Inspiring Children - Moses and his sister

I am continuing my series of blogs on inspirational children with Moses and his older sister. In my opinion, Moses’ birth reflects the struggle between right and wrong, justice and oppression. 

In the year when Moses (PBUH) was born, the ruling Egyptian pharaoh decided to kill all baby boys born to Israelites.  The Security and Secret Service broke down all the doors in order to find and dispose of baby boys. However, Moses’ mother was guided by God who told her to wrap her son in a blanket and put him in a basket and put it into the river Nile. She was shocked, but obeyed God and after little Moses was in the basket, floating away on the river, she asked her daughter to look out from the river bank to see where the tide would take her brother.

Both the mother and the daughter were shocked to see that God, in His infinite wisdom, took Moses to the house of the enemy who wanted to kill him mercilessly, the pharaoh’s palace. Moses’s sister had the enormous courage to go to the palace to check on his welfare. Had she been discovered, it’s likely she would have been punished. She found out that little Moses refused to feed from the wet nurse and cried day and night due to hunger. She had the strength and courage to appear before Pharaoh and his wife and ask for the crying Moses to be given in her care, as she knew someone who could feed him. Pharaoh and his wife consented and Moses was taken back to his real mother, unbeknownst to them.

Moses’s sister is an example of a fearless child, trying to do the right thing and help her brother and her mother.

Moses himself (PBUH) showed tremendous strength as a child. When he was playing with Pharaoh, as a toddler, he pulled a hair from his beard. This angered Pharaoh very much, so much that he wanted to have Moses killed. His wife intervened and saved him, but Pharaoh swore revenge and put little Moses to the test. He ordered his guards to bring a sweet and a piece of burning coal. They were put on the table and Pharaoh told his wife: “if Moses touches the sweet, I will have his head cut off. If he touches the burning coal, I will pardon him”.

Little Moses was nearly touching the sweet, but then put the burning coal into his mouth. This brave act saved his life and he went on to become a great man, an inspiration to us all.


To be continued...