{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/pro/mos11.htm","path":"isl/pro/mos11.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pro/mos11.htm","text":"Ash`ab, and he is the one that was famous for his silly imaginations and\nhis bad opinions, and one of his stories as it was mentioned that once\nhe kept some children away from him by lying at them, and he told them\nthere is a wedding some where and they give some money in that wedding\nfor the children, so the children went away from him trying to reach that\nwedding for the money, so when they went away he followed them hoping that\nwhat he did say is true and get something from that money that is distributed\nin that wedding! When the pharaoh asked Moses and Aaron about their Lord\nby saying: who is your Lord O Moses? He said: the Lord of the earth and\nheavens and what is between them, so he thought from Moses' speech that\ntheir Lord is found some where in heaven because the Almighty that can\nbe up never comes down, and he made his people think that he is able to\nfight him and kill him as well and that climbing to the sky is something\nthat he can do, so he issued a command to his minister, Haman, to build\nfor him a tower reaching the sky to see the Lord of Moses, and then mentioned\nhis thought about the lies of Moses. When Haman built the tower and made\nit so tall so that the pharaoh can reach the Lord of Moses, a wind came\nand knock it down from its base so it was ruined and the idea of the the\npharaoh did fail and he was never guided, then he commanded to make an\nark and on all of its corners some tightened pillars, then he (Haman) brought\nlot of hungry eagles and tightened them by the legs to the pillars and\nhanged on each pillar some meat, then both of them (the pharaoh and Haman)\nwent into the ark and it went flying high because of the eagles and their\nhunger and the meat upon the pillars, so they flew with the ark all daytime\nand the pharaoh were asking Haman from time to time about what was upon\nthem and what was beneath them, until they reached so high and he (the\npharaoh) thought that he would be dead, he then commanded to be back to\nearth so he (Haman) got the meat down for the eagles and they all came\ndown to earth in safe, for a wisdom only God knows.\nIn the chapter of Al-Qasas: And Pharaoh said: O chiefs! I know not\nthat ye have a god other than me, so kindle for me (a fire), O Haman, to\nbake the mud; and set up for me a lofty tower in order that I may survey\nthe god of Moses; and lo! I deem him of the liars(Al-Qasas:38). Kindling\nthe fire is supposed to make the bricks from the mud to build the tower\nwith after burning it with fire, so that he (the pharaoh) can reach the\nLord of Moses and solve the problem with Him by an agreement or by killing\neach other, and this is only because of his Ash`abite imaginations. In\nthe chapter of Gh\u00e2fir: And Pharaoh said: O Haman! Build for me a\ntower that haply I may reach the roads, The roads of the heavens, and may\nlook upon the god of Moses, though verily I think him a liar. Thus was\nthe evil that he did made fairseeming unto Pharaoh, and he was debarred\nfrom the (right) way. The plot of Pharaoh ended but in ruin(Gh\u00e2fir:36-37).\nSo Moses insisted on the pharaoh to believe in God while he was among\nhis own people and this is something that breaks off his picture and get\nhis place among his people down and it opposes the tyranny of the pharaoh,\nthe one who owns the necks and the power over all the land and worshipped\nby the people, and who can compete with him and he is the one that said\n\"I (Pharaoh) am your Lord the Highest\" and \"I know not that ye have a god\nother than me,\" and for this God did say to his messanger Moses (PUH):\nGo, both of you, unto Pharaoh. Lo! he hath transgressed (the bounds), And\nspeak unto him a gentle word, that peradventure he may heed or fear(TaHa:43-44).\nMoses then did not leave any gentle way unless he had used and no door\nof guidance he did not enter for make the pharaoh happy with his people,\nbut they do not like people that give advices. Some interpreters say that\nHaman did build the tower for the pharaoh until he reached an end that\nhe could not continue building and then the pharaoh went upon it and directed\nan arrow to the sky and the arrow came back with some blood so then the\npharaoh said: I killed the god of Moses, but this narration is full of\ndoubt and it is but lies, for the pharaoh knows clearly that he is lying\nabout what he claimed to himself and most of his followers did know that\nbut because of his power they could not say it frankly, as it is for all\nthe people in every time and every place, except those that God did make\nthem succeed and happy.","title":"The Prophets, Their Lives and Their Stories: Moses: The A...","type":"page"}