{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/pro/mos17.htm","path":"isl/pro/mos17.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pro/mos17.htm","text":"Sacred Texts\u00a0\nIslam\u00a0\nIndex\u00a0\nPrevious\u00a0\nNext\u00a0\nMoses Only Wanted to Get Them Into The Holy Lands\nWhen the folks of Moses asked him to have fine living conditions and said\nto him that they cannot get patience toward one type of food and to pray\nto his Lord to get them plants of the earth..etc, then Moses said to them:\nWould ye exchange that which is higher for that which is lower? Go down\nto settled country, thus ye shall get that which ye demand(Al-Baqarah:61),\nso they said to him: O Moses! Lo! a giant people (dwell) therein and lo!\nwe go not in till they go forth from thence. When they go forth from thence,\nthen we will enter (not till then)(Al-M\u00e2'idah:22). What is understood\nof the interpretations and reliable narrations is that when Moses went\nout of Egypt with the Israelites he had no wish but to get them into the\nholy lands, and it is the lands of Shem where Isaac and Jacob were born\nand where Abraham and Isaac and Jacob were buried and Joseph was moved\nto it later on (PUT), and there was Jethro [please read previous notes]\nand the household of Jethro and his honorable family, and it includes Palestine\nand bounded apparently by Iraq and Hij\u00e2z and Egypt and the mediterranean\nand it had lot of towns and active cities, so Moses went to these lands\nwith his folks away from Egypt that they did not see in it except of the\nhumiliation and torture for all the time they lived there after the death\nof Joseph (PUH), and it lasted for four hundred years almost, from the\ntime of Joseph and the travel from Palestine to it (Egypt) to the time\nof Moses. We've mentioned before that when they went into it with Jacob\nat the time of Joseph they were around seventy in number, and they went\nout with Moses and they are six hundred thousand warriors added to the\nwomen and children as well.\nAll that time they were under the rule of the pharaohs, and the pharaoh\nof Moses is Al-Waleed Abi-Mus`ab ben Mu`\u00e2wiyah ben Abi-Nameer ben\nAl-Hilw\u00e2s the giant and he is the forth of them as we mentioned before,\nand he was the most tyrant of them all, so Moses wanted to get them out\nof this damned land and release them for the adversities that came over\nthem in that land of wrong people to their own lands and the land of their\ngrandfather, Abraham, by the commandment of their Lord, and their Lord\ncalled it the holy land and described it like this and made it a holy place\nwhen He ordered His friend Abraham to travel there, before Abraham and\nLot and their households do so from the land of Iraq, so it was blessed\nwith his travelling to it and it was the land of their graves and the homeland\nfor the prophets and most of the messangers after them, so the books of\nAbraham and the Torah of Moses and the Psalms of David and the Gospel of\nJesus, all were revealed there, so may peace of God be upon our prophet\nand his Household and on their owners (the holy books) and His greets.\nThere also was founded the second of direction of prayer, the honorable\nhouse of Al-Aqs\u00e2 mosque, so it is the most honorable spot that God\nhad made just second after Mecca and the mosque of His prophet (PUH) in\nMedina.\nSo, Moses wanted to release them from the slavery for the pharaohs\nand wanted their dignity, so he got them out of it in safe and God did\ndestroy their enemy, and when he wanted to move with them to some country\nin the lands of Shem they denied to do so and said: there are giant people\nand we will not go there until they go out of it and we are not able to\nfight against them, so when he started to give his sermons and reminded\nthem of the miracles that God did to him and they knew that he is serious\nabout going into that holy land and live there, they said to him then:\nSo go thou and thy Lord and fight! We will sit here(Al-M\u00e2'idah:24).\nIt is mentioned that when they did not agree with Moses to fight the\ngiants, he decided to leave them so when he wanted to do so they realized\nwhat benefit they have for him to be between them and how much did he take\ncare of them and found out that his presence is a mercy for them and a\nprotection, so they got scared and said: if Moses went out the punishment\nsurely will be revealed upon us, so then they gathered around him and asked\nhim to live with them and ask God to fogive them so then God inspired to\nhim: I forgive them for not going into the lands and I forbid it for them\nfor forty years and they shall astray in the lands as a punishment for\nthem for their saying to you: So go thou and thy Lord and fight! We will\nsit here. What is apparent, the land that God ordered them to get into\nto forgive them for their sins and the one that they will not reach for\nforty years is the same one that they got out from (Egypt) and it was a\njudgement for all so all of them got into forgiveness and made astray,\nfor this they did say that they used to get up in the beginning of the\nnight to get into Egypt and start to read Torah and when they reach the\ngates of Egypt the earth would rotate and get them back to their previous\nplace, and the distance between them and Egypt, their previous homeland\nwhere their homes used to be, four leagues, so they stayed with this situation\nfor forty years, and this is what is known as The Wandering, and it is\nmentioned that Aaron died during that time and also Moses, and after this\nperiod of time of forty years, their children and grandchildren got into\nthe lands of Shem.\nIt is mentioned also that when Moses reached with them the holy lands\nafter their repentance, he said to them: go into, but they denied to do\nso, so they got astrayed in four leagues for forty years, and one league\nis three miles and one mile is four thousand cubits as measured by the\narm, so the total is twelve miles, forty eight thousand cubits, and apparently\nit seems that it was as measured by the arm-length of the arms of people\nat that time, and this is the destiny that they got astrayed with until\nall had died except of Yosha` ben Nun (Joshua ben Nun) and K\u00e2lib\nben Yofann\u00e2 (Caleb ben Jephunneh) the husband of Mariam (Mary) the\ndaughter of Amram and the sister of Moses and Aaron [notice that she is\nnot Mary the mother of Jesus] for they did not refuse any command for Moses\nthe prophet of God.\nJoshua is the viceroy of Moses and the leader after him, and he has\nhonorable situations and wars with his enemies until God opened with him\nthe lands, and God guided the people by him and more to come later on by\nGod's will.\nWe've mentioned for you that when the Israelites were commanded by\nMoses to enter the holy lands and when they denied to do so they got astrayed\nin the lands for forty years in four leagues, and when the night used to\ncome over them they all gather to travel so they go and travel until they\nreach their desired destination then God orders the earth to rotate and\nthey all get back to their previous homes that they left travelling, so\nthey stayed like this for forty years, and their supplies during these\nforty years composed of the manna and the quails, and we've mentioned before\nthat most of them died during the Wandering and only few survived, and\nsome of the survivors were Joshua ben Nun and Caleb ben Jephunneh the husband\nof Mary bent Amram the sister of Moses and Aaron that God favoured them\nwith the strong faith, and the heritage of the prophecy was transformed\nfrom Moses to his viceroy Joshua ben Nun, and some of them was the stone\nthat was with Moses and used to strike it with his staff so twelve springs\nwould arise from it and each tribe has its own spring.\nTruth is that the Israelites did not believe in Moses completely, otherwise\nthey would have been fighting their enemies with him and obeyed him, but\nonly few did believe in him, and it is mentioned that a jew man came to\nthe prince of believers (`Ali ben Abi T\u00e2lib) (PUH) and said: O father\nof Al-Hasan, you did not have patience after the death of your prophet\nexcept for twenty five years and then you started to kill each other [the\njew man here trying to mock], he (PUH) then answered: true, but your feet\nwere not yet dry of the sea until you said O Moses, Make for us a god even\nas they have gods, then he (PUH) said: we did not argue about our prophet\nbut we argued in differences after him, so the prophet of Islam (PUH) had\nhis folks under his command even though they refused his viceroy and his\nminister `Ali ben Abi T\u00e2lib (PUH), but as for the Israelites they\ndid refuse their prophet but went along with his viceroy Joshua ben Nun.\nAs attributed to Ibn-`Abb\u00e2s that he said: the Israelites said\nto Moses after passing the sea: tell us O Moses, by what power and tools\nshall we reach the holy lands and there are families and women and sick\npeople and elders with you? Moses then said: I do not know any other nation\nthat God made for it the heritage of earth as much as it is for you and\nGod will help you, so they said then: so pray to Him to feed us and let\nus drink something and shade us against the sun, so then God inspired to\nMoses: I ordered the sky to rain on them the manna and quails and I ordered\nthe wind to cook the quails for them and I ordered the stones to blow up\nwith water and ordered the clouds to make shade for them..etc, so when\nMoses said that to them they believed in him and walked with him to the\nholy lands which was Palestine, and we've mentioned before that they stopped\nadvancing and denied to go there so they kept wandering on earth for forty\nyears in one corner of Sinai's desert, and then they entered there after\nforty years and they did not go there except by their repentance and God's\nforgiveness, and in a speech for Al-`Askari (PUH) about God's saying: Go\ninto this township and eat freely of that which is therein, and enter the\ngate prostrate, and say: \"Repentance.\" We will forgive you your sins and\nwill increase (reward) for the right-doers(Al-Baqarah:58), that the township\nis Arih\u00e2 (Jericho), part of the lands of Shem and Palestine, and\n\"enter the gate prostrate\" was for the holiness of Muhammad and his viceroy\n(PUT) for God made an example like them on the gate of the town and God\nordered them to prostrate for their holiness and to renew their covenant\nabout believing in them and to remember their old covenant as well, and\nas for \"say Repentance\" it means say that our prostration for God is for\nthe greatness of the example of Muhammad and `Ali and for our believe in\ntheir leadership is for the repentance and forgiveness for our sins, and\nthis is had been told in many speeches as well, But those who did wrong\nchanged the word which had been told them for another saying, so they did\nnot prostrate for God and did not say what they were ordered to say, but\nwent into the town in another way other than what it was supposed for them\nand said: a red wheat to be carried on our back is better for us than what\nwe are ordered to do and say, so God said: and We sent down upon the evil-doers\nwrath from heaven for their evil-doing(Al-Baqarah:59).\nIt is mentioned that the wrath that was revealed upon them was the\nplague, so that in one day one hundred and twenty thousand men died, and\nthey say that the ones that died are known in God's knowledgement that\nthey are not believers in Muhammad and `Ali and their Household, and it\nis probable that He commanded them to prostrate at the gate of Repentance\nfor this reason as He commanded the angels to prostrate before Adam as\nwell before, and in both situations it was a test for His servants and\nsetting holiness for Adam and the end of prophets and his viceroy (PUT),\nand from the speech of Al-`Askari (PUH) about God's saying: And when Moses\nasked for water for his people(Al-Baqarah:60), is that he (Moses) asked\nfor water from God to his people after being thirsty in their wandering,\nso they went on crying to Moses and said to him: thirst doomed us, so Moses\nsaid to his Lord: O Lord, by the rights of Muhammad the master of prophets,\nand by the rights of `Ali the master of viceroys, and by the rights of\nF\u00e2timah the lady of all women, and by the rights of Al-Hasan the\nmaster of leaders and by the rights of Al-Husain the best of martyrs and\nby the rights of their descendants and their viceroys the righteous leaders,\nwater Your servants, then God inspired to him: O Moses, strike with your\nstaff the stone, and so he did and twelve springs gushed out of it and\neach tribe of them had one spring for its ownself so no one would annoy\nthe other with drinking from the springs..etc.\nAs it is attributed to Al-S\u00e2diq (PUH) in a narration about the\nAwaited viceroy may our souls be a ransom for him: when the last viceroy\n(Al-Mahdi PUH) appears in Mecca and desires to go to Kufa a caller would\ncall: has any one drinks or food? Then he (PUH) will carry with him the\nstone of Moses and it is carried by no less than a camel so at every stop\nhe will stop a spring will show up from it, and whoever was hungry will\nget satsified and whoever was thirsty will drink as much as he wants, and\nit will be for their supplies until he (PUH) reached Kufa, which is the\nhonorable Najaf now.\nNext: The Chieftains and `Iwaj ben `In\u00e2q and what Happened With\nThem","title":"The Prophets, Their Lives and Their Stories: Moses: Moses Only Wanted to Get Them Into The Holy Lands","type":"page"}