{"collection":"Texts of Islam","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_pro_mos01_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_pro_mos01_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_isl_pro_mos01_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/mos01.htm","summary":"This is an Islamic religious commentary \u2014 likely a tafsir or narrative theology text \u2014 recounting the early life of Moses (Musa) drawing primarily from the Quran (Surahs Al-Qasas and Taha) and classical Islamic scholarship, including Al-Tabari, Al-Baydhawi, and traditions attributed to Ibn Abbas. The text covers Moses's birth during Pharaoh's infanticide decree, his mother's divinely inspired decision to place him in an ark on the Nile, and his providential discovery by Pharaoh's household \u2014 where God is said to have supernaturally instilled love for the infant in all who saw him, including Pharaoh's wife Asiyyah, sparing his life. A distinctive thread is the author's harmonization of Quranic verses with Torah-sourced material (naming Moses's father as Imran/Umram, son of Kohath), treating both as complementary witnesses to the same events while keeping Quranic authority primary. The narrative also details Moses's upbringing in Pharaoh's palace \u2014 including the coal-and-dates test that saved him from being killed for invoking God's name \u2014 and his thirty years there before fleeing to Midian after accidentally killing an Egyptian. The author writes with a devotional tone and includes interpretive commentary on the psychological states of the characters (Moses's mother's anguish, Pharaoh's divided heart), making this as much a spiritual meditation as a historical retelling.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"The Prophets, Their Lives and Their Stories: Moses: The B...","tradition":"Texts of Islam","translated_text":null,"word_count":2560}