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In the Name of Allâh, the Most
Beneficent, the Most Merciful
Dr. Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips
For a scripture to qualify as divinely revealed it must be
totally accurate in its descriptions of reality: the past, the present and the
future. The Qur'aan has many stories about previous prophets and their peoples.
Some of these stories have elements in them that can be checked out for their
accuracy. One example of the Qur'aan's precision in its historical descriptions
is in the story of Prophet Yoosuf (Joseph), who was sold as a slave in Egypt,
but rose to become an important official in the government, which made it
possible for him to bring his whole family to live there in honor. Most
historians agree that the entry of the Children of Israel into Egypt occurred
when the northern half of the country was ruled by the Hyksos, Semitic invaders
who were the first non-Egyptians to rule that country since the rise of the Old
Kingdom. The Qur'aan always calls the Egyptian ruler who confronted Moses by
the title of "Pharaoah." Every Egyptian ruler was called by this
title starting from the reign of Amenhotep IV in the 14th century BC, but not
before that. Yoosuf lived at least two hundred years before Amenhotep IV. The
Qur'aan consistently refers to the ruler in Yoosuf's time, as
"al-malik," the king:
"The king [al-malik] said, 'Bring him to me."
[Soorah Yoosuf (12):50.]
It should be noted that the Bible refers to the ruler of
Joseph's time as "Pharaoah," which was an anachronism inserted by the
scribes who wrote the books of the Old Testament centuries after Moses.
Bucaille, Maurice, Moses and Pharaoah: The Hebrews in
Egypt, p. 176. Tokyo: NTT Mediascope, 1st ed. 1994.
This part of the chapter is based on Dr. Maurice Bucaille's
book "Moses and Pharaoah. The Hebrews in Egypt"
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