Musa (Moses)Kalimullah (The one to whom Allah spoke directly)

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Key Miracles

• The Staff (al-'Asa): turned into a real serpent, split the Red Sea, and produced water from rock
• The White Hand (al-Yad al-Bayda'): his hand turned brilliant white without disease
• Nine great signs sent to Pharaoh: the staff, white hand, famine, floods, locusts, lice, frogs, blood, and the plague
• Splitting of the Red Sea (Bahr al-Qulzum) and the destruction of Pharaoh's army
• The Torah (Tawrah) revealed to him on Mount Sinai (Tur Sina)
• Manna and quails provided for the Israelites in the wilderness
• Water gushing from the rock when he struck it with his staff: twelve springs for twelve tribes

Key Stories

• Born at a time when Pharaoh was killing all newborn Israelite males; his mother placed him in a basket on the Nile
• Found by Pharaoh's wife Asiyah, who convinced Pharaoh to spare him; raised in the palace of his oppressor
• Accidentally killed an Egyptian man while defending an Israelite; fled to Madyan
• Met Prophet Shu'ayb in Madyan, married his daughter, and worked for him for ten years
• The burning bush at the Valley of Tuwa: Allah spoke to him directly and appointed him as a Prophet
• Confrontation with Pharaoh and the court magicians; the staff became a serpent that swallowed all their illusions
• The Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt
• The parting of the Red Sea; destruction of Pharaoh and his army as they pursued
• Forty nights on Mount Sinai receiving the Torah and the Tablets
• Return to find his people worshipping the Golden Calf, made by al-Samiri
• The Israelites' long wandering in the wilderness as punishment for refusing to enter the Holy Land
• His meeting with al-Khadir (al-Khidr): the story of hidden wisdom and divine decree
• The Prophet Muhammad ﷺ met Musa on the Night of the Ascension (al-Mi'raj)