Prophet Musa (a.s.) Is mentioned in 30 Surahs (Chapters) of
the Glorious Qur’an. His life may be divided in five periods.
1.
From birth to Fir’aun’s palace.
2.
His exit from Egypt to Prophet Shoaib in Madyan.
3.
His Prophet hood and tussle with Fir’aun.
4.
Salvation from Fir’an and voyage to Jerusalem.
5.
Tussle between Prophet Musa and Bani Isra’il.
Fir’an had ordered every male baby born to the Bani Israel
woman should be killed as he was informed by the fortune tellers that his government
will collapse by a man from Bani Israel. Allah had obscured the pregnancy of
Musa as He wanted to protect and raise him. Allah showed miracles at different
stages of his life. After his birth, the government spies came in the house to
search for the baby, his mother panicked and wrapped the newborn in a cloth and
placed him in the oven, and after the spies left, she recovered him from the oven,
unharmed! Allah sent her wahi directing her to place the baby in the River
(Niles). She asked a carpenter to make a well-ventilated wooden box for her
baby. (She told the truth as she was not used to lying). He wanted to inform
the authorities about the baby but as soon as he started speaking, he was made
tongue-tight! She fed the baby one last time and placed him in the box and the
box in the river. Fir’an had a sick daughter (Not from Asia), and the clergies
(Cohen) foretold that she can only be cured by saliva of a man who will come from
the sea! Love for the baby was inserted by Allah specially the wife of Fir’an
and when his saliva cured her daughter, the loved increased manifold. Prophet Musa’s
sister followed the movement of the box and his retrieval into the palace. Allah
prohibited for Musa the milk of any other woman except his mother, hence he
would not accept anyone else. He became hungry and everyone was in panic. Musa’s
sister offered to find a woman from Bani Israel who had lost his son but has
milk to feed. Hence, Musa’s mother was brought inside the palace and Musa was
satiated with her milk. Thus, Allah completed His promise to reunite her with her
baby! According to Imam Baqir (a.s.), “Musa was united with his mother within
three days.”
Musa remained in the palace till he attained puberty and Fir’aun
started suspecting, hence he left the palace. He saw two men fighting and one
of them was his shiah who called Musa for help. Musa punched on the chest of
the Qubti, a cook of Fir’aun soliciting to use this Bani Isra’il for collecting
wood, who instantly died, though Musa did not mean to kill him. Musa, said, “This
is of Satan’s doing. Indeed, he is an enemy, manifestly misguiding.” Because
the prophets and Imams are infallible, so this act of Musa was “Tark-e-Aula” (an
act which was not prohibited but left out an act which was better.)
Next day, Musa saw the same man again fighting with another man and calling him
for help. Fir’aun ordered to kill Musa. A man, Hizqeel from Fir’an’s court, rushed
and told Musa to migrate from Egypt and he did. He proceeded towards Madyan
(present day Ma’an), which is South of Syria and North of Hejaz. This was the
residence of Prophet Shoaib. In this voyage, the provision he had was Faith
and Tawakkul in Allah. On reaching Madyan he saw people drawing water from
the well and watering their goats and sheep, but two girls were standing alone for
their turn. Musa helped them water their sheep and rested in a shade and prayed
saying, “O Allah! I am helpless and will accept whatever virtue you
bestow.” One of the two girls came with shyness to him and said, “Our dad
wants to see you and reward you for the help.” The girl was walking in front
and part of her legs were exposed by wind, hence he told her to walk behind and
show the rout to her house. There, he met Prophet Shoaib, a very elderly
white-haired man who pacified Musa not to worry about anything. The girl
said, “Father! Why don’t you employ him as he is strong and trustworthy?”
Prophet Shoaib offered to marry one of daughters in exchange for a dowry of look
after his sheep for eight or ten years, to which Musa agreed and married Safoorah.
Sources: Tafseer – Namounah compiled under the supervision of
Ayatullah Naser Makarem Shirazi
Qasas al-Qur’an Ziaraat.net
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