The nation of Pharaoh - The Plagues of Egypt
The frog in a dream represents the righteous person. The frog poured water over Abraham's fire - peace be upon him - to help put it out. As for a multitude of frogs, they represent punishment.
The Exalted said: { So We sent them the flood and the locusts and the vermin and the frogs and the blood-a succession of clear signs. But they were arrogant and became guilty. } (7:133).
Al-Razi said: "... The nation of Pharaoh said to Moses - peace be upon him: "Whatever signs you bring us, to us it is nothing other than mere magic and we shall not believe in you." Moses invoked God against them, and God sent down the flood upon them day and night. They sought help from Pharaoh, who sought help from Moses, who sought help from God.
God then withheld the rain from them and sent down the winds. The earth the sprouted vegetation and fruit in over-abundance. When they saw this they said: "This is what we were anxious about, and in fact it is a great good for us!" and they disbelieved again.
God then sent the locusts upon them, and they ate up all the vegetation until hardship became and the sun was covered by the swarm of the locusts. They sought help from Moses who sought help from his Lord.
God then sent on the locusts a wind which hurled them into the sea. At this they said: "Whatever is left from what we had planted is enough for us," and they disbelieved again.
God then sent the lice upon them. Sa`id ibn Jubayr said: "This is the maggot which issues from wheat." Tha`labi said: "It is a kind of tick." `Ata' al-Khurasani said: "It is the well-known lice, and it was said that it means mosuitoes, and also wingless locusts." These did not leave a single green leaf except it ate it, and something like smallpox smote their bodies. They sought help from Moses who sought help from his Lord.
God sent a hot wind which burnt the lice. They still did not believe, so God sent upon them a swarm of frogs like a pitch-dark night. The frogs entered their plantations, their food, and their beds cubit by cubit. They sought help from Moses again, and he sought help from his Lord.
God caused the frogs to die and he sent down rain which carried them to the sea. They still disbelieved. God then sent down blood upon them so that their rivers ran red with blood.
It is also said that God inflicted a state of permanent nosebleed upon them. For seven days they drank blood. Then they said: "O Moses, if you remove the filth (al-rijz) from us verily we shall pledge our belief for you." [Cf. 7:134: { If thou removest the terror from us we verily will trust thee and will let the Children of Israel go with thee.} ] Sa`îd ibn Jabir said that the "filth" (or "terror") was a sixth kind of punishment which is the plague, while others said that it is an expression for the five kinds already mentioned.
Al-Razi said - and this is the strongest opinion: "Wahb said that they underwent each affliction for a period of forty days."
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