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Fourth
The Interpretation of a Quran Verse from the Chapter of Jonah · Ahmed Alhasan
Fourth: Sarkhi said:
. . . as reasonable, fair readers and just people, please note how Pharaoh’s words “I believe” were explained when the claimant mentioned “he said ‘I believe’” and explained it on the basis of the parting of the sea and his seeing the miracle and touching it with his hand . . . He described it as compelling and inexplicable. This understanding of the Quranic verses and meanings contradicts the divine certain truth that we have proven. Thus the claimant has contradicted reason and the people of reason, knowledge and the people of knowledge, the just human and humanity, and the Quran, its verses, and essential meanings . . .”
In other words, Sarkhi thinks that the parting of the sea miracle was not compelling and could be explained in the view of Pharaoh, after he saw it and touched the two mountains of water with his hand.
I leave the reader to ask Sarkhi the question he will never find an answer to: how can the parting of the sea miracle be explained from Pharaoh’s perspective when only the memory of it was left the moment he touched it with his hand, or the moment he descended to the seabed and found himself between two mountains of water while moving on land from which water had receded into two towering mountains to his right and to his left?!