102 Preface قالَ لَقَد عَلِمتَ ما أَنزَلَ هٰؤُلاءِ إِلّا رَبُّ السَّماواتِ وَالأَرضِ بَصائِرَ وَإِنّي لَأَظُنُّكَ يا فِرعَونُ مَثبورًاYusuf AliMoses said, “Thou knowest well that these things have been sent down by none but the Lord of the heavens and the earth as eye-opening1 evidence: and I consider thee indeed, O Pharaoh, to be one doomed to destruction!”We can well suppose Moses to ask Pharaoh to recall all the past history of Moses, for Moses had been brought up in Pharaoh’s palace in all the learning of the Egyptians. He could not therefore be mad, or a simpleton worked on by Egyptian magic. What he was going to show was something far greater; it was not the deceptive magic of Pharaoh’s sorcerers, but true Signs that came from God, the Lord of all power. They were to open the eyes of his people, and if Pharaoh resisted faith, Moses warns him that Pharaoh in that case was doomed to destruction. This is the course of the soul that sinks down by Pride! (R).