[1723] Understandably, Pharaoh’s shock at this turn of events was so immeasurable that he spoke incoherently, bringing the full force of his wrath on the heads of his subordinates: chastising them for insubordination and defying his authority and blaming them for scheming with Moses (عليه السلام), whom he called in another account ‘their chief who taught them magic’ (cf. 20: 71), to ‘oust’ people from their land, the issue that exasperated him most (cf. Abū Ḥayyān).