He and Musa were sent together to Pharaoh with one instruction: "Speak to him gently, so that perhaps he will remember, or fear." Two prophets, a tyrant, and the order was gentleness.
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Two prophets were sent to the worst tyrant on earth, and told to speak gently.
Allah told him: "Had you been harsh and hard-hearted, they would have left you. So pardon them and ask forgiveness for them, and consult them." Gentleness was not weakness. It was the reason people stayed.
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