But a profound revolution had taken place in the souls of the sorcerers...

But a profound revolution had taken place in the souls of the sorcerers; they remained firm and steadfast in the face of the threats and capling of the Pharaoh and his painful tortures. They replied, with remark- able fortitude, "..give orders for us to be tortured; your writ runs only in this narrow world." (20:72). This was a clear display of the strength of the innate desire for truth and reality in man when confronted with suppression, coercion and brute force.

Men who had lived at the very heart of the Pharaoh's apparatus and had benefited from it, raised up their heads in rebellion and were ready to renounce their own lives. The specific inclination of man to religious concerns cannot, therefore, be explained in terms of…