Qur'anic verses - Dialogue with Pharaoh:

 

To every people or group, God sent an apostle to deliver His message.
     
  This part of the story of Moses shows how Moses felt different about undertaking his commission and expressed his fear to God. Moses asked God to nominate his brother Aaron to support him in this mission.
     

  Moses was brought up in the Palace of Pharaoh. Once he saw an Egyptian smiting an Israelite, and as the Israelites were being generally oppressed by the Egyptians, Moses anger was roused, and he slew the Egyptian. But God's grace cured his temper and he became wise; his impediment in speech, for he stood up boldly to speak to Pharaoh; and his fear, for he dared the Egyptians with God's Signs.
     
  And, the scenario moves quickly into the Palace of Pharaoh.
     
  There is here a little play of wit on the part of Pharaoh. When Moses speaks of the Lord, Pharaoh says: Did we not bring you up as a child? Did you not grow up among us? By implication Pharaoh suggests that he is the cherisher of Moses, and in any case Pharaoh laid claim to godhead himself.

Further, Pharaoh reminds Moses of his having slain the Egyptian.
     
  Moses never denied his doing. There are three implications in this: (1) his wrong doing was in a moment of anger, (2) he asked God's pardon for taking up the law into his hands, (3) that was at a time under the influence of the Pharaoh regime before he became a changed man and apostle.
     
  Moses retained back open question to Pharaoh: "What favours?" he says: "Do you count it also as a favour to me that you have enslaved my people?"
     
  Moses has put forward this before, but Pharaoh had twisted it into personalities. Now we come back to the real issue. This might have taken place in the same sitting, or it may have been in a later sitting. Moses explained further the nature of God and His mercies.
     
  It seemed that Moses words had stirred up the wrath of Pharaoh by putting forward the name of the One True God as against Pharaoh's pretended godhead.
     
  Pharaoh is further perturbed, in his reply to Moses's statement that the One True God is also the God of the Egyptians and the Pharaoh himself. With no fear, Moses boldly stated the universal nature of God.
     
  Now we come to the crisis. Pharaoh threatens Moses with prison for treason. Since what Moses was calling for was in fact the end of the falsehood of Pharaoh's godhead.