The Qur’an An Abiding Wonder
The Qur’an: The Book of God
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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 Pharaoh that came
into the sea after them; there remained not so much
as one of them.’
Amazingly, when this was all the world knew
abou1 the drowning of Pharaoh, the Qur’an
produced this astounding revelation: ‘We shall save
you in your body this day, so that you may become
a sign to all posterity.
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
first to find the mummified remains of the Pharaoh
who lived in Moses’ day. For 3000 years the corpse
had remained wrapped in a sheet in the Tomb of
the Necropolis at Thebes where Loret had found it,
until July 8, 1907, when Elliot Smith uncovered it
and subjected it to proper scientific examination. In
1912 he published a book entitled
The Royal
