Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
Surah Al-Isra
Surah 17 · Al-Isra · verse 103 of 111

Quran 17:103 · Al-Isra

فَأَرَادَ أَن يَسۡتَفِزَّهُم مِّنَ ٱلۡأَرۡضِ فَأَغۡرَقۡنَٰهُ وَمَن مَّعَهُۥ جَمِيعٗا

So he intended to drive them from the land, but We drowned him and those with him all together

Translation: Sahih International
Maulana’s commentary · Tazkirul Quran

When clear signs were shown to the Pharaoh, he said that this was magic. This shows how powerful an argument and how great the signs of God that are presented by the preacher to the addressee, it is still open to man to reject the message by uttering some words which he thinks to be logical. He may call divine signs a form of magic produced by man, or ignore its rational proofs as carrying no academic weight and as such unacceptable. When the opponents fail in suppressing the call of truth by verbal opposition, they stoop to aggressive activities against the messenger of truth, forgetting that this was not a human, but a divine matter. Who can succeed in the matter of God by resorting to aggression?

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan, Tazkirul Quran

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