Chapter 2 – 61a (Lesson
– 92) - درس قرآن
Impatience of the Children of Israel
Surah ‘Al-Baqarah (The Cow) – Chapter – 2)
BisMIllaahir-Rahmaanir-Rahiim
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
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61a. And when ye said: O Moses! We are weary of
one kind of food; so call upon thy Lord for us that He brings forth for us of
that which the earth groweth – of its herbs and its cucumbers and its corn
and its lentils and its onions. He said: Would ye exchange that which is
higher for that which is lower? Go down to settled country, thus ye shall get
that which ye demand.
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61a, Wa ‘iz qultum yaa-Muusaa lan-nasbira ‘alaa
ta-‘aa-minw-waahidin fad-‘u lanaa Rabbaka yukh-rij lanaa mim-maa
tumbitul-‘arzu mim- baqli-haa wa qissaaa-‘ihaa wa fuu-mihaa wa ‘adasihaa wa
basali-haa. Qaala ‘atas-tabdiluunal-lazii huwa ‘adnaa billazii huwa
khayr. ‘Ih-bituu misran- fa-‘inna lakum- maa sa- ‘altum.
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Lesson
Misran – (the City) Here, the aim from misran is
any city of peninsula Sinai or in its surroundings. Literal meaning of Misr is
a city; of which demarcation would have been completed. However, it does not
mean the country presently Egypt.
This incident was also
happened in the desert and wilderness of the Peninsula of Sinai.
The Children of Israel used to eat heavenly food ‘the Manna and the Quails’
with much taste for a long time but they became weary from this food. Although
these foods were being provided to them free of cost and without labor. They
said to their Prophet (peace be upon Him), “O Moses! We are weary of one kind
of food; so call upon thy Lord for us that He brings forth for us of that which
the earth groweth – of its herbs and its cucumbers and its corn and its lentils
and its onions”. They requested to bring them towards some other place from
this wilderness where all kinds of city and country foods, vegetables must be
available for them.
Prophet Moses (peace be
upon Him) admonished them; first of all; that their demand was not valid. The
heavenly food, which they were getting without working hard, it was much better
than those things which needed hard work. But the Children of Israel resisted
on their saying. Then Prophet Moses (peace be upon Him) said, “Go and live in
any settled city. You will attain there; the food of your choice”.
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