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

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This is a devotional-exegetical text from an Islamic tradition, specifically drawing on Shia interpretive sources (citing Al-Sadiq, Al-Baqir, and Ali ibn Abi Talib), retelling the Quranic and Torah narratives surrounding Moses, the revelation of the Torah, and the worship of the Golden Calf. The text recounts Moses's forty-day fast and communion with God on Mount Sinai — elaborating that the original thirty-day appointment was extended ten days after Moses brushed his teeth, diminishing the spiritually valued scent of his fast — and his receipt of emerald tablets containing divine law. A distinctive Shia theological claim runs through the text: that the "criterion" (furqan) given alongside the Torah was specifically a covenant requiring the Israelites to recognize Muhammad and his successor Ali ibn Abi Talib as supreme among prophets and viceroys respectively, making Shia Imami succession a condition of valid faith even in the Mosaic covenant. The text also preserves traditions that Moses's original tablets were hidden inside a mountain called Zainah, later retrieved by the Prophet Muhammad and entrusted to Ali, whose descendants (the Imams) claim custodianship of all prophetic knowledge including those tablets. It would interest readers studying Shia hadith literature, Islamic biblical typology, or how Quranic narrative traditions were elaborated to affirm Alid authority.

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

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