THE EVIL EFFECTS OF AN EVIL SEED

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Category: Nabi Musa (Alayhis Salaam)

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      In Bani Israaeel there were two persons with the name of Musaa. Both were born during the time when Fir’oun was slaughtering all the male infants of Bani Israaeel. Both were hidden by their mothers. The one was Nabi Musaa (alayhis salaam).

   The other one was an illegitimate child. Fearing that he would be put to death, his mother hid him in a cave and closed the mouth of the cave with rocks. Then she departed. Allah Ta’ala dispatched Jibraeel (alayhis salaam) to tend to the abandoned infant. Hadhrat Jibraeel (alayhis salaam) appeared in human form in the cave. From one finger the baby was nourished with milk; from the second finger with honey and from the third finger with butter.

    Hadhrat Jibraeel (alayhis salaam) nourished and protected the baby until he was of age. Then he emerged from the cave.  This child was Saamiri mentioned in the Qur’aan. He had constructed the golden calf and induced Bani Israaeel to worship it. This was the consequence of his illegitimacy. The fruit of an evil seed is likewise evil.

   Since Saamiri was cared for by Jibraeel (alayhis salaam) during his childhood, he had acquired a spiritual attachment to Hadhrat Jibraeel (alayhis salaam). Therefore, he was able to recognize Hadhrat Jibraeel (alayhis salaam) when he had visited Nabi Musaa (alayhis salaam) in human form on horseback. When Saamiri saw that grass would instantaneously sprout out wherever the horse’s hooves made contact with the earth, he understood that the ‘person’ on horseback was Jibraeel (alayhis salaam). He gathered some of the soil on which the horse had trampled.

    After he had built the golden calf, he poured this sand into the calf and it started to make incomprehensible sounds. By this ruse Saamiri deceived Bani Israaeel into believing that the golden calf was a living god.