Tafsir al-Baqarah #20 – The Story of the Yellow Cow #2
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The segment discusses the story of Islam and the command to slaughter cow, including the difficulty of dealing with animals and the importance of finding the right person to ask for help with murder. The story is divided into five sections, including the use of animals to show murderers and their victims, the story of Moses as a demonstration of the culture's mercy upon actions, and the importance of not asking serious questions. The segment also touches on the similarities between the murderers and their victims, such as the use of images to portray the murderer and their behavior.AI Generated Transcript ©
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my dear brothers and sisters as salaam alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakato. We continue today with the Tafseer of Surah Al Baqarah. And we are talking about the story of the cow for which salted Bukhara was named. And we began last time and we mentioned how Allah subhanaw taala first mentions the more important part, which is his command to slaughter the cow. And how they kept on asking questions
that appear to be a ploy, or a way to somehow not fulfill the Command of Allah subhanho wa taala. So they seem to be buying time and wasting time asking questions, what kind of cow and what color and all of this right? And we said that there's a reason and there's a story behind this and there's a context. But Allah subhanaw taala mentions it later on, and not in the beginning. And we mentioned part of why that may be last time.
So the story continues. They asked about
tell us what it is. So we were told to slaughter a cow. There's no explicitness there account. Do you know what a cow is? I think a child knows what a cow is, right? Technically, we may say they're asking about the details. But technically it says,
Tell ask your Lord to tell us what it is. What is it? Did you not hear it's a cow. slaughter a cow.
But this is the way you just play around and you waste time and you make something
out of nothing. It's very clear what you're supposed to do. After Allah subhanaw taala gives them restricts the range of the command and the cows that they can now slaughter. They come back again. Tell your Lord ask him to tell us what color is it? So he says to them again, Paul, I know you're cool in the harbor para
Bukhara tons of rock a yellow cow.
And we talked about this idea as well.
But now the range is being restricted even more. So what do we have now? We have a middle aged cow, not too old, not too young.
Whose color is bright yellow.
And not only that, it will impress people to sort of run another in. When a person sees it, they'll immediately be impressed by it. It's already quite difficult. So Musa Ali salaam rightly says to them for FAR Luma to Cameroon.
But no continues. So Allah azza wa jal says about Chanology Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim
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Musa alayhis salam is at their beck and call
Is he some kind of a servant for many is Ravi remember before
when they said to Sally salah,
but a ducky Dona Hua
Are you mocking us? Are you taking us for mockery? When you said that you mocked him? You mocked Musa Ali Salaam and you mocked Allah subhanaw taala
when you mock the deen
when you even
claim that a prophet of Allah will play around with the commands of Allah.
Oh yeah, he's bringing it from his own. Yeah, Allah wants you to slaughter a cow.
No surprise.
You know what they said to him when he didn't come down quickly enough from the mound? Well, this is what the Bible says.
When he didn't come down, and they asked,
how rune to make gods for them, they send us for this Moses. Notice, as for this small, what is this Moses? This man Moses
is taking too long. We don't know what happened to him. Who is this man, the man who brought us out of Egypt? This man, some translation says,
As for this fellow Moses, Lachman, this fellow. So I helped him there is, you know, he's their friend, or some guy, you know, this guy who just saved us and brought us out of Egypt Subhanallah Caleb, college will go ask your Lord.
Call on your Lord.
To clarify to us what it is Subhanallah they still don't know.
This whole episode, brothers and sisters, from the beginning to end is an episode, of course of many things. One of them is mockery, but it's also an episode of stupidity.
stupidity on their part and mockery, and
almost calling Musa alayhis salam and what he ordered them to do in the Command of Allah. Something of a joke, or something stupid.
What is it?
You're still asking what it is. You don't know what a cow is.
In Al Baqarah, Tasha Halina.
The cows look alike to us. We need more details. We're not quite sure what it is. It's very clear, they do not want to slaughter it. And they are just buying time and playing around and they think maybe if we keep asking the command, we'll just be lifted. So they're just they keep asking in a Nakara Tasha Hi Lena.
Cows all look alike to us still after already restricting and you want more restrictions? This is the second time you asked and with every question. The range was restricted. You should know there's going to be more restriction and indeed, much more restriction now. Allah Musa told them first Alma took maroon
in the law. Kurata Chabahar. Elena. We're in in sha Allah hula Mata goon
This is finally the only good thing they send in this whole episode.
We're in in sha Allah Allah Mata doon
the cows look alike to us clarify the issue to us and inshallah God willing, we will be guided to it.
This is the only good thing they said. Everything else is sheer stupidity
and making their life difficult and mockery. But this is the only right thing they said. And this is why
some of them prefer serene of the sahaba. And the tambourine said, if they did not say this one word, they would have never been guided to it. If they did not say what in sha Allah hula what to do, they would have never been guided to it.
And part of it is because it became quite difficult. This is difficulty they brought upon themselves. Allah didn't want it to be that way upon them.
So Allah in who yaku
so he said, Musa Ali Salam said, Allah says he says, now you're cool, again keeps confirming to them. This is not me speaking. This is Allah speaking. He, he can read the signs. He can read what they're saying and what they're implying. Right? Paula Inna, who your pool in Bukhara.
There is a cow love and who
loves a loon to see roll around while
at scale health
so it is a cow that has not been trained to plow the earth
nor to irrigate the crops.
So this is a cow that has never been worked
a beautiful cow you know like a queen
hasn't been touched
hasn't done any work
okay just grazing
this is this is what you're doing to your own selves
let alone to fill out well at a spill health muscial lamet One last year Taffy
Musa lemma
it has no defects
Subhan Allah can you find an animal without defects? Sometimes when it's difficult
always find some defect something in its eyes something in its poor parts length body, no defect. This is what you want to keep making it difficult keep working. Allah is going to show you Allah is good is the only one who knows how to deal with you
will sell send Lemma
and scholars of Tafseer sent here Musella is different than the next one last year to FIFA. Musa lemma tune is not last year to fear
these are two different things Musa lemma no defects
fleshy atrophy there is no blemish in it
in the color
bright yellow no white blemish no small white spot here or a black spot there or something that will somehow affect the color no no blemishes last year to fee her Allah Who are you going to find this cow now?
We'll sell them last year Sofia
tag will help a lot
the mockery has no limits on will earn adaptable now finally we've come with the truth
I am very tempted now to insult you know say like a bad insult in Arabic but this is
a class called will energy that will happen now you've come with the truth. So what on earth was he doing before was he playing around that was all lies that was all not the truth. That was a joke.
Now you have come with the truth you are the ones who decide if this is truth or not
Subhanallah Karim Allah will enter data will have now its truth after it has become almost impossible. Yes now this is the truth okay, yeah. Go find this cow now if you can.
Kind of an energy Tamil Huck.
Who are you to decide?
So all that before it's as if
he was playing around. No, he wasn't telling the truth. Now he's telling the truth. When you oh they were testing him from A to Z. We know. They were testing the prophets Allah salah. They were telling the Qura *es ask him this ask him that if he answers then he is truthful. They're testing Musa Allah Allah data will help. So if you have the truth and you know the truth, why are you asking?
Why are you asking Musa
for help with regards to the murder?
Energy tablet forever who? So they slaughtered it. Allah subhanaw taala again, this is the part where this is just the command and what happened.
The rest of the story it wasn't like they immediately found it. No, it wasn't like that. But Allah is telling you that in the end, the moral of the story is they finally did slaughter it for the Baja.
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and they almost did not do it.
Why not? Why did they almost not do it? What do you think?
As we will see, in part of the story,
one of the reasons is, it was very difficult to find a cow like this.
Almost impossible.
And when they finally did, it was very expensive, as we'll see when we get to the story.
So it was so expensive.
Yet, maybe they didn't feel that it was worth all that much money. So they almost didn't do it. This is one opinion.
Another opinion is that they almost didn't do it because of fear of being exposed. This was going to expose the murderer,
the one who committed this heinous murder, and therefore,
they were afraid of being exposed, so they almost didn't do it.
And Imam Tabari says,
it is actually both of those.
Because they found that it was too expensive. And also because they were afraid of being exposed.
And there may be a third reason that scholars have Tafseer to talk about as well.
And that is that they really did not want them through it. That's why they were asking all these questions.
And part of the reason they didn't want to do it is because of the cow being something now ingrained into their heart into their being, they worshipped the calf, they really did not want to slaughter this cow.
Even though they asked for help
with regards to the murder,
so they almost didn't do it.
And of course, it was almost impossible to find such a cow.
Okay.
What can I do if hadn't? And we mentioned before, that this is mentioned in the Bible, specifically in the what is known as the Old Testament, the first five books of Moses. Okay, specific, more even more specifically independent hook. Okay, in Numbers and Deuteronomy, as we'll see.
There it mentions, yes, a red heifer
without
a defect and without a blemish, exactly as the Quran says Subhanallah
and one that has not had a yoke placed upon it, meaning it hasn't been worked, exactly the same description but as we saw before, without all of the trouble that they gave to Musa Elisa without all of the useless questions and the mockery.
Allah was making their life difficult,
tired Allah.
That's how it seems Allah asked them to
find a red heifer that is so difficult, but for another reason, right? For ritual,
purity,
to cleanse themselves after touching a dead body, and we know these are some of the Athlon
these are some of the difficulties well as of right, that Allah placed upon them because they made their own life difficult. So cleansing themselves in certain situations was difficult. And this is one of them, how to cleanse themselves after touching a dead body, you have to find the red heifer and kill it.
And it has to be without defect without blemish, one that hasn't been worked.
But none of the rest of the story, that you are the ones who brought all of this about upon yourselves.
Then Allah subhanaw taala tells us almost as if it's another story.
The main point is what we just mentioned, how they did not respond and they did not do what they were commanded. But then the rest of the story comes and this is actually how it started.
So Allah subhanaw taala tells us what is attended to nevsun
What is cartel to nipson fundera to fee
what Allah homoclinic Merkin to tech to moon
and again, remember when
you killed someone. And again, it's being referred to them as if they
All part of it and this seems to indicate Allahu Allah that the murder though the murder may be one
those in on the murder may be more
and there's more evidence for that as we'll see.
What is cotton to notion you killed someone you killed a soul fundera twin fee and then you started arguing about it right and accusing each other for data to almost as if you are throwing the accusation back and forth you're actually accusing each other who did it. You did it this group that group
they couldn't quite find who the murderer was Fodera two V. One law who
can talk to moon and Allah subhanho wa Taala is going to reveal
that which you had concealed Allah Who region makan tomtec Timon, Allah is going to expose it.
So again, Allahu Creedon macaroon tech tune, there seems to be more people in on this Yes, the murder may be one.
But some people know about this murder. And therefore there is fear of being exposed. But Allah subhanaw taala is going to expose it. The story goes, as mentioned by the mafia serene of this harbor and the tabby
with chains of narrations that are strong, okay
that
this man who was murdered,
had money,
he was rich.
And one of his relatives
who would receive this inheritance was waiting for him to die to get these riches.
Some of the nourishes do not mention who he is as a relative of his but that he is one of those who will inherit him. Others mentioned that he is his nephew.
So this man was his uncle. So he was waiting for his uncle to die and he just wouldn't die. So he took matters into his own hands.
And he went and he murdered him.
And then
he tried different narrations mentioned different things that he placed him. He placed the body close to one of the groups and therefore they were the ones who were accused of the murder and they started accusing each other and they said we did not do it. We are not the ones and so on and so forth.
In the narration of the great Tabby and Mufasa, Abida salmoni, he gives us another detail.
Sorry, not happy the sell money, I will highly I would highly out of favor and Mahara. He gives us the detail an interesting detail that the murderer the nephew went to Musa himself
and said Oh prophet of Allah, you are the Prophet of Allah.
My uncle was murdered. Help us find out who the murderer is Subhan Allah, look at the nerve.
Look at the, the lack of fear of Allah subhanaw taala he doesn't think he will be exposed. You are talking to a prophet of Allah, Allah. You don't think Allah may reveal to him that you are the one. He goes to him himself.
And sometimes this is what criminals will do.
In order to do what to actually try to exonerate themselves of the murder, right? You're dealing with a prophet of Allah, now you're dealing with Allah, are you fearful of being exposed?
Knowledge about
other narrations mentioned that as the different groups started arguing the different clans and tribes, who is the one who committed this murder, and it started becoming an issue. There was pandemonium.
If you don't find out who the murderer was, and someone is accused, this may cause infighting, right civil strife between them. So this was a really big issue. So some of them started saying, Why are you arguing with each other? The Prophet of Allah
Is amongst us go to him. Ask him. So they went to him. And they said, This is what happened.
Tell us help us to find out who the murderer is. So Musa alayhis salam tells them, Allah orders you to slaughter a cow.
So they said at a duck Ivana who's
do make a mockery of us
find out how to be learned Hakuna myalgia Haley.
So because their question was about murder, and their response was to slaughter a cow, some may say, and try to exonerate
Bernie straw, he'll hear that no, the point is that they were asking about murder and the answer came to slaughter a cow. And that's why they said what they said.
But despite that, you came to the Prophet of Allah.
Asking for an answer. The reason you came to the Prophet of Allah is because you understood that he is the only one who might help you.
And yet
you answered this way. At the duck Luna, who's one? This is unacceptable, in any way, shape, or form. And this is mockery.
Allah told you slaughter a cow slaughter the cow, ask questions later.
And yes, it's going to turn out. Allah asked you to do that, because this is how you're going to find the murderer.
Again,
why was that mentioned? First, ask about the wisdom and seek it later.
Or be first you'll find out why later. And you might not find out as long as you are sure 100% This is what Allah commanded, do it.
So
Allah subhanaw taala is going to reveal who the murderer is. So
they went to Musa he said slaughter the cow, and everything that we have been explaining. And finally,
they started looking for the cow.
But they only found it because it's it's difficult to find. They only found this cow with a youth
who had inherited this cow from his father, possibly as some narrations mentioned.
The narration of Abul Alia mentions that actually it was with a lady who had some orphans and the cow was with her.
The point is that this was a difficult cow to find. And when they finally found it, and Allah guided it guided them to it, and only Allah could have guided them to such a cow.
And Allah guided them because they said we're in sha Allah.
Finally, when they found it, they wanted to buy it.
But the seller was not ready to sell immediately.
Why should they sell it cheap?
So they asked for more money.
They weren't really convinced but
the seller kept on increasing the price.
And maybe information came to them
that they really need this cow. So the seller kept on increasing the price.
Finally
they could only buy this cow different narrations some narrations mentioned that the only way was to pay
the weight of its skin in gold
the weight of gold anyway is going to be expensive.
Another narration mentions the weight of the cow in gold
one more card we have alone they almost didn't do it. It was so expensive. This is what you did to yourselves here. Taste what you have done to yourselves you made it difficult to allow me to difficult upon you.
What maca do we have Hello? Okay, then what? We found the cow and we slaughtered it what's next?
So, Allah subhanaw taala tells them to
do
Take part of it,
take part of this dead cow
and strike the dead person with that part of the cow
the holding up the Boo hoo be badly
didn't mention that I mentioned which partner will be bothered with a part of it which part we don't. But there were there are different opinions with its thigh, with its arm with something else we don't quite know.
We don't quite know. But Allah commanded them strike the dead person with a part of the cow.
So, then he says for putting up remove will be validly How can you learn motor
in this way, Allah subhanaw taala resurrect the dead
when we come to his room and he shows you His signs that maybe you will then understand. This tells us that what happened after that.
Just the idea without the narration, the area tells us
that Therefore Allah subhanaw taala brought this dead man back to life Allah can
remember now and notice how incredible this is.
They beat they struck the dead body
with a part of a dead cow.
And the man came alive Allahu Akbar.
Notice not a part of a cow that is alive. First of all, that would be mutilation. Right?
Second of all, Allah subhanaw taala wants to show them a great sign of his how on earth will a part of a dead cow bring that person back to life? Had they been commanded to strike with a part of the cow that is Allah?
Allah Akbar maybe they will start worshipping the collagen
This is a miracle cow this cow is God it brought it brought the dead man back to life.
Slaughter it's first it's dead. You see it then now? Can you do anything with it? Now take one of its parts strike the dead man. And he rose and he became alive
along with
the signs of Allah. Not only that, now it's his turn to expose the murderer. So he points to his nephew. And he says he's the one who killed me. And you can imagine the the reaction of the people realizing that it is his own nephew.
But that's all and then he falls back and dead again. Sign of Allah.
This is just alive long enough to expose the murderer and a false did back again.
Catherine K 11 motor while you were Yquem at La Jolla, Kentucky Hello.
This is why Allah ordered you to slaughter the cow.
First of all,
he extirpated, uprooted anything in your heart of love or worship for the cow.
This is something that you either benefit from or you slaughter to eat. You don't worship
you worship, the One who created the cow and everything else. Secondly, Allah subhanaw taala benefited this orphan.
This youth that had this cow
he brought many straw to him
who direly needed him. And he probably needed that help as well.
And he got Subhanallah a hefty amount of money again, all through their own obstinacy and stubbornness and mockery.
And he showed you an amazing sign of how Allah subhanaw taala resurrect the dead.
And again, it's a means in all of these miracles that we've seen. There's always a means Allah can do it on his own. say Be and it is but
They asked you to do all of this for all of these wisdoms,
and then take the means what is the means? A part of this dead cow? What do we do with this arm or this shoulder, you can do anything with it, you can probably just cook it and eat it. No, take the means strike it. He told me Sally Salem with the staff striking, striking the ocean, strike the man and he will become alive
just to expose the murder and then he fell back, dead Subhanallah Allah
this is also mentioned in the Bible, but not in this way.
As usual.
So again in the first five books of Moses,
notice the playing around, okay, how the story now has been split.
Part of his number is in numbers, the other parts in Deuteronomy. So in Deuteronomy
the issue of finding a murderer.
Look how similar the story is becoming now. The other one was just take a red heifer.
And but again, the description is the same
and slaughter it. Now,
if you are in the land,
and someone is killed, and you don't know who the murderer is, notice the similarity. And you don't know who the murderer is. Then go and take a heifer
without mentioning the color, take a heifer, but again,
without defect
without blemish, who Solana last year to feed her that's exactly what the Quran says sell lover last year to fear. Again, no yoke has been placed on it, it has not been worked.
Okay.
Slaughter, that heifer break its neck, and then the elders will come.
Okay, the elders from the closest town to where they found the murderer.
We remember this also from the Hadith of the Prophet SAW Selim. Remember the one who killed 99?
And then he came asking about, can he repent or not? And he went to a worshipper, a pious worshiper, I did. And he said to him, you cannot repent. So he killed him as well, to finish you know, a nice even number 100. Right. But I other Billa, one of the greatest sins,
killing.
So then he went to a scholar, the whole the hadith is, I think well known to all of us. And then the angels were told to see how far
the the body was, from
the this the land, right, and to measure so it's quite similar in that way. So the elders now will measure how far the body is and then ask the people in the town that is closer to the body, to go and to wash their hands over the body of this heifer,
and to declare, our hands had nothing to do with this murder, and neither did our eyes, we did not see who murdered and in this way, they have atone for the sin.
Look at the way they modified the story.
Where is that the fact that the murderer was amongst you?
And he wanted that inheritance.
And some of the narrations mentioned
that after this, no murderer would would inherit
from the one he murdered.
So, some of the scholars of
Tafseer and fic took a How come from this, that therefore, a murderer cannot inherit the one he murders
otherwise,
this was the reason for which he was murdered.
And to be honest,
First, the this hukum we cannot quite get from the AYA
possibly we can get it from the narration that says that therefore, the one who
murdered cannot inherit the one that they murdered. Okay, we can get it from the narration, but not from the AYA, the AYA doesn't actually mention that and scholars kind of went back and forth on that issue. So therefore, the corrupted the whole story. The you are the ones who committed the murder.
You are the ones who asked for assistance. Musa Ali Salam told you to slaughter the cow, and you kept on playing around and mocking and making life difficult for yourself.
This is the real story. And in this way, corruption of the word of Allah subhanaw taala.
In order to exonerate themselves, every time we see the same thing, we see the same motivation behind it, right.
But brothers and sisters, this reminds us now
why did you make your life difficult with all of these questions? The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam taught us that this is what destroyed people's before us.
Too many questions, making their life difficult, asking, right, their prophet these questions. The Prophet SAW, Selim forbade us from this.
These types of questions, not questions to know to really know their wisdom, or to really sincerely want to know.
What is the verdict in this case? What does Islam say about this? Now, it is quite clear from their questions. They don't want to know they're buying time. They're trying not to slaughter the cow not to fulfill the Command of Allah subhanaw taala.
But
Allah subhanaw taala keeps telling them this is a serious matter.
And it keeps getting more and more difficult. The Quran tells us learn this and one Usha in todella, contessa Contoso comm do not ask about things, if it were to be made clear to you, it will only
it won't actually satisfy you, it will satisfy you.
Then the famous example, when the Prophet SAW Selim was telling them about the Hajj.
And then one man says all messenger of Allah is this every year.
What kind of a question is this?
Did Allah say every year? Did Allah say
and restrict and give you all kinds of properties of this cow? Isn't slaughter a cow? How does this do what you're told?
So the prophets of salaam got angry? He said to him? If I say yes, to that question, then you will have to do it, you will have to do Hajj every single year, and he will not be able to do it.
And if I say no, then
I didn't ask you to do that in the first place. Why are you asking such a question?
And specifically at the time where there is why,
specifically at the time where revelation is coming down?
It was dangerous to ask questions that what the prophet tells you do?
Don't ask questions. That's why the Sahaba did not use to ask questions like this. They knew not to ask questions.
Another reason why the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam did not have the Torah we all the time.
Some people ask about the Torah we're, the Prophet SAW Selim did not go out and lead them in pm every day.
For this reason,
because as long as there's Ye, it may become an obligation.
Because the Prophet salallahu alayhi salam then died, and there is no more way that they felt comfortable Amaral the Allah and then let them in prayer in Korean every day. There's no fear then, or risk of this becoming an obligation.
This is how they were
It was direct and straightforward.
So this is different than asking questions today. Maybe for the sake of knowing the wisdom or understanding, or knowing what is the Hukam? Because I do not know because I'm ignorant. I want to know, what does Islam say about this?
But those types of questions, mocking questions, questions that are not very serious. The purpose of which is not to actually fulfill the Command of Allah. It's more like you're just digging. You're not really asking your questioning why?
What is this? Tell us what kind of car what color again tell us what kind of cow
this is quite different. Remember the idea you did in the beginning of certain Bukhara.
Those who believe they know it is the truth from the Lord. You're
robbing one man Adina Kaffir, Rufio colonna
Allah we have Ms. Hala.
Those who disbelieve will say, What does Allah want behind this? Again? It's not a sincere question.
It's beating around the bush. If it was sincere, Allah will answer it. They were not sincere. So Allah kept on making it difficult. The lesson don't make it difficult upon yourselves. The prophets of salaam told us and we know when the fuqaha I've said this, that in Islam, there are certain things that Allah azza wa jal did not specify.
He was silent about it. Right? Hello, tell me becomes Iranian, as a mercy to you not out of forgetfulness. So do not ask about it.
Allah only wants ease for you. You read your Allahu Bhikkhu will use while you read to become a nurse. Allah wants is doesn't want difficulty for you. But they made it difficult upon themselves. So Allah kept on making it difficult upon them. And if we do the same, then we will find that things are difficult.
And the prophets of salaam therefore taught the Sahaba do and that's why they would do it they wouldn't ask so what sometimes we wonder how come the Prophet SAW Selim did not explain every single ayah in the Quran, every single hukum. They didn't use to ask questions that much the way we would, for some of the reasons that we are mentioning.
These are some of the lessons from this story. And from the command that Allah subhanaw taala commanded them. Allah Allah, Allah Allah, wa sallahu wa salam, ala Nabina. Muhammad, what does that mean? Aloha your?
Any questions or comments?
Yes, whether
we find?
That's a good question. Why am I comparing?
Okay. Should I not compare?
Just wondering, very good. So
one of the main reasons is to see
if this has indeed been mentioned before,
if it is mentioned in the previous books,
and then to also, it's very interesting to see how it is different from the real story. And that tells us how they corrupted it.
And that has shown us time and time again, that there is a motivation behind
inserting or deleting verses. It's not just, you know, okay. Here's the Old Testament will remove this page or that page. No, no, it's quite purposeful.
It's clearly to exonerate them of many things. But at the same time, it's very interesting to see
the
some of the origins of the story.
But now we know the real story in the Quran.
It also shows you you cannot corrupt the whole book. You cannot adulterate every single thing. So you find that you do have tidbits of truth
in those books, right. And practically everything we've been mentioning now concerning
A mini Surah Al, this is all independent took the first five books of Moses. Okay, now the rest of the Old Testament and obviously not in the New Testament, but
you know, we call it the Bible in general, which contains the Old Testament and the New Testament. So all of this isn't the first five books of Moses, okay.
Talking about the Jews, essentially the, the, what they call the Jewish Bible, right, even though it applies to the whole Old Testament, but all of this we found in the independent took in the first five books of Moses. These are some of the reasons that we compare
because it's, it's, it's quite enlightening.
And it just goes to show you that before it was adulterated.
The story was mentioned exactly like it was in the Quran.
It shows you that this story was also mentioned in the Quran. It's not just the Allah is not just telling us a piece of history. It was mentioned in their book
and they know it very well.
And now the baddies are ill at the time of the Prophet sallallahu Sallam are being reminded of it. And maybe they know that it was in their book originally, but the Quran is correcting it.