{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/pro/mos24.htm","path":"isl/pro/mos24.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pro/mos24.htm","text":"Sacred Texts\u00a0\nIslam\u00a0\nIndex\u00a0\nPrevious\u00a0\nNext\u00a0\nMoses Choosing Seventy Men For God's Appointed Tryst\nIt is mentioned before the story of the calf and its worshippers from the\nfolks of Moses while he went away in an appointment with God to get the\nTorah and he came back to them and the tablets were in his hands and when\nhe saw that they were worshipping the calf, he threw the tablets and some\nof them got broken and when Moses came calm he took the tablets and blamed\nhis brother Aaron and he wanted to kill the Samarian but the will of God\ndecided that he (the Samarian) should stay alive, so he banished him out\nand exiled him and the speech about it was mentioned in details, as for\nthose who followed the Samarian and they were seventy thousand from his\npeople as some said, they all turned in penitence and they were part of\na total of seven hundred thousand of the people of Moses from the Israelites.\nWhen he wanted to get back to the mountain of Sinai to worship God there,\nhis people asked him to hear the speech of God as he does, and since it\nis not possible that all shall come with him he chose only seventy men\nof them and they were considered the best for he chose seventy thousand\nout of seven hundred thousand, and then he picked seven thousand out of\nthem, and so on until it reached only seventy men of their most faithful\nmen, so they went with him and he made them sit at the foot of the mountain\nand he went up over the mountain, so when God talked to him after he requested\nthat God let them hear Him as he does, God then dedicated His speech towards\nthem and they heard it from every direction, from top and bottom and right\nand left and front and back, and when they heard that they got confused\nand their minds went out of control and they did not believe that this\nvoice they heard was truely for God except of those most faithful of them\nfor they did not doubt about what happened and it is indeed the speech\nof\nGod, and most of them did not believe that it was the voice of God indeed\nand even they went back to Moses asking him to show them God as they do\nsee each other and talk to them and God is Exalted for such things, and\nthey asked that so that no doubt remains in themselves but Moses denied\nthat and blamed them and told them that God is not to be seen not in this\nlife nor in the after-life but his words were useless for them and they\nsaid to him: God then is able to show us Himself for He is able to do anything\nHe desires, and for this request the lightning seized them while they were\ngazing.\nThey say also that when they insisted with their request and did not\naccept the excuse of Moses, God showed some of His light to the mountain\nand it turned to ruins so they all turned shocked and dead, and then God\nresurrected them after the prays of Moses and his requests for forgiveness\ntowards them, so God forgave them and resurrected them by His mercy and\npower, and God destined the mercy for the faithful, those who give the\npoor and do the prayings and believe in the miracles of God and never rebel\nor oppose the commandments of God and His prophet after being into the\nbelief as it is the way of the truely faithful men of the folk of Moses,\nand they are those who will follow the prophet who can neither read or\nwrite, who is from Mecca, that comes after him (Moses), whom they will\nfind described in the Torah and the Gospel, and he is described for them\nas: He will enjoin on them that which is right and forbid them that which\nis wrong. He will make lawful for them all good things and prohibit for\nthem only the foul; and he will relieve them of their burden and the fetters\nthat they used to wear(Al-A`r\u00e2f:157).\nWhat is understood from God's saying: He said: I smite with My punishment\nwhom I will, and My mercy embraceth all things, therefore I shall ordain\nit for those who ward off (evil) and pay the poor-due, and those who believe\nOur revelations; Those who follow the messenger, the Prophet who can neither\nread nor write..etc(Al-A`r\u00e2f:156-157), is that giving notice about\nMuhammad (PUH) and his Household and that was when talking to Moses before\ntheir appearance for more than one thousand and five hundred years, and\nGod is blaming the people of Moses of the Israelites and showing them along\nwith others that He has servants not like the people of Moses in their\nharshness and tyranny, but they are people of dignity that obey His commandments\nand believe in God and His revelations without complaining, and they are\nthe believers in Muhammad and the Household of Muhammad (PUT) and they\nare His special and they are the people of faith and they are those who\nare tested by God for their faith, so they are their (the prophet and his\nHousehold) beloved and they are the people that are loyal to them and they\nare the saved group that hold into the straight path, and they are the\nones that God will show them for every prophet and viceroy and all the\nangels in pride, and no deeds for any male or female is to be accepted\nexcept by the loyality to Muhammad and his Household (PUT).\nThis is the truth that is held by people of wisdom in every nation\nand this is what is believed by the scholars of the righteous people of\nmuslims, so the prophecy of Muhammad and his message and his name with\nhis Household, Al-Zahr\u00e2' (Fatim\u00e2) and Al-Murtadh\u00e2 (`Ali)\nand Shubbar (Al-Hasan) and Shubayr (Al-Husain) with their grandfather the\nprophet (PUH), all are mentioned and described and the loyality towards\nthem is assigned in Torah inspirte of whatever changes occured to it, and\nwhat we had mentioned is already mentioned in some positions in Torah in\nHebrew in the stories of Moses, notice it and you will find it. So on it\nis the situation with the rest of the books of prophets, for it had contained\ntheir names and telling about them and mentioning the land that the prophet\n(PUH) will be out from and travel out from it and the land of his end,\nthis is some of what was mentioned by the faithful scholars, and more to\ncome by God's will later on, and there is no strength except by Him, the\nExalted, the High.\nNext: Al-Khidhr and Moses (PUT)","title":"The Prophets, Their Lives and Their Stories: Moses: Moses Choosing Seventy Men For God's Appointed Tryst","type":"page"}