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The place of Aaron in Quran.

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The Quran doesn't confirm everything in the Torah. However, there is probably nothing taught in the Torah which you can't find some hadith to support it.

With Aaron, something very odd, happens in the Torah with respect to him and his family. The Torah starts by initiating a very important dialogue about the chosen ones from the offspring of Abraham. It then does a similar type promise to Aaron and his offspring, almost as if to say, the talk of the household of Abraham was all to make way for the Aaron and his family and the covenant in this respect. But then God goes against this promise and goes out of his way to say that he no longer will uphold the everlasting covenant to Aaron and his offspring.

The Quran in the story of Talut, in fact, says the family of Aaron is the same as the family of Moses, and they are one family, those who inherited the sign/proof of the authority.

Something also odd takes place, in that, all Messengers take the role of leading their community at a point, they are leaders who guide by God's command and take on this position of Navigating society. Yet, Aaron is supposed to have died before Moses' according to hadiths and the Torah, and it's said also that he was older than Moses.

This is very peculiar, because God always makes the younger Messengers and Prophets inherit the older, and let's the older lead first.

But can this be refuted at all by Quran? I will say in the following places, we can find logic that refutes it.

In the Torah, Moses' prays right away that God will remove the knot on his tongue by the one God will send. But God get's upset and says you have Aaron. Why would God be upset with him?

If it was a physical tongue, no Messenger in the deep future can God remove the knot on his tongue. And so this should be seen as a metaphor. And as Moses was one God sent, what does it mean the one God will sent but to be universal one that God has sent to all humans?

But the response that he should put his hopes in Aaron, actually, does prove Aaron to be his successor. The reason is, he is saying, you should prepare your people so that you make way for Aaron who would relieve the knot on your tongue and clarify the truth. You should put your hopes that people would hear the wisdom soon after your death, even, though you know it's impossible to achieve in your life time, limited by the circumstances you are.

The Quran paraphrases this prayer of Moses in response and collectively they show it's about being more conveying in speech and this not due to a fault of Moses' but rather as said to Mohammad "we know your heart is constricted by the words they say." Aaron is not better in speech because he is more talented at speaking, but rather, it's due to the circumstances Aaron would find himself in. So Aaron as a Successor who building on top of Moses' revelation, and God would reveal a revelation to Aaron as Prophet, could build up and even with people obeying Moses and Aaron, lift the knot of the tongue of Moses. In other words, Aaron was the way for the knowledge in the heart of Moses' to spread.

Another place, is that, the two people who alone feared God alluded to in Quran are Moses and Aaron, and Moses said "I do not control over anyone but myself and my brother...". This means everyone else at that time was not suited for succession and Yushua son of Noon was alive during that time.

Another thing is Yushua ibn Noon, is not mentioned once in Quran. Not once. It doesn't confirm him at all.

The only way the prayer of Moses' makes any sense - especially in context of the prayer for "the one who God will send" and it being response after God emphasizes on Aaron and way of submitting to God's choice is that Aaron succeeds Moses'.

There is also the Twelve branches as ways and Captains. The covenant of Moses is emphasized in that respect, but in other places, it emphasizes that he took the mountain over them. The mountain be it a physical mountain at that point would symbolize something and Aaron means High Mountain, or Exalted Mountain, and we can gather that God emphasized on Aaron and his successors with the covenant.

In fact another thing to say, is God doesn't have these exceptions with his Messengers. One Messenger is important, another one is not, one plays a big role, another just a slight role, none of this is true.

Rather, Aaron and his family were to be like Abraham and his family, and the covenant didn't break, but rather distortion took place in this respect.
 

Wasp

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"God gets upset"???!

May I ask, whose interpretation/commentaries of the Qur'an have you studied?
 
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