Verily I stand in need of whatever good You may send down to me’.

Verily I stand in need of whatever good You may send down to me’.” We must not misuse the modesty and weakness of women. If a system of law does not interfere, many men ignore the rights of women. The enclosure between man and woman is a value, so the daughters of Shu‘ayb observed this enclosure when watering their sheep. Here we are confronted the fifth scene of this story. It is the arrival scene of Moses into Madyan.

This pure youth was paving the way to this city for several days, a way which he had never seen before and was not acquainted with it. As some commentators say, he had to walk the way in barefoot. It has been said that he was in the way for eight days, and he walked so much so that his feet was wounded.

To remove his hunger, he (as) consumed the plants of the desert and the leaves of the trees; and alongside all of these difficulties he had only one satisfaction and it was that, by the grace of Allah, he had been delivered from the unjust grips of the people of Pharaoh. Little by little the landscape of Madyan appeared in the horizon and his heart got calm. When Moses reached the city, a crowd of people attracted his attention.

Before long, he understood that they were some shepherds who had crowded around a well in order to give water to their flocks. The verse says: “And when he arrived at the watering (place) in Madyan, he found on it a group of men watering (their flocks)…” Then the verse continues stating about two women who were taking care of their sheep but did not approach the well.

It says: “…and besides them he found two women keeping back (their flocks)…” The Arabic term/ tazudan/ is derived from the word /zawd/ which means: ‘to hinder, to prevent’. The condition of those chaste girls who were standing in a corner and none was there to help them, where there were some rude shepherds who thought only about their own flocks and did not give turn to anyone, attracted the attention of Moses. He went to them and asked them why they did not go forth for watering their sheep.

The verse says: “…He said: ‘What is the matter with you?’…” This discrimination, injustice, cruelty, and this absence of observing the right of the oppressed, which was seen at the threshold of that city, Madyan, was not tolerable for Moses. He was the defender of the oppressed people, and because of it, Moses left the castle of Pharaoh and its favours and went vagrant of his home. He could not abandon his custom and be silent in the face of injustices.