Transliteration:( Summa ba'asnaakum mim ba'di mawtikum la'allakum tashkuroon )
101. Hazrat Musa supplicated to Allah to grant life to these 70 men or else the Bani Israel would accuse him of killing his group. Allah answered Hazrat Musa's, dua by bringing them back to life. From this incident we learn that the duas / prayers of the pious have great power in it. It can bring the dead back to life. Through their prayer one can get a second lease of life. Those 70 men who had been destroyed had completed their life span. Only when a person's life span is completed will die. Thus they were given a new life span through the blessed dua of Hazrat Musa which goes to prove that the dua of the pious can change one's destiny.
The tafsir of Surah Baqarah verse 56 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Baqarah ayat 55 which provides the complete commentary from verse 55 through 56.
71. The incident referred to here is the following. When Moses went to the mountain he had been ordered to bring with him seventy elders of Israel. Later, when God bestowed upon Moses the Book and the Criterion, he presented them to the people. Some mischief-makers, according to the Qur’an, began to complain that they could not believe in something just because Moses claimed that God had spoken to him. This invited the wrath of God and they were punished. The Old Testament, however, has the following account:
And they saw the God of Israel and there was under his feet as it were a pavement of sapphire stone, like the very heaven for clearness. And he did not lay his hand on the chief men of the people of Israel; they beheld God, and ate and drank’ (Exodus 24: 10-11),
Interestingly, it is stated later in the same book that when Moses requested God to show him His glory, God rejected the request and said: ‘You cannot see my face; for man shall not see me and live’. (See Exodus 33: 18-23).
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