{"collection":"Texts of Islam","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_pro_mos00_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_pro_mos00_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_isl_pro_mos00_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/pro/mos00.htm","summary":"This is a passage from a Shiite Islamic religious text (likely a commentary or hagiography, written around 1971 CE) devoted to the life of Moses, drawing on Quranic tradition, Hadith, and Islamic scholarly sources including attributions to Imams Al-Sadiq and Al-Baqir. It opens with Moses's genealogy and the circumstances of his birth in Egypt under a pharaoh who, warned by priests and a prophetic dream, ordered the killing of Israelite male children. The text also provides an Islamic chronology situating Moses within a chain of prophets from Noah through Abraham to Jesus, totaling roughly 5,300 years to the author's present day. A distinctive Shiite emphasis runs throughout: the Imams' teachings are cited as authoritative sources, Aaron's two sons are explicitly equated with Al-Hasan and Al-Husain (the central figures of Shiite martyrology), and a substantial digression defends and praises the practice of prostrating with cheek to the ground as a form of worship \u2014 a point the author flags as specifically permissible and meritorious \"for us (Shiite Muslims).\" The text's perspective is devotional and sectarian rather than scholarly-critical, freely blending Quranic material, Hadith chains, and the author's own parenthetical doubts (e.g., skepticism about the pharaoh's given name) within a framework that treats the Imams' transmitted sayings as primary evidence.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"The Prophets, Their Lives and Their Stories: Moses: Musa ...","tradition":"Texts of Islam","translated_text":null,"word_count":1280}