What is the validity of the claim that Pharaoh’s body still exists today, based on the verse: “So today We will save you with your body to be a sign for the people”?
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The questioner : May Allah reward you, O honorable Shaykh. Some people say regarding the statement of Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He: [Yunus 10:92] They claim that this verse indicates that Pharaoh’s body still exists in the pyramids. Some of them visit and say, “We saw the body,” and some scholars say this as well. Does their statement have any basis, O Shaykh?
The Shaykh : It has no basis whatsoever. However, those who wish to boast about the relics of the Pharaohs—and wretched is what they rejoice in—are the ones who say that the Pharaoh who was the enemy of Moses is the one found in the pyramids. This is a lie and has no foundation!
How could a man in the middle of the sea, at a time of punishment, have his body extracted from the sea? Is that possible?
The questioner : It is not possible.
The Shaykh : And where were the tools and machines to preserve him until someone came to build the pyramids and place him inside? Where is that?
This is a false lie. But as I told you, those who have become mad with love for antiquities are the ones who say such things. Then, what pride do we have, O brothers, in the body of one whom Allah, Mighty and Majestic, destroyed? He lied to Allah and lied to His messengers. What pride do we have?
The questioner : No pride.
The Shaykh : No pride in this. But Allah saved Pharaoh with his body because Pharaoh had terrified and frightened the Children of Israel. You know that when a person has someone he fears before him, his heart does not find peace until he sees him destroyed and dead. This is because Satan will cast into his heart that Pharaoh has been saved and that he will return to you, O Children of Israel, and do such and such to you. So His saying: means: from the Children of Israel. And means: at the same time. It is not unlikely that there is a reading, but it does not come to my mind now: “a sign for those who came after you” meaning: for those who came after you in your land. Those who came after him in his land were the Children of Israel in their time. Do you understand? But I do not know; do not rely on this verse being a reading, I do not know. But “for those who came after you” means: for the Children of Israel at that time.
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good.
So today We will save you in body that you may be to those who succeed you a sign
فاليوم ننجيّك ببدنك لتكون لمن خلفك آيةThe Shaykh : It has no basis whatsoever. However, those who wish to boast about the relics of the Pharaohs—and wretched is what they rejoice in—are the ones who say that the Pharaoh who was the enemy of Moses is the one found in the pyramids. This is a lie and has no foundation!
How could a man in the middle of the sea, at a time of punishment, have his body extracted from the sea? Is that possible?
The questioner : It is not possible.
The Shaykh : And where were the tools and machines to preserve him until someone came to build the pyramids and place him inside? Where is that?
This is a false lie. But as I told you, those who have become mad with love for antiquities are the ones who say such things. Then, what pride do we have, O brothers, in the body of one whom Allah, Mighty and Majestic, destroyed? He lied to Allah and lied to His messengers. What pride do we have?
The questioner : No pride.
The Shaykh : No pride in this. But Allah saved Pharaoh with his body because Pharaoh had terrified and frightened the Children of Israel. You know that when a person has someone he fears before him, his heart does not find peace until he sees him destroyed and dead. This is because Satan will cast into his heart that Pharaoh has been saved and that he will return to you, O Children of Israel, and do such and such to you. So His saying:
for those who came after you
لمن خلفكfor those who came after you
لمن خلفكThe questioner : May Allah reward you with good.