Translation:
We inspired Moses and his brother with this Message: "Provide 1468 dwellings for your people in Egypt, make your dwellings into places of worship, and establish regular prayers: and give glad tidings to those who believe!"
We inspired Moses and his brother with this Message: "Provide 1468 dwellings for your people in Egypt, make your dwellings into places of worship, and establish regular prayers: and give glad tidings to those who believe!"
Translation:
And [thus] did We inspire Moses and his brother: "Set aside for your people some houses in the city, and [tell them], `Turn your houses into places of worship, 107 and be constant in prayer!' And give thou [O Moses] the glad tiding [of God's succour] to all believers."
And [thus] did We inspire Moses and his brother: "Set aside for your people some houses in the city, and [tell them], `Turn your houses into places of worship, 107 and be constant in prayer!' And give thou [O Moses] the glad tiding [of God's succour] to all believers."
Commentary:
107 Lit., "a direction of prayer" (qiblah)-a metaphor meant to impress upon the children of Israel that their only salvation lay in God-consciousness and unceasing devotion to Him. The primary meaning of misr - usually rendered as "Egypt" - is "city" or "metropolis".
107 Lit., "a direction of prayer" (qiblah)-a metaphor meant to impress upon the children of Israel that their only salvation lay in God-consciousness and unceasing devotion to Him. The primary meaning of misr - usually rendered as "Egypt" - is "city" or "metropolis".
1468 This instruction, we may suppose, was given when the sorcerers were brought to confusion, and some of the Egyptians believed. Moses was for a little while to remain in Egypt , so that his Message should have time to work, before the Israelites were led out of Egypt . They were to make their houses into places of prayer (Qiblah), as Pharaoh would not probably allow them to set up public places of prayer, and they were now to be only sojourners in Egypt . The Qiblah was to be symbolical of their later wanderings in Arabia , and the still later restoration of Allah's pure worship at the Ka'bah under al Mustafa. These were the glad tidings (the Gospel) of Islam, which was preached under Noah, Abraham, Moses, and Jesus, and completed under Muhammad.