Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth — Page 610
UNVEILING OF THE ‘UNSEEN' BY THE QURAN – A HISTORIC PERSPECTIVE would testify to the truth of the Quranic statement. It was implausible enough to conceive that the body of Pharaoh having drowned in the conditions described by the Bible, could be retrieved. The phenomenon of such a body, even if retrieved, would present no small problem for the purpose of mummification. . Yet, this is what the Quran claims. No man could have dreamt of making such a statement contrary to the available historical evidence at the time of the revelation of the Quran. All that man knew was that the body of Pharaoh had been devoured by the sea, lost forever. Even the. Egyptian plunderers of the tombs had no notion whatsoever as to which, if any, of the Pharaohs were buried in the. Valley of the Kings. What made the Prophets of Islam make this unique statement if he were the author of the. Quran? It could serve him no purpose anyway; if anything it could be counter-productive. If challenged, the Prophetsa could not have produced any evidence to support his contentions. The only purpose it would serve was to compromise the truth of the Quran. It was many centuries after the revelation of the Quran that the earth began to throw up its secrets. The mummified bodies of all the. Pharaohs which can claim to be the Pharaohs of the time of. Moses as have been retrieved. . Whether it was Rameses II or another Pharaoh is a question still debated, but the fact that one of the mummies recovered from the Valley of the Kings is that of the. Pharaoh who confronted Moses is no longer debatable. The only conclusion therefore, one is left to draw, is that against the verdict of the entire world history it is the verdict of the. Quranic revelation alone which is proved correct: So this . فَالْيَوْمَ نُنَجِّيكَ بِبَدَنكَ 3. . . day We will save thee in thy body alone. This is the verdict of the Quran which has now become the verdict of world history. 572. NW