29/08/2016
The Story Of The Cow
The children of Israel, that a rich wealthy man who had nephews and they were to inherit him after he dies, they did not wait until he died, they went ahead and killed him in order to inherit his wealth, and they hid his body somewhere else, nobody knows who killed this man, nobody knows who is the killer, Bani Isra’il started quelling with one another to figure out who killed the man,
The story according to some of the scholars of Tafsir took place after the people of Israel left Egypt, so this is after the destruction of pharaoh and it is after Musa AS left them for forty nights and his people started began to worship a calf and it is after Musa AS returning to them and destroying the calf, so this towards the end of the story of Musa AS,
Who killed him, who didn’t kill him? Because those who killed him wouldn’t inherit, they would be side-lined, so no one was claiming to have killed this man, obviously but at the same time no one was able to divide the inheritance until this issue was sorted out, so they began dispute amongst themselves,
So one of the said why is it that we are disputing and arguing amongst ourselves when amongst us there is the prophet of Allah Musa AS, why don’t we go to him, so they came to prophet Musa as and they asked his help, prophet Musa AS receives the command from Allah SWT, and here’s the story.
