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Second: Sarkhi quoted the following statement from the book Enlightenments from the Calls of the Messengers:^[5]

Materialistic miracles cannot be a way for the people to believe, because God is not satisfied with purely materialistic faith. Had He accepted it, He would have accepted the faith of Pharaoh after he saw the compelling inexplicable materialistic miracle, the parting of the sea. He saw each side as a great mountain and touched it with his hand, then said {“I believe …”} Quran, Chapter “Jonah” 10:90.

This was my commentary on the Quranic verse and not a complete interpretation of it, because I was not interpreting the verse at the time. Rather, I had presented it as evidence that faith is not accepted when the miracle is compelling and inexplicable.

My words were clear and only two things can be understood from them regarding the verse from chapter Jonah. First, Pharaoh said “I believe”, as in the Quran, after seeing the water of the sea that was like a great towering mountain and touching it with his hands. Second, God did not accept Pharaoh's faith because he was driven to it by the compelling miracle that could not be explained.

However, Sarkhi tried to make the reader think that I claimed Pharaoh said "I believe" only after seeing the miracle, even though the words after it, which he copied from the Enlightenments book, clearly state: “He saw each side as a great mountain and touched it with his hand.”

Toward the end of Sarkhi's statement, he also tried to delude the reader into thinking that I said Pharaoh did not follow the Children of Israel. His words are far from being the truth, let alone a scholarly statement.