Pharaoh—indeed, it was worse.

Seventh: It may be said that this counsel contradicts the message with which Allah Most High sent His messengers and their mission to preserve people’s original natural disposition. This is what the messengers brought them. They did not command them to acquire a new disposition different from the one with which they were created, nor to alter that disposition, as these corrupters of Allah’s natural disposition and His scriptures have commanded them to do. Allah, glorified and exalted, has created His servants with a natural disposition to acknowledge Him and worship Him alone. He Most High says:

“So set your face toward the religion, inclining to the truth—the natural disposition upon which Allah created mankind. There is no changing Allah’s creation. That is the upright religion, but most people do not know. {30} Turn to Him in repentance, fear Him, establish prayer, and do not be among the polytheists {31}—among those who