{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/pro/mos28.htm","path":"isl/pro/mos28.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pro/mos28.htm","text":"After Moses, Johsua ben Nun had the leadership, having patience and waiting\nfor the relief to enter the holy lands, until three giants of them passed\naway and they turned to be weak and Joshua turned to be stronger and their\nkings were afraid of him, and when he wanted to go into the lands, two\nhypocrites of the folks of Moses and with them was Moses' wife, Zipporah\nthe daughter of Jethro, and with them one hundred thousand men of the Israelites\nand they fought against Joshua ben Nun the viceroy of Moses but Joshua\ndefeated them and killed so much of them and defeated the others by the\nwill of God and he captured Zipporah and released her later and he said\nto her: I've released you this is what the prophet of God Moses ben Amram\nordered me, so I forgive you in this life until we meet with the speaker\nto God, Moses ben Amram, so I will complain to him what I faced from you\nand your people, then Zipporah said: woe to me, by God if paradise was\ngiven to me I would be ashamed to get into it and see the prophet of God\nwhile I did break his covenant and fought against his viceroy after his\ndeath.\nIn Muruj Al-\u00d0ahab: and Moses died and he was one hundred and twenty\nyears old, and signs of oldness did not appear on Moses and Aaron and they\nalways looked young, and he (the narrator) said: when Moses ben Amram died,\nJoshua ben Nun wandered with the Israelites toward the lands of Shem (Canaan)\nand it was full of giants and he sent some armies and he had battles with\nthem so he tookover Jericho of the lands of Ghawr (the low lands) and it\nis the land of the stinking lake that no one sinks in it and has no life\n(the Dead Sea), then he (the narrator) said: and other philosophers talked\nabout it and to it (the dead sea) ends the water of the lake of Tabariyah\nand it is the river Jordan. Then he mentioned some of the characteristics\nof this lake [and some other details here about the geography of the area]\nand this is not the place to mention it.\nIt is mentioned also that the king of Canaan and he was Al-Samayda`\nben Hubar ben M\u00e2lik marched to Joshua ben Nun and there were wars\nbetween them until Joshua killed him and tookover all his kingdom and so\nhe did to other giants. Joshua lived among the Israelites after Moses for\ntwenty nine years, and it is said that Joshua died and he was one hundred\nand twenty years. Another saying is that Joshua lived with the Israelites\nafter Moses and he passed to the promised lands with the Israelites and\nthe first land they conquered was Jericho and God ordered them to enter\nthe gate of the city prostrating and humiliating to God and to say \"Repentance\"\nbut the people disobeyed God's commandment and they did not care about\nit for they are used to disobey and rebel, for this God sent His wrath\nupon them and you've saw before how many times they were stroke with the\nwrath of God but in everytime Moses was praying for their forgiveness.\nAs attributed to Al-Baydh\u00e2wi he said that the city they got into\nfirst was Jerusalem or Jericho and they were ordered to prostrate when\nthey get into it and say: God forgive our sins, and most probably it is\nJerusalem and for this one of its gates was called \"B\u00e2b Hittah\" (the\nGate of Repentance) and only God knows.\nGod did say: And when We said: Go into this township and eat freely\nof that which is therein, and enter the gate prostrate, and say: \"Repentance.\"\nWe will forgive you your sins and will increase (reward) for the right-doers.\nBut those who did wrong changed the word which had been told them for another\nsaying, and We sent down upon the evil-doers wrath from heaven for their\nevil-doing(Al-Baqarah:58-59), and the wrath might be the plague that did\nspread among them and doomed about seventy thousand as it had been said.\nAnyone who looks into the conditions of the Israelites and into the\nbook of God where He mentions them and into the other Heavenly-revealed\nbooks that mentions them, and see how harsh they had been and how impolite\nthey were with God and His prophets, he will find that God spoiled them\nand treated them well as a mother would treat her only child, so He brought\nthe miracles to them and showed them lot of His own secrets and knowledge,\nwhile He destroyed the wrong nations, and He bore their harshness and tyranny\nand never left a way to make them get satisfied but they increased in their\ntyranny. We've stopped in our research at the point that the nations that\nGod banished in front of them (the Israelites) were more tyrant and rebellious,\nand it is said that it is found in some holy books that Moses said to the\nIsraelites: do not think that God will bring you to the holy lands or your\nholiness or infallibility or for serving Him, no, but He will banish the\nnations in front of you for they were more tyrant and wrong-doers. Moses\nand Aaron did a great job trying to fix the situation of the Israelites\nand they bore for this the rebels, and God did praise them for their hard\nwork and patience for this adversity that came from this rebellious nation\nthat has nothing to be described with except of being harsh and sturbborn,\nwhile Moses and Aaron had that great faith for God the One. God did say\nin the chapter of Mariam: And make mention in the Scripture of Moses. Lo!\nhe was chosen, and he was a messenger (of Allah), a prophet. We called\nhim from the right slope of the Mount, and brought him nigh in communion(Mariam:51:52),\nand in the chapter of Al-S\u00e2ff\u00e2t: And We verily gave grace unto\nMoses and Aaron, And saved them and their people from the great distress(Al-S\u00e2ff\u00e2t:114-115).","title":"The Prophets, Their Lives and Their Stories: Moses: Somet...","type":"page"}