Moses and his brother are commanded to provide houses close and opposite to one another, in order to facilitate their union, and solve their social problems more easily.

      This order implies that the Israelites had been scattered here and there, throughout the land, and every now and then, they could have been attacked or arrested by the king's police without the others knowing it.

      Moses had to remain in Egypt for a while, so as to teach his doctrine to the Israelites, and prepare them to leave there and make for the promised land. This intention was strictly against the interest of Pharaoh and his chiefs who had enslaved the minority of people for their hard works and difficult and base services. Besides that; after his victory over the sorcerers, his Message had to have enough time to work out, that there had appeared signs of victory by the conversion of the sorcerers, and even ÄSIYEH the wife to Pharaoh and some of her maid servants.

      Then the verses allude to the main causes of Pharaoh and his courtiers rebellion and trespass:ِ

      And Moses said:ِ ``Our Lord! You have given Pharaoh and his chief splendour and wealth in this life so that they mislead people from your way! Our Lord! Then destroy their wealth and harden their hearts, that they won't believe unless they are afflicted with painful punishment.''

      Through the glory and glitter of their wealth and luxurious houses they had puffed up with pride and vanity, so much so that they mislead themselves and the others from the way of truth. Moses in his prayer asked God to destroy their possessions in such a way that instead of being the object of desire and pleasure for them, they become the object of disgust and detestation.

      Moses and his brother, also asked their Lord, to harden the hearts of Pharaoh and his chiefs. They prayed their hearts which was

supposed to be the seat of affection and Mercy and the seat of joy and hope to become a seat for sorrow and regret and a seat of grief and despair; and this is exactly the fruit of unbelief when it serves to harden the heart of man. The owners of such a hardened heart will believe not until they taste a painful punishment to wake them up!