Prophet Like Moses: Prophecy, Law, and Israelite Religion

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It has, indeed, been revealed to us that punishment shall come on him who rejects [the Message of God] and turns away.’” Pharaoh replied, “‘Who then is the Lord of you two, O Moses?’” Hazrat Musleh-e-Maud rahas said that it was a vision that Moses assaw and that it was a spiritual sight on the Mount. ( Tafsir-e-Kabir, Vol. 7, p. 500) As Moses asapproached it, he heard a voice calling, “‘O Moses, verily I am, Allah, the Lord of the worlds.’” (Surah al-Qasas, Ch.28: V.31) It was here that Allah had revealed to Moses asthat He had chosen him. The first commandment given to Moses aswas to observe prayer. (Surah Ta Ha, Ch.20: V.15) Moses’ asrod and the white hand Hearing their words, Moses as, being a prophet of God, firmly replied, “‘My Lord is with me. He will direct me [to safety].’” (Surah ash-Shu‘ara’, Ch.26: V.63) This is the example of a true prophet of God; in the face of danger, Prophets of Allah never waver. Their faith, strongly and firmly rooted, never gives out. Deuteronomy 18:18 I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.

In Surah ash-Shu‘ara’, it is recorded that when Moses asand Aaron aswent to Pharaoh with their message, Pharaoh said, “‘Did we not bring thee up among us as a child? And thou didst stay among us many years of thy life. And thou didst do thy deed which thou didst, and thou art of the ungrateful.’” (Surah ash-Shu‘ara’, Ch.26: V.19-20) Here, Pharaoh alludes to the Egyptian Moses asaccidentally killed earlier in his life. Moses asreplied: “‘I did do it then, and I was [one] of the erring.” (Surah ash-Shu‘ara’, Ch.26: V.21) Hazrat Musleh-e-Maud ra, alluding to this verse, inferred that many a time, people believe in the message of their prophet; however, out of fear of their leaders, they dare not profess it lest they be conflicted with pain from their leaders. ( Tafsir-e-Kabir, Vol.3, p. 118)

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The people of Pharaoh were punished with “drought and scarcity of fruits.” (Surah al-A‘raf, Ch.7: V.131) “This verse speaks of two kinds of punishment which overtook Pharaoh’s people – loss of property and loss of life, the wordثمرات(fruits) meaning both fruits and children or offspring.” ( Five Volume Commentary, Vol.2, p. 1028)

Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel. But the book doesn’t end there. Despite the fact that Moses is the traditional author of the Pentateuch, it records his death and what happened afterward. Allah the Almighty then revealed to Moses asto strike the sea with his rod. “Thereupon it parted, and every part [looked] like a huge mountain.” (Surah ash-Shu‘ara’, Ch.26: V.64) Indeed, God saves His beloved ones in miraculous ways. With the help of Allah, Moses asand his companions were able to safely cross the sea during the low tide. When Pharaoh and his army reached the middle of the sea, the high tide returned, causing them to be engulfed by the sea. Pharaoh believes Deuteronomy 18:15 The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken; Nearly everything Moses did was met with grumbling, resistance, or outright rebellion from the Israelites. They complained about Moses’ leadership decisions. They complained about their circumstances. And their frustrations with God were often brought to Moses’ feet.slaves to Pharaoh and subject to many harsh decrees. He was the third of Jochebed and Amram's three children. His brother, Aaron, was his senior by three years, and his Probably it refers to the event narrated in Bell 2,5,1 happened in 4 BCE, but there is not consensus among scholars Every step of the way on their exodus from Egypt, the Israelites groaned that they had been better off as slaves. (This was one of their favorite lines of complaint.) With every new obstacle, there was some faction that wanted to throw in the towel and give up. Even after regularly witnessing the miracle of God’s provision in the desert and seeing his power displayed against Pharaoh, they still didn’t trust Moses to lead them, and they didn’t trust God’s ability or desire to deliver them.

In the seventh plague, God gave a warning to bring people and animals indoors, giving the Egyptians a chance to listen to him. Then he called down “the worst storm in all the land of Egypt since it had become a nation” (Exodus 9:24). Hail devastated the land and killed every person and animal that had been left out in the open—except for in Goshen.J. Priest Testament of Moses, a new Translation and Introduction in ed. James Charlesworth The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, Vol 1 ISBN 0-385-09630-5 (1983) Just before this, Moses talked God out of pushing the reset button and wiping out all the Israelites (Exodus 32:10-14). It’s possible that this violence was part of the negotiation that we didn’t see, or else perhaps Moses believed that sparing those who were not “for the Lord” (Exodus 32:26) would ultimately lead to a repeat of the mistake, which God may not be as willing to overlook. While Moses apparently thought he was pretty discreet about all of this, I guess he forgot that there was a pretty obvious witness: the person he saved. Rather than seeing Moses as some sort of savior from the Egyptians, the Hebrews questioned if he might be willing to kill them as well (Exodus 2:13–14). Moses and the Burning Bush (Exodus 3:1-22) Moses was born at an unfortunate time. The Israelites had been living peacefully among the Egyptians during the time of Joseph (one of Jacob’s sons who was favored by Pharaoh), but after Joseph’s death, a new Pharaoh saw the Israelites as a threat. He forced the Israelites to work as slaves, and eventually commanded his people: Deuteronomy 18:22 When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.

The ninth plague brought total darkness on the land for three days. Interestingly, the Israelites apparently still had light in Goshen (Exodus 10:23). Chapters 2–5 contain a brief outline of Jewish history up to Hellenization under Antiochus IV. This is narrated in the form of foretelling. In one such instance, Moses made a grave mistake. But scholars disagree about what exactly that mistake was, and the Bible doesn’t make it very clear to us. The Israelites complained that there was no water, so Moses and Aaron turned to God. The Holy Quran states that it gives the true events of Moses’ aslife. With regards to the progeny of Prophet Isaac, it was in Prophet Moses asthat Allah’s promise with Abraham (Genesis, 17:19) saw its complete manifestation (For more details, see the article about Prophet Isaac as, Al Hakam,24 February 2023, Issue 258, pp. 11-12). The Prophets sent after Moses aswere reformer-prophets who came under the law of Moses as.

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We don’t even know when these events supposedly took place or who Pharaoh was. The Bible often gives us names of important rulers, but here we just have a title. Pharaoh called his magicians to challenge Moses as. Pharaoh said that if they were successful in their challenge against Moses as, they would be granted a high position in the royal court. (Surah ash-Shu‘ara’, Ch.26: V.39-43) They assembled together at the appointed time on a fixed day. So far in this conversation, the message Moses asbrought seems to be new for Pharaoh who did not believe in God. Pharaoh demands a sign It’s a pretty big question mark. But unfortunately, we may never know if Moses was a real person, a legend, or a blend of the two.