Ayat 61. But when they reached
the junction of the two seas, they forgot their fish, and it took its way
through the sea as in a tunnel.
[Tafseer] This
episode in the story of Moses (PBUH) is meant to illustrate four points. (1)
Moses (PBUH) was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. Even so that wisdom
did not comprehend everything, even as the whole stock of the knowledge of the
present day, the sciences and the arts, and in literature, (if it could be
supposed to be gathered in one individual), does not include all knowledge.
Divine knowledge, as far as man is concerned, is unlimited. Even after Moses
(PBUH) received his divine mission, his knowledge was not so perfect that it
could not receive further additions. (2) Constant effort is necessary to keep
our knowledge square with the march of time, and such effort Moses
(PBUH) is shown to be making. (3) The mysterious man he meets, to
whom radiation assigns the name of Khidr (literally,
Green), is the type of that knowledge which is ever in contact with life as it
is actually lived. (4) There are paradoxes in life: apparent loss may be real
gain; apparent cruelty maybe real mercy; returning good for evil may really be
justice and not generosity. Allah's wisdom transcends all human calculation.
The most probable geographical
location (if any is required in a story that is a parable) is where the two arms
of the Red Sea join together, viz., the Gulf of 'Aqabah and the Gulf of Suez.
They enclose the Sinai Peninsula , in which Moses (PBUH) and the Israelites
spent many years in their wanderings. There is also authority for
interpreting the two seas as the two great streams of knowledge, which were to
meet in the persons of Moses(PBUH) and
Khidr.
Hazrat Ibn Abbas
(May Allah be pleased with them) reported: The Messenger of Allah 
[SAWW](PBUH) said, "There are no days during which the righteous action is so
pleasing to Allah than these days (i.e., the first ten days of Dhul-Hijjah).''
He was asked: "O Messenger of Allah
[SAWW](PBUH), not even Jihad in the Cause of Allah?'' He
[SAWW](PBUH) replied, "Not even Jihad in the Cause of Allah, except in case one
goes forth with his life and his property and does not return with either of
it.'' [Al-Bukhari
Book 02, Chapter 15, Hadith #
086].
Lesson : This Hadith brings out the following two points:
1. Righteous deeds during the first ten days of the month of Dhul-Hijjah
are far better and more rewarding than righteous deeds done on other days of the
year, because they are Hajj days in the sacred season of pilgrimage. Because of
their excellence and importance, Allah (SWT) swore by them, thus: "By the Dawn;
by the ten Nights...'' (89:1,2)
2. Jihad has great eminence in
Islam.
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