The Spider
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[29:39]
And [thus, too, did We deal with] Qārūn and Pharaoh, and Hāmān: to them had come Moses with all evidence of the truth, but they behaved arrogantly on earth [and rejected him]; and withal, they could not escape [Us].

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* v.39 : As regards Qārūn, see 28:76 ff. and, in particular, the corresponding note 84; for Hāmān, note 6 on 28:6. The common denominator between these two and Pharaoh is their false pride (takabbur) and arrogance (istikbār), which cause them to become “archetypes of evil” (cf. 28:41 and the corresponding note 40). A similar attitude of mind is said to have been characteristic of the tribes of ‘ād and Thamūd, mentioned in the preceding verse.