Welcome to Ummati! Ladies and Gentlemen! Today’s video is about reminiscence. This is about
reminding ourselves about the actions disliked and prohibited by Allah, Quran, and the Prophet PBUH,
and the azaab and punishment promised in return. The words of the Quran proclaim the truth and only
truth. Allah says in the Quran that we will make the body of Firoun a lesson to seek (ibrat). Ibrat
in Arabic is something that reminds us of the punishment associated with an action.
The lesson to seek from Firoun and his end result is that Allah does not
like those who are proud. Here's how Quran tells us that:
From Firoun; surely, he was haughty, (and) one of the extravagant.
How has Allah made firoun's body an ibrat for us? It is no less than a wonder that only the people
of Egypt knew the art of preserving and mummifying dead bodies. And that Firoun
was the haughty, cruel ruler of same Egypt. We all know the famous story of Hazrat Musa AS.
When Firoun claimed to be the only God to be worshipped, he dreamt about a young boy from
Bani Israel bringing an end to his majestic rule. So, he ordered to cut the throat
of every boy who bears in the Bani Israel. But little did he know that there is a bigger planner,
the biggest creator, who can make him a dreadful example for the generations to come.
And the same happened. This is how Quran puts it: Like the striving of the people of Firoun and
those before them; they rejected Our communications,
so Allah destroyed them on account of their faults, and Allah is severe in requiting (evil).
A boy born in Bani Israel was saved by his mother. And Allah had a plan of bringing
that boy by the hands of the Firoun himself. When the woman released his newborn in the water,
it reached the other bank of the river only to be seen by Firoun’s wife. She insisted on keeping the
baby and bringing him up as their own boy. This boy was Hazrat Musa AS, who grew up to
stand up against the atrocities of the Firoun against the Bani Israel.
The people of Bani Israel left Egypt with Hazrat Musa
And when it was time to cross the river Nile, Allah told Hazrat Musa to strike
his stick against the ground. He did as told and the river split into two halves.
It was a miracle that the whole of Bani Israel crossed the river along with their belongings, and
When the Firoun reached the middle of the river with his army, the river joined again and Firoun
and his followers were doomed to death and destruction. But as Allah says in the Quran
that He will make his body a source of lesson and Ibrat for people? How is that true?
When the whole big army drowned in the River Nile, water threw the body of the Firoun. And
the people of Egypt found it. They immediately recognized that it was the body of their emperor.
According to the Egyptian rituals, it was preserved and mummified and locked
inside a wooden cabin. Three thousand years later, geologists find the mummified body.
The computer scans show the age of the body, and the signs match the description of Firoun
in the Quran. It was a strange mummy too, because it had been growing muscle
and hair for so long. So, to preserve the body, every few weeks, rats are set free on the body
so that they can eat all the grown muscle! You see, bodies go in soil and get decomposed.
But this body did not deserve that. It had to be eaten by mice every few days and be
like that forever. This is what happens who commits shirk to this huge level. Undoubtedly,
Allah has fulfilled the promise of making Firoun a dreadful lesson for the coming generations.