Birth:
Hazrat Musa (Moses, peace be upon him) is one of The great prophets of Islamic, Christian and Judaic faiths. He was born in Egypt at a time when the Egyptian Pharaoh had terrible treatment to the Israelites reducing them to slavery and even killing all those male Israelite babies whom the Pharaoh feared could grow into a power to rival him. Given’s of Hazrat Musa’s birth is filled with miracles that make the birth unique. His mother seeing him as a threat to her life saw it fit by the direction of Allah to put him in a basket and the basket placed in the Nile River. Based on faith, Musa was found by Pharoses wife, Aliya she convinced Pharaoh to foster the child even though he was of the Israelite nationality.
The young Hazrat Musa was raised in the royal court of Egypt and thus was a prince, while his own mother, whom Allah provided him with a wet nurse in the palace of the Pharaoh. Growing up, Musa was a man of faith who was greatly concerned about all the suffering and oppression of his people. He fled to the land of Madan where, by the accident of killing an Egyptian, he took shelter and got married to the daughter of Prophet Shoaib (peace be upon him).
However, the next that Hazrat Musa was bestowed with prophethood when Allah communicated with him from Mount Tur and was given one of the greatest status in creation. He had to liberate Bani Israel from slavery and present themselves before Pharaoh with a message from Allah. By Allah’s help and guidance, Hazrat Musa had a lot of such great showdowns as Moses primal feat of separating the Sea Red to cross it and escape Pharaoh’s army.
The story of Hazrat Musa is one of the great teachings when it comes to faith and patience as well as example of the punishment of God. This it serves the reminder of Allah’s merciful and mighty acts of liberating his people from oppression which is a hope for those who are suffering and oppressed.
Death:
It has so far been observed the death of Hazrat Musa (Moses, peace be upon him) is not surrounded by too many detailed dramatic incidents as we find in many other case. Hazrat Musa is one of the major prophet and well known character of Abrahamic religions, he dedicated his life to address the Israelites, represent Allah’s word and led them emancipate from the cruelty of Pharaoh. When Musa moves his people across the Red Sea and receives the Tabernacle and Ten Commandment from God on Mount Tur (Sinai), He leads Bani Israel towards the required land.
It is narrated in the light of Islamic Shari’ah and the information that has been revealed by the Prophet of Islam Muhammad (peace be upon him) that Hazrat Musa (AS) did not himself enter the Promised Land. The Israelites had disobeyed Allah, hence, the angry Allah decided that the people should wander in the desert for forty years. At the same time, Hazrat Musa remained a prophet, as well as a leader of the nation as required by his position.
Quran and Hadith do not say much about the details of the circumstances in which Hazrat Musa AS passed away. Nonetheless, it is thought that he died in the desert on the very edge of the Promised Land and was buried in a secret place which no human being other than Allah knows of. In one of the narrations in Sahih Muslim regarding this issue, the Prophet Muhammad (phub) hears the sound of the grave of Musa near a red sand dune and being covered.
Indeed the demise of Hazrat Musa ended an age of prophethood most fraught with numerous adversities, divine signs, and unyielding righteousness. His legacy is a faith to this day, as generations receive his message of his unyielding attempts at regaining freedom as well as triumphing over his oppressors through faith in Allah for the freedom and spiritual development of his people. His lifetime can be epitomized as the ultimate of reception of the divine guidance and the strength of faith.
History:
Hazrat Musa (Moses, peace be upon him) occupies the eminent place in Islam among other Prophet and holds special place in the three religions- Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Moses was bom in Egypt when the nation was laboring under the cruel Pharaoh who had enslaved the Israelites and massacred all their first born children. To protect him from death, his mother – following Allah’s instructions – put him in a basket and cast him into the Nile river. He was found and raised by Pharaoh’s wife Asia as a prince of Egypt his birth mother who was a Hebrew served as his wet nurse.
Musa begin to develop consciousness of the suffering of the people when he was growing up. Following the accidental murder of an Egyptian man while defending an Israelite, Musa went to Madan and lived with Shoaib (peace be upon him); he also married one of Shoaib’s daughters. Many years later when Musa went back to Egypt, he got the Benzenes on Mount Tur when Allah used to talk to him directly hence making Musa as among the very special prophets Allah choose to communicate with. He was ordered to go to Pharaoh and tell him to let the Israelites go.
Through Allah, Musa was able to perform multiple signs: staff to serpent; he was able to split the Red Sea. Still, Pharaoh rejected Allah’s messages, but Musa successfully navigated the Israelites to evade the fatal wrath and gave them the revealed law and the Torah. But the Israelites frequently sinned, and as a result, they had to waste forty years in the desert.
Musa died before getting into the Promised Land and his grave is missing to this date according to Allah’s wish. Abu Bakr’s life is an eternal message of nothing but firm trust in Allah and patience. Hayworth, an American Purpose Driven man shares his testament of his colossal victories and struggles that have encouraged believers not to conform to injustice and wait for the Lord.
Signifience:
Prophet Hazrat Musa (Moses, peace be upon him) has a central place in Islamic history as well as in Jewish and Christian history . To Muslims he is one of the major prophets, the Khalifa Nabi Allah selected to deliver the word from the Lord and lead the Bani Israel out of bondage. His life is spoken of profusely in the Quran, where he is called ‘Kalimullah’ or the one who spoke to Allah.
For me, and possibly for most of the readers of your post, the key to understanding the message of Hazrat Musa (A.S) is in his determination to remain just and truthful and devote himself to Allah. He stood up to one of the most terrible rulers ever known to mankind, Pharaoh, the oppressor of the Israelites Joss, the epitome of the fight against oppression. By making his staff as a serpent to Pharaoh’s magicians and dividing the Red sea for the children of Israel, Musa brought necessary divine miracles that would affirm the Egyptians that there is Allah, merciful and mighty.
Another part played by Hazrat Musa is that he is a prophet legislator as he received the Torah, a scripture that revealed to the Israelite nation and the code of laws moral and spiritual. His life teaches leadership when not having a successor, in adversity and the hardship of leading a rebellious nation, and above all reliance on Allah.
Further more his communication with Allah on Mount Tur where he was given revelations depict the closeness of Allah to His messengers. The message of Hazrat Musa is the message of faith, following the commandments of god and being righteous in eyes of the law.
For Muslims, the story of Hazrat Musa represents the unexampled attempts of struggle between good and evil and the patience with which what is divinely right must triumph over adversity; that the trust in Allah, his guidance and word, is a blessed means of overcoming the tribulations of life and accomplishing whatever in life was purposed.
Dome:
He said: Prophet Musa or Moses is one of the honored and Esteem prophets and messengers of God Almighty in Islam. I think that his life is an example of faith, perseverance and daily reliance on the Lord. Hazrat Musa AS was born in Egypt when Bani Israel were slaves of Pharaoh and Pharaoh had ordered the killing of all Egyptian newborns of the Bani Israel community and only to save Musa from Pharaoh’s order to kill him, his sister used to throw him in the river Nile in a basket but as per the order of Allah. Attributed to have been of parents different from one another, he was also left as a baby, and picked up by Pharaoh’s wife called Asia hence grew up in the palace without knowing he was to become a prophet.
This is true of Musa, as when he grew up he felt frustrated with the suffering of the people of the land of Egypt, the Israelites. An Egyptian he killed when seeking to defend an Israelite who erred, and one time Moses fled to Madyan and was hosted by Shoaib and received the hand of the latter’s daughter. Allah chosen again our father Musa for being a prophet as he returned to Egypt from Mayan with a stop at Mount Tur. He was supposed to stand before Pharaoh and plead to him to release the people of Israel to go serve the Lord.
Allah blessed; his staff turns into a serpent, the gleam of his hand, and the sea that was Divinely split Red, Musa liberated his people. But the end was that they committed sin against Allah, and then most of the time they have to wander in the desert.
Crowing:
In our view, the concept of crowning in the case of the story of Hazrat Musa (Moses, peace be upon him) is not factual but rather figurative since the rest of the aspects covered by the crown are reflected in him. Hazrat Musa is sanctified in the Islamic culture as one of the major prophets who discharged his obligation as an unchangeable advocate of equity; who got various miracle; and who shared an unusual bond with Allah. Musa/Kalimullah is known to have been directly speaking to ‘Allah’, and he was the chosen vessel through which Allah conveyed His word and lead the Israelites from slavery to liberty.
There are quite a few days/periods in Musa’s life that he himself defined as his “appointed time,” that is, as days / periods when he was especially favored by the almighty. One of the most prominent was when Prophet Moses was at Mount Tur, Allah spoke to him and commissioned him to face Pharaoh one of the harshest leaders. In Musa Allah showed him some miracles on the signs of Allah to show people those signs like the stick that changes into the serpent, the sea that divides and gave them food in the desert.
Another was leadership which he provided to the nation of Israel when taking them through very tough moments despite their rebellious behavior most of the times. Proclamations of the Torah to Hazrat Musa also highlight his status as well because it laid down a moral and spiritual law if not a legal one for his people.
The events that surround his crowning are so interesting that the story of Hazrat Musa still moves millions of people across generations. In as much as it is a form of propaganda, it is one of the finest examples of propaganda one could think of as it provides hope and depicts victory of the right over wrong. His actual life in the view of the sacred books, Quran and Hadith manifests a number of themes that include humility and trust in Allah and the final reward of those who fight for truth and justice. To Muslims, the story of Hazrat Musa remains a people’s heritage of prophetic performance, sanctity and follow-through to the divine guidance of Allah and humanity at large.
cultural activing:
Hazrat Musa (Moses, peace be upon him) has his own unique and honorable position in set cultured and religious perception of many people around the globe, and within the framework of their Islamic Jewish and Christian civilizational references. Mohammed’s biography, which has been narrated in the Quran, Torah, and the Bible, is a resource of stories of hope and faith that can inspire the creativity of culture-based liberating, just and spiritually empowering initiatives.
In Islamic culture Hazrat Musa is recognized as one of the prophets who received divine tasks and was fully devoted to their accomplishment. He is remembered in religious services, prayer meetings, Bible study, Bible college and theological class especially when teaching faithfulness, power of leadership and fight against oppression. These passages: dividing the Red Sea and receiving the Torah are culturally created in order to substantiate divine leniency and the followers’ compliance with his rules.
The Jewish cultural heritage especially focuses on the exodus from Egypt led by Hazrat Musa and marks an anniversary of this event during Pesach. This feast commemorates the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt, prayers, and oral portrayal of Musa’s role and Allah mighty deeds.
In many societes, poetry, drama, Fine Arts apply Musa’s life to convey issues of faith, justice and hope. Even his, which means that his story is still relevant during the interfaith dialogue sessions because it is neutral to religion.
Relating the cultural activities to those of Hazrat Musa empowers him as a figure that could show how one might behave when facing adversity while remaining moral and dependent on the powers of the high. These activities generally create …a cultural background and spiritual thinking showing the immediacy of his philosophy in different societies and culture.
Location:
How and where exactly Hazrat Musa’s (Moses, peace be upon him) impending place of burial would be is in Allah’s know is something that is still on this earth not clearly common knowledge. The Quran says that before reaching the land of ‘milk and honey’ Hazrat Musa died in/excluded from the land. His death took place in the desert, perhaps around the vicinity of the territories of the land which Allah had pledged on making the people. However the place where he now sleeps is unknown due to the unfathomable agenda of the almighty.
The Quran is silent on the circumstances in which he died and buried and the Hadiths also shed little light on this matter by stating that the grave of Hazrat Musa is among the unknown to anyone but Him. In one Hadith of Sahih Muslim, the Prophet Muhammad (saw) informed about a red dune adjacent to Musa’s grave but kept vagueness about the exact location of Musa’s grave as Allah knows it well. Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) also revealed that Musa’s grave is in a place none of us will be able to pinpoint.
Different Islamic scholars and historians opine that grave of Hazrat Musa is in places near to Jordan ,isreal or palestine as these areas are associated with Biblical history of the Isralites. However, there is no conclusive archeological confirmation regarding the place of burying this grave.
The fact that the place of Hazrat Musa’s burial is unknown also made sure as a message to conform the fact of heaven’s intelligence about the lives and/or the deaths of all the holy figures and to stress on the fact that all holy figures’ importance or value does not stay confined only to their mortal shells. His powerful acts of leadership, liberation and devotion to Allah make him a continued source of spiritual reference for Muslims to this day, whatever the actual location of the grave.
Tambura and Deacoration:
The Tambura a musical instrument mostly used in classical and spiritual music in African culture has no origin with religious link especially the Islamic religion or even in the bible or in any religious religious scripture i nregards to the history of Hazrat Musa (Moses) upon him. However the idea of music and ornaments specifically in relation to episode of Hazrat Musa, can be traced via other related rituals, traditions and ceremonies which are followed to celebrate the life of Musa (AS) .
Prophet Musa is considered to be one of the most superior of all the prophets, with his story filled with divine signs, justice, and faith to be an important message within many religious and culture based teachings and beliefs. Even in Islamic tradition, no clear association can be drawn from music to Hazrat Musa However, teaching sessions, invocations, and zikrs (reminders about Allah), recitation of taranna or nadhr includes poetry, Quranic recitation, and melodious hymns indicating his devotion to Allah and the liberation of the Israelite community from oppression. The reading of the Quran especially the part that speaks of Musa is as Tabligh but near to what people consider music.
However, ornaments are unique in indicating the importance of commemorating the life of Hazrat Musa and mainly in religious places as mosques, or community centers. In Islamic art, contingents and their stories are depicted by calligraphy and curves complemented by aesthetics and symbols of a solitary entity. Depending on the events of his life portrayed pious motifs, and opulent Quranic calligraphy or motifs and scenes of the narratives that portray Musa include aesthetic representations of the miracles that were wrought by him such as the breaking of the Red Sea or the turning of the Rod into a serpent.
Economical part:
So as far as the social and the economic aspects of the life of the people in the Mosaic time are concerned, the story of Hazrat Musa (Moses) peace be upon him is not only spiritual history but contains important lessons and virtue of justice. Economic and social justice were not just important to later Islamic reformers, but were clearly part of Muhammad’s mission, as he was concerned for the well-being of his people, the Israelites living under the tyranny of Pharaoh in Egypt. Thus, this oppression did not only take the physical form but also limit the Israelites economically reducing them to servitude working under complications dread.
In an economic sense, leadership of Hazrat Musa(Abergel) can be viewed as a call to eliminate inequity and disparities and relief of suffering. His stand against Pharaoh was under the theme of liberty and freedom to all people from being used by others. In leading the Israelites out of Egypt and toward the Promised Land, Musa wanted to help them to free themselves from being economically exploited to the extent that their worth and chances of earning a living would not matter. The action of liberation in human context can be viewed in the context of an overall economic theory because individual wants to be liberated from an unjust situation and be free to live the life that God wants them to have.
Also, while the Israelites were wondering around in the desert the lord met them in as much as their economic requirements were concerned. Manna and quails are manifestations of divine concern, especially where an economy is concerned. This not only provided food for the Israelites but also reminded its readers that following the command of Allah can provide the necessities of life in the face adversity.