Rumi in his famous Mathnavi, has an interesting narration about the whisper, and conference of Pharaoh's magicians, as follows:ِ

      The magicians held a secret conference before their encounter with Moses. They knew well that he was not an ordinary man. They knew him with such a high magical power far above what they could conceive. So they conferred with one another, and then the head of them said:ِ As you already know, my father, who is now dead; was the greatest of magicians of his time. Let us go and hold our meeting upon his grave, and conjure up his spirit, and ask him what is the fact about Moses and his sorcery?

      They did so; and the spirit of the dead magician said to the sorcerers:ِ

      Keep a watch upon Moses until he is full asleep. Then you go near him and proceed to pick up his stick. If it remained the same, and nothing happened, you can be sure that he is no more than a sorcerer, and you may easily overcome him by doing so, and so. But, if you found the stick to turn again to a serpent, even when Moses is asleep, you should know that Moses is not a sorcerer. He is indeed a man of God, and his Lord supports him both in sleep and wakefulness. This is because magic is not effective when the magician is not awake.

      The object of RUMI in saying the above story is that:ِ

      QURÄN,is the miracle of Mohammad (SA), as the rod was a miracle of Moses (AS). Now Mohammad (SA) seems to have slept for a period of more than 14 centuries, while we have always seen his miraculous BOOK (QURÄN) active and effective, working behind him as clear signs of God, with a daily increasing glory and reputation!

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