God And Religion
Your question is understandable, but it needs to be clarified is that in these cases God was not “taking sides” in a normal human conflict. What was happening was actually God passing His judgment on certain nations in this life. In the Qur’anic perspective, when a prophet is sent to a people and the truth is made completely clear to them—through clear signs, warnings, and a long period of calling them to the truth—there comes a point where that nation has essentially decided its fate by persistently rejecting the message and continuing oppression. At that stage, what happens next is not a normal war between two human groups. It becomes a form of divine judgment. The prophet and those who believed simply become the means through which that judgment appears in history. So in the story of Musa (Moses) and Pharaoh, God was not just helping one side defeat another side. Pharaoh had repeatedly rejected the truth, oppressed people, and claimed authority over them despite witnessing clear signs. According to the Qur’an, the punishments that followed were God’s verdict on that nation after the truth had been fully established against them. In other words, God was not siding with one group of humans against another out of preference. Rather, He was issuing His judgment, similar to how a judge delivers a verdict after the evidence has been fully presented. It is also important to understand that these were specific historical cases involving prophets. After the era of the prophets ended, this type of worldly divine judgment also ended. Now humanity is given freedom to act, and the final and complete judgment will take place in the Hereafter. So the idea is not that God fights humans or chooses favorites. The idea is that once people knowingly reject the truth after it has been fully made clear to them, God may execute His judgment, and that is what those historical events represent.