Proof and Personality

believed in him then and there. The Pharaoh was humiliated. Furious, he pronounced the severest punishment in the land—that their hands and feet should be amputated from opposite sides and then tied to the trunks of palm trees and crucified. When the magicians heard the sentence, they replied: “‘never shall we prefer you to all the evidence of the truth that has come to us.’” (20:72) on the one side, the magicians were confronted with an extraordinary personality, and on the other, with clear proof. as befits a truthful human being, they left the former and took the latter. They preferred truth to power and proof to personality. When confronted with a sign that conclusively proves the truth of something, there is only one thing to do. one must put his proof first and forsake people who oppose it. When signs of truth manifest in this manner, it is as if God himself has come out into the open. individuals who put personalities before them is like puting mortals before the Eternal God. such a person has no place in God’s world, for he has offered allegiance to one who is not his true master; he has made a god of one who is not God. one who forsakes the true God, and attaches himself to a false one, can never prosper in this world of God.