{"collection":"Texts of Islam","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_pro_mos09_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_pro_mos09_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_isl_pro_mos09_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/mos09.htm","summary":"This is an Islamic religious narrative and Quranic exegesis retelling the story of Moses and Pharaoh, drawing on Quranic verses (particularly Al-A'raf, Younus, and Al-Isra') alongside Islamic scholarly tradition, including an attribution to Imam Al-Kadhim, suggesting a Shia interpretive lineage. The text traces the sequence of plagues \u2014 flood, locusts, vermin, frogs, the Nile turned to blood, and finally a \"pollution\" or red snow \u2014 framing each as God's graduated punishment for Pharaoh's repeated broken promises to release the Israelites. A distinctive structural feature is the role of Haman as Pharaoh's manipulative counselor who consistently talks him out of compliance, explaining the cycle of repentance and relapse. The Exodus sequence is elaborated with specific figures (600,000 armed Israelites, twelve tribes taking twelve separate paths through the parted sea, Gabriel leading Pharaoh's horse into the sea), details absent from or peripheral in the Biblical account. The text also includes the notable claim that Moses carried Joseph's bones out of Egypt in a marble box and buried them in Hebron, and that Pharaoh's body was preserved on the shore as a public sign \u2014 a point given explicit theological weight. Overall, the work functions as a detailed Islamic tafsir-adjacent retelling aimed at emphasizing divine patience, the consequences of arrogance, and the confirmation of Mosaic prophethood through escalating miracles.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"The Prophets, Their Lives and Their Stories: Moses: The N...","tradition":"Texts of Islam","translated_text":null,"word_count":2559}