In our last post we saw the standards Allah gave so we could recognize true prophets – that they foretell the future as part of their message. The Prophet Musa (PBUH) himself applied this rule – making predictions about the future of the Israelites – ones that had to come true if his message was from Allah. These predictions were coming Curses and Blessings on the Israelites. You can read the complete Blessings and Curses here. The main points are below.
And Allah warned that the worst part of the Curses would come from others.
Did The Blessings and Curses of Musa come to pass?
The Blessings promised were wonderful, but the Curses threatened were severe. However, the most important question we can ask is: ‘Did these things happen?’ In answering this we will see whether Musa (PBUH) was a true prophet and we will gain guidance for our lives today.
The answer is within our grasp. Much of the Old Testament of al Kitab is the record of the history of the Israelites and from that we can see what happens. Also we have records outside the Old Testament, from Jewish historians like Josephus, Graeco-Roman historians like Tacitus and we have found many archeological monuments. All of these sources agree and paint a consistent picture of the history of the Israelites. This is another Sign for us. Here is an overview of the history of the Israelites pictured with Timelines to help us see better what happened in their history.
What do we see from this history? Yes indeed the Curses of Musa, terrible as they were DID come to pass – and exactly like he wrote down those thousands of years ago – before it all happened (Remember these predictions were not written down after they happened but before).
But the Curse of Musa did not end there. It continued. Here is how Musa (PBUH) concluded these curses.
An obvious question to ask (again) is: Did that happen? Click here to see the continuation of their history.
With these Blessings and Curses, the Taurat is concluded. The Prophet Musa (PBUH) dies shortly after it is completed. Then the Israelites, under the successor to Musa – Joshua – enter the Land. As explained in the History of the Israelites, they lived there without a King and with no capital city until the great King Dawood or Dawud (or David) rose to power. He started a new section of the Old Testament which the Qur’an affirms as the Zabur. We need to understand the Zabur because it continues the Signs started in the Taurat – that will help us understand the Injil. Next we see how the Qur’an and Isa al Masih speak of Dawood (PBUH) and the Zabur.
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