Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth — Page 608
UNVEILING OF THE ‘UNSEEN' BY THE QURAN -- A HISTORIC PERSPECTIVE. There are many other examples of the JudaeoChristian history of the same period covered by the Old. Testament, the New Testament and the Holy Quran. But we have carefully selected only the event of the Exodus for the present discussion because it concisely demonstrates the. Divine nature of Quranic revelation. . The Biblical account, though it records contemporary history, is evidently shallow and superficial by comparison. . From the vantage point of a follower of the camp of. Mosesas, the most that he could observe and record was the drowning of Pharaoh and his host, quashed between two mountain-like waves inundating them. What happened to. Pharaoh himself before he was drowned? What passed between Pharaoh and God during his drowning moments?. What was it he begged of Him, if anything at all, during his dying moments? These are things which lie absolutely beyond the reach of any human observer looking across from the dry shore. Hence, all that the Bible mentions of. Pharaoh and his pursuing army is that each of them was drowned without exception. 'Then the waters returned and covered the chariots, the horsemen, and all the army of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them. Not so much as one of them remained. . But the children of Israel had walked on dry land in the midst of the sea. . . 1. Evidently, according to this Biblical statement, all bodies were claimed by the sea, Pharaoh being no exception. The rout was total. As against this, the following is the statement of the Quran referring to the same event. . The difference is so obvious: 570 وَحوَزْنَا بَبَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ الْبَحْرَ فَاتَّبَعَهُمْ فِرْعَوْنُ وَجُنُودُهُ بَغْيًا وعَدْواً حَتَّى إِذَا أَدْرَكَهُ الْغَرَقُ قَالَ أَمَنْتُ أنه لا إلهَ إِلَّا الَّذِى