THE WONDERFUL STORY OF MOSES AND KHEZR VERSE NO.60ِ64

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Quran,Translation and Commentary in Brief (Vol. 04)
Verses 65-70Verses 60-64

      In this chapter eighteen of Qurän, there are three amazing narratives which take us out of our present natural state of life, showing that, neither the world is limited to that which we see, nor the real nature of some incidents are exactly what we apprehend. These narratives are:ِ

      That of the companions of the cave which proves the relativity of time.

      The meeting of Moses an Arch prophet with an apostle on special duty, which proves that some of our apparent losses are real gains!

      And the journeys of Zulgharnine which we shall study a little later.

      In the present narration we see that even Moses who was an Arch-Prophet, and with the highest knowledge of his time and space, has thought that his knowledge was not perfect, and desired to know more, and explore more information about the mysteries of life. He goes in search of a divine teacher, who shows him three paradoxes in which apparent losses are real gains, and cruelty is true Mercy!:ِ

      ``And remember when Moses said to his gentle youth; I will not give up going on until I reach the junction of the two seas....''

      In this narration the fellow-traveller of Moses in his journey is not named in the Qurän, but according to some Islamic traditions he must have been JOSHUA, the brave, faithful and virtuous successor of Moses.

      As for the junction of the two seas, or the geographical location of the meeting, it could have been the point in Sinai Peninsula, where the Gulf of Aqaba, and the Gulf of Suez join together. Some other commentators, believe it to have been where the Indian Ocean, and Red Sea, come together.

 

      In a figurative language, the two seas might be the two main fields of apparent and unapparent knowledge, the symbols of which in this narration are Moses and Khezr.

      When Moses and his youth came at the junction of the two seas they reposed on a rock leaving their food which was a dried fish, besides them. Then the attendant of Moses saw that the dead fish took its way and creeped down to the sea wonderfully! And more strange than that, Joshua forgot to tell Moses the wonderful movement of the fish.

      They moved on their way on, and in another place, when tired of travelling on foot, they felt to need some refreshment. So Moses said to his attendant:ِ

      ``Bring us our food, that, we have been tired of this our journey.'' There was when Jashua, remembered how strangely the fish had crawled down the rock, and swam into the sea! So he informed Moses of that saying:ِ

      ``Did you see what happened when we reposed on the rock? I forgot the fish. And it was Satan who caused me to forget, to mention it to you, when it took its way into the sea.''

 

 

 

 

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