Moreover, Joseph (_who was Joseph the son of Jacob according to one opinion, and who lived unto the time of Moses; and Joseph the son of Abraham the son of Joseph the son of Jacob, according to another opinion_) came unto you before _Moses_, with evident _miraculous_ proofs; but ye ceased not to be in doubt respecting that wherewith he came unto you, until, when he died, ye said _without proof_ God will by no means send an apostle after him. Thus God causeth to err him who is a transgressor, _or polytheist_, [and] a sceptic. They who dispute respecting the signs of God, without any convincing proof having come unto them, _their disputing_ is very hateful with God and with those who have believed. Thus God sealeth every heart (_or the whole heart_) of a proud contumacious person. And Pharaoh said, O Hámán, build for me a tower, that I may reach the avenues, the avenues of the heavens, and ascend unto the God of Moses;[280] but verily I think him, _namely Moses_, a liar _in his assertion that he hath any god but myself_. And thus the wickedness of his deed was made to seem comely unto Pharaoh, and he was turned away from the path _of rectitude_; and the artifice of Pharaoh [ended] not save in loss. And he who had believed said, O my people, follow me: I will direct you into the right way. O my people, this present life is only a temporary enjoyment; but the world to come is the mansion of firm continuance. Whosoever doeth evil, he shall not be recompensed save with the like of it; and whosoever doeth good, whether male or female, and is a believer, these shall enter Paradise; they shall be provided for therein without reckoning. And, O my people, how is it that I invite you unto salvation, and ye invite me unto the Fire? Ye invite me to deny God, and to associate with Him that of which I have no knowledge; but I invite you unto the Mighty, the Very Forgiving. [There is] no doubt but that the [false gods] _to the worship of_ which ye invite me are not to be invoked in this world, nor in the world to come, and that our return [shall be] unto God, and that the transgressors [shall be] the companions of the Fire. And ye shall remember, _when ye see the punishment_, what I say unto you; and I commit my case unto God; for God seeth [His] servants.—_This he said when they threatened him for his opposing their religion._ Therefore God preserved him from the evils which they had artfully devised (_namely slaughter_), and a most evil punishment encompassed the people of Pharaoh,[281] _with Pharaoh himself (namely the drowning); then_ they shall be exposed to the Fire morning and evening;[282] and on the day when the hour [of judgment] shall come, _it shall be said unto the angels_, Introduce the people of Pharaoh into the most severe punishment. (xl. 27-49.)