Transliteration:( Wa iz nataqnal jabala fawqahum ka annahoo zullatunw wa zannooo annahoo waaqi'un bihim khuzoo maaa aatainaakum biquwwatinw wazkuroo maa feehi la'allakum tattaqoon )
393. Hazrat Jibraeel (On whom be peace) uprooted that mountain and pitched it upon them like a canopy, but because the work of His Beloved are Allah Almighty's work, hence. He says it is He who uprooted it.
394. Seeing this every Israelite went down in prostration but in such a way that their left cheek was on the ground, and with their right eye they were looking at the mountain, hoping that it does not fall down upon them. Thus,Yahud to date perform their prostration in this manner. They never place their forehead on the ground. (Tafseer Khazainul Irfaan).
395. When Hazrat Musa (On whom be peace) brought the entire Tauraat at one time to his people, they became frightened at looking at the restrictions placed upon them and refused to accept it. In response to this, a mountain from Sinai or Palestine whose startling appearance was a kilometer long, was uprooted and pitched upon them in the form of a canopy and were told accept this or it will fall upon you. From this one learns that the revelation of the Holy QUR'AAN over a period of twenty three years is Allah Almighty's Mercy as this made acting upon these laws easier. A free thinking temperament finds it difficult to act upon all the laws with such control.
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171. And (remember) when We Nataqna the mountain over them as if it had been a canopy, and they thought that it was going to fall on them. (We said): “Hold firmly to what We have given you ï´¿the Tawrahï´¾, and remember that which is therein (act on its commandments), so that you may fear Allah and obey Him.â€
`Ali bin Abi Talhah reported that Ibn `Abbas commented on the Ayah,
(And (remember) when We Nataqna the mountain over them), “We raised the mountain, as Allah’s other statement testifies,
(And for their covenant, We raised over them the mountain) ﴿4:154﴾.†Also, Sufyan Ath-Thawri narrated that Al-A`mash said that, Sa`id bin Jubayr said that Ibn `Abbas said, “The angels raised the Mount over their heads, as reiterated by Allah’s statement,
(We raised over them the mountain) ﴿4:154﴾.†Al-Qasim bin Abi Ayyub narrated that Sa`id bin Jubayr said that Ibn `Abbas said, “Musa later on proceeded with them to the Sacred Land. He took along the Tablets, after his anger subsided, and commanded them to adhere to the orders that Allah ordained to be delivered to them. But these orders became heavy on them and they did not want to implement them until Allah raised the mountain over them,
(as if it had been a canopy), that is, when the angels raised the mountain over their heads.†An-Nasa’i collected it.
132. The allusion here is to the event which took place when Moses proclaimed God’s Divine Law at the foot of Mount Sinai.
Then Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God; and they took their stand at the foot of the mountain. And Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire; and the smoke of it went up like the smoke of a kiln, and the whole mountain quaked greatly. (Exodus 19: 17-18.)
This awesome atmosphere was created by God at the time when He made the people of Israel enter into a covenant with Him in order to impress upon them the gravity of the event and the supreme importance of the covenant. It should not be mistakenly assumed, however, that the people of Israel, who were reluctant to make the covenant, were forced to enter into it. In fact they were all believers and had gone to the Mount merely to make the covenant. The extraordinary conditions which God created were such as to make the Israelites realize that making a covenant with God was not an ordinary matter. They were rather made to feel that they were entering into a covenant with none other than Almighty God and that violating it could spell their disaster.
This concludes the discourse especially addressed to the Israelites. From here on the discourse is directed to all mankind, and particularly to the people whom the Prophet (peace be on him) addressed directly.
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