And when the story of Musa, blessings and peace be upon him, with the Egyptians was the most similar thing to the Day of Resurrection due to what occurred in it of transformations and changes, and the bringing forth of non-existent things like locusts, lice, and frogs in those forms that are outside of the norm in the shortest time. And the subjugation of the tyrants and the favoring of the weak until the end of that was that he gathered Bani Israel and urged them from the Egyptians gently, all of them and all that they had with their animals [to their Lord -] and he gathered all the Egyptians behind them, and he took them away, all of them, by the gathering of Fir'aun for them with the voices of the callers from him in the quickest time and easiest matter to their destruction, just as the dead are gathered after their revival by the call to the waiting place. Then the outcome for the two groups was that for the planners of affairs, Bani Israel was saved by the sea just as the believers will be saved on the Day of Resurrection by the Sirat, and Fir'aun and his people perished by it just as the disbelievers fall from the Sirat. This is because Fir'aun and his soldiers saw the sea split for Bani Israel, yet they did not take heed from that, then they entered into it behind them, and they did not allow for the one who had separated it from its place to be able to return it as He began it and to drown them. They continued in their blindness until Allah returned it and drowned them by it just as the one who denies the Resurrection sees the beginning of Allah for him [and -] for others and His annihilation after His initiation, then he does not allow for Him to return it as He began it the first time. This is confirmed by His saying, the Exalted, as a response to the one who says: Is there any proof for that? Addressing the noblest of creation, indicating that he does not consider this to be truly considered except you, questioning about the coming to alert and encourage the gathering of the self (p-229) for contemplation and reflection and consideration, affirming and comforting him, blessings and peace be upon him, and threatening the deniers that their state - while they are the weakest of the people of the earth because they have no king - is like the state of Fir'aun in this, and he was the strongest of the people of the earth due to what he had of kingship and the multitude of soldiers and their strength and their magic and their deception in their trickery and plotting, and he saw from the signs what no one had seen before him. So when he insisted on denial and did not return nor did admonition benefit him, Allah drowned him and his people and did not leave any of them, and they were so numerous that it was said: His vanguard was equal to the number of Bani Israel, six hundred thousand: 'Has the story of Musa come to you?' meaning, O most knowledgeable of creation, 'the account of Musa' meaning, what was from his affair which We renewed for him when We intended it, so it would be sufficient for you in comforting and for your people in encouraging them to believe and alerting them to consider and threatening them against denial and insistence.