AL-QURAN

The unbeatable history book

Nana Aisha
 Introduction
Al-Quran is the book that was revealed to
prophet Muhammad (S.A.W) from Allah (S.W.T)
through Archangel Jibril in the cave of Hira in the
year 610 A.D.

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 Table of content
The story of the cow
Ibrahim (A.S) and the arrogant king
Ibrahim (A.S) and the birds
Uzair and the upturned city
The birth of Isa (A.S)
Musa (A.S) and his people
The people of the cave
Salih (A.S) and the miracle camel
Owners of the elephant
The people of the ditch

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 The story of the cow
There was a wealthy man among the Bani Israel
who had substantial wealth. He didn’t have anyone
to inherit his wealth, except one nephew. Therefore,
his nephew killed him out of greed and selfishness so
that he could immediately inherit the wealth. The
other members of Bani Israel then found out the
wealthy man had been murdered and wanted to
know who committed the murder. So they decided to
go to Musa (A.S) and ask him since they decided he
should be the arbitrator.

When they came to Musa (A.S) and told him

everything that happened, Musa (as) asked Allah
(swt) what the people should do. Allah (S.W.T) then
instructed Musa (A.S) to tell them to slaughter a cow
and take a place of its flesh and put it on the dead
man’s body. Musa (A.S) said this would be the way
for them to find out who the murderer was, At once,
the people ridiculed and accused Musa (A.S) for
joking. They made fun of him and said you want us
to kill a cow to find out who the murderer is?

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“Surely Allah commands you that you should
sacrifice a cow”; they said: “Do you ridicule us?”
Surah al-Baqarah, Ayah 67
So they decided, to mock Allah (swt) and Musa (as)
and asked Musa (as), what kind of cow it should be?
Musa (as) was so disappointed in his people and said
it can be any kind of cow, yet the Bani Israel were
rebellious and arrogant and wanted to make things
more difficult. So, they said:
“Call on your Lord for our sake to make it plain to
us what she is”. Musa said: “He says, Surely she is a
cow neither advanced in age nor too young, of
middle age between that (and this); do there­fore what
you are commanded ”