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yurīdu ʾan yukhrijakum min ʾarḍikum fa-mādhā taʾmurūna
he seeks to expel you from your land.’ ‘So what do you advise?’
— Ali Quli Qarai
7Al-A'rāfالأعرافVerse 110 of 206
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he seeks to expel you from your land.’ ‘So what do you advise?’
— Ali Quli Qarai
Surah al-‘Araf – Verse 110
110 . “‘He (Moses) intends to expel you from your land. Then what do you advise?’”
In order to pervert the common opinions, Pharaoh tried to denigrate Moses (as). From the point of belief, he called Moses (as) a sorcerer, and from the social and political points of view, he introduced him as a seditious and quarrelsome person. One of the weapons of the opponents is to denigrate the men of the Truth. The verse, from the tongue of Pharaoh, says:
False deities are often tyrannical, but sometimes they become helpless to consult in difficulties with some others around them.