{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/pro/mos16.htm","path":"isl/pro/mos16.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pro/mos16.htm","text":"Sacred Texts\u00a0\nIslam\u00a0\nIndex\u00a0\nPrevious\u00a0\nNext\u00a0\nSome Historians Said\nWhen the folks reached the lands of Sinai peninsula, the sun there was\nextremely hot and there were no homes that they can live in and no trees\nto be under their shadows, so they complained to Moses about the harshness\nthey are facing so he prayed to his Lord who brought then a cloud to that\nplace to make the shade for them and protect them against the sun, and\nbecause their supplies was to be over and they missed the meats with their\nfear of being kept in hunger God then sent to them the winds carrying the\nmanna and the quails, and when they passed from the eastern coast and they\nhad no water then for their drink and for their cattles, they complained\nto Moses and asked for water, so God then commanded him to strike the rock\nwith his staff and when he did so, twelve springs then gushed out, and\nafter all of that they were not satisfied what God revealed for them and\nwhat favours He made special for them, so they asked their prophet Moses\n(PUH) to have a fine living conditions and asked for what they used to\neat of vegetables and herbs and the various kinds of cucumbers and garlic\nand grains for bread and other cookings and lentils and onions and so on,\nas if they were cattles just want to eat and to work, and they do not look\nback at what they were in of humiliation and slavery for the pharaoh and\nhis people and how their women were treated like slaves and they were attacked\nin their honor and been humilaited more than the folks of Saba' (Sheba),\nand their children were used to be killed in front of them with no mercy\nfor them, and thier men were kept for the hard work and to remove the dirt\nand every humiliating job, as tyrants usually do with the slaves, and with\nthe prophet of God they turned to be free and own themselves and work in\ncomplete freedom and dignity and worship the truthful God, the Lord of\nall, without someone to wrong them, under the mercy of the One of Mercy\nwho saved them from humiliation and turned them to dignity and eternal\nhappiness, but this did not awaken their determination that was turned\ndown by the pharaoh and the household of the pharaoh and the adversities\nthat came over them for long times which made humiliation is a second nature\nfor them planted in their hearts and their sights and their hearing and\nthe instinct that has the total control of their feelings, and so on.\nThe clues for all of this are all provided by the holy quran, so God\nsaid in the chapter of Al-Baqarah: And when ye said: O Moses! We are weary\nof one kind of food; so call upon thy Lord for us that He bring forth for\nus of that which the earth groweth - of its herbs and its cucumbers and\nits corn and its lentils and its onions. He said: Would ye exchange that\nwhich is higher for that which is lower? Go down to settled country, thus\nye shall get that which ye demand(Al-Baqarah:61), and in the chapter of\nAl-A`r\u00e2f: And We brought the Children of Israel across the sea, and\nthey came unto a people who were given up to idols which they had. They\nsaid: O Moses! Make for us a god even as they have gods. He said: Lo! ye\nare a folk who know not. Lo! as for these, their way will be destroyed\nand all that they are doing is in vain. He said: Shall I seek for you a\ngod other than Allah when He hath favoured you above (all) creatures?(Al-A`r\u00e2f:138-140),\nAnd of Moses' folk there is a community who lead with truth and establish\njustice therewith. We divided them into twelve tribes, nations; and We\ninspired Moses, when his people asked him for water, saying: Smite with\nthy staff the rock! And there gushed forth therefrom twelve springs, so\nthat each tribe knew their drinking-place. And we caused the white cloud\nto overshadow them and sent down for them the manna and the quails (saying):\nEat of the good things wherewith we have provided you. They wronged Us\nnot, but they were wont to wrong themselves (Al-A`r\u00e2f:159-160), and\nin the chapter of TaHa: O Children of Israel! We delivered you from your\nenemy, and we made a covenant with you on the holy mountain's side, and\nsent down on you the manna and the quails, Saying): Eat of the good things\nwherewith We have provided you, and transgress not in respect thereof lest\nMy wrath come upon you: and he on whom My wrath cometh, he is lost indeed.\nAnd lo! verily I am Forgiving toward him who repenteth and believeth and\ndoeth good, and afterward walketh aright(TaHa:80-82), and so on of many\nclues.\nNext: Moses Only Wanted to Get Them Into The Holy Lands","title":"The Prophets, Their Lives and Their Stories: Moses: Some Historians Said","type":"page"}