Now, here is the answer of the girls, as the Qur’an says:...

Now, here is the answer of the girls, as the Qur’an says: “…They said: ‘We cannot water (our flocks) until the shepherds take away (their sheep from the water)…” In order that this question would not remain without any answer for Moses that why the father of these chaste girls sent them after this action, they added: “…and our father is a very old man’.” They implied that their father was very old and he was not able water the sheep, nor did they have a brother to undertake that action, and in order not to be a burden over the shoulder of others, they could not be helped but they did it themselves.

When Moses heard this word from them, he became very inconvenient and said to himself that how unjust were those people that they all thought of their own affairs and did not do the least support for the oppressed ones? He came forth and, taking the heavy bucket, threw it into the well. It was so heavy that, as it is said, several persons had to bring it out from the well, hut Moses, by his strong hands, brought it out by himself and watered the sheep of those two.

The verse says: “So he watered (their flocks) for them…” It is said that when he approached the crowd, he told them what kind of people they were that they thought not for any one other than them. Then the crowd went aside and gave the bucket to him. They told him to come and if he could he would rinse. They knew that the bucket was so heavy that it needed ten persons to be brought out from the well.

They let Moses (as) be alone, but the power of Faith came to help him and increased his bodily strength. Though he was tired, hungry, and inconvenient, he watered completely all the sheep of those two girls by pulling out only one bucket of water from the well. The verse continues saying: “…then he turned back to the shade, and said: ‘My Lord! Verily I stand in need of whatever good You may send down to me’.” Yes, Moses was tired and hungry.

He was a stranger in that city and had no place to refuge. But, in the meanwhile, he was not impatient, and he was so polite that even at the time of supplication he did not say: ‘ O Lord! Do so and so’ , but he said: “…‘My Lord! Verily I stand in need of whatever good You may send down to me’.” That is, he mentioned only his need and left the rest of it to the grace of Allah. Through a divine utterance, Allah said: “O Moses!