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The Prophets, Their Lives and Their Stories: Moses: Musa ...

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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 — 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.

The Prophets, Their Lives and Their Stories: Moses: Musa ...

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