Another parable of the hypocrites
Here God likened them to the host of Pharaoh when they pursued after Moses and his people, but none of Muslims or others (before Abu abd-Allah) could know the exact meaning of this parable, :
Quran 2: 19-20, which means:
{19. Or [their likeness is] like [a people overwhelmed with] a cloud, laden with heavy rain from the sky; in [that cloud] is darkness, thunder and lightning;
they thrust their fingers in their ears because of the [blast of the] thunder-claps, for the fearing of death;
and, surely, God ever has the non-believers in His grasp [: they cannot escape from Him however cautious they are.]
20. The lightning almost snatched away their sight off them [due to its sharp light.]
As often as it flashed forth for them they walked in its [light], and when it darkened against them they stood still.
If God had willed, He could have taken away their hearing and their sight.
Surely, God is All-Able to do anything. o}
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o The explanation of these two ayat:
God also likened [the hypocrites among Mohammed's people] to the people of Pharaoh [when they pursued Moses and his people by night]; so God overwhelmed them with the cloud, rain, darkness, lightning and thunder in order that they might refrain from their aggression and leave be the Children of Israel whom they were pursuing.
But they did not refrain from their wickedness, and they started to walk when the lightning shed light before them, and stop when it was dark, because their journey was by night and they went on pursuing them until they approached them at morning; so God drowned them in the sea according to their stubbornness.
Therefore, likewise, the hypocrites among your people, Mohammed, if they do not refrain from their wickedness and reform their work, then God will drown them as did He drown Pharaoh and his host.
[But He did not take away their hearing and their sight, in order to drown them in the Red Sea, because of their stubbornness.