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).