Pharaoh Finally Snapped | Story Night: Pharaoh Shall Drown | Nouman Ali Khan

Pharaoh's Final Decision

Let me kill Musa myself. The time when they said, kill Musa? He said, no, no, no, no, no. The time when they said, just kill the children? He said, no, no, no, no.

I'll kill Musa. Because he wants to show them who's boss. Let me kill Musa myself.

And I found out, you guys have been negotiating with Musa, telling him to pray to his God. Oh yeah? Let him call his God. Let me kill Musa myself.

Let him call his God. إِنِّي أَخَافُ أَن يُبَدِّلَ دِينَكُمْ I'm starting to worry that he's going to change your religion. He's not talking to the public.

Who's he talking to? The generals. He's about to convert you guys. This is crazy.

I have to kill him. You know, we learn in the Quran that Pharaoh did love Musa alayhis salaam. But now a time came where he had to choose between his love of Musa and his love of power.

And he made a very quick choice. Some of you had very interesting questions. Let me answer those first.

The Psychology of War

Why did he want to kill children? What does he get from that? It's a psychological war. Somebody might be willing to lose their life. But they're much less willing to lose their child.

If he can break these people's spirit, the easiest way to do it is to ruin their families. Paralyze them emotionally. Then they'll not be motivated to do anything.

They'll fall into a dark place. They'll be depressed for generations. So he'll crush their spirit.

Because he recognizes that the more important thing is not their physical bodies. It's their mental state. It's their emotional state.

It's their spiritual state. And he can destroy that by attacking children. It's actually psychological torture on top of just a crime against humanity.

That's what he's trying to do. That's a sick tactic of war. A young man asked me, you think Allah put this in the Quran because people will use it again? I said, what do you think? Why would Allah go into so much detail about this one guy, Pharaoh? 67 times in the Quran.

This guy by name. 70, okay. By name, why? Something about him.

Something about his tactics. Something about his psychosis. Something about the way he ran his government is going to happen over and over again.

There's going to be a Pharaoh everywhere. Sometimes there's even a Pharaoh inside a business. There's a Pharaoh inside a classroom.

There's a Pharaoh inside a school. There's a Pharaoh among friends. There's a Pharaoh in a, you know, yes, of course in government, but in other places too.

You could have a two-bedroom apartment and be a Pharaoh on your two-bedroom apartment. It's possible. We'll see that in a little bit.

Egypt Paralyzed

But let's get back to our story. Egypt is paralyzed. Do you remember the speech of the politicians, the generals? They said, whatever you do, we're never going to listen to you.

Remember that? وَلَمَّا وَقَعَ عَلَيْهِمُ الرِّجْزُ And when the society was on its knees, it fell apart on its knees, when that hit them. رِجْزُ means when an animal can't stand anymore. When Egypt collapsed.

These same generals came to Musa and said, Hey, Musa, could you call your God for us? Because your God has made a promise to you. If He removes these difficulties from us, we will accept what you're saying, we swear to you. We swear, we swear, we will accept what you're saying.

Just get rid of these disasters. Get rid of the storms. Get rid of the locusts.

Get rid of the lice. Get rid of the frogs. Get rid of the blood.

Just get rid of this stuff, please. It's been years. Get rid of this.

We will let you go. We will let the Israelites go. We are ready to listen to you.

What happened to your speech, Boo? You just gave this whole speech. No matter what you do, we shall never listen to you. They're like, Please call your God.

We're ready to listen. The generals came. Pharaoh didn't come.

The generals came. The generals are negotiating with Musa behind Pharaoh's back. Behind his back.

They're not even telling Pharaoh. And Musa alayhi salaam, Allah says something here that's so unique. It's so unique.

Two Types of Arrogance

Allah says, when all of these signs came that basically humbled Egypt, how did the leadership respond? Allah says, فَاسْتَكْبَرُوا وَكَانُوا قَوْمًا مُجْرِمِينَ They were arrogant and were criminal. But now we're reading, they were arrogant and criminal, but then they came to Musa and said, Please pray to your God. That doesn't sound like arrogance.

That sounds like humility, right? So how come Allah said, they were arrogant, and then He says, they were acting humbly. This seems like a contradiction. Right in the previous ayah, Allah said they became arrogant.

We're gonna learn in the Quran, there are two kinds of arrogance. Democratic and Republican. Let me tell you something.

There's an arrogance where somebody comes to you and says, I don't like you. I think you're less than me. I think I'm better than you.

And I will do everything I can to destroy you and your people. Open arrogance. There's someone else who has a knife in one hand and a handshake in the other hand.

How are you? Really nice to meet you. Love what you've done with the place. I really think your religion is so interesting.

Really great. Yeah, thank you. Thank you for inviting me.

And they still have a knife in the other hand. You get it? When these signs came, let's understand it from the politician's perspective, from the general's perspective. If I'm one of those generals, I'm thinking, man, this guy Musa and his God are for real.

He's not going to stop until we give him what he wants. At least let's pretend to give him what he wants. Then this stuff will stop.

And then we'll go back on our deal. At least have a ceasefire negotiation. We're not going to do it.

But at least it'll look like we did it. And then we will get our end and we won't have to fulfill his end. So they come to Musa with a lot of pretend humility and say, pray to your God.

Whatever He can do to give us relief from these disasters. لَئِن كَشَفْتَ عَنَّا الرِّجْزَ لَنُؤْمِنَنَّ لَكَ وَلَنُرْسِلَنَّ مَعَكَ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ In other words, Allah is teaching us, it may look like humility, but it's still arrogance. It's still arrogance.

There's different kinds of arrogance. Right? And so, now, فَلَمَّا كَشَفْنَا عَنْهُمُ الرِّجْزَ إِلَىٰ أَجَلٍ هُم بَالِغُوهُ إِذَا هُمْ يَنكُثُونَ And whenever the disaster would stop, and the moment disaster stops, Allah did His part of the deal. Now it's time for you to let the Muslims go.

They would say, where do you think you're going? You just leave like that? Get back in your cell. Get back in the cages. Get back in the containment area.

Your slaves, don't forget your place. They would go back on the deal. And this kept going on for years.

The Enemy Within

But they know, they know now, that they're also scared of Musa. Because they know that the god of Musa brings very heavy disasters and is breaking Egypt. They needed something more to try to weaken Musa.

They need something to weaken Musa. Imagine, Musa is the leader of a Muslim community that is actually living like slaves. But they're scared of him, and they need to find a way of making him weaker.

Guess what their way of making him weaker was? We need to get some people inside the Muslim community that work for us. Because they recognize the enemy as the outsider, the Egyptian. We need some people from inside the Muslim community.

Allah says that Allah sent Musa alayhi salaam to Pharaoh, Haman, both of them are Egyptian. Qarun, Qarun is not Egyptian. Qarun was part of the Muslim community.

He was from the Israelites. And they all said, he's a magician, he's just lying. He probably learned this magic, but he's not telling us the truth about where he got this magic from.

So even inside the Muslim community, there's someone who's trying to create a campaign against Musa alayhi salaam. Of course, Allah is teaching us that because there will never be any other Qarun in the Ummah ever that works for the enemy of Islam and tries to create division inside of Islam. Alhamdulillah, we've never had that problem anywhere in the Ummah.

The New Strategy

So, now, this time, when all the signs have happened, now what's happened? The stick turned into a snake, the hand turned white, the economic disaster, the rain dried up, the storm came, the blood came, the frogs came, the locusts came, the lice came.

Oh my God, that's a lot. And this happened for years, for years. And they try to negotiate too, and those negotiations are, meaning they're humbled.

They themselves are humbled. Now they hold another emergency meeting. Let's check out this meeting.

I think we should try again. Let's kill the children of those who believe with him. Listen carefully.

Let's kill the children of those who believe with him. This is different from last time. Last time, there were two differences.

Last time they said, let's kill Musa. This time they didn't say, let's kill Musa. Because they're actually scared of Musa too now.

The generals used to be the one saying, let's kill Musa. And Pharaoh was saying, no, no, no, no, no. Let's just kill the kids.

This time the generals, because they've been negotiating with Musa, they're like, we know Musa is off limits, yeah? Let's kill the kids. But not all the kids. Last time it was, we will kill all their children.

This time they're saying, let's kill the children of those who believe with him. In other words, there are Muslims who don't go with Musa. And there are Muslims who go with Musa.

Even inside the Muslims there is a division. Let's do proper spying and intelligence on the Muslim community to find out which one of them is with Musa and which one of them is against Musa. Yes, I'm Muslim, but I don't believe in Musa's message.

I think he's too extreme. I think he's getting us all killed. I don't like Musa's politics.

I really don't like his stick. I really don't like his staff. There are people like that.

There are people that are under the influence of Qarun. And then there are those who believe with him. So they need to now really spy on the Muslim community to find out who is with Musa and who is not with Musa.

And let's only kill the children of those who are with Musa. وَمَا كَيْدُ الْكَافِرِينَ إِلَّا فِي ضَلَالٍ Allah says, and their plan is only going to fall apart. And when he says this, Pharaoh notices, Hey, you guys used to encourage me to kill Musa.

Pharaoh's Crisis

This time you didn't say kill Musa. You just said kill the kids. Are you scared of Musa? This is a big problem.

If I'm scared of Musa, that's okay. But if my generals are scared of Musa, that means they're no longer scared of me. I'm going to lose my government.

This is now a crisis inside the house. Pharaoh is like, oh my god, okay, okay, okay. This is a real emergency.

My own generals are more scared of Musa than they are of me. I need to take some serious action now to regain control. وَقَالَ فِرْعَوْنُ ذَرُونِي أَقْتُلْ مُوسَىٰ Pharaoh said, let me kill Musa myself.

The time when they said, kill Musa, he said, no, no, no, no, no. The time when they said, just kill the children, he said, no, no, no. I'll kill Musa.

Because he wants to show them who's boss. Let me kill Musa myself. And I found out you guys have been negotiating with Musa, telling him to pray to his god.

Oh yeah? فَلْيَدْعُ رَبَّهُ Let him call his god. Let me kill Musa myself. Let him call his god.

إِنِّي أَخَافُ أَن يُبَدِّلَ دِينَكُمْ I'm starting to worry that he's going to change your religion. He's not talking to the public. Who's he talking to? The generals.

He's about to convert you guys. This is crazy. I have to kill him.

You know, we learn in the Quran that Pharaoh did love Musa alayhi salaam. But now a time came where he had to choose between his love of Musa and his love of power.

And he made a very quick choice. Story Night, Pharaoh Shall Drown is now available to watch exclusively on Bayyina TV.

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