However this man belonging to an oppressed people...
However this man belonging to an oppressed people, after becoming wealthy, started exploiting his own fellow sufferers and rebelled against Moses. The Qur’an says: إِنَّ قَارُونَ كَانَ مِن قَوْمِ مُوسَىٰ فَبَغَىٰ عَلَيْهِمْ Now Korah was of Moses' folk, but he rebelled against them .... (28:76) Does it not show that the stand of the prophets against rebellion is actually the stand against the haves, the rich, and their wealth?
The Qur’an 'has disclosed in some of its verses that the real adversaries of the prophets were the affluent class, the mutrafin : those who were immersed in the good things…
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