STORY OF PROPHET MUSA AND HAROON

HISTOIRE DE PROPHETE ET MUSA HAROON

This APP tells you about the story of prophet Musa and Haroon peace be upon them.

The 10th of Muharram marks the day Musa (peace be upon him) and the Children of Israel were saved from Pharaoh and his army. Historically, Jews would keep a fast to mark this occasion and Muslims have continued this tradition by keeping an optional fast on this day as well as an additional fast a day before or a day after. The incident is mentioned in various places in the Qur’an and it is also mentioned in the Old Testament in the ‘Book of Exodus’.

The story of the splitting of the sea is well known but what lessons can we learn from this? Here are 5 lessons we can learn from Musa’s escape from Pharaoh.

1. Do your part

Musa (peace be upon him) did not lie idle waiting for a miracle. He could have stayed put and prayed to Allah to deal with Pharaoh but he did not, rather he did all that he could in his personal capacity until he could go no further when faced by the sea in front of him and Pharaoh and his army behind him. Only then, did the miracle of the parting of the sea take place.

This life is one of cause and effects, miracles can happen but our responsibility is that we do everything we can in our personal capacity then leave it to Allah.

2. Never lose hope in Allah

Musa (peace be upon him) and his people faced certain death, either it would be from Pharaoh’s army who were in close pursuit behind them or they would be forced to enter the sea in which it would be impossible to survive. Despite this, Musa never lost hope in Allah’s promise. Some of his followers started to lose hope and began exclaiming.We too must never lose hope in Allah, though we may be in situations where we may think that there’s no way out, let’s remember that the help of Allah is always near. If Allah can part the sea to help Musa and his people, He too can remove our difficulties and obstacles. What’s required of us is that we have complete reliance in Allah and have hope in Him.

3. Miracles can happen

Though miracles are exclusive to Prophets, we too can experience miracles in a general sense. We’ve all probably experienced moments in our lives where everything seemingly was going wrong only for the situation to be saved by a series of events which happened coincidentally or by chance. As believers, we believe that everything happens only by the will of Allah and though something may seem like a coincidental string of events, we believe that it was all planned by Allah.

4. Flee from sins

When the Children of Israel were being persecuted and they could no longer freely practice their religion, Allah instructed Musa (peace be upon him) to flee with them to another land. If we too are faced with such a situation and our Iman is at risk, we too should try to flee to a place where we can safeguard our faith.

Alhamdulillah most of us will not be in such a predicament where our Iman is in danger but we may be in a situation where we may fall into sin. It may be due to who we socialise with or places we visit or even the neighbourhood we live in. If we are in a situation where it is difficult to avoid sin or we find ourselves persistently committing sins due to such factors, we should leave those places or those associates who have a bad influence on us.

If we have ‘friends’ who we have tried to invite to good but we find that instead, they are pulling us towards the wrong path, we should disassociate with them if such a relationship takes us away from the right path.

5. Change now

When Pharaoh and his army were engulfed by the sea and they began drowning, Pharaoh cried out:

“I believe that there is no deity except that in whom the Children of Israel believe, and I am of the Muslims.” Surah Yunus, Verse 90

May Allah enlighten us all in his holy religion of islam.

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