They reason that Pharaoh and his people could have gone on the top a mountain...

They reason that Pharaoh and his people could have gone on the top a mountain, and see whatever they could see from the top of that tower. Such commentators have forgotten that Egypt is not a mountainous land, and they have ignored how arrogant and blown with pride Pharaoh was, and how simple mindeded and illiterate fools, his subjects were. Just have a look at the pride and vanity of Pharaoh, who was in fact nothing more than a weak mortal.

He said to his chiefs and courtiers, and also to Moses and Aaron, that:- ``I am your god and your only god! So you all will have to worship me alone.'' And Pharaoh said:- ``O, chiefs! I know not any god for you other than myself.'' How ridiculous such an assertion can be, particularly when it is uttered by a mortal who might be slayed by a microbe.

So also his next assertion or order will prove how foolish the king was, if he really was serious in what he said:- ``....So kindle me a fire, O, Ha"ma"n upon clay and build me a high tower, that I may be informed of the God of Moses, though I think him to be of the liars!'' If not so, and he was not a fool himself, he was making fools of his followers, and subjects.

If they were not fools, how dare of him to make them to worship him for their god, and to go upon a tower to see the Lord of heavens and earth. This has always been the creed of the tyrants and cruel dictators, to do their best to keep their followers unaware, and in a deep ignorance, so as to follow them blindly. Anyhow; some historians have narrated that; Ha"ma"n engaged more than fifty thousands of skilled and unskilled labourers in that construction business.

He opened the doors of public purse, and spent [ 571 ] a great amount of money for the tower's construction, which was no less important than the Pyramids. The tower went up higher and higher, perhaps as high as the Eafell tower in Paris, but not as high as the Empire State of New York city. It was built easy to climb, and its spiral and wide stairs were so that one could ascend the tower by riding a horse! The tower was completed, and Pharaoh in a glorious ceremony inaugurated it officially.

He then went up the tower and looked at the starry sky, but nothing seemed to be different from what he could see from, the bottom earth. But he was not that sort of a man to leave demagogism. He shot an arrow out of his bow towards the sky, in order to kill the God of Moses!