Post by Bayyinah | Nouman Ali Khan

The lesson of Pharaoh is one of the most repeated lessons in the Quran. His name appears over sixty times and the reason is not that he was an unusual case. The reason is that what he had is a disease and that disease is contagious and common. The Pharaoh disease does not require a palace, it does not require an army or a crown or a civilization. It only requires one thing: the conviction that you cannot be corrected. In a home, it sounds like: do I not pay the rent? Did I not put you through school? Am I not the one who holds this family together? Know your place. In a classroom, it sounds like: who is the professor here? In a friendship, it sounds like: I was there for you when no one else was and now you have the nerve to say I’m wrong? The entitlement takes different shapes, but the root is the same. I am not someone who can be proven wrong and if you prove me wrong, you become my enemy. Pharaoh chose that every single time and the Quran shows us, step by step, what happened as a result. His world shrank and his pride was broken. The people around him became afraid of him but stopped respecting him and finally the world swallowed him. We have to find the Pharaoh in ourselves, not because we rule empires, but because the same disease that destroyed the most powerful man in the ancient world can destroy a marriage, a family, a community, a heart. This is from Story Night: Pharaoh Shall Drown with Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan. Follow along at: https://byna.tv/324