The Story of Musa (a.s.) & Qarun
بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ The following is extracted from the “Scent of Saintliness”, a Ramadhan series of swuhbah , by Shaykha Aminah Adil ( q.s. ), wife of Shaykh Muhammad Nazhim Adil al-Haqqani ( q.s. ). These are stories told from the times of the Ottoman Empire, and are not necessarily accurate. When Musa (as) went up Mount Sinai, he told his people he would be gone for forty days. But Bani Isra’il, in those days, counted the day as one, and the night as one too. So they reached forty days in half the time, and they thought that, because of their sins, their prophet had been taken away from them. Earlier, when Musa (as) had led them out of Egypt, they had crossed the Red Sea safely by Allah’s ( s.w.t. ) Permission. Pharaoh and his armies following behind them had been drowned when the sea closed back over them. All the soldiers, with their armour, their weapons, their gold and silver, were swallowed by the sea. ...