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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books The Holy Quran Text. Translation & Commentary(the Example Commentary in Brief)(volume Four) In the Bosom of Pharoah VERSE NO.7ِ9 * Suckle him, and when you fear for him, cast him in the sea. * Fear not and grieve not. * We will return him to you. We will make him an apostle.

According to the famous poem, composed by PARVIN EATISA"MI, when she cast her beautiful baby into the sea, she looked after him with a pity, and deep sorrow saying:ِ ``O, my helpless child! If the Grace of God forget you, how can you be rescued from this boat, that has no captain. If God save you not through His Mercy, the water will give your dust to the wind.'' Then there came an inspiration from God, saying to the depressed mother:ِ ``What sort of a vain imagination is that!

Our traveller has already reached home. We took what you threw. You saw the hand of truth but you did not recognize it. The sea surface is more comfortable for him than his cradle. The flood is now his nurse and the wave his mother. Rivers do not overflow of their own accord. They do that which We tell them to do. You better go and leave him to us. Your love is only that of a mother. But our nature is justice and to promote our servants.

Whoever is helpless, we do help, and whoever is indigent will have us for friend.'' Pharaoh and his queen were at the sea shore, when the waves brought the mysterious wooden box near them, and Lo! There was an attractive beautiful child in it:ِ Then Pharaoh's folk picked him up, so as to be an enemy for them, and a cause of grief, that Pharaoh, Ha"ma"n, and their hosts were wrong doers.

[ 550 ] God's plan was so that the wicked king had to nurture the man who was to be a means of their destruction. The Egyptian midwives had the king's order to kill all the male born babies of the Israelite mothers. Moses was saved from that slaughter because the extraordinary beauty of the baby attracted the midwife's attention. She told the mother of Moses:ِ ``I have to inform the executioner to slay your baby, and to take my reward for that.

But I am so attracted by the beauty of your child that I feel a tender love in my heart for him so much so that I cannot inform the executioner. Try to protect your child somehow, and let none of the spies discover him.'' Therefore the mother of Moses nursed and suckled the infant.