The Response to Those Who Claim the Faith and Salvation of Pharaoh

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah love you. There are those who claim that Pharaoh believed because he testified and spoke the declaration of faith. They say that the preservation of the body from the fire is for Pharaoh’s own family, and that Allah saved him, and that this salvation applies to both his body and his soul because of his utterance and testimony. How do we respond to them?

Answer:
This is a false statement. Pharaoh, may Allah be kept away from that, died upon disbelief, and his utterance of the testimony at the time of death does not benefit him. When death is witnessed, repentance does not benefit at the point of the last gasp, neither for Pharaoh nor for anyone else. At the point of the last gasp, he said, "Now, I have disobeyed" in a way that is not accepted . Even if they brought his body, it is not because he was a believer, but so that his followers would see him and the Children of Israel would look at their enemy, whom Allah had destroyed, and their eyes would be satisfied by that.
This is the reason his body was preserved, so that the Children of Israel would see this man who tormented them and inflicted upon them the worst of torment, seeing him before them as a lifeless corpse, so that their eyes would be satisfied by that, and their certainty and faith in Allah, Mighty and Majestic, would be strengthened on the day when , meaning it is a sign of the power of Allah, Mighty and Majestic, and also a sign that he died, so that they would not say that he went to such and such or went to such and such, until they see that he died. Correct, yes, and the family of Pharaoh includes Pharaoh.
Pharaoh is included in them in a primary sense, yes. The family of Pharaoh means his followers, and he is included; the one who is followed is undoubtedly included with those who follow him in misguidance, disbelief, and torment. Allah the Exalted said: the flowing meadow. Yes.