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Pharaoh and Haman, and their hosts were sinners ... And Pharaoh said, "Council, I know not that you have any god but me. Kindle me, Haman, a fire upon the clay, and make me a tower, that I may mount up to Moses' god; for I think that he is one of the liars." Had it been from other than Allah, they would surely have found therein much discrepancy. -- Sura 28:8,38 Pharaoh said, "Haman, build for me a tower, that haply so I may reach the cords, the cords of the heavens, and look upon Moses' God; for I think that he is a liar." -- Sura 40:36-37 Another example with two items of historical compression in the same story and the same misinformation in both of these two texts. According to Surah 28:35-42 and 40:36-37, Haman was a minister or official of the Pharoah (king of Egypt) who lived in the same time as Moses. But history attests that Haman served as the minister of Ahasuerus (king of Persia, Xerxes I is his name in Greek). Apart from the error in location, this is a time error of about 1,000 years. [See Esther 3:1.] But furthermore, Haman is depicted as building "the Tower of Babel" which is an event long before Abraham, who lived at least 400 years before Moses. [See Genesis 11:1-9, especially the verses 3-4, "Let us build make bricks and bake them thoroughly. ... and build a ... tower that reaches to the heavens."] Last edited: October 29, 1996

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