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So Allahu ta’ālā seized him, He destroyed him by drowning him, as punishment for the latter, that is to say, these [last] words [of his], and for the former, that is to say, his saying previously, 'I do not know of any god for you other than me' [Q. 28:38] - and between the two [claims made by Fir’avn/Pharaoh] was an interval of forty years.