The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 1) — Page 146
CH. 2 AL-BAQARAH PT. 1 وَاِذْ قُلْنَا ادْخُلُوا هذِهِ الْقَرْيَةَ فَكُلُوا مِنْهَا And remember the time. 59 "when We said, "Enter this حَيْثُ شِئْتُمْ رَغَدًا وَ ادْخُلُوا الْبَابَ - village and eat therefrom سُجَّدًا وَ قُوْلُوْا حِظَةٌ تَغْفِرْ لَكُمْ and enter the gate submissively خطيكُمْ وَسَنَزِيْدُ الْمُحْسِنِينَ wherever you will-plentifully; and say, 'God! forgive us our sins. ' We shall forgive you your sins and We shall give increase to those who do good. "65 a7:162. Lord spoke unto Moses, saying, have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I am the Lord your God. And it came to pass that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host. And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground. And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat. " When the children of Israel got no food in the wilderness and death stared them in the face, they began to murmur against Moses and Aaron. They said to them: "Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness to kill this 146 whole assembly with hunger" (Exod. 16:3). These murmurings of the Israelites were answered in the passage quoted above. The Holy Prophet refers to the Manna bestowed on the Israelites in the following, ḥadīth. Says he: "The mushroom is one of the things included in the Manna, and the sap of it heals the eye" (Bukhārī). He is also reported to have said: "The mushroom is among the things which God bestowed upon Moses, as a free gift" (Muḥīt). This shows that God provided the Israelites with a number of things in the wilderness, sometimes with one thing and sometimes with another. The verse does not mention how the Israelites "wronged themselves". But as God speaks here of the favours bestowed upon them, it is evident that they wronged themselves by showing ingratitude and by murmuring and complaining of their lot in spite of God's special favours. By doing so, however, they did no harm to God or His Messenger, but only harmed their own souls. 65. Important Words: (submissively) is derived from