Why the Qur'an Emphasizes That Arrogance Caused Fir'aun's Destruction in the Red Sea

"And he and his hosts were arrogant in the land…So we seized him and his hosts and we threw them into the sea."

The short answer to the question asked in the title is this: Both the Holy Qur'an and the Scriptures preceding the Qur'an emphasize that ALLAH hates arrogance. But man quite often exalts what GOD hates. So Fir'aun was thrown into the Sea as his punishment for arrogance.

George Bush was elected U.S. President and he could not have been more arrogant. But even though GOD hated his arrogance, and though his arrogant policies murdered tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis, the American people loved his arrogance. They elected him to a second four-year term in office despite the loss of innocent lives his arrogance had caused. Yes, man exalts the very arrogance that GOD hates.

Has there ever been a more arrogant human being than Benjamin Netanyahu? Yet, the Israeli people elected him to be their evil, arrogant Prime Minister.

The current nation of Israel has thousands of citizens who constantly pray for justice for the oppressed, exploited, stolen from, and severely persecuted Palestinians. But as a generalization; the current nation of Israel is an arrogant nation and GOD hates that nation's arrogance.

Nevertheless, the American government and the American media exalt Israel's arrogance, virtually worship the nation and consistently reward its arrogant policy of consistently stealing land from Palestinians.

Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, and Dick Cheney are all dreadfully arrogant and many of the American people have virtually wanted to kiss their feet. But ALLAH has consistently hated these three American leaders' arrogance.

Thus, it is entirely consistent that the Qur'an which is committed to teaching Muslim people the exalted values of ALLAH, would use a historical person like the arrogant Fir'aun (Pharaoh) of once mighty Egypt, to teach His own Muslim people how vitally important it is to hate the leprous attitude of arrogance.

For arrogance appears in both the Holy Qur'an and the previous Scriptures to be an attitude as being the mental equivalent to the dreaded physical disease of leprosy. Arrogance is obviously viewed by ALLAH as a spiritual disease affecting the heart while the mere physical disease of leprosy affects only the body. Thus, a person must strive to steer clear of arrogance far more than steering clear of leprosy.

A leprous person may have a contagious disease on his body that other persons must avoid touching in order to not catch the disease. Yet, the leprous person's heart may remain quite pure toward both ALLAH and toward other persons. Thus, the leperous person may remain an attractive person spiritually.

Sincere readers of the Holy Qur'an are quite aware of the extremely prominent role given to ALLAH's important Prophet Musa. Not only is this important Prophet mentioned in 17 different chapters of the Qur'an, but in one way or another 284 verses in the Qur'an are about ALLAH's Nabi Musa. But what has shocked me is this significant statistic. Of the 284 verses that directly relate to the Prophet Musa, no less than 250 of those verses relate to ALLAH using His faithful Nabi (Prophet) Musa, in a spiritual war against the consistently arrogant and rebellious Fir'aun of once mighty Egypt.

So significant was the final overwhelming defeat of arrogant Fir'aun and his mighty Egyptian army that the final drowning and total destruction of his entire army is explicitly emphasized in the Qur'an in ten (10) separate verses and in ten (10) separate surahs. No less than four times does the Qur'an label the Pharaoh with the negative character flaw of arrogance.

Significantly, Surah Al-Qasas in verses 29 and 30 clearly isolates the Fir'aun's arrogance as the reason he and his army were seized by ALLAH and thrown into the sea.

Remarkably, when Musa was first sent to Fir'aun by ALLAH, it was clear that the mission of Musa was to change Fir'aun so that the lives of he and his men did not need to end by their lungs being filled with sea water. For the Qur'an clearly reveals to us in the important Surah An-Naz'at, that when the Lord called An-Nabi Musa in the "sacred valley of Tuwa" it was not for Nabi Musa to rebuke Fir'aun. Rather, according to the Qur'an, Musa's mission was to convert him into being a believer. But Fir'aun would have none of Musa's important message. For the Qur'an tells us he "belied and disobeyed."

The following are the exceptionally important verses from the Qur'an informing us of why the Qur'an contains so many verses telling all people and especially all Muslims why the spiritual disease of arrogance must be dreaded more than the physical disease of leprosy, because arrogance first causes disobedience and then destruction.

The Lord's instructions to Musa, "Go to Fir'aun and say to him, 'Would you purify yourself?'" (79:18)

"And I guide you to your Lord so you should fear him?" (79:19)

"Then Musa showed him the great sign. But Fir'aun belied and disobeyed then he turned his back." (79:20-22)

"So ALLAH seized him with punishment for his last and first transgression." (79:25)

Then comes the Qur'an's enlightening answer as to how the Qur'an is attempting to help Muslims to also avoid being punished for not listening to truth similarly to how Fir'aun was so mightily punished for arrogantly not listening to the truth:

"Verily, in this is an instructive admonition for whoever fears ALLAH." An-Nazi 79:26

So Muslims are taught in 250 pages about Fir'aun's need to flee from arrogance and by avoiding arrogance they will also avoid disaster.

Summary of Fir'aun's Arrogant Attitude Toward ALLAH
So That We Will All Avoid Arrogance Toward ALLAH
and Thus Avoid ALLAH's Stern Punishment

"So we sent on them the flood, the lice, the frogs, and the blood, manifest signs yet they remained arrogant…" Al-A'rof 7:134

"So we took retribution from them. We drowned them in the sea…" Al-A'raf 7:136

"Then After them we sent Musa and Harun (Aaron) to Fir'aun and his chiefs with our Ayat…But they behaved arrogantly…" Yunus 10:75

"...and Fir'aun with his hosts followed them in oppression and enmity, til drowning overtook him." Yunus 10:90

The following two verses in Al-Isra present vivid examples of the severe judgment that quickly descended on Fir'aun and his hosts when he arrogantly disregarded the pleadings and warnings from ALLAH that came through ALLAH's obedient servant Musa.

"Musa said: Verily you know that these signs have been sent down by none but the Lord of the heavens, and the earth, and I think you are indeed, O Fir'aun, doomed to destruction."

"So he, (Fir'aun) resolved to turn them out of the land. But we drowned him and all who were with him." Al-Isra 17:102-103

"Then Fir'aun pursued them with his hosts, but the seawater completely overwhelmed them and covered them up."

"And Fir'aun led his people astray and did not guide them" Taha 20:78-79

"And we saved Musa and all those with him." Ash-Shu'ara 26:65 (But He saved Nabi Musa who was not arrogant but was faithful and obedient in leading his people.)

"Then we drowned the others." Ash-Shu'ara 26:66

"And he (Fir'aun) and his hosts were arrogant…So we seized him and his hosts and we threw them all in the sea." Al-Qasas 28:39, 40

Please note that it is this specific important surah that contains these two climatic verses that my own website is named after: www.alqasas.net. So it is in these specific two verses where the arrogant Fir'aun is described as exhausting ALLAH's patience so that ALLAH finally throws him and his entire army into the sea to drown which was a direct result of one man's arrogance.

"Musa said: Verily I seek refuge in my Lord and your Lord from every arrogant who believes not in the Day of Reckoning." Ghafir 40:27

"And the plot of Fir'aun led to nothing but loss and destruction." Ghafir 40:37

"So when they angered us, we punished them and drowned them all." Az-Zukhruf 43:55

"So we took him and his hosts and dumped them into the sea." Adh-Dhariyat 51:40

"But Fir'uan disobeyed the messenger: so we seized him with a severe punishment."

Why Have I Emphasized the Qur'an's Repetitive Emphasis on Fir'aun's Destruction In the Sea Being Due to His Arrogance?

From my reading of the Scriptures preceding the Qur'an, and from the Qur'an itself, the great climax of ALLAH's relationship with man is succinctly summarized in An-Nisa 4:158 when ALLAH used His Eternal Wisdom and Eternal Might to raise up His Messiah.

"But ALLAH raised him (Isa) up unto Himself. And ALLAH is ever All-Powerful, All-Wise."

Please note: This glorious verse of An-Nisa 4:158 is mainly about ALLAH. It features an amazing event that is truly magnificent that could have been accomplished only by ALLAH's Eternal Wisdom and His Eternal Might. Thus, the wording of the verse makes it clear that this was no average accomplishment by an average god. No, this accomplishment could only occur because of the magnificent qualities of our ALLAH that are far beyond man's ability to comprehend. I do not know for certain, but I doubt that there is any other magnificent accomplishment by ALLAH noted in the entire Qur'an where that accomplishment required the qualities that this one unique, magnificent accomplishment required--the eternal Wisdom and the Eternal Might of ALLAH?

Raising His Messiah up alive to Himself did not require only His Wisdom. Rather, raising the Messiah up alive to Himself required His Eternal Wisdom. To raise His only Messiah up alive did not require only all His Power, Rather to raise him up alive required all His Eternal Power.

I will now relate what I see as the extreme arrogance of the Pharaoh (Fir'aun) back to what I see as only one of fourteen different facets of the extreme arrogance of current Muslim leaders. For they continue to demand that shubbiiha lahum did not actually mean that it appeared to them (the Jews) that they had killed their Messiah forever.

For actually they did not kill him forever, they had indeed only killed him temporarily. His death was definitely only temporary. For ALLAH would not have wasted His Eternal Wisdom and His Eternal Might to simply change someone elses' identity, while moving the Messiah from being alive in one location to being alive in ALLAH's presence by pulling off a slick CIA type, deceptive, identity transfer.

So of course the Qur'an is making a valuable point when 4:157 is understood to mean that the Messiah was neither killed nor crucified permanently. But the verse definitely did not mean that he was not killed or crucified at all.

Arrogance One- In certain leaders' extreme arrogance they do not hesitate to shame and to severely denigrate ALLAH by having the audacity to claim that the GREAT and AWESOME ALLAH actually wasted His Eternal Wisdom and wasted His Eternal Might on something so below average as a cheap identity switch.

It must be realized that those Muslims who truly respect the Majestic ALLAH, that He would never have used His Eternal Wisdom and His Eternal Might to be involved in a back door covert operation of an identity switch that low-level agents in the Mossad or CIA would be assigned to do.

Shame on the arrogance of these so called Muslim leaders who would dare to stoop so low that they would demean both the Holy Qur'an and the Glorious ALLAH who created the Universe. They blasphemously dare to claim that the Holy Quran authoritatively teaches 1,500,000,000 Muslims that the Majestic ALLAH would actually waste His Eternal Wisdom and His Eternal Might in this extremely low level way. This is not only an extreme crime against ALLAH, but is also open blasphemy against the Holy Qur'an.

May ALLAH treat these confused decision makers with more mercy than He treated Fir'aun and his mighty army for their similar confused arrogance.

Arrogance Two- Arrogance toward the vulnerable Girls and Precious Women of Islam

It certainly is not in every geographical area of Islam, nor is it in every family where precious girls and lovely wives and mothers are treated with less respect than The Merciful intends for them to receive. Actually the treatment of women in Islam is probably better than many non-Muslims think that it is. Yet, it is undeniable that it would be of great benefit and a wholesome encouragement for all the precious female gender of Islam to know that they have a very compassionate Risen Messiah always near them. For it is definitely ALLAH's Will that they have this merciful assurance.

But that privilege has been denied girls and women by certain arrogant Muslim leaders. They are so drunk with their own power that they dare to interpret two verses in the Holy Qur'an in an inferior, superficial, simplistic way that denies many, many of the female gender the compassionate understanding that ALLAH intends for them to have from His Risen Messiah. Then they add to the sin of their arrogance when they invent excuses for ignoring ALLAH's own declaration of the truth of the Messiah's death and being raised up as proclaimed in Al-Imran 3:55.

May ALLAH give these partially blind, arrogant, compassionless Muslim leaders the eyes to see their serious crime so that they don't soon drown in their own self created Red Sea.

Arrogance Three- The arrogance of disrespecting Palestinians and treating these precious human beings as worthless.

Never has there been a disastrous political inequality where one nation has been enabled and empowered by the governing body of the strongest empire in the world to steal the land, to steal the blood, to steal the hope and to steal the future of an unjustly oppressed and tortured people.

But ironically the Palestinians' Arab Muslim brothers in culture, in language, in religion and in destiny do consciously choose to allow these precious Palestinians to further sink in the quicksand of their own despair when their own Muslim brothers could so easily cast away their own arrogance and come to their brother Palestinians' aid.

You ask, how could brother Muslims come to the aid of crushed Palestinians when the Israelis are supported by the mighty U.S. and who are also receiving much aid by the totally amoral and unethical, ubiquitous international propaganda machine?

The obvious answer is for Muslim influential decision makers to get a firm grip on common sense. When the majority of the Arab leaders from the majority of the Arab Muslim states unashamedly make this one following proclamation to the world that will be carried by the international media to all nations, things will change. And that message will be that the scholars among them now realize that the Holy Qur'an truly does teach that ALLAH's Risen Messiah is now living in their midst because of the truth of ALLAH wonderfully raising him up after he had died, rather than raising him up to Himself before he died. Because the scholars now understand that when the one verse in An-Nisa states that he was not killed nor crucified it more precisely means that he was not permanently killed and not permanently crucified, because ALLAH would soon raise him to new life. (4:158, 3:55)

This must be the more precise meaning because the next verse emphatically teaches that it required both ALLAH's Eternal Wisdom and ALLAH's Eternal Might to raise him from death. And the Eternal Wisdom and Eternal Might of ALLAH would certainly not have been required for such a basic CIA type identity switch. But details and nuances were not carefully factored in once the original superficial explanation of 4:157 that the Messiah did not die and so was not raised from death became set like concrete in peoples' minds. Nevertheless Muslim leaders were forced to come up with a fantastic myth in order to explain away the glorious resurrection verse of 4:158. But the one phrase that the Muslims failed to account for is the final phrase of An-Nisa 4:158, "ALLAH is Ever Mighty, Wise."

For to try to make that most glorious declaration of how ALLAH used His majestic eternal attributes of Wisdom and Might to accomplish what Muslim leaders would have us believe he accomplished through an identity switch and a change of locations is ridiculous. Why would ALLAH need to use His Wisdom and Might to accomplish a CIA type amateur identity switch and to simply move His Messiah from one location to another?

But to raise His Messiah from death to life, when it appeared to the Jews that he was permanently dead forever, that is an achievement that most certainly does require the Eternal Wisdom and the Eternal Might of ALLAH to accomplish.

Though there will be Israeli VIPs who may severely complain that it is not fair for Muslims to moderate a long held wrong religious belief that will now give Palestinians a resented advantage. But there is no reason for Arab Muslims to have sympathy for Israel's complaints about unfairness. Nothing Israel has done has had any similarity to fairness.

So Islam's new recognition of the presence of ALLAH's Risen Messiah in their midst should give Arab Muslims in the Middle East some deserved public relations advantage. The modification of Muslims now realizing that ALLAH's Living Messiah is now powerfully residing in their midst should even have some influence on nominal Christian European nations having more concern for the Palestinians in their unfair struggle with the Israelis.

It will be refreshing for the Palestinians and other Arab Muslims to observe the Israelis having this new benefit for the Palestinians to deal with. But the Arab Muslims, with their now Risen Messiah's help, can now aid their Muslim Palestinian brothers along with this new additional aid from the Living Messiah and with more international support.

Arrogance Four- The arrogance of falsely teaching that the Qur'an teaches that the previous Scriptures have been changed.

"And verily among them is a party who distort the Book with their tongues so that you may think it is from the Book but it is not from the Book, and they say, "This is from ALLAH, but it is not from ALLAH; and they speak a lie against ALLAH and they know it!" Al-Imran 3:78

"But those among them who did wrong changed the word that had been told to them." Al-A'raf 7:162

"Indeed in their stories, there is a lesson for men of understanding. It (the Qur'an) is not a forged statement but a confirmation of (ALLAH's existing Books) which were before it." Yusuf 12:111

The arrogance with which the leaders of Islam use these and other similar verses to plant false ideas in the minds of Muslims about the previous Scriptures supposedly being changed even exceeds the combined arrogance of the Egyptian Pharaoh, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Paul Wolfowitz.

But their arrogance only equals the arrogance of the two yet to be convicted criminals, Benjamin Netanyahu and Ahmed Chalabi.

Yes, these three verses and other similar verses do legitimately bring to Muslims' attention some verbal misuse of ALLAH's Scriptures by the Jews that existed previous to the Qur'an, by twisting their meaning with their tongues. But it must be recognized that there is a vast canyon between making verbal changes with their tongues and making permanent written changes with their pens. Yes, there is not one verse in the entire Qur'an that supports the widespread belief in the hearts and minds of virtually all Muslims that the earlier Scriptures accounts of the death and resurrection of ALLAH's only Messiah have all been made useless that has supposedly occurred due to these Scriptures supposedly having all been changed.

But the irony is this. There is absolutely no teaching in the entire Qur'an that comes anywhere close to justify awarding any credibility to the invented myth that the written Scriptures have been changed. Yes, it is only a man made reprehensible myth that the comprehensive accounts in the Scriptures about the Messiah's death and resurrection should be spiritually thrown into the garbage because of their uselessness. It has been an arrogant crime to spread this entirely man made false belief that is now deeply ingrained in millions of Muslims' precious minds. The arrogance that falsely teaches that the Qur'an teaches that the Scriptures have been changed is worse than the arrogance of the Egyptian Fir'aun that caused him to drown due to an overdose of seawater in his lungs.

This bizarre criminal song of the Scriptures being changed that is being virtually sung by millions of misled Muslims shows no respect whatsoever to several similar in wording, confirmation verses in the Qur'an to the previously quoted Yusuf 12:111, stating emphatically with no hesitation that the Qur'an confirms the teaching of the authoritative earlier Scriptures. And these Qur'an confirmed Scriptures will of course include Scriptures which comprehensively, clearly teach many details about the Messiah's unjust execution and his being raised from death by ALLAH, thus making him spiritually present and accessible to Muslims in order to aid those who will trust him.

In fact, in Yunus 10:94 the Prophet Muhammad is explicitly instructed to consult those who are reading the previous Scriptures in order to settle any doubts he was personally having regarding the meanings of the revelations he was receiving.

Nevertheless, despite the sincerity and authority of such verses in the Qur'an confirming the earlier Scriptures, many Muslim leaders arrogantly twist and distort, and trash, the clear teachings of their own Holy Qur'an so that they can remain free to discredit any teachings of the earlier Scriptures that they don't like or which are inconvenient for them.

They arrogantly proclaim that the teachings of these Scriptures are not binding because they have been changed. This false claim is no less than wickedness that deserves a Red Sea Water final conclusion.

Arrogance Five- The arrogance of ignoring the serious lesson to be learned from no less than 15 Surahs covering 250 pages about ALLAH's Prophet Musa attempting to counter the Fir'aun's arrogant rebellion which ended with the Egyptian leader and his entire Army all having their lungs filled with Red Sea water.

For readers of the Qur'an to ignore the extreme arrogance of Fir'aun and the punishment it brought is in itself an arrogant act. This is due to the warning in An-Nazi at 79:25-26. These verses tell us that "ALLAH seized him with punishment for his last and first transgression." And the next verse tells us that "this is an instructive admonition for whoever fears ALLAH."

We know from AL-Qasas 28:39 that the "last transgression" of the Pharaoh was the transgression of arrogance that resulted in his Red Sea death. So those who fear ALLAH are clearly instructed to be warned about the punishment for arrogance which was the "last transgression" of Pharaoh, immediately before he and his whole army drowned in the sea.

But for those who do not "fear ALLAH", they can conveniently ignore what happened to Pharaoh due to his arrogance and take their own punishment for their own arrogance when on the last day that certain punishment comes.

Arrogance Six- There is an arrogant seductive appeal to believing that the short phrase "killed him not nor crucified him" enables Muslims to casually cancel the very foundational teaching of the Qur'an confirmed in earlier Scriptures about the Resurrection of ALLAH's Messiah. To be able to so easily cancel the Resurrection is psychologically seductive to those who are seeking excuses for self importance.

This gives them a dangerous false sense of power. But this false sense of power is only a temporary illusion because this power is entirely based on the false belief that ALLAH's Messiah was not raised from death to life by ALLAH Himself, and he most certainly was.

Arrogance Seven- The arrogance of unwillingness to consider a more reasonable understanding of An-Nisa 4:157,158 in the authoritative Holy Qur'an.

There are numerous obvious evidences and compelling arguments that the Messiah was temporarily murdered by the consistently murderous Israelis. Consequently, Muslim leaders should obviously have considered other alternatives to their no death dogmatism regarding their explanation of these two key Qur'an An-Nisa verses, because Israelis have always had a consistent pattern of murdering ALLAH's innocent but outspoken Prophets. Therefore, it has been extreme arrogance that no other alternative has been considered by Muslim thinkers but to assume he was not murdered. These leaders have made up their closed minds to believe that there was no death so that there was no glorious being raised alive of his only Messiah de facto by ALLAH's Eternal Might and His Eternal Wisdom.

Even though Al-Imran 3:55 uses the verb mutawafiik which means to cause to die, the Muslim leaders stubbornly ignore the obvious evidence that the Messiah did experience death before he was gloriously raised alive by ALLAH's Eternal Might and Eternal Wisdom. This arrogant ignoring of this fact is at least partially due to these leaders' obsession with being able to exalt their own importance by rendering ALLAH's anointed powerful Messiah powerless by eliminating his death which results in eliminating his triumphant being raised alive by ALLAH Himself, thus eliminating his power to pull alongside Muslims.

Arrogance Eight- Powerful forces which hide under Islam's umbrella have powerful political reasons to reject truth and do not really care about the Qur'an, Islam, ALLAH, or what Truth is.

They are truly Machiavellian, arrogant, and wish to hide under the cover of the Qur'an and Islam as a powerful religion just as it is. Thus, they have an overwhelming incentive to keep Islam precisely as it is. They definitely do not want anyone to mess with An-Nisa 4:157,158 to bring ALLAH's true Risen Messiah into Islam, So this is a dynamic change that they will fight against with their last ounce of strength.

To these men, all of my arguments on the issue of what the Qur'an truly teaches and what is truth are totally irrelevant. Why is that so? It is so because there is a vast army of pretend Muslims just as there is a vast army of pretend Christians, to whom truth is totally not a concern. What is relevant to them is only their agenda. So ALLAH and my attempt to appeal to what is true in the Qur'an about the Messiah having Risen from death and now being accessible to be of tangible and spiritual value to millions of Muslims is not meaningful to these men. They will continue to resist the truth of the Qur'an even if the Risen Messiah would heal their daughter's injured leg or help bring justice to Palestinians.

These men's hearts are hard and they are full of self love and love for their own agenda. And too many of these fiercely recalcitrant men are the wealthy, greedy, calloused leaders in nations who want to keep Islam just as it is in their nation. They do not want ALLAH's Risen Messiah interfering with their nation's present status quo.

Tragically, all of the Holy Qur'an's warnings about future judgment are lost on these men because in their hearts they are atheists and agnostics, even though their heads may tell them they are Muslims. They may even perform prayers and go to the Mosque, bit in reality they are Muslim atheists.

Arrogance Nine- The arrogance of adult leaders thinking that their children's and grand children's future does not count and is not important.

I may be the only person in the world who is firmly committed to the following hypothesis; That the main existential differences that exists between the lives of those who take seriously the Risen Messiah in the Qur'an and those who insist that he was not raised alive by ALLAH from death is this:

(I purposely did not make a distinction in what Christians may say that they may believe about the Messiah because many confessing Christians' stated belief may have virtually zero impact on how these supposedly Christian persons live their lives.)

The main difference is not the Son of God issue or the Trinity issue. The main difference is in the practical quality of how belief affects their lives. That those Muslim youth who are forced and coerced into living their lives being convinced that there is no now living Messiah to guide, comfort, and encourage them, and who has promised to prepare a place for them in the Hereafter, have a missing quality in their lives that acts as one strike against them. And this one strike against them is a significant disadvantage in a volatile Middle East that even without that penalty against these youth, is becoming a more difficult environment to negotiate even without rejecting the Qur'an's Risen Messiah whom ALLAH has graciously provided for their welfare.

But the sad tragedy is that these arrogant Muslim leaders, for the most part, don't give a rip about their children's future except for urging them to stay loyal to the status quo in Islam. The main concern that these small minded leaders have for Islam's future generations is that they will always hold tight to their hearts the negative of what they think that ALLAH's Messiah cannot do for them rather than what their compassionate Messiah has done for them and will continue to eternally do for them. And this consistent aid from the Qur'an's Messiah will begin as soon as they begin to trust in his living resurrected presence among them. O the damage that these arrogant, Qur'an's Risen Messiah, rejecters do to sincere Muslims when they condition them to be unable to realize that they hurt their own children because of their false understanding of the true meaning of the Qur'an's two An-Nisa verses and simultaneously ignore the strong declaration by ALLAH Himself contained in the Qur'an's Al-Imran 3:55.

I believe that helpful perspective from my University of Washington Sociology Degree has helped me to analyze certain obvious sociological dynamics in Middle Eastern society. And I sense that by Muslim leaders banning certain positive influences of having the Qur'an's Living Messiah with his various positive impacts not spiritually accepted among Muslims has given Islamic society in the Arab Middle East definite disadvantages. These disadvantages are far more limiting in their long range influence than both Muslim and Christian thinkers in the Middle East are willing to admit or are even able to recognize.

As overly simplistic as it may seem, I am deeply convinced that the wrong, limiting interpretation of these two profound verses along with the deliberate ignoring of the Qur'an's 3:55 are at the root of a very pervasive and significant problem. Therefore, when a new understanding of these verses occur, the positive results could well lead to changes that will slow down my own nation, the U.S., from initiating bloody wars with the predominantly Muslim Middle East.

Furthermore, I expect Islam's acceptance of a new understanding 4:157, 158 along with a new emphasis on the significance of ALLAH's declaration in the Qur'an's Al-Imran 3:55 includes acceptance of their Risen Messiah who defeated both death and the Israelis, to significantly shift many American VIPs to become more pro-Palestinian Muslim and much less pro-Zionist.

When you stop to think of the immense value of what Islam has rejected in rejecting ALLAH's most significant gift to them of the spiritual presence of His own Risen Messiah who is openly portrayed in their own Qur'an, how could it not help but bring severe injury to their culture and their society?

When this positive change to Living Messiah recognition begins occurring in the Middle East it is relevant to recognize that, although much of the U.S. still claims to honor the Living Messiah, that is now mostly talk. Because as our society has replaced ALLAH's Risen Messiah's values with militarism, greed, and Bush and Cheney type lies, our entire society is rapidly deteriorating.

Arrogance Ten- The mean spirited arrogance of these leaders in desiring Muslims in the West to experience the maximum amount of Islamophobia that Muslims can endure is a severe disservice to these Muslims that does not seem to bother the leaders who facilitate the massive Islamaphobia occurring.

The fact that now interpreting the Qur'an's two verses in An-Nisa more accurately and also emphasizing the truth in Al-Imran 3:55 so that Muslim guests or permanent residents and citizens in the West will be recognized for being members of Islam, but who have now also become appreciative recipients of a love gift from ALLAH of His Living Messiah. So they are no longer viewed as rejectionists of the Risen Messiah, and this will make a real practical difference in limiting the amount of Islamophobia that is now convenient to blame on the West.

But these Muslim leaders will soon acknowledge that their own rejection toward ALLAH's gift of His living Messiah to Muslims, is a major component of the current problem. So Muslims must soon quickly choose to solve this problem with the effective medicine of honesty about what happened in Al-Quds two thousand years ago. That is when the Jews did truly murder the Messiah but that ALLAH subsequently raised him up alive through His Eternal Might and His Eternal Wisdom which are prominently given credit in their Qur'an for empowering his resurrection.

Arrogance Eleven- The arrogance of being comfortable being members of a whole dynamic religion that basically does not care that 1.5 Billion of their people are flat out wrong about the most amazing miracle to occur in the history of man that will exceedingly benefit their entire society when they rejoice in ALLAH's miracle rather than turning up their noses at this marvelous supernatural act of ALLAH that is given prominence in both the Qur'an's An-Nisa 4:158 and by Allah Himself in the Qur'an's Al Imran 3:55.

I personally find it flat out amazing that the vast majority of both Muslims and Christians come across as being rather bored with whether ALLAH did raise His Messiah up from death or whether He did not. To me, the implications of whether He did or did not are so overwhelming that to not see this historical reality as irrelevant, dynamites my mind. And yet for Muslim leaders, they casually decide that one relatively unexamined verse appears to say that he did not die, making a marvelous ALLAH initiated resurrection irrelevant. So their shocking attitude is, since this resurrection issue is irrelevant, what other important issues shall we consider such as who will win the next World Cup?

To most Christians, the Resurrection is simply part of the Western package that comes in a combination with Christmas and Easter. Things like greed, and being able to dominate other countries militarily and economically, are really much more significant to many Western Christians than the marvelous supernatural Resurrection of ALLAH's only Messiah. But the important fact for Muslims is that part of the package of being convinced of the resurrection is recognizing the Risen Messiah's pervasive caring presence among Muslims and the positive emphasis that the Qur'an gives to him.

The resurrection is also a guarantee for the U.S. that we will one day answer to him for the way we have treated others, including punishment for the wars we have started which have brought so much death and suffering to millions. To my mind it is exceptionally arrogant and unrealistic for both Muslims and Christians to not realize that his constant presence, and the fact that he will be our Judge, is a very, very big deal of supreme importance to ALLAH and should be to us.

Arrogance Twelve- The arrogance of discounting and ignoring the shaking of the Saudi General's Riyadh apartment that immediately stopped his false proclamation about ALLAH's Risen Messiah not having Risen.

Many have read on this website the account of the severe interruption disruption by nature of the words of a sincere retired General in Riyadh the very second he had completed dogmatically proclaiming for all of Islam that the death and later being raised alive by ALLAH of the Messiah had definitely not occurred.

His entire statement was based on the Holy Qur'an supposedly authoritatively proclaiming in two verses that those two events did not occur which the Qur'an does not when understood corrrectly and not superficially.

I explained in my paper that I am personally convinced that the exact timing of this disruption of the General's false statement by ALLAH, through His control of nature was not a coincidence. Rather, I submit that it was a loud and authoritative proclamation by Him of both His disagreement with and His great displeasure with such a blatant false proclamation about such a significant event in ALLAH's revelation of His overwhelming love for His world.

Arrogance Thirteen- The great arrogance and dreadful callousness of Muslim Heads of State for ignoring their own explicit guilt that is revealed in the Goldstone report on the ugly 2009 massacre of defenseless Muslim human beings in Gaza. O Muslim Heads of State, I may truly be the only servant of ALLAH in this world to point out the following fact. Even though I am the only one, this does not for one second make the fact of Arab Heads of State having considerable complicity in the 2009 Gaza Massacre a mistake on my part.

In addition to the blood of each Gazan child, woman and man being on the blood soaked garments of the Israeli butchers for this inhuman, ugly Gaza massacre, ALLAH also sees traces of blood on the hands of Muslim Heads of State and on other Muslim leaders. Do you truly think that if Muslim leaders had acknowledged that an in depth analysis of the true meaning of An-Nisa 4:157 and 158 when compared with the emphatic wording in Al-Imran 3:55 from ALLAH Himself of the Messiah's definite death and being raised alive by ALLAH, would not have dramatically provided the incentive needed for the U.S. government to have prevented the Israeli killing machine from slaughtering the innocent, defenseless Gazans if it was openly known that they had become bonded with ALLAH's Risen Messiah who is given considerable positive prominance in the Qur'an?

For if those Muslim Gazans had become publicly identified as Muslim new believers in ALLAH's now empowered, living, accessible Messiah, not for one minute would the U.S. have allowed Israel's ugly public invasion and subsequent massacre to have occurred. Yes, when that relevant perspective is factored into the Gazan Massacre's equation, the hands of Muslim Heads of State are also stained with the precious blood of Gazans.

Yes, in hindsight the overwhelming evidence is there, of the Holy Qur'an's counterintuitive teaching that ALLAH's Messiah, who is honored as anointed Messiah eleven times in the Holy Qur'an, did actually die and was raised by ALLAH from death. And not only are those facts verifiable from the Qur'an, but he is now spiritually accessible for Arab Muslims and all Muslims everywhere who will trust in him as their Risen, now Living, Messiah.

Arab Muslim Heads of State may not have had access to this relevant reality before that Gaza massacre, and before the recent Iraq and Lebanon massacres, but this website now being advertised in The Nation magazine provides them with that verifiable evidence to now act upon so that in the future they will be accountable before ALLAH to prevent such Israeli and American assisted massacres.

For there is absolutely no Arab Muslim Head of State who can read the June 7, 2010 issue of Newsweek magazine about the ugly details revealed in the Goldstone investigation of the Gaza Massacre that will not feel an obligation to take this action to help prevent further such massacres by the U.S. supported Israeli aggressors.

These leaders must individually and collectively finally reconsider their totally out of date and horrendously damaging conclusion that Israel did not murder ALLAH's Messiah and that ALLAH wasted His Eternal Wisdom and Eternal Might on an amateur CIA type identity switch, rather than using His divine resources of Eternal Wisdom and Might to raise His Messiah from Death to new ALLAH empowered Life. And if Arab Heads of State do not take this humanitarian step, they are not truly Heads of State. Instead, ALLAH will view them as irresponsible clowns pretending to be Heads of State.

Fourteen Muslim Arrogances-Twelve Jewish Tribes

I have written about precisely fourteen (14) demonstrations of Muslim arrogance being committed by the Muslim leaders in their unitedly denying the murder by the united twelve (12) tribes of Israel, of all men and women's Messiah. So the total number of arrogances I have isolated to list exceeds the total number of Jewish Tribes.

Of course, these fourteen vivid demonstrations of Muslim leaders' great arrogance are only the convictions of one unknown insignificant servant of ALLAH who is attempting to inform over 1,500,000,000 sincerely misinformed Muslims of their leaders' ominous and dangerous arrogance. But ALLAH knows that their great numbers and their great accumulated wealth does not make them correct when they interpret one verse in the Qur'an in what I submit is a very wrong and destructive way and in a way that totally contradicts what ALLAH Himself proclaimed that occured in the Qur'an's Al-Imran 3:55.

Conversely, my total number being only one (1) and my insignificance does not make me automatically wrong. For ALLAH is a majority and ALLAH and one servant is a super majority. So when 1.5 Billion Muslims are attempting to interpret the Qur'an in a wrong way that robs ALLAH's beloved Muslims of significant blessings through his purposeful activity in history, He must find some person who is willing to stick out his neck and say, "Here are some important facts you are failing to consider. So then if you get rid of me, at least I have been faithful to what I am convinced ALLAH has called me to do, so that I will depart with peace of mind."

But I firmly believe that any Muslim is making a serious error by discounting my testimony about ALLAH's now alive, Risen, accessible Messiah. By casually discounting me, discounting my many various experiences, and discounting the content of my writing without serious, thorough investigation and thought is truly not wise.

Three Important Questions:

Question One- Is it true that no Muslim leaders have absolutely no arrogance about themselves being right about no death and no resurrection while the previous Scriptures are wrong about their actually being a true historical death and a true historical, relevant resurrection?

Question Two- Since there obviously is some arrogance about this tragic circumstance, is there not a strong possibility that ALLAH has put these 250 pages in the Qur'an about the battle between Musa and Fir'aun so that Muslims today would learn necessary lessons from Fir'aun's arrogance, rather than to just irrelevantly add 250 pages to the Qur'an?

Question Three- Or is it actually true that the fact that the same event is mentioned ten (10) times that the Pharaoh and his entire army died from the affliction of having their lungs filled with sea water has absolutely no relation to ALLAH compassionately desiring to warn all Muslims about the extreme dangers of arrogantly rejecting His Qur'an's now Risen Messiah's living presence among Muslims?

"So he and his hosts were arrogant in the land…So we seized him and his hosts and we threw them all into the sea." Al-Qasas 28:39,40

I will close this part of the paper with a sincere thanks to the faithful Muslim servants of ALLAH who ran an ad in the Seattle Times in about 1998 and sent me free a wonderful very small Holy Qur'an that I have repeatedly read over the years. O thank you faithful servants of ALLAH. Thank you! Thank you!

This Qur'an is in both Arabic and English, and its title is: Interpretation of the Meanings of the Noble Qur'an in the English Language – A Summarized Version of Al-Tabari, Al-Qurtubi, and Ibn Kothir. Summarized in one version by Dr. Muhammad Taqiud-ud-bin-Al-Hilali and Dr. Muhammad Mushin Khan of Islamic University, Al-Modinab Al-Munawwarah-Darussalam-Publishers and Distributors; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

The following list is this Qur'an's record of the 15 Surahs and the 250 pages of the accounts of the faithful Nabi Musa's many encounters with the Arrogant Egyptian Fir'aun:

In these Surahs regarding Nabi Musa verses, Fir'aun, according to An-Nazi'at 79:25,26 we are told about all of his transgression in order to instruct us, "…ALLAH seized him with punishment for his last and first transgression. Verily, in this is an instructive admonition for whosoever fears ALLAH."

So we must ask ourselves, "Do we fear ALLAH?" For if we fear him we learn from His punishment and His ultimate destruction of Pharaoh. If we do not fear ALLAH, we do not learn from what happened to the Pharoah due to his arrogance.

For Muslims to realize that more than one out of every five verses in the Holy Qur'an is devoted to only one subject, the arrogance of the Pharoah, this amazing fact should put immense pressure on Muslims to know why the evil of arrogance is so emphasized in the Qur'an. Then, we also discover that these 15 chapters and 250 pages are all in one way or another, dealing with Nabi Musa trying to persuade the rebellious, arrogant Fir'aun of Egypt to flee arrogance and to instead obey ALLAH. Therefore, the pressure becomes great on every living Muslim if there is any area in his belief in ALLAH and the Qur'an where he, himself has a disobedient, Fir'aun type arrogance. This is the destructive arrogance that is required to casually reject the spiritual presence among Muslims of ALLAH's own Risen Messiah.

If there is arrogance in his heart he should shake and tremble. If that arrogance relates to arrogance about his personal certainty that the Messiah did not temporarily die so that he did not permanently rise, he is not being wise if he does not persistently cry out to ALLAH for more guidance from Him regarding the spiritual presence of His only Messiah among Muslims everywhere.

But I will further submit that it is very dangerous when deciding what the truths are about ALLAH, to arrive at conclusions on the basis of the large numbers of persons who believe a certain way. Because the Holy Qur'an itself makes it exceedingly clear in 250 pages describing the multiple encounters between His only Nabi Musa and the Mighty Fir'aun of Egypt who had the backing of the entire Egyptian Empire that the truth that has ALLAH as its source, stands. In contrast to the falsehood that of course does not have ALLAH as its source and will end up in a figurative Red Sea.

If this amazing encounter with the General were only one isolated incident in my approximately 37 year track record of attempting to present the truth of the Qur'an's Messiah's death and resurrection to the Arab Muslims in the Middle East, this one incident with the General would not merit serious consideration. But prolonged open dialogue with me and a thorough reading of my writings, which actually do not include all of my many unmistakable evidences from ALLAH of His definite involvement with me, will reveal a consistent pattern that deserves exceptionally serious consideration.

A Flaw in One Assumption

I will now acknowledge that there is one serious flaw in my assumption that what is written in the Holy Qur'an will actually motivate rejectionist Muslims to take seriously the Qur'an's teachings in order to please ALLAH. I have been relying on the naïve assumptions that the vast majority of Muslims spend time thinking about the content and implications of what is stated in the Qur'an.

But on further thought, I realized that Muslims are somewhat like the majority of those who are considered Christians in the U.S. These Christians know very little of the Bible's content. So they do not take the Bible's teachings seriously if its teachings interfere with their status quo. Especially do most Western Christians unwisely avoid any teaching that remotely involves future punishment or a serious disruption to their very comfortable life styles. Thus, I realize that many Muslims will be similar to so many Christians and will avoid being responsive to the clear teaching and instruction contained in their own Qur'an.

99% for ALLAH's Eternal Wisdom and Might Versus 1% for U.S. Congress

For discussion we will assume that all of the variety of evidence that I have presented in well over 100 papers and poems both in English and Arabic on this Website turns out to be slightly less than 100% convincing to some that the Qur'an's An-Nisa 4:157 and 158 is to be understood to actually teach that the Messiah Isa was raised from death to life by ALLAH, so that he is now the definite, compassionate, powerful Living Messiah who is accessible to all Muslims who will sincerely trust him.

(It is quite significant that some of my papers also demonstrate that the Prophet Muhammad indeed believed that the Messiah Isa was raised by ALLAH from death to life and is now available to all Muslims.)

But on the other side of the Middle East coin that may not be totally convincing to many Muslims, we will bring into our considerations the extremely biased in favor of Israel, the U.S. Congress, and those Congressional person's quite unjust bias against Israel's exploited, stolen from, often imprisoned and even murdered Palestinian victims. Let us assume for illustration that somehow the U.S. Congress can dig up 1% of justifiable reasons why the U.S. should actually support Israel instead of the Congress justly supporting Palestinian and Gazan Muslim and Christian victims.

Even though my statistics are slanted to slightly favor my point of view, my overall point should be persuasive. And that is on the basis of what I have presented about An-Nisa 4:157, 158 and Al-Imran 3:55, and other verses, there is much more justification for Muslims to now believe that ALLAH's Risen Messiah is now alive and quite accessible to support the exploited and victimized Palestinians than there is for the U.S. Congress' bi-partisan and unanimous support for Israel.

Therefore, in view of the blind, calloused, immoral injustice of the Israeli manipulated U.S. Congress, U.S. Vice President, and U.S. Pentagon toward victimized Arab Gazans and other Palestinians, a crucial time has definitely arrived. It is absolutely necessary to now realize that there is much more justification for influential Muslim thinkers to now believe that the Qur'an indeed does teach that ALLAH's Messiah is now alive and that he is in their midst since ALLAH raised him from death (see Al-Imran 3:55 for ALLAH's conviction). And this evidence far surpasses any convincing evidence that either the Israeli lobby or the Congress can produce, that would even remotely justify the horrible crime by the U.S. Congress of supporting Israeli criminality instead of providing justice for Palestinians and Gazan Palestinians.

Yet, despite only the tiniest of specks of evidence that supposedly favor Israel, that is precisely the criminal stand that the entire U.S. Congress takes against the Palestinians and in favor of Israel. This is despite any compelling evidence that ALLAH favors such gross injustice toward the Palestinian victims by their Israeli oppressors.

Consequently, in view of the blind, calloused, immoral injustice of the Israeli manipulated U.S. Congress toward favoring Israel over victimized Gazans and Palestinians, this crucial time for action by Muslim Heads of State and other concerned Muslims has arrived.

It is absolutely necessary that the International community of nations, and especially the blind members of the U.S. Congress, be informed of an exciting new breakthrough in Muslim thinking about what the Holy Qur'an truly teaches about ALLAH's Messiah being alive today in the midst of Middle Eastern Arab Muslims.

Though there still may be some slight hesitation on the part of some Muslims to fully acknowledge that An-Nisa 4:157, 158 and Al-Imran 3:55 does truly teach that ALLAH did definitely use His Eternal Wisdom and Might to raise His Messiah from death to eternal life. But that minor skepticism on the part of some Muslims, despite overwhelming evidence, will be in so much less degree than the way the U.S. Congress hyper distorts facts to unjustly favor Israel over Palestinians and Gazans. So in comparison it will be as if no compelling hesitation exists among any Muslim thinkers. But ALLAH's clear proclamation in Al-Imran 3:55 should eliminate all Muslim hesitation.

There can definitely be sufficient unanimity so that a majority of Muslim thinkers will wish to inform the U.S. Congress and the International Community of this profound new development in Sunni and Shii'a Islam. (But there is the possibility that there will be temporary resistance by recalcitrant Shii'a in Iran, and also by a number of the "failed state" Muslim dictators.)

Many in Islam must now decide that there is definitely more than sufficient new perspective that exists, that there are compelling reasons that An-Nisa 4:157 and 158 should be interpreted so that ALLAH's Messiah was indeed raised to new life by ALLAH after he had been executed by the Romans and the Jews instead of their continuing to believe there had been no illegal execution, so that there was no subsequent raising him from death by ALLAH. See Al-Imran 3:55 for a total contradiction from ALLAH Himself of Islam's Denial of ALLAH raising His Messiah from death to life.

Thus, a majority of Muslims must be compelled by the overwhelming evidence to now believe in a now Risen Messiah revealed in the Holy Qur'an who is a Messiah of Justice. Furthermore, he himself has special insights into Israeli injustice since he himself at one time was the victim of grave Israeli injustice in Jerusalem (known by Muslims as Al-Quds) twenty centuries ago.

Therefore, it is hoped by Islam that this new reality based adjustment will introduce a whole new dimension to Islam's uphill struggle for justice for their Gazan and Palestinian brothers and sisters. It will indeed be inhumane and uncaring if perceptive Arab Muslim statesmen inexcusably neglect this ALLAH provided opportunity to do not only what is compassionate, but also to do what is fair, right, and just.

Significantly, there is one more overwhelming piece of evidence from the Qur'an of how the Qur'an itself supports this new perspective that the Messiah definitely has been lifted up to die, as the Messiah stated in John 3:14 that he would be.

It has already been stated in this paper that more than one out of every five verses in the Qur'an are concerned with Nabi Musa's interaction with Fir'aun in trying to help him change his attitude toward rebelling against ALLAH by discarding his arrogant attitude and thus avoid the drowning of himself and his entire army.

But when you add to the previously mentioned 15 Surahs and 250 pages an additional 5 Surahs and 38 more pages that were not about Musa and Fir'aun, but were about Musa and his own people, the already impressive statistics change to become even more impressive.

Then you have the significant Prophet Musa dominating not one out of every five pages in the Qur'an, but one out of every four pages in this Muslim Holy Book.

We will now remind ourselves about an important historic event regarding the Messiah's death. He predicted that his death would be quite straightforwardly linked to an important announcement he made to the Rabbi Nichodemus that I discuss thoroughly in my paper about the General in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

But my final important point is this: It would be absolutely absurd to discount the reliability and credibility of the main reference by Isa himself to a statement by Moses about his own death in being lifted up to die (John 3:14) since the Qur'an itself puts so much emphasis on the credibility of the Prophet Musa that one of every four pages in the entire Qur'an refers to this one Prophet.

This prophet Musa not only provided a symbol of the murder of the Messiah by the Jews that the Messiah himself explained to a key Rabbi, but also miraculously was enabled by ALLAH to come back to this life shortly before the death of Isa as described in Matthew 17, Mark 9, and Luke 9 to have a discussion with the Messiah about his imminent death. (This supernatural conversation was personally witnessed by Peter, James and John. Peter personally makes reference to witnessing this amazing event in his own letter called Second Peter.

Please O Muslims. You must finally admit that you are throwing in the garbage an extreme amount of reliable evidence of the Messiah dying and rising. If you do not finally admit that there is a much more excellent way of understanding An-Nisa 4:157 and 158 than for you to explain away his death and resurrection by inventing a ridiculous Mossad/CIA type identity switch.

For those of you who may still be attempting to hide behind the totally unreliable, "the Bible has been changed" excuse, I will bring this inconvenient fact to your attention.

If the Jews truly changed the Scriptures as Muslim leaders say that they did, wouldn't they have, at the time they were supposedly changing them, made a few other changes that would have avoided serious embarrassment for themselves?

For instance, would not the Jews have taken out and removed the eight times that there are Biblical accounts that under extreme circumstances loving Jewish families actually ate their own children? Yes, when food was very scarce due to strong nations blocking their food supplies, they reluctantly made meals of their own children.

If the Jews actually did change their Scriptures, of course they would have taken out these Scriptures. So it would be much easier for serious, sincere Muslims to acknowledge that ALLAH did indeed use His Eternal Wisdom and Eternal Might to raise His Messiah from death to be eminent in this world and in the next, as both the Qur'an and the Qur'an confirmed earlier Scriptures testify. (Please see Yunus 10:94).

So please o Muslim Leaders, ALLAH is pleading with you to immediately abandon your arrogance and spiritually embrace His Risen Messiah who now resides among you.