in the skies like Moses claims, who can be seen from their disposition?” Thus, through the word “palace” and this minor incident, it states a strange rule dominant in the traditions of the Egyptian Pharaohs, who, because they lived in the desert with no mountains, wanted mountains, and because they did not recognize the Creator, were worshippers of nature and claimed godhead; and worshipping fame, by displaying the works of their dominion perpetuated their name and constructed the famous mountain-like pyramids; and agreed to magic and metempsychosis, and had their corpses mummified and preserved in their mountain-like tombs.

And, for example:

This day We shall save you in your body.(10:92)

By saying to the drowning Pharaoh: “Today I am going to save your body which will drown,” it is expressing a death-tainted, exemplary rule of the Pharaohs’ lives, which was, as a consequence of the idea of metempsychosis and mummifying their bodies, to take them from the past and send them to be viewed by the generations of the future. This present century a body was discovered which was the very body of Pharaoh, thrown up on the seashore where he drowned. The verse thus states a miraculous sign of the Unseen, that the body was to be borne on the waves of the centuries and cast up from the sea of time onto the shore of this century.

And, for example:

They slaughtered your sons and let your women-folk live.(2:49; 14:6)

Referring to an event in the time of one of the Pharaohs, the slaughtering of the sons of the Children of Israel and the sparing of their women and