seekeroftruth
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Quran 26:In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful.
1. Ta, Seen, Meem.
2. These are the Verses of the Clarifying Book.
3. Perhaps you will destroy yourself with grief, because they do not become believers.
4. If We will, We can send down upon them a sign from heaven, at which their necks will stay bent in humility.
5. No fresh reminder comes to them from the Most Merciful, but they turn their backs at it.
6. They have denied the truth, but soon will come to them the news of what they ridiculed.
7. Have they not seen the earth, and how many beautiful pairs We produced therein?
8. Surely in this is a sign, but most of them are not believers.
9. Most surely, your Lord is the Almighty, the Merciful.
Here's the commentary.
The interpretation I adopt is based on the remark, which is traceable to I‘Ab, that these letters are the names of the Divine Being. I take ∆å as standing for La∆ßf, meaning Benignant, sßn as standing for Samß‘, meaning Hearing, and mßm as standing for ‘Alßm, meaning Knowing. I may, however, suggest another interpretation. These chapters speak in particular of the calling of Moses at Mount Sinai, ∆å sßn may stand for Ô∂r Sßnå’, or Mount Sinai, and mßm may stand for Moses; attention is thus called in these letters to the revelation granted to Moses at Mount Sinai, which bears testimony to the truth of the Prophet. This is corroborated by the plain statement made in the last chapter of this group, that the disbelievers called the revelations of Moses and Mu√ammad two enchantments backing up each other.
The Holy Qur’ån makes manifest all that is needed for a right development of the human faculties, and it also makes manifest the whole truth.
The Prophet was informed by Divine revelation of the doom of an evil generation, but instead of cursing it, he exerted himself heroically to save his people by bringing about a mighty transformation among them, a transformation for which he was so anxious that he is described here as almost killing himself with grief.
Such a sign was sent in the battle of Badr and again in the conquest of Makkah. In the former place their chiefs were laid low, and in the latter they accepted submission.
It was the prophecies of their own vanquishment and of the predominance of Islåm at which they mocked.
Seven prophets in all are spoken of in this chapter, and it is related how the enemies of every one of them were exterminated in the final triumph of the Truth. Yet to give an indication of the fate of the Prophet’s opponents each prophet’s mention is ended with the two attributes of the Divine Being mentioned here, the Mighty, the Merciful, the first of these indicating that Truth will, even now, be made to overcome all opposition and the second that the dealing with the opponents of the Prophet would be a merciful dealing. The Prophet’s opponents were vanquished indeed but they were not destroyed and a reformed people rose again to power
The book I use for commentary calls this chapter "the Poets" and it claims to be about the Prophets. The first Prophet in the chapter is Moses. Just like the Moses in the Bible... Moses was responsible for bringing civility to earth.
In the Bible.... Moses brought the Ten Commandments from God. Here.... he is responsible for changing the development of human faculties.
I get the impression of people who are just stupid. They have gone from leading Egypt out of famine and into massive infrastructure projects using the Jews from the family of Joseph [Coat of Many Colors Joseph] as slave labor. Moses wanted a better future for his Jewish family. So he led them out of Egypt with the help of God.
I can imagine the Jews were not happy with their slave toils.... but they got up every morning and went to work anyway. They were ruled by overseers with whips... sound like someone else?
I can imagine they were a tad bit cautious about quitting their jobs and walking off into the wilderness with about 2 million others. Who does that without a lot of sorrow going on.
So.... Moses brought about a change in the Jewish traditions. The slave labor of Egypt was set free. They were supposed to be the family to take over the promised land.... the Bible tells us that generation had to wonder around for 40 years because they didn't really Believe.... the next generation.... born or raised during the trek made it to the "Promised Land". Moses led them but he too never got more than a glimpse.... because, according to the Bible he too doubted God at times.
Moses was sent to "get the doubt out".
