Moses in Islam

For sure

... can we just talk about the story of Musa?

Yeah, yeah.

Because I feel like that's, like, so important to mention.

... basically, right? And so they did.

They slaughtered all of them, the, uh, the children of Israel, the, the, the babies.

And Moses, Musa, Alayhis Salatu Was Salaam, his mom put him in a basket and sent him down the river in the hopes that someone would find him and care for him so that he didn't have to die.

Right? Obviously protected from God.

Yaakov, Israel, and his twelve sons, Al-Asbat, and from them is Yusuf.

From their descendants came the prophets and messengers of Bani Israel, offspring of Israel, including Ayyub, Job, Dhul-Kifl, Isaiah, Musa, Moses, Harun, Aaron, Idris, Enoch, Dawud, David, Sulaiman, Solomon, Zakariya, Yahya, John, Ilyas, Al-Yasa, Elisha, Yunus, Jonah, Isa, Jesus, Alayhi mu s-salam.

The last prophet sent to Bani Israel was Isa, Jesus, Alayhi mu s-salam.

Yunus was sent to Nineveh in northern Iraq.

What is surprising is that the act of putting readers in a state of humility can explain narrative choices that are otherwise puzzling.

So as she discusses in her article, this phrase appears in the story of Moses, Musa.

It appears in the story of Joseph, Yusuf, and then also most interestingly for myself, in the story of Mary and Maryam.

So the question is, why does this phrase all of a sudden appear in the middle of these stories or towards the end? And as she once again proceeds, in the "you were not there" verses in the Quranic stories, we see a sophisticated development and deployment of a literary rhetorical technique that serves to demand recitation action from its readers.

All right, so let's move to a second instance.

Of course, there are many times where this is used.

There are particularly three times, one in the story of Joseph, Yusuf, another time in the story of Musa, Moses.

But one of the [laughs] ...

Wait a little longer.

Because of Musa, he was killed in the darkness of the night.

All this happened because of

Musa.

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Even in

Islam, Moses killed someone.

Why he escaped from Egypt the first time? Because they were looking for him.

He killed someone.

If I'm to meet David at age 20, most likely I'm going to think

this guy has failed.

If I meet Moses at age 79, I'm going to believe this guy is a failed person.

If I meet Abraham, let's say at age 60, I'm going to believe it's a failed course, right? And notice how all their lives turn around.

Now, if you go through all the places that the image of pigs are used, um, the most central place in which it's discussed, um, the Quran many times goes to the story of the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai.

In fact, within the Quran, in Islam, people think that Muhammad is seen as the greatest of the prophets, but it was actually Musa, Moses, who's the Kalam, the one who spoke directly to God, whereas the status of Muhammad is as last of the prophets, and his revelations re- were received through the angel Jabril, Gabriel.

Meaning indirectly.

Um, right.

There were books sent to different prophets.

We know the Torah was sent to Moses, Musa alayhi salam, the Psalms to David, Daud alayhi salam, the Injil, the Gospels sent to Jesus alayhi salam, and the Quran given to Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him.

And we even have some proofs or some discussion and traces of scrolls that was sent to Prophet Abraham, Ibrahim .

And it comes in the Quran, Suhufi Ibrahima wa Musa.

Yes, I mean, we consider...

the people of the book, to be those who had received the book.

So in this case, it's the Torah given to Moses, the Psalms to David, the Gospels to Jesus.

Okay, so these are considered to be people of the book.