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The sorcerers

السحرة

Pharaoh's sorcerers gathered to contest Musa; they threw their ropes and staffs which seemed to slither by their magic — Musa cast his staff and it swallowed their fabrications, and the sorcerers believed in the Lord of the worlds 1 2.

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Pharaoh's sorcerers gathered to contest Musa; they threw their ropes and staffs which seemed to slither by their magic — Musa cast his staff and it swallowed their fabrications, and the sorcerers believed in the Lord of the worlds 1 2.

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The wind that destroyed Aad· The questioning and punishment of the grave· Dreams (ahlam)· The prophets' dreams· The hereafter: the grave, resurrection and reckoning· Al-barzakh· Absolute unseen (al-ghayb al-mutlaq)· The Basin (al-Hawd) of the Prophet on the Day of Resurrection

Sources

  1. Tafsir Ibn Kathir
  2. Ibn Kathir (d. 774 AH), Qisas al-Anbiya' — ed. 'Abd al-Hayy al-Farmawi, Dar al-Tiba'a wa-al-Nashr al-Islamiyya, Cairo, 5th edition 1417 AH/1997 CE
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islam.museum contributors. “The sorcerers”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/concept/al-sahara/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-10.

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The wind that destroyed Aad

God destroyed Aad with a screaming, violent wind for seven nights and eight days in succession; you would see the people felled like hollow palm trunks — the first nation destroyed after the Flood.