LESSON # 74 HOLY QUR’AAN
BAQARAH – 2 (The Cow)
Weariness Of The Israelite
Verse –61a of 286, Section - 7
And when ye said: O Moses! We are
weary of one kind of food; so call upon thy Lord for us that He bring 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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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-‘innalakum- maa sa- ‘altum.
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Lesson
Misran –
(city) Here aim of 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 presently the country 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 ‘Manna and Quails’ with much taste for a long time but they
felt weary from this food. Although these foods were being provided to them
free of cost. 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 bring 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 are available
for them.
The Prophet Moses (peace be upon Him) admonished
them first of all that their order was not well. The heavenly food they were
getting without working hard that was much better than those things which needed
hard work. But the children of Israel
resisted on their talk. Then the Prophet Moses (peace be upon Him) said, “Go
and live in any better city. You will attain there the food of your choice”.
Transliteration in Roman Script
& English Translation by Marmaduke Pickthall, Published by Paak Company,
17-Urdu Bazar, Lahore and Paraphrase collected from Dars e Qur’aan published By
Idara Islah wa Tableegh, Lahore (translated by Muhammad Sharif )
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