Troubled by this, the Qibtis went to Sayyiduna Musa عَـلَيْـهِ الـسَّـلاَمagain and asked him to make Du’a and promised that they will embrace faith. They remained in this affliction [of locusts] for seven days, i.e. the whole week, then they were saved by the Du’a of Sayyiduna Musa عَـلَيْـهِ الـسَّـلاَم. Seeing the remaining crops and fruits, they began to say: ‘This is sufficient for us, we will not leave our religion.’ Thus, they did not embrace faith. They did not fulfil their promise and continued in their evil actions.

A month passed peacefully. Then, Allah Almighty sent ‘Qummal’. The commentators of the Holy Quran differ on this matter. Some say: Qummal refers to a beetle, some say: lice, others say: it is another small insect.

This insect ate the remaining crops and fruits. It would get inside the clothing and bite the skin, and would go into the food as well. If an individual would take ten bags of wheat to grind, they would return with (approximately) three KGs; the rest would be eaten by the insects. These insects ate the hair, eyebrows and eyelashes of the people of Pharaoh. They would riddle their bodies like smallpox, to the extent that they made it difficult for them to sleep.

The people of Pharaoh screamed out of this punishment and turned to Sayyiduna Musa عَـلَيْـهِ الـسَّـلاَم again, saying: ‘We repent, please make Du’a for the removal of this calamity.’ Therefore, after seven days, this calamity was also removed through the Du’a of Sayyiduna Musa عَـلَيْـهِ الـسَّـلاَم. But the people of Pharaoh broke their promise again and started to commit worse crimes than before.

One month passed peacefully. Then Sayyiduna Musa عَـلَيْـهِ الـسَّـلاَم made Du’a again, so Allah Almighty sent frogs. The situation was such that when a person would sit, the area would become full of frogs. When he would open his mouth to speak, the frog would leap into his mouth. The food, the pots and the stoves would become full of frogs, to the extent that the fire would be extinguished. When they would lie down, frogs would jump on top of them.

The people of Pharaoh were greatly distressed by this calamity and said to Sayyiduna Musa عَـلَيْـهِ الـسَّـلاَم: ‘This time around, we make sincere repentance.’