Editing Screen: Surah az-Zukhruf 43 : 50

Editing: az-Zukhruf

Description <p><strong>Explanatory Note</strong></p> <p>The signs shown by Moses did not provide enough motivation for people to believe, yet each was greater than the one before it. This confirms what God says in several places that such signs do not provide guidance to a heart if it is not ready to listen, and that God's messengers cannot make the deaf hear or the blind see. What is most singular in what God describes of Pharaoh's and his people's attitude is that when they spoke to Moses, they said:<strong> "Sorcerer, pray to your Lord for us on the strength of the covenant He has made with you. We shall now follow the right way." (Verse 49) </strong>They appeal to him to do his best to lift their hardship, yet they address him as `sorcerer'. They also say, 'Pray to your Lord while he tells them that he is ' a messenger from the Lord of all the worlds,' not his own special Lord to whom only he and a few followers submit. Neither miracles nor God's messenger's words touched their hearts, despite their promise: "We shall now follow the right way." Such promises are often forgotten: <strong>"Yet when We removed their suffering they still broke their word." (Verse 50)</strong></p>

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