۞ وَمَآ أَعْجَلَكَ عَن قَوْمِكَ يَٰمُوسَىٰ
Wa maaa a'jalaka 'an qawmika yaa Moosa
[Allah] said, "And what made you hasten from your people, O Moses?"
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Lessons from past peoples
20:83Ayah 1135
43 ayahs in Taa-Haa are strongly about lessons from past peoples. This is one of them.
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‘And what has hurried you to depart from your people in order to come to the appointed time to receive the Torah O Moses?’
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Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "Adam and Moses met, and Moses said to Adam "You are the one who made
people miserable and turned them out of Paradise." Adam said to him, "You are the one whom Allah
selected for His message and whom He selected for Himself and upon whom He revealed the Torah."
Moses said, 'Yes.' Adam said, "Did you find that written in my fate before my creation?' Moses said,
'Yes.' So Adam overcame Moses with this argument."
The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Moses argued with Adam and said to him (Adam), 'You are the one who got the
people out of Paradise by your sin, and thus made them miserable." Adam replied, 'O Moses! You are
the one whom Allah selected for His Message and for His direct talk. Yet you blame me for a thing
which Allah had ordained for me before He created me?." Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) further said, "So Adam
overcame Moses by this Argument."
Moses said : My lord, show us Adam who caused us and himself to come out from Paradise. So Allah showed him Adam. He asked : Are you our father, Adam? Adam said to him : Yes. He said : Are you the one into whom Allah breathed of his spirit, taught you all the names, and commanded angels (to prostrate) and they prostrated to you? He replied : Yes. He asked : Then what moved you to cause us and yourself to come out from paradise? Adam asked him : And who are you? He said : Yes. He asked : Did you not find that was decreed in the book (records) of Allah before I was created? He replied : Yes. He asked : Then why do you blame me about a thing for which Divine decree had already passed before me ? The Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) said : So Adam got the better of Moses in argument (peace be upon him).
There was argument between Adam and Moses, and Adam came the better of Moses. Moses said to him: You are the same Adam who misled people, and caused them to get out of Paradise. Adam said: You are the same (Moses) whom Allah endowed the knowledge of everything and selected him amongst the people as His Messenger. He said: Yes. Adam then again said: Even then you blame me for an affair which had been ordained for me before I was created.
There was an argument between Adam and Moses. Moses said: Are you that Adam whose lapse caused you to get out of Paradise? Adam said to him: Are you that Moses whom Allah selected for His Messengership, for His conversation and you blame me for an affair which had been ordained for me before I was created? This is how Adam came the better of Moses.
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