Moses secured the blessing of bread for the Israelites in the wilderness, and Jesus is "the Prophet like Moses," because He secures this blessing both for the bodies and the souls of His people. (R. Newton.) Food providentially suppliedAt the Turners' banquet given in his honour a short...
They are disciples of Moses. They know that God spoke to Moses. Like the Samaritan woman, their tradition is the ultimate judge of the rightness of their position. The man reminded them of the “astonishing” fact of the miracle which he believes to be enough proof that God has granted Je...
Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ / This is the first and greatest commandment. / And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ ... ...
Genesis 20:7 ^ Now then, return the man’s wife, for he is a prophet, so that he will pray for you, and you shall live. But if you do not return her, know that you shall surely die, you and all who are yours. Exodus 32:11-14 ^ But Moses interceded with the Lord his God...
When the soul is understood as a hierarchy of levels, its highest level is the intellect, and the intellect, in Islamic terms, is a “light.” The Prophet said, “The first thing that God created was my light,” and he also said, “The first thing that God created was the Intellect...
He goes to great lengths to dilineate the ways in which this Administrative Order “is fundamentally different from anything that any Prophet has previously established”, and to explain that “it would be utterly misleading to attempt a comparison between this unique, this divinely-conceived Order...
The Jewish girl calls Nafīsa “sharīfa” which in addition to being a title of respect, recognizes Nafīsa’s status as part of the family of the prophet. Thus, the dhimmi women acknowledge her not merely as a holy woman, but very particu-larly as a Muslim holy woman. Indeed, they ...
“The fury of a king is like messengers of death, But a wise man will appease it.” Proverbs 16:14. “Therefore He said that He would destroy them, Had not Moses His chosen one stood in the breach before Him, To turn away His wrath from destroying them.” Psalm 106:23. ...
Suppose a prophet came here like this; what would I do? How would I react? What would I say? How would I respond? They responded positively because they were being taught the Word of God. They responded positively because they were being a disciple. They responded positively because they ...
Thanks to Mr. Einstein and his cohorts, we’ve come to realize in the last 100 years thattime is far more complexthan anyone realized . It’s relative, not absolute. Though I believe that God was already hinting at this to us when through Moses’ prayer we learn: ...