What Prayer Saved Moses and the Believer from Their Enemies' Plots?
ما الدعاء الذي نجّى موسى والمؤمن من مكر أعدائهما؟
The Prophet of Allah Moses, peace be upon him, sought refuge in Allah: "I seek refuge in my Lord and your Lord from every arrogant person who does not believe in the Day of Reckoning." (Ghafir 40:27)
As for the believing man, he declared his trust in Allah and entrusted his affairs to Him, so that He would judge between him and his people with the truth.
("And I entrust my affairs to Allah. Surely Allah is All-Seeing of all His servants.") (Ghafir 40:44) ("So Allah protected him from the evil of their schemes.") (Ghafir 40:45). Note: the original answer labelled these verses 40:43-44; they are verses 44 and 45, so the reference has been corrected.
نبي الله موسى عليه السلام فقد لجأ إلى الله وتعوذ به: "وَقَالَ مُوسَىٰ إِنِّي عُذْتُ بِرَبِّي وَرَبِّكُم مِّن كُلِّ مُتَكَبِّرٍ لَّا يُؤْمِنُ بِيَوْمِ الْحِسَابِ" (غافر 40: 27)
أما الرجل المؤمن فقد أعلن توكله على الله وتفويض الأمور إليه ليحكم بينه وبين قومه بالحق: "وَأُفَوِّضُ أَمْرِي إِلَى اللَّهِ إِنَّ اللَّهَ بَصِيرٌ بِالْعِبَادِ" (غافر 40: 44) "فَوَقَاهُ اللَّهُ سَيِّئَاتِ مَا مَكَرُوا" (غافر 40: 45) (ملاحظة: كانت الإحالة في الجواب الأصلي إلى الآيتين 43-44، والمقتبس من الآيتين 44 و45، فصُحّحت.)
1. Two Different Threats, Two Different Prayers | تهديدان مختلفان، دعاءان مختلفان
Moses faced a tyrant directly threatening his life, and his prayer names the specific danger he sought refuge from, arrogant disbelief in accountability itself. The believer faced his own people's scheming, and his response was not refuge from a named threat but total submission of the outcome to Allah's judgment: "So Allah protected him from the evil of their schemes" (40:45). The two prayers fit their two different situations exactly. What a believer says when calamity strikes is covered in what a believer should say when a calamity strikes, and how this believer went on preaching to his people in how the believer completed his sermon to his people.
واجه موسى طاغيةً يهدد حياته مباشرة، ويسمي دعاؤه الخطر المحدد الذي استعاذ منه، وهو الكِبر وإنكار المساءلة نفسها. أما المؤمن فواجه مكر قومه، وكان رده لا استعاذةً من خطرٍ مسمى بل تسليمًا كاملًا للنتيجة لحكم الله: "فوقاه الله سيئات ما مكروا" (غافر 40: 45). ويلائم كل دعاءٍ موقفه تمامًا.
2. Both Prayers Answered | إجابة الدعاءين معًا
The believer's own fuller story, his identity, his sermon defending Moses, and how his plea was answered, is covered in how this believer defended Prophet Moses, while Moses' own confrontation with Pharaoh over the same threat is covered in why Pharaoh decided to kill Moses.
قصة المؤمن الكاملة، هويته وخطبته دفاعًا عن موسى وكيف أُجيب دعاؤه، مشروحةٌ في صفحةٍ مستقلة، بينما مواجهة موسى نفسه مع فرعون بشأن التهديد ذاته مشروحةٌ في صفحةٍ أخرى.
Frequently Asked Questions | الأسئلة الشائعة
What did Moses pray when Pharaoh threatened him?
He sought refuge in Allah from every arrogant person who does not believe in the Day of Reckoning.
How did the believing man respond to his own people's plot?
He entrusted his affairs entirely to Allah, who then protected him from their scheme.