{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/pro/mos15.htm","path":"isl/pro/mos15.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pro/mos15.htm","text":"Sacred Texts\u00a0\nIslam\u00a0\nIndex\u00a0\nPrevious\u00a0\nNext\u00a0\nMoses and His People Going Out From The Sea Into\nThe Land\nWhen Moses went out with his people from Egypt and the pharaoh followed\nthem and harassed them with his soldiers, God ordered then Moses to strike\nthe sea with his staff and so the sea was splitted for him with twelve\nroads as much as the number of the tribes of the Israelites and no more\nnor less than this number for every tribe has its own way, and then Moses\nwith his people passed over and the pharaoh was destroyed with his people,\nso then Moses went out to the desert, and there were no towns or trees\nor food or even water, and when they spent many days there they got annoyed\nbecause of this situation, where they find themselves in a desert that\nhas nothing except sands and sun and the extreme heat after they had been\nin a great land as Egypt with lot of people and there they were born and\nlived for many years and there they had everything they would like of living\nconditions and there they had possessions and some had a trade and others\nhad crafts and others had plants and investments and productions and everyone\nhad a job there and they used to it, and now they had been without a job\nand without something to eat so they felt the loneliness for leaving their\nhomes and for what they used to see of buildings and now they are out of\nthe favours they used to live in into the desert and this got so hard on\nthem and sadness got into them and they felt humiliated so they had refuge\nin Moses and they were crying and weeping and they complained to him about\nwhat they feel, so Moses then began to calm them down and tell them sermons\nand telling them that God will make them rulers and give them more than\nwhat they did have before and will make them higher and rule the world\nonly if they did have patience and fought against the enemy of God and\nobeyed His commands and followed His viceroy, so Moses calmed them down\nwith his words and they relaxed and believed in his promise, and then they\ncomplained about the heat so he prayed to God and He sent the clouds to\nshade them all daytime then they complained about the hunger so then God\nrevealed upon them the manna and quails, and the manna was a subject that\nfell upon them at night on some plants and make their taste so sweet with\neasiness to eat and digest as they said, and they said its name was (the\nplant) is Taranjabeen [this name might denote the Citron], and it used\nto fell upon the plants on that desert so they eat them later, and for\nthe quails it was a bird that covered the earth with its numerous numbers\nso they used to take what they need from it and it has the finest taste\namong all birds' meats and it was flying towards them so then they take\nit and cook it, and its fine taste is proved by the holy phrase: Eat of\nthe good things wherewith We have provided you(Al-Baqarah:57).\nIn the honorable speech (of the prophet PUH): when Moses passed with\nthem into the land they landed in a desert and then they said to Moses:\nO Moses, you doomed us and picked us out of urban areas to a desert that\nhas no shadows, no trees nor water, so then a cloud came at day time to\nmake shade for them against the sun and at night the manna is revealed\nupon them so they eat it in the next morning and at night a cooked bird\nis revealed for them upon their tables, and when they eat and get satisfied\nthey never look for something else. There was with Moses a stone that he\nused to put in the middle of the camp and then strike it with his staff\nso that twelve springs would show up from it thus each tribe has its own\nspring, and they were twelve tribes descended from Jacob (PUH), and the\ntribes [Arabic: tribe (Israelite tribe) = Sibt, might be equal to the English\nword Sept as well!] are children of the children like clans and tribes\nfrom the children of Ishmael ben Abraham (PUT), and the Quran used this\nterm (Sibt, pl. Asb\u00e2t) and its explanation will come later by God's\nwill, so all children of Jacob are called \"Sibt\" and all children of Ishmael\nare called \"Qabeelah\" [in translations for Quran both words are translated\nas \"tribe\" but Arabic is rich with destinctive terms that would have only\none translation in English and maybe only people with deep knowledge in\nthe Arabic language can make destinctive translations], so the tribes at\nthe time of Moses were twelve and they are the ones that went out with\nMoses.\nIt might be apparent that the ones that believed in Moses truely and\nbeen sincere with their Lord before going out (of Egypt) or when Moses\ncalled them to believe in God the One, the Lord of angels and souls, only\nfew of them were afraid of the pharaoh, and the elders of the Israelites\nwere using Taqiyyah (avoiding) with the pharaoh and the most of the Israelites\nwere in doubt, so only few of those people did believe in Moses, and most\nof the Israelites were followers for the coptic people with the creed of\nthe pharaoh, and the previous wonders, that God stroke the pharaoh and\nhis people with, did not avoid them from being followers for that paganism\nthat they lived long time with although they were not beloved and humiliated,\nfor they faced lot of torture and humiliation with the Egyptians, and then\na rescuer came from them and he is the messanger of God Moses and Moses\nfaced many obstacles and threats just to rescue them, and he was called\nan insane and a wizard and he taught the pharaoh hard lessons with his\nmiracles that points out to his truthfulness, and they (the Israelites)\nsaw with their own eyes how the sea was splitted for them so that they\npassed over without being a bit wet or losing a thing, as one historian\nsaid, and he said also: they even tricked the women of the Egyptians and\ntook their ornaments and jewels and they went out with all these jewels\nlike a captivated man ran away with his chains, and when the pharaoh desired\nto pass with them to get them back into slavery, God closed the sea on\nthem and all were destroyed, all of that happened in front of their eyes\nand Moses did not forget to remind them and explain to them that all the\ndeeds that he did were all from God and by His commandments and He is their\nLord and the Lord of their fathers and He is the One and the Alive that\nhas no companions, and the wet sands were still sticking to their shoes\nbut their paganism nature came over them, and their badness in their souls\npushed them to ask Moses, after passing by some people that worship some\nidols, asked him to make a god for them as they have a god, and what do\nyou imagine the answer of Moses to them? Are blaming and warning useful\nnow after he did all that for them? Moses was not ignorant for their situation\nand their rocky minds and their silly ideas and the meanness that was planted\nin their souls as if they were drunk without thought: They are but as the\ncattle - nay, but they are farther astray(Al-Furq\u00e2n:44), would he\n(Moses) be regretted for what he did and for all the deeds and troubles\nhe beared and for the humiliation that he faced? No and No, for he is a\nmessanger from God, the Exalted, and an advisor for his people, so patience\nis his ally, and mercy is his companion, and he did not leave anything\nthat blisses God, and everything he faced was for them and their happiness\nand to gather them again, and he was in hope for their correct faith to\nwin the honor of life and the after-life, so his answer to them was only\nto be patient for the sake of God: Then have patience even as the stout\nof heart among the messengers (of old) had patience(Al-Ahq\u00e2f:35),\nand what they deserve for their request to have a god other than their\nLord is to be rebuked for their shamelessness and misunderstanding and\nfor their injustice toward the One who destroyed their enemy and saved\nthem from his wrath and made them the best among the nations, and a God\nwith such miracles toward them and such favours for them should not be\nleft to worship another except by those who are silly and been shameless\nand been stuck with the shame that shall never be removed, this is if there\nis such an imagination that there is another god to be worshipped other\nthan Him, and maybe such a talk is to go along with those who are silly\nand do not believe in a doomsday and paradise or hell, and is there a wise\nman full of sense that would believe in the existance of someone that shares\nor opposes the Creator of the universe and the night and day abd the Creator\nof time and space, unless he was stupid and made his soul a toy for the\ndevil, or of those that their hearts became dark and unhappiness was destined\nfor them and been like deaf, dumb, blind, therefore they have no sense,\nmay God guide us, the Merciful, for what blisses Him and to the goodness\nof this life and the after-life by His beloved the chosen and his Household\nthe best of the creations, Amen.\nNext: Some Historians Said","title":"The Prophets, Their Lives and Their Stories: Moses: Moses and His People Going Out From The Sea Into The Land","type":"page"}