2. A STONE THAT SPRINT
It was a square stone measuring one arm-length on both sides [approx. 1.5 by 1.5 ft.]. Sayyiduna Musa would always carry it in his bag. Two miracles of Sayyiduna Musa occurred through this blessed stone that have also been mentioned in the Holy Quran.
The first miracle
The first wonder exhibited by this stone which is in fact a miracle of Sayyiduna Musa was its long run full of wisdom. The discovery of this stone is also by virtue of this miracle.
Now the details of this wonderful event are presented. It was the tradition of the Bani Israel to bathe nude publically. Although Sayyiduna Musa whowas also a member of the same society, was born and raised in the same environment, Allah raised his ranks by blessing him with the dignified status of Prophethood. Therefore, how could the dignified modesty of Prophethood adopt such immodesty!
Sayyiduna Musa was very much against the immodesty of the Bani Israel. He would either bathe in isolation or by covering his body with a sheet. When the Bani Israel saw that he had not yet taken bathe nude, the wicked people blamed him by saying that he had a white mark of leprosy on his private parts or had some kind of deformity on his body which he concealed by not getting undressed in public. The wicked
people openly announced this blame so much that there was not a
corner to which the rumours about Sayyiduna Musa had not reached. He was very much grieved and saddened due to this blame.
Obviously Allah did not like to see His beloved Kaleem in such a state of grief and anxiety, and to see his honourable Prophet being falsely blamed. The Most Merciful Rab created such means of freeing Sayyiduna Musa from the blames declaring his purity that completely killed the evil plans and doubts of the Bani Israel within a few minutes. The evidence of his purity from such blames became evident more than the shining sun that brightens the entire world. Sayyiduna Musa went to bathe at a hidden spring of
water in the midst of the mountains. After making sure that there is no chance of anybody, he placed his blessed clothes on a stone and proceeded to bathe completely nude. After taking bath, he returned to the stone to wear his clothes. He saw that the stone was running away, taking his clothes with it! Upon seeing this, Sayyiduna Musa also ran after it, saying O stone, my clothes! O stone, my clothes!
The stone kept on running. It ran to the extent that it entered the main avenues of the city and eventually ran into the streets of the city. Sayyiduna Musa kept on following the stone whilst having no clothes on. This way, the youth and adults of the Bani Israel witnessed with their own eyes that the blessed body of Sayyiduna Musa had no deformity from head to toe. And instead, every limb of the blessed body of Sayyiduna Musa had such perfection and beauty that it was impossible to find such example among ordinary people. Therefore, they all exclaimed: by Allah Musa is flawless.
When this stone exposed the purity and perfection of Sayyiduna Musa , it automatically stopped. Sayyiduna Musaput on the clothes and put the stone in his bag.
Allah has described this event in Holy Quran in the following words:
O believers! Do not be like the people who troubled Musa – so Allah cleared him from the allegations they had uttered; and Musa is honourable in the sight of Allah.
The second miracle
In the plains of Teeh, it was the same stone that Sayyiduna Musa struck with his blessed staff and consequently, twelve springs of water emerged from it. The Bani Israel used this water for forty years. Details of this event have already been mentioned in the previous pages. In the verse of the Holy Quran ‘stone’ refers to the same stone.
Remedy of a doubt:
Those who do not believe in miracles judge everything using their imperfect intellect. They deny the miracle of emergence of the springs of water from the stone by considering it to be impossible and say that our intellect cannot accept the fact that the twelve springs of water emerged from such a small stone. It is a common observation that Allah has blessed some stones with the characteristics of removing hair, some make vinegar more bitter and sour, some have magnetic power that can attract metal from distance, some make poisonous animals run away, some can work as antidotes for poison of the animals. Certain stones can even provide relief in cardiac palpitations, some do not burn nor heat up, some can even produce flame and there is eruption of volcano from some stones! So when Allah has bestowed stones with such various attributes, then why is it so difficult to accept the fact that Allah blessed the stone of Sayyiduna Musa with such effects! Perhaps Allah blessed it with the characteristic of absorbing water from inside the earth and manifesting it in the shape of springs. Or probably this stone had the effect that the breeze that would come across it would flow constantly in the shape of water. It is not beyond the power of Allah. Anything could have happened. As by Allah’s decree, anything can take place. Therefore, to believe in this miracle of Sayyiduna Musa is an essential religious requirement and to deny it is profanity. It is mentioned in the Holy Quran
And there are some rocks that streams gush forth from them; and some split apart and water flows from them; and there are some (rocks) that fall down for the fear of Allah.
Anyway, water emergence from the rocks is a common observation then why it is difficult for one’s intellect to accept the fact of the springs of water emerging from the blessed stone of Sayyiduna Musa.
Source: (QURANIC WONDERS) by ‘ABDUL MUSTAFA A’ZAMI.
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