(43:48) And We showed them not a sign except that it was greater than its sister, and We seized them with affliction that perhaps they might return [to faith]. (43:49) And they said [to Moses], "O magician, invoke for us your Lord by what He has promised you. Indeed, we will be guided." (43:50) But when We removed from them the affliction, at once they broke their word. (43:51) And Pharaoh called out among his people; he said, "O my people, does not the kingdom of Egypt belong to me, and these rivers flowing beneath me; then do you not see? (43:52) Or am I [not] better than this one who is insignificant and hardly makes himself clear? (43:53) Then why have there not been placed upon him bracelets of gold or come with him the angels in conjunction?" (43:54) So he bluffed his people, and they obeyed him. Indeed, they were [themselves] a people defiantly disobedient [of Allah].
