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« on: December 11, 2012, 03:43:31 am »

OK sis ....  now this was your question, right?


Hummm ..
My question is .. as I was just wondering .. during the period of the Pharaohs when the Jews were living as low caste in Egypt and working like away slaves, were they followers of Tawheed or what?

Like I said, very thoughtful query.  I'll put up a detailed response with the Quran as my Sole Criterion as commanded by Allah.

It's hard to confirm that.  It's possible that Allah had sent a messenger to them hundreds or thousands of years ago telling them to embrace Monotheism (or Tawheed) but gradually with the passage of time these Hebrews became slack.  It's also hard to confirm exactly when and how they became the low caste of Egypt during the reign of the Pharaohs just the way it's hard to confirm how the caste system began in India which exists up to this day.

In the presence of so many unconfirmed and unknown aspects concerning the Hebrews, the bible writers have taken the advantage by making up tons of stories as and when the bibles kept getting altered, written, and re-written throughout the centuries to suit their needs.  In the process, they brought up their own connections between Prophet Abraham and the Hebrews which in my opinion, the Quran does NOT refer NOR does it give any reasons to presume.  The Muslim view of Prophet Abraham and his family having Hebrew connections is clearly from the altered bibles.

To answer your question, I will quote directly from the altered bible as an example.  I will first paraphrase the biblical information of how they constructed the connection between Abraham's family and the Hebrews, and then I will also quote those verses of the altered bible which is taken from the biblical version named "King James" - 'Exodus 1:8-14' -

It says that famine broke out in the land of Canaan (ancient name of today's Gaza) during the period when Prophet Yusuf (Josef) was in Egypt.  The circumstances of Prophet Yusuf being in Egypt is correct because that is confirmed by the Quran, Surah Yusuf, Chapter 12.  I won't repeat the Quranic information of Prophet's Yusuf's life as given in Surah 12 because  we all know it.  Therefore, keeping the Quranic information of Surah 12 in mind, we can compare the Hadith /Christian views and separate the truth from the guesswork along with the root of constructing a Hebrew connection for Prophet Abraham's family.

Now let's briefly check the biblical story of Prophet Yusuf in the altered bible which constructs this connection.

The bible says that Yusuf was sold by his brothers into slavery and he was taken to Egypt.  He ended up in the Pharoah's house and eventually became second in command to Pharaoh.  When Yusuf's brothers came from Canaan to Egypt during the famine to seek food, Yusuf instructed them to bring their father, Jacob (Yakob) with his entire family and settle in Egypt  (as we know, Jacob was the grandson of Abraham).  Subsequently Jacob and his family moved to Egypt, and in Egypt their help was requested for building two cities for the Pharaoh.  Those two cities were called Pitom and Ramsees.  Initially they were paid for their services.  But with the death of Jacob and all his sons, including Yusuf, and with new Pharoahs coming to power who forgot the greatness of Yusuf and his ancestors, the relationship between the descendents of Jacob and the Pharaoh rulers changed and the rulers started treating them like slaves.   The bible further adds that one of the 12 sons of Jacob (brother of Yusuf) was called Levi.  He was the longest surviving brother and died last of all, and Levi was not involved in this employment relationship with the Pharaoh.  The bible also mentions that his descendents were known as the tribe of Levi who did not work as slaves for the Pharaohs.  But these verses of the altered bible do not mention how the two big Hebrew tribal clans named "Israel" and "Judah" were formed.  From where did they get these names?

Next step ::  Now let's check how much of the above information is compatible with the Noble Quran. 

First of all, the Quran does not mention any of the names of Prophet Yusuf's brothers.  There's no one called "Levi" in the Quran.   The Quran also does not mention the exact number of brothers Yusuf had.  The Quran does tell us that Yusuf ended up in Egypt and in the ruler's house, and that he eventually became a custodian of the  store-house of food grains.  But the Quran does not give us any reason to presume that Yusuf became second in command to the Pharaoh.  Being a custodian of the store-house is very different from being the number 2 of the country.  Then again, yes, the Quran does tell us that in the end after he confronted his brothers of what they had done to him, Yusuf called his parents to Egypt and his parents did arrive in Egypt.  But whether or not Yusuf and his parents and the entire family stayed in Egypt forever is not confirmed by the Quran .. and therefore there is no question of confirming that they had an employment agreement with the Pharaoh.  Subsequently there is also no way of confirming that their families got divided into tribal clans in Egypt later know as the Hebrew tribe across thousands of years.

It is also interesting to note the contradiction within the altered biblical information itself.  This version of the altered bible from which I've taken the information I've mentioned above presumes that Jacob, his son Yusuf and all of their immediate family lived, worked and died in Egypt and their tribal clans also sprouted henceforth.  Contents of other biblical versions claim that Prophet Yusuf (Josef) died in Palestine.  Some biblical information presume that Yusuf died in the city of Hebron, which is situated in today's Israeli occupied West Bank and is quite far from both Canaan (Gaza) and Egypt.  In fact, the Jews and Christians also claim that Yusuf's tomb in situated in the south corner of the 'sanctuary of the partiarchs' known as Al-Haram-Al-Ibrahimi in Hebron (West Bank, Palestine).  So, if Yusuf and his family lived permanently in Egypt, how come Yusuf's tomb is all the way in Hebron?

The man-written biblical stories on all prophets from Noah to David and Soloman are in a total mess because of the constant interference and alterations of the truth.  Jewish rabbis and Christian clerics of every generation tampered with the Divine Scrupture, changing the original and replacing it with their own stories.  Obviously it will be full of contradictions, unconfirmed information and glaring falsehoods.   

Hence, as Allah says, we must use only the Noble Quran as our Sole Criterion for judging true or false and right or wrong.  If there's any story which does not conform with the Quran because the Quran does not mention it, then we must leave it there with the words "Allah knows best" and NOT build our own stories to attract the readers' attention.  This is how lies and falsehoods are created and once created, they keep proliferating. 




Btw ..

The following is the biblical quote which I've paraphrased above:  It's from "king James version - Exodus, 1:8-14"

8 - Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.
9 - And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we:
10 - Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.
11 - Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.
12 - But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
13 - And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour:
14 - And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
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