The Appointed Term
وَوَاعَدْنَا مُوسَىٰ ثَلَاثِينَ لَيْلَةً وَأَتْمَمْنَاهَا بِعَشْرٍ فَتَمَّ مِيقَاتُ رَبِّهِ أَرْبَعِينَ لَيْلَةً ۚ وَقَالَ مُوسَىٰ لِأَخِيهِ هَارُونَ اخْلُفْنِي فِي قَوْمِي وَأَصْلِحْ وَلَا تَتَّبِعْ سَبِيلَ الْمُفْسِدِينَ {142}
And We Appointed thirty nights for Musa and Completed it with ten (more), so the complete ‘’مِيقَاتُ time (term) with his Lord was of forty nights. And Musa said to his brother Haroun: ‘Be my Caliph among my people and be righteous, and do not follow the way of the mischief makers’ [7:142]
القمّيّ مقطوعاً و نسب حديثه في المجمع إلى الباقر عليه السلام و الصادق عليه السلام قال
(Tafseer) Qummi – An extract, and he linked his Hadeeth in Al-Majmua to Al-Baqir-asws and Al-Sadiq-asws having said:
وَ أَمَّا قَوْلُهُ وَ واعَدْنا مُوسى ثَلاثِينَ لَيْلَةً- وَ أَتْمَمْناها بِعَشْرٍ فَتَمَّ مِيقاتُ رَبِّهِ أَرْبَعِينَ لَيْلَةً فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ أَوْحَى إِلَى مُوسَى أَنِّي أُنْزِلُ عَلَيْكَ التَّوْرَاةَ الَّتِي فِيهَا الْأَحْكَامُ إِلَى أَرْبَعِينَ يَوْماً- وَ هُوَ ذُو الْقَعْدَةِ وَ عَشَرَةٌ مِنْ ذِي الْحِجَّةِ
And as for His-azwj Words: And We Appointed thirty nights for Musa and Completed it with ten (more), so the complete time with his Lord was of forty nights [7:142] – Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic Revealed unto Musa-as: “I-azwj shall Reveal the Torah unto you-as in which were Ordinances to forty days” – and it is (the month of) Zul Qadah and ten from Zil-Hijja.
فَقَالَ مُوسَى لِأَصْحَابِهِ- إِنَّ اللَّهَ تَبَارَكَ وَ تَعَالَى قَدْ وَعَدَنِي- أَنْ يُنْزِلَ عَلَيَّ التَّوْرَاةَ وَ الْأَلْوَاحَ إِلَى ثَلَاثِينَ يَوْماً، وَ أَمَرَهُ اللَّهُ أَنْ لَا يَقُولَ إِلَى أَرْبَعِينَ يَوْماً فَتَضِيقَ صُدُورُهُمْ
(Prophet) Musa-as said to his-as companions: ‘Allah-azwj Blesse and Exalted has Promised me-as that He-azwj would be Revealing the Torah unto me-as and the Tablets, to thirty days’ – and Allah-azwj had Commanded him-as that he-as should not be saying: ‘To forty days’, for it would constrict their chests.
فَذَهَبَ مُوسَى إِلَى الْمِيقَاتِ- وَ اسْتَخْلَفَ هَارُونَ عَلَى بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ فَلَمَّا جَاوَزَ الثَّلَاثُونَ يَوْماً وَ لَمْ يَرْجِعْ مُوسَى، غَضِبُوا فَأَرَادُوا أَنْ يَقْتُلُوا هَارُونَ وَ قَالُوا إِنَّ مُوسَى كَذَبَنَا وَ هَرَبَ مِنَّا وَ اتَّخَذُوا الْعِجْلَ وَ اعبدوه [عَبَدُوهُ]
Musa-as went to the appointment and made Haroun-as the Caliph upon the Children of Israel. When the thirty days were exceeded and Musa-as did not return, they got angry, and they intended to kill Haroun-as, and they said, ‘Surely, Musa-as lied and has fled from us (God Forbid), and (we should) be taking to the calf and worship it’.
فَلَمَّا كَانَ يَوْمُ عَشَرَةٍ مِنْ ذِي الْحِجَّةِ أَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ عَلَى مُوسَى الْأَلْوَاحَ وَ مَا يَحْتَاجُونَ إِلَيْهِ مِنَ الْأَحْكَامِ- وَ الْأَخْبَارِ وَ السُّنَنِ وَ الْقِصَصِ
‘When it was the ten days from Zil-Hijja, Allah-azwj Revealed unto Musa-as, the Tablets and whatever they would be needy to him-as for, from the Ordinances, and the news, and the Sunnahs, and the stories’.[1]
[1] تفسير القمي، ج1، ص: 240