وَمَا تِلْكَ بِيَمِينِكَ يَٰمُوسَىٰ
Wa maa tilka bi yamee nika yaa Moosaa
And what is that in your right hand, O Moses?"
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Lessons from past peoples
20:17Ayah 1135
43 ayahs in Taa-Haa are strongly about lessons from past peoples.
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And what is that that happens to be in your right hand O Moses?’ the interrogative is meant as an affirmative but it is expressed as an interrogative in order that the miracle to be manifested in it be shown as consequent upon it.
Related Hadiths
Eat with your right hand. He said: I cannot do that, whereupon he (the Holy Prophet) said: May you not be able to do that. It was vanity that prevented him from doing it, and he could not raise it (the right hand) up to his mouth.
Ibn 'Umar reported that when the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) sat for tashahhud he placed his left hand on his left knee. and his right hand on his right knee. and he raised his right finger, which is next to the thumb, making supplication in this way, and he stretched his left hand on his left knee.
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