God Arises
The Challenge of The Qur’an
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THE MUMMY OF MERNEPTAH
One of the most intriguing predictions made by
Quran concerns a Pharaoh of Egypt, called
Merneptah, who was the son of Rameses II.
According to historical records, this king was
drowned in pursuit of Moses in the Red Sea. When
the Quran was revealed, the only other mention of
Pharaoh was in the Bible, the sole reference to his
having drowned being in the Book of Exodus; ‘And
the waters returned, and covered the Chariots, and
the horsemen, and all the host of Pharoah that came
into the sea after them; there remained not so much
as one of them’.
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Amazingly, when this was all the world knew
about the drowning of Pharaoh, the Quran
produced this astounding revelation: ‘We shall save
you in your body this day, so that you may become
a sign to all posterity.
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How extraordinary this verse must have appeared
when it was revealed. At that time no one knew that
the Pharaoh’s body was really intact, and it was
nearly 1400 hundred years before this fact came to
light. It was a Professor Loret who, in 1898, was the
