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Sd. Musa [PBUH]

It was said that he is Musa ibn Emran ibn Yashar ibn Qahith ibn Lawy ibn Yaqoub ibn Ishaq ibn Ibrahim. His mother is Yukhayed and his wife is Safoura daughter of the prophet Shuwaib. Pharaoh of Egypt at his time was al-Walid ibn Musaab, and his wife was Sd. Aseya bent Muzahim ibn Ubaid ibn ar-Rayyan ibn al-Walid, Pharaoh of Egypt at the time of Sd. Yusuf [PBUH]. It was narrated that when Allah took the soul of Sd. Yusuf [PBUH] and Pharaoh that was with him died, and Pharaohs inherited the kingdom of Egypt, the people of Israel stayed under these Pharaohs, while they were still on the remains of their religion that was given to them by Sd. Yusuf, Sd. Yaqoub, Sd. Ishaq, and Sd. Ibrahim [PBUT]. Until Pharaoh of Sd. Musa [PBUH] came and he was the most tyrant and the greatest of them all. He was the longest life of them and his name was al-Walid ibn Musaab. he used to torture the people of Israel the worst torment. It was narrated that Pharaoh, before the birth of Sd. Musa [PBUH], saw in a dream as if there was a fire came from Jerusalem and burned the Copts [people of Egypt] and left the people of Israel and ruined the house of Egypt. The called the magicians and the priests and asked them about this vision. They said: there will come out of the country, which the people of Israel came from, a man who will cause the destruction of Egypt. Pharaoh ordered that no son is to be born for the people of Israel unless he is slaughtered, but they leave the girls. It was so bad that they cut the stomachs of the pregnant women of the people of Israel.

Pharaoh ordered the people of Israel to serve the Copts instead of their boys. I was not long when Allah let the death go into the elders of the people of Israel. So the heads of the Copts came to Pharaoh and talked to him: these people began to die, and we are afraid that the work will fall back on our boys because you are slaughtering the young and letting the old die. So if you leave some of their sons. Pharaoh ordered that they slaughter the sons of the people of Israel one year and leave them the other year. Sd. Haroun was born in the year that they left the children in. The next year the soldiers were search the for the pregnant ones to cut their bellies and kill their fetus. Sd. Musa's mother [PBUH] was pregnant with him. The soldiers came to search their house. When the soldiers stand in front of the mother looking at her belly Sd. Musa [PBUH] would go to her back, and when they come from her back he would go to her front, and when they from left he goes right and vise versa. So they left her and went away. Until the time of his birth came, while the soldiers of Pharaoh still searching for a pregnant woman or a newly born baby. They stood by their door to enter and search. The sister of Sd. Musa [PBUH] was baking, so she took Sd. Musa [PBUH], while was still a baby, and threw him into the oven. The soldiers came searching and did not find anything, so they left. His sister ran to the oven to take him out of the oven, but she found him suckling his finger, so she took him to his mother…

The Lord Almighty says in Qur'an [And We inspired the mother of Musa, saying: Suckle him and, when you fear for him, then cast him into the river and fear not nor grieve. Lo! We shall bring him back unto you and shall make him of Our messengers] al-Qasas 28:7. The mother of Sd. Musa [PBUH] made a wooden box and closed the box and nailed it closed. Then she threw it in the river which was the Nile. Pharaoh had built his palace on the Nile. When he ordered them to build it like this, they fixed big logs of wood like stakes in the middle of the Nile, then they built the palace over it, on the water, and they connected it to the shore with a bridge, so Pharaoh was the first to make a bridge. Allah said [And Pharaoh, owner of the stakes] al-Fajr 89:10. and also [And Pharaoh called out among his people; he said, "O my people, does not the kingdom of Egypt belong to me, and these rivers flowing beneath me; then do you not see?] az-Zukhruf 43:51. He ordered them to put nets in between the fixed stakes in the Nile to prevent anything from entering the palace. Mother of Sd. Musa [PBUH], when she threw him in the river, the current carried him to the net of Pharaoh. The servants of the palace saw the box attached to the net. One of them came down and carried the box and brought it to Pharaoh and Sd. Aseya. When they open the box and found the baby, Pharaoh said: kill him. Sd. Aseya said: do not kill him. What she said exactly is in the verse [And the wife of Pharaoh said, "A comfort of the eye for me and for you. Do not kill him; perhaps he may benefit us, or we may adopt him as a son". And they perceived not] al-Qasas 28:9. why did she say so? Because Pharaoh, her husband, did not have children. Pharaoh agreed, but when Sd. Aseya said to him [A comfort of the eye for me and for you], he said to her "for you not for me". Sayyduna the Messenger of Allah [PPBUH] said (If he said like her, Allah would have rightly guided him like her).

They brought wet nurses from everywhere to Sd. Musa [PBUH], but he refused to suckle from any of them. This situation stayed for two or three days. They became so confused about him and did not know what to do. Mother of Sd. Musa [PBUH] asked his sister to follow the box to know what happens to it without being noticed. [And she said to his sister "Follow him"; so she watched him from a side while they perceived not] al-Qasas 28:11. Allah, Almighty, says about mother of Sd. Musa [PBUH] [And the heart of Musa's mother became empty. She was about to disclose him had We not bound fast her heart that she would be of the believers] al-Qasas 28:10. As any mother she was to be worried about her children, so what about doing what she did? She put him in a box and threw him in the river. She almost shouted: O, my son… out of great pity for him, but Allah, Almighty, emptied her heart of anything other than Allah, and bound her heart, which means that He filled it with the love of Allah, so everything was the same for her in the love of Allah.

So his sister, when she saw what he did with the wet nurses and how he refused them, she came forward to them and said: I can tell you about a family that can take care of him and raise him [And We had prevented from him wet nurses before, so she said, "Shall I direct you to a household that will be responsible for him for you while they are to him sincere?"] al-Qasas 28:12, so they agreed. She went back to her mother and told her about them, and brought her to them. As soon as his mother carried him and he smelled her, he took her breast and start suckling, while they are wondering. The Lord, Almighty, brought him back to his mother as He promised. Sd. Musa [PBUH], when he grew up a little, Pharaoh came to see him and play with him as any child, but Sd. Musa [PBUH] gripped his beard and shook it very hard he almost broke his head. Pharaoh screamed and said take this boy and kill him. Sd. Aseya said to him: his only a little boy and does not know the old from the young. Pharaoh said: we will test him to be sure. They brought a firebrand and a date and put them near Sd. Musa [PBUH]. He wanted to take the date but Sd. Gabriel [PBUH] came to him and shook his hand and made him gripe the firebrand and put it to the tip of his tongue, so it got burnt. So he became unable to talk straight, and used to stammer. That is why when he grew up, he asked our Lord, Almighty [And untie the knot from my tongue] Taha 20:27… They say that Sd. Musa [PBUH] was named that way because he was found in the water and among the trees, while in the Coptic language: water is "Mu" and trees is "Sa", so he was called "MuSa".

So what happened next?

Written by Ahmed Abbas

Translated by Samir