{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/pro/mos19.htm","path":"isl/pro/mos19.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pro/mos19.htm","text":"Revelation of Torah and Worshipping of The Calf and\nRelated Stories\nWhen God sent Moses (PUH) to the pharaoh and his people with miracles like\nthe staff and the hand, and when he did not listen to him and did not accept\nhis advice and called him a crazy man and a wizard and so on, God did pour\nthe adversities upon them and sent to them the flood, the locusts, the\nvermin, the frogs, the blood and the terror, detailed signs to warn them,\nand that was a punishment for them to let them step back away from their\nwrong-doing and it was a test for them and a proof to let the living ones\nlive with knowledgement and to let the dying ones die with knowledgement,\nand the period of time that was given for the pharaoh and his people after\nsending Moses and Aaron to him was forty years, and it was the time period\nof adversities of the Israelites after sending Moses and all that time\nthey used to complain to Moses and he used to promise them the relief and\nthat God will destroy their enemies and let them out of that adversity\nto the freedom and relaxation, and the time of their adversities was forty\nyears until God got them out of there and destroyed the pharaoh and his\nfolks.\nHe (Moses) also promised them of a book from their Lord that includes\nall the regulations and sermons and proverbs, so when God released them,\nHe ordered him to come to the appointed day and fast for thirty days, and\nwhen it was the last days of fasting he went to receive the words of his\nLord and talk to Him, and when he completed his fasting, he brushed his\nteeth with a stick to enhance his mouth breath after fasting, so then God\ninspired to him: O Moses, did not you know that the breath of a fasting\nman is finer for Me rather than the musk, so then God ordered him to fast\nfor another ten days and not to enhance his breath after that and so he\ndid. It was a promise from God for Moses to give the book after forty nights\nand so He gave it to him, so God said: And when We did appoint for Moses\nforty nights (of solitude), and then ye chose the calf, when he had gone\nfrom you, and were wrong-doers(Al-Baqarah:51).\nIt is mentioned by Al-Baydh\u00e2wi and Al-Nasfi and Al-Khateeb and\nAl-\u00c2lusi that: Moses promised his people, the Israelites, when they\nwere in Egypt that if God destroyed the pharaoh, He will bring to them\na book that has regulations for them, so when God destroyed the pharaoh\nMoses asked Him for the book and so He ordered him to fast for thirty days\nwhich were the month of \u00d0ul-Qi`dah [the 11th month of the islamic lunar\ncalendar], so when Moses completed fasting for thirty days he did not like\nthe breath of his mouth so he did brush his teeth with a stick or ate some\nplants, so then the angels said: we used to smell the scent of musk from\nyou but you corrupted that with the stick, so then God ordered him to fast\nfor other ten days of the month of \u00d0ul-Hijjah [the 12th month of islamic\nlunar calendar], and this is as God said: And when We did appoint for Moses\nthirty nights (of solitude), and added to them ten, and he completed the\nwhole time appointed by his Lord of forty nights(Al-A`r\u00e2f:142). Before\nhis going to the appointed day with his Lord he commanded his brother Aaron\nto be his viceroy over the Israelites and emphasized on watching over their\nconditions and be cautious about them, and warned him against the wrong-doing\namong them for they were appointed to worship the One and they are supposed\nto be bound to the regulations of the religion, and the believers among\nthem knew that already since the beginning of the story of Moses, and the\ninspiration was revealed upon him from God and Moses used to tell the pharaoh\nwith it when he (the pharaoh) used to ask him, and one of his questions\nwas: and who is your Lord O Moses? And the holy quran points out the details\nof this story as mentioned before.\nMoses by nature then was obliged to tell the Israelites and others\nabout the prophets to the creations and he is one of the greatest of them,\nand to tell them about the regulations of the religion without a doubt,\nand he used from time to time to uncover for them some of the secrets and\nwisdom in some of the regulations in religions as religious men usually\ndo, and for forty years living between them he is not supposed to be like\nsilent or busy like other people while he is one of their greatest scholars\nand advisors, and those people are not ignored with the presence of Moses,\nthe prophet of God to all the people, so God did say: And when We gave\nunto Moses the Scripture and the criterion (of right and wrong), that ye\nmight be led aright(Al-Baqarah:53), so the scripture is the Torah which\nabout the covenant was made with them to believe in it and do whatever\ncommandments in there, and the criterion is the difference between good\nand evil.\nIt is told that when Torah was revealed over Moses with everything\nexplained in it and God had gifted it to them, God inspired to Moses: they\ndid believe in what was revealed upon them, still the criterion which is\nwhat makes the difference between the believer and the disbeliever so renew\nyour covenant with them about it, for I promised for Myself that I will\nnot accept the faith of anyone or the deeds of anyone except by it, so\nMoses then said: O Lord, and what is that? God said then: O Moses, that\nis to let them testify that Muhammad is the master of all prophets and\nhis brother and viceroy `Ali is the best of viceroys and that the rest\nof his viceroys are the leaders of the creation and his followers are stars\nof paradise and the kings of Eden, he (the narrator) said: so Moses had\ntheir promise for this and some of them did believe indeed and others said\nit by their tongues only, then he (the narrator) said: the criterion is\nthe bright light that was shining from the foreheads of those who believed\nin Muhammad and `Ali and their Household and their followers, and that\nwas missed in the foreheads of those who said it by the tongue and did\nnot believe in their hears, and there are lot of narrations with the same\nmeaning, and whoever is in doubt let him check the interpretations of the\nholy phrases that are related to this subject, and in the chapter of Al-A`r\u00e2f\nGod did say: He said: O Moses! I have preferred thee above mankind by My\nmessages and by My speaking (unto thee). So hold that which I have given\nthee, and be among the thankful. And We wrote for him, upon the tablets,\nthe lesson to be drawn from all things and the explanation of all things,\nthen (bade him): Hold it fast; and command thy people (saying): Take the\nbetter (course made clear) therein. I shall show thee the abode of evil-livers.\nI shall turn away from My revelations those who magnify themselves wrongfully\nin the earth, and if they see each token believe it not, and if they see\nthe way of righteousness choose it nor for (their) way, and if they see\nthe way of error choose if for (their) way. That is because they deny Our\nrevelations and are used to disregard them(Al-A`r\u00e2f:144-146).\nAaron, although he was a prophet by himself, he was commanded to follow\nhis brother Moses for he is a prophet and a speaker to God, and Aaron did\nnot have regulations except of those which Moses brought, and God did talk\nto Moses without a media like we do talk to each other, but God is not\nto be seen by the eyes not in this life and nor in the after-life, and\nno one of His creation would be able to see him, for He sees and not to\nbe seen, and He is a Thing not like anything else and everything is under\nHis command and in His hands, and nothing is to be hidden from Him not\nin earth nor in heavens, so God is able to found the speech and create\nit as He can create other creatures and He is not to be contained in any\nplace, and He is in every where and can speak to whoever is in east and\nto whoever in west and to whoever in north and to whoever in south all\nin one time, for He is the creator of everything and He is with everything\nand He knows everything.\nIt is attributed to Al-S\u00e2diq (PUH) that he said: God inspired\nto Moses (PUH) O Moses, do you know why I chose you and why I did speak\nto you instead of all My creation? He said: no Lord and why is that? God\nthen inspired to him: O Moses I did search among My servants but I did\nnot find someone like you in humiliation towards Me, O Moses when you pray\nto Me you put your cheek on the gound..etc.\nIt is told that the tablets were made of emerald from paradise, and\nas attributed to the prince of believers (PUH) he said that they were of\ngreen emerald and God commanded him (Moses) to take them with power and\nheart, and take it with its best virtues like patience for good and keeping\naway from the wrong-doing and patience for adversities and forgiveness\nand purity and be satisfied with whatever God did destine for them and\nkeeping on doing the worshippings and leaving the bad deeds and take revenge\nof God's enemies and fighting them and take revenge of the murderer, and\nit is resembled in God's saying: And follow the better (guidance) of that\nwhich is revealed unto you from your Lord..etc(Al-Zomor:55), and God's\nsaying in the previous holy phrase \" shall show thee the abode of evil-livers\"\nmeans the abode of the past nations that did refuse God's commandments\nso that you can take sermons from them, like the abode of the giants and\nthe pharaohs and the abode of the tyrants that took over the holy lands,\nsome narrations include that the tablets of Torah, God revealed on Moses\nwith everything that was and will be to the end of time all explained in\ndetails, so when the days of Moses were over (the forty days) God inspired\nto him to keep them in a mountain called Zainah and they were made of paradise's\nemerald, so when Moses went to the mountain, it did split into two and\nthen he kept the tablets inside it and they were covered, so when put them\nthere the mountain did get back to its normal state and they remained there\nuntil the prophecy of Muhammad (PUH) when God revealed Gabriel (PUH) down\nto him so he told him about it so then he (the prophet PUH) got them out\nlooked at them and read them and they were in Hebrew and then he called\nthe prince of believers (PUH) and said to him: keep those for they have\nthe knowledgement of the first and the last and they are the tablets of\nMoses and God ordered me to give them to you, until he (the narrator) said:\nso `Ali passed one day and he knew everything in it by God's teaching,\nso then the prophet (PUH) ordered him to copy it and so he did on a piece\nof skin and it is the Cipher that had all the knowledgement of the first\nand last nations, and Al-S\u00e2diq (PUH) said: and they are with us,\nand the tablets are with us and the staff of Moses is with us and we inherited\nall the prophets.\nThe clue for what we said is in the Holy talk (of God) that is said\nto be taken from Torah by the prince of believers (PUH) and he did copy\nit from the speech of Moses in Hebrew to Arabic and they were forty chapters\nfrom Torah that God did talk about with Moses without any media. It is\nmentioned in the interpretations of Abi-Al-Fadhl that Torah was made of\none thousand chapters in each one of them there were one thousand phrases\nand each phrase of them was as the length of the chapter of Al-Baqarah\nin holy Quran [the chapter of Al-Baqarah is the longest chapter in Quran],\nand each phrase has one thousand commands and one thousand forbiddings\nand one thousand promises and one thousand promises, and the holy speech\n(of God) is a famous one and can be found in the hands of muslims and whoever\nasks about it can find it in special bookshops [I personally did not know\nwhich holy speech is it because the author did not give any title for this\nholy speech or talk]. As attributed to Al-B\u00e2qir (PUH) he said that\nthe rock that kept the tablets of Moses is under a tree in the valley of\n`Arafah, and there are some tidings about this matter, and God did say:\nAnd of Moses' folk there is a community who lead with truth and establish\njustice therewith(Al-A`r\u00e2f:159), and as attributed to the prince\nof believers (PUH) he said: the Israelites were divided after (the death\nof) Moses to seventy one parties and all of them will be in hell except\nof one for God did say \"And of Moses' folk there is a community who lead\nwith truth and establish justice therewith\" and this community is the nation\nthat will be saved. And Al-S\u00e2diq (PUH) said about this phrase: so\nthe folk of Moses are people of Islam [meaning here that they follow a\nsimilar path to Islam] (meaning here that all of the other folks are doomed).\nAs mentioned by Al-B\u00e2qir (PUH) that he said: this nation of the folk\nof Moses live behind the lands of China and between them and China there\nis a valley of hot sands and they did not change anything and no one has\nmore money than the others, they get rain at night and wake up in the morning\nto plant, no one can reach them and none of them can reach us and they\nfollow the truthful path. They say that Gabriel (PUH) took the prophet\n(PUH) to them at the time of the Night Journey (Al-Mi`r\u00e2j), and he\nread for them ten chapter from Quran that were revealed on him in Mecca\nand they believed in him, and he ordered them to stay in their place and\nleave the Sabbath and ordered them to pray and to pay the poor-due (zak\u00e2t)\nand there were no more regulations revealed at that time except of those,\nand so they did obey, and our mates [meaning the Shiites] did say that\nthey will be with out with the last viceroy (PUH). They say also that \u00d0ul-Qarnain\nsaw them and said: if I was ordered to be with them I would be happy for\nthis. We've mentioned before his story with them in detail, and he did\nask them lot of things and he announced that he did not see anyone like\nthem with such faith and justice, and because of what he saw from them\nhe did have a long conversation with them.","title":"The Prophets, Their Lives and Their Stories: Moses: Revel...","type":"page"}