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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Moses in Qur'an and Bible Chapter 17: Lessons From the Story of Moses The importance attached to the life-story of Moses in the Qur'an is due to the fact of his likeness with the Holy (may peace and the blessings of Allah be upon him). Moses was both a law-giver and a nation-builder and so was the Holy Prophet. The Israelites had been in a state of slavery to the Pharaoh of Egypt for about four centuries.

It was, therefore, a hard task for Moses to build a nation out of them but this task was very limited in I comparison to the work with which the Holy Prophet was entrusted. He had to build a nation on quite a new principle, a, nation, not united by any ties of blood, race, colour or county but united by a moral and spiritual outlook, united by a belief in the; Unity of God and His all-pervading Lordship.

Such was to be the Muslim nation in which the Arab and the non-Arab, the white and the black, the Semitic and the Aryan, were all to be on one level. The whole world was the country and the whole humanity the race out of which this nation was to be formed. With this apparently: impossible task, the Prophet was entrusted; and single-handed in 1 the face of all difficulties he built up the foundation of a new nation within a short period of twenty-three years.

An accomplishment like this cannot be placed to the credit of any other man in the history of the world.

As both Moses and Muhammad were nation-builders and lawgivers, many were the occasions in the life of the former that resembled those which faced the latter and therefore these are recalled to show that what happened to the opponents of Moses was sure to happen to those who now opposed the Prophet and the same God who delivered Moses and his people from the bondage of the Pharaohs is at the back of the Prophet and He is powerful enough to change the situation in his favour by means unperceived by human mind.

Whatever respite is being given by God to a people to reform themselves, if not utilized in time, for their own betterment, will not be prolonged, and repentance will do them no good when the chastisement is in sight, as was the case with the Pharaoh at the moment of his drowning. The followers of the Prophet should not despair of the mercy of God: if success is delayed in their affairs, for, it is the righteous only that ultimately win.