The Truth about the Alleged Punishment for Apostasy in Islam — Page 163
163 behind, it is not within our control to accept what you are persuading us to. " So how have the things come within the control and influence of the people of today that were not in the control of the Prophets as of earlier eras? Or were not in the control of the enemies of the Prophets as of those eras and were only in the control of Allah, the Exalted. Most certainly it is the same God today Who controls hearts and without His command hearts cannot be transformed. ALLEGATION AGAINST H A D RAT M U S A AS BY THE NATION OF THE PHARAOH: The people of Hadrat M u s a as and the Pharaoh of the time also treated Hadrat M u s a as in the same way. The Holy Qur’an states that not only did they treat him as the opponents of other Prophets as treated them. Rather they surpassed in cruelty and invented new methods of causing infliction. Pharaoh thought of ways and means that did not even cross the imagination of the adversaries of the earlier Prophets as and he thus carried on with all kinds of cruelty on the grounds that according to him Hadrat M u s a as was causing his people to apostatize. The Holy Qur’an thus declares: