His sun but one can never be.
Souls of dogs and wolves go separately,
But the soul of the lions of God is one.(50)

The events that transpired at the advent of the Prophets of the past, and
Their ways and works and circumstances, are not adequately set down in
authoritative histories, and are referred to only in condensed form in the
verses of the Qur'an, the Holy Traditions and the Torah. Since, however,
all events from the days of Moses until the present time are contained in
the mighty Qur'an, the authoritative Traditions, the Torah and other
reliable sources, We shall content Ourself with brief references here, the
purpose being to determine conclusively whether religion is the very basis
and root-principle of culture and civilization, or whether as Voltaire and
his like suppose, it defeats all social progress, well-being and peace.

To preclude once and for all objections on the part of any of the world's
peoples, We shall conduct Our discussion conformably to those
authoritative accounts which all nations are agreed upon.

At a time when the Israelites had multiplied in Egypt and were spread
throughout the whole country, the Coptic Pharaohs of Egypt determined to
strengthen and favor their own Coptic peoples and to degrade and dishonor
the children of Israel, whom they regarded as foreigners. Over a long
period, the Israelites, divided and scattered, were captive in the hands
of the tyrannical Copts, and were scorned and despised by all, so that the
meanest of the Copts would freely persecute and lord it over the noblest
of the Israelites. The enslavement, wretchedness and helplessness of the
Hebrews reached such a pitch that they were never, day or night, secure in
their own persons nor able to provide any defense for their wives and
families against the tyranny of their Pharaohic captors. Then their food
was the fragments of their own broken hearts, and their drink a river of
tears. They continued on in this anguish until suddenly Moses, the
All-Beauteous, beheld the Divine Light streaming out of the blessed Vale,
the place that was holy ground, and heard the quickening voice of God as
it spoke from the flame of that Tree "neither of the East nor of the
West,"(51) and He stood up in the full panoply of His universal
prophethood. In the midst of the Israelites, He blazed out like a lamp of
Divine guidance, and by the light of salvation He led that lost people out
of the shadows of ignorance into knowledge and pe