We Will Preserve Your Body

Allah (swt) destroyed Firʿawn. And Allah (swt) says: today We will preserve your body. Why? So that you can be a sign for the people after you. The body of Firʿawn is being carried from one place to another around the world, mummified. Allah (swt) has saved that body. And one of the researchers said that when they carried out some research on the body of Firʿawn, they found a very high concentration of salt in it. He drowned in salt water.

Allah (swt) said that He preserved the body of Firʿawn — not to show you the glory of the civilisation of Firʿawn; not for you to put him in a museum and go and visit to see the magnificent heritage of Firʿawn; not to go and take pictures of the body of Firʿawn to show how great that civilisation was. Firʿawn, who was the worst — Allah (swt) kept his body so that it would be a sign for us — and people are treating his body and his existence in the exact opposite way from how it was intended.

And that is why Allah (swt) closes this ayah with: wa inna kathīran min al-nāsi ʿan āyātinā la-ghāfilūn — most of the people are unaware of Our signs. People in the world today are unaware of the sign of Allah (swt). Firʿawn was left behind to be a reminder for us of what will happen to al-kāfirīn. This is the end result. That is what will happen to them.