The mentioning of the old Egyptian rulers in the Glorious Quran and the difference between the

word "king" and "pharos" in it.

By Feras Nour Alhak

In the Quran, the old rulers of Egypt have been mentioned and
the Glorious Quran makes difference between them. When it
narrates about Egypt rulers at the age of Moses, peace upon him;
they are not called with any name other than the word" pharos".
This is in more than sixty Ayah(verse) like the following Ayah:

And(remember) when we did deliver you from pharaoh's

folk, who were afflicting you with dreadful torment slaying
your sons and sparing your women: that was a tremendous
trial from your Lord. (Al-Baqarah) between them. But when
it narrates about Egypt rulers at the age of Joseph, peace upon him; they are not called
with any name other than the word "king".

Allah says:

And the king said: I saw in a dream, seven fat kine which seven lean were eating,
and seven green ears of corn and seven dry. (Surat Joseph).

And Allah says:

And the king said: Bring him unto me. And when the messenger came unto him, he
(Joseph) said: Return unto thy lord and ask him what was the case of the women
cut their hands. My Lord knoweth thee guile.

The mentioning of the old rulers of Egypt in the Torah.

In Torah, there is no difference between the rulers of Egypt at the age of the prophet
Moses and the rulers at the age of the prophet Joseph, they are called pharaoh without
any difference between them.

In Torah (Exodus) chapter 9(13). And the LORD said unto Moses, Rise up early in the
morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD God
of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me.

For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart, and upon thy servants,
and upon thy people; that thou mayest know that there is none like me in all the
earth.
But when it (Torah) narrates about the ruler of Egypt At the
age of Joseph in the Genesis(chapter 41):

And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the
eyes of all his servants.

38: And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such a
one as this is, a man in whom the Spirit of God is?
39: And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath
shewed thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as
thou art:
40: Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy
word shall all my people be ruled.

The ancient Egyptian civilization.

The ancient Egyptian civilization was still unknown. No one

knew any thin about it except some obvious monuments A portrait of the clause of
most of which have plunged into the sand of the desert in the pharaoh, the ruler of
Egypt
Giza, Aswan and Luxor. So had been the case until Gan
Franso Shmbelion, a French scientist broke the symbols of the ancient Egyptian language
using Rosetta stone which was discovered during the French campaign on Egypt. A text
in two language and three writings has been carved out of it: the ancient Egyptian one
and it was written in Hieroglyph which means the sacred writing
because it was specialized for writing inside the
temples,Dimutiqi which means the popular writing and the Greek language .
Through comparing between them , he succeeded to break the codes of the Hieroglyphic
language . That discovery led to other monumental discoveries and recognizing the life
of Pharaohs and ancient Egyptian.

The word of Pharaohs.

The word Pharaohs means The Great House in the old Egyptian language which had
been used after that as a title for Egyptian rulers . That title was not discovered until from
the beginning of the eighteenth dynasty i.e. (1539Bc) on. That means that all that period
preceded that date , the title of the Egyptian rulers was The King and there is no
disagreement about that even at the time of Hyksos occupation of Egypt (whose name
means the king of the sponsors in the old Egyptian language) from 1648 to 1540 BC or
before that period.

Joseph, peace be upon him traveling to Egypt.

It is agreeable that Joseph going to Egypt and his reign had been before the mission of
Moses, peace be upon him. This is because Allah says narrating what was said by a
believer one of Pharaoh's folk: And verily Joseph brought you of

brought you of old clear proofs, yet ye ceased not to be in doubt concerning what be
brought you till, when he died, he said : Allah will not send any messenger after
him. Thus Allah deceiveth him who is a prodigal, a doubter.(Surat Ghafir).

The Egyptian said that Allah would not send a messenger because the long period after
him in when Allah did not send a messenger in contrast to the prophets of the children of
Israel who were sent by Allah throughout short periods of time. Since Moses mission was
at the age of the Pharaoh of Egypt (Ramsees the second) as it was clear in a previous
research, thus undoubtedly; Joseph was in Egypt before the age of the eighteenth dynasty
i.e. the period in which the Egyptian rulers were called kings regardless of being
Egyptians or they were Hyksos , as all people called them kings.
A portrait of a block of stone discovered in the area of Shatea el-Gazira in upper
Egypt handling a starvation happened at the age of the king Zoser of the third
dynasty and lasted for seven years.

The stone of Gazirat el- Shatea .

A stone dating back to the third dynasty and exactly to the age of king Zoser was
discovered. The following text was carved out of it:( king Zoser asked the gods to end
the starvation that struck Egypt and lasted for seven years etc…). I believe that Joseph
ruled Egypt at the age of king Zoser , at the time of the third dynasty because it was
credited that this starvation lasted for seven years . It was also hinted that the ruler of
Egypt was the king not the Pharaoh and this is in accordance with the glorious Quran.
The Quran miracle about The Unknown.

The Quran makes different between two important ages in the history of Egypt which are
the age of the pre-Pharaohs i.e. before the eighteenth dynasty who called their rulers the
kings and the age of the post-Pharaohs who called their rulers the Pharaohs and this
started from the eighteenth dynasty. That is in contrast to the Torah that has not made
difference between the two ages and the two titles: in Torah, Pharaoh is a title for the
rulers of Egypt whether at the time of the prophet Joseph or at the time of the prophet
Moses and this contradicts the modern science.

As for the glorious Quran, it was and is still the book of Allah at which falsehood cannot
come from before it or behind it and which does not have any contradiction.

Allah says:"will they not then ponder on the Qur'an? If it had been from other than
Allah they would have found therein much incongruity."

Translated by:

Fatima Mohamed

The references:

The sources:

(1) http:// en. wikipedia. Org/wiki/pharaoh

British encyclopedia http://p2 . www. britannica.

Com/eb/article-9059581/pharaoh