Surah Al-Shu‘arâ’ 26:29

قَالَ لَئِنِ اتَّخَذْتَ إِلَـٰهًا غَيْرِي لَأَجْعَلَنَّكَ مِنَ الْمَسْجُونِينَ

26:29 Pharaoh was in a position to threaten Moses because of his position of power. “If you worship any god other than me,” shows that Pharaoh claimed for himself the attributes and powers of Divinity. He thus took undue advantage of his worldly powers, and sought to rule on his own, thereby ignoring the Divine Rule. Moses on the other hand is the “servant of Allâh” who acts in conformity with the Divine Law, but with no power of his own to enforce it. Whereas Moses has spiritual authority and rank, Pharaoh has worldly power and rank. The dialogue between Moses and Pharaoh, similar to the dialogue between Abraham and his sire, and Abraham and Nimrod, and other Prophets and their rebellious people, which on the surface appear to be a simple confrontation of “good” and “bad” is, in reality, something that has been going on ever since the polar principle of the “Creative Act” and the “Spiritual Wish” of Allâh had been made manifest. The threat of Pharaoh that “I will certainly make you one of the imprisoned” was a sign that he had no good response for Moses words and was an indication of the defeat of his argument