The same ayah that announces this sign closes with a sobering observation: "And surely most people are heedless of Our examples!" (10:92). A sign being preserved and visible does not guarantee it will actually be noticed or heeded; this closing line applies the lesson of Pharaoh's fate beyond his own drowning to a much broader pattern of human inattention. The calamities that came before his end are told in what calamities befell Pharaoh and his people, and another arrogant man's end in why the earth swallowed Qarun and his house. The ayah itself, "Today We will preserve your corpse" (10:92), is explained in whose body was saved from the sea as a sign.

تختتم الآية نفسها التي تعلن هذه الآية بملاحظةٍ مثيرة: "وإن كثيرًا من الناس عن آياتنا لغافلون". فحفظ الآية وظهورها لا يضمن أن تُلاحَظ أو يُنتبَه إليها فعلًا، وتطبق هذه الجملة الختامية درس مصير فرعون على نمطٍ أوسع بكثير من الغفلة البشرية.

The answer adds that his body has remained to this day; the verse itself says his body was saved as a sign for those after him, and Ibn Kathir reports from Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) and others of the early generations that some of the Children of Israel doubted Pharaoh's death, so the sea cast his lifeless body onto high ground for them to be sure of it. This preservation follows directly from Pharaoh's drowning itself and his rejected last-minute repentance, both covered in the drowning of Pharaoh in the sea and why Allah did not accept Pharaoh's repentance.

ويضيف الجواب أن جسده بقي إلى يومنا هذا؛ والآية نفسها تذكر نجاة بدنه ليكون آيةً لمن خلفه، وينقل ابن كثير عن ابن عباس وغيره من السلف أن بعض بني إسرائيل شكوا في موت فرعون، فألقاه البحر بجسده بلا روح على نجوةٍ من الأرض ليتحققوا موته. ويتبع هذا الحفظ مباشرةً غرق فرعون نفسه وتوبته المرفوضة في اللحظة الأخيرة.