65.
" and certainly you have known those among you
who
exceeded the limits on the sabbath, so we said to them:
` be
you (as) apes despised and rejected '. "
66."
so we made it an exemplary punishment to those who witnessed it and
to
their posterity and an admonishment to the pious ones."
commentary :
those who exceeded on the
sabbath !
these two verses, like the previous
verses, point out the
disobedience and transgression
dominating the souls of the jews, and
their intensive interest in
economic gain.
at first, it says: " and certainly
you have known those among you who
exceeded the limits on the sabbath,
..."
and, also, you have known that:
"... so we said to them: ` be you
(as) apes, despised and rejected
'."
some may think that the present
state of the israelites and their
apparent progress, after the
first and the second world wars or after
their unlawful occupation of
the holy land does not tally with this but
yet they are hated by most nations
and they have no rest in the real
sense of the term, and the term
` a jew ' has passed into a proverb for a
niggardly, miserly person this
is due to their own vanities and their
hatred towards the others which,
for example, they have shown in many
places such as palestine and
lebanon, both openly and hiddenly, during
these recent years.
*
* * *
" so we made it an exemplary
punishment to those who witnessed it
and to their posterity..."
"...and an admonishment to the
pious ones."
it is worthy to note that imam
baqir (a.s.) and imam sadiq (a.s.)
are narrated from, who, on the
meaning of this verse, have said: " the
purpose of the phrase /ma bayna
yadayha/ ` those who witnessed it ' is the
generation of that time, and
the objective of the phrase /ma xalfaha/ ` their
posterity ' is about us muslims."
.1 that
is, that exemplary lesson was
not exclusive to the israelites
alone, but it was meant for all of us, the
muslims, too; or, all who come
after them until the day of judgement
and who do the same as they
did.
explanation :
divine miracles of moses
(a.s.)
whenever an apostle of allah
wanted to introduce himself to his
people as a true, authentic
messenger of allah, he would prove his
claim by performing some miracles
given by him.
here, it must be remembered
that the following wonderful events
wrought by divine and supernatural
phenomena are counted in the
holy qur'an as the miracles
given to moses (a.s.) as the proof of his
prophethood, each of which will
be discussed in its appropriate place.
they are as follows:
1. the rod of moses (a.s.) becoming
a serpent. (7: 107, 26: 32)
2. the palm of moses (a.s.)
shining brightly. (7: 108, 26: 33)
3. the dividing of the sea.
(2: 50)
4. the gushing of water from
the rock. (2: 60, 2: 74)
5. the shower of manna and quails
from heaven. (2:57)
6. the shadowing of the cloud
over the israelites' heads. (2: 57, 2: 93)
7. the raising of the dead to
life. (2: 56, 2: 73)
8. the suspension of the mount
above the heads of the people. (2: 63)
9. the transformation of the
transgressors into despised apes. (2: 65, 7:
166).
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