of them the sea and behind them
started appearing the army of
of Moses, peace be upon him, were
says in the Quran, after Moses says
struggling to escape the Labyrinth
that, “Thereupon his Lord said…”
pharaoh, so they became frightened
and said we are caught and did not
turn to the one who guided them to
that place, who was a great Prophet
sent by Allah Exalted, so he alerted
that Pharaoh and his people were
trying to keep them entangled in.
‘Thereupon...’ God inspired him to
strike the sea after Moses had
So escaping the Labyrinth will be
earned the ability to do so by his
and always has been something for
which you have to struggle. It is a
certainty. Was the staff of Moses the
real instigator of the miracle? Or
them to that fact that they were
emigrating in the way of Allah by
him saying: [Moses] said,
difficult thing to do, to fight the
was it his certainty?
"No! Indeed, with me is my Lord;
He will guide me." Surat Shuara
were struggling to migrate from
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earn that freedom, they had to face
people who are trying to come in
the way of yourself and your
freedom. The people of Pharaoh
Pharaoh's tyranny and in order to
the fear of annihilation.
God revealed to him to strike with
his staff the sea and so the sea split But there were many things that
for him; because the sea is a slave came in the way of their migration
besides Pharaoh. And those
from the slaves of Allah and it has
not the ability to stand as an
obstacle in front of that devoted
and relying servant of Allah and
that sea is not able to stand as an
obstacle in front of Moses, peace
be upon him, because Moses was a
Human and everything in Earth
was created to serve the man, who
is the creature with the vastest
ability to know Allah. But if he
What miracle has come into being
without certainty? And surely the
way out of this dunya involves
abilities and a journey that is
beyond this world, it involves being
able to believe to such a degree that
fear of anything other than Allah
becomes distasteful. This brings us
to knowing that Certainty is the
goal, as faith has degrees and the
obstacles serve as reminders to us
highest degree of faith is certainty
of what weapons were used against
these obstacles by the ones facing
and there is no certainty without
them, in order to elevate away from
labyrinth is a struggle.
works. And so the escape from the
them.
From the Qur’an,“So Moses
The Red Sea came in the way of the conceived in his mind a fear. We
Children of Israel and their freedom
and at that point, what did the
Children of Israel do? They thought
it was the end, that they would be
said, fear not, surely you shall be the
uppermost, And cast down what is
in your right hand; it shall devour
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what they have wrought; they have
wrought only the plan of a
Allah curse all oppressors, had won.
But even the Red Sea can’t come in magician, and the magician shall
not be successful wheresoever he
the way of God’s plans. Which is
may come from. And the magicians
why Moses, peace be upon him,
said, “By no means! Surely my Lord were cast down making obeisance;
is with me, He will show me a way they said: We believe in the Lord of
Aaron and Moses.” (20:67-70)
out.”
There is something very important
And it was that certainty he had,
These verse depict an event that
in this part in particular that should
that God would help them, which
occurred prior to the parting of the
(man) obeyed Satan, he becomes
more ignorant and harsher than
stone and of the stones is the one
out of which water explodes out of
and of them is that which drops
down out of fear of Allah.”