Real Revolution — Page 27
27 ordered him to set bricklayers at work, to build a palace equipped with telescopes and observatories, so that he (the Pharoah) should be able to fathom the mysteries of the heavens and find some trace of the. God Moses talked so much about. . Similarly we read in Surah Momin : وقال فرعون بهامَانُ ابْن لى صَرِها لَعَلَى ابلغ الأسباب لاظنه كاذباً. . . . . . :. اسبابَ السَّمَوَاتِ فَاطَّلِعَ إِلَى اللَهِ مُوسَى وَ إِنِّي i. e. the Pharoah said to Haamaan, Build for us a fort, so that we should reach the causes, the mysteries of the heavens, to learn about the deity professed by Moses, though of course in this we hold him to be a liar. . Here the idea at the back of the mind of the. Pharoah was not that he hoped to reach the sky by means of a high tower; his idea was by climbing to the top to get a clearer view of the heavenly bodies, so that he should be able to expose on a scientific basis the fallacy involved in the philosophy preached by Moses. . Similarly in regard to the Aad God says in another place in the Holy Book: 1031013I البنون بكل ربع آيَةٌ تَعْبَعُونَ ، وتتخلقُونَ مَصَانَعَ لَعَلَّكُم تَخْلُدُونَ ، وَإِذَا بَطَعْتُمْ بَطَعْتُمْ جَبَّارِينَ i. e. We said. you raise imposing buildings at the top of every mountain: you make big factories and ceptres of study for chemistry and you assume that you will