So they found a servant of Ours…

65. ﴾So they found a servant of Ours, on whom We had bestowed Mercy from Us and whom We had taught knowledge from Our own Presence.

66. Moses said to him, “Shall I follow you, so that you may teach me from that which you had been taught in guidance?﴿

Moses came to learn from the Virtuous Servant, so is Moses more knowledgeable than the Virtuous Servant??

It must be paid attention to that the Divine Law states that the higher in rank leads the one lower than him, as the height of his rank makes him dominant and commanding with the knowledge and ability over those who are lower than him. So it is inconceivable that Allah appoints the ignorant one or the one lesser in knowledge over the knowledgeable one who knows the truths. So the discussion concerning the knowledge of the Virtuous Servant and the knowledge of Moses pbuh is settled by the Quran, that the Virtuous Servant is more knowledgeable than Moses pbuh thus the apology of Moses pbuh to the Virtuous Servant,

﴾You would then have been fully excused from me.﴿,

proves this, and the strictness of the Virtuous Servant with Moses pbuh, and this is an example of it,

﴾“If you follow me, do not ask me about a thing until I speak to you about it.”﴿,

proves this. Rather it appears clearly in this verse and the verses before it that the Virtuous Servant treats Moses pbuh like he [the Virtuous Servant] is more knowledgeable than him and that he wants to teach him, since he repeats to him several times the request to stay silent and to be patient about what he sees. And this is before the journey starts and Moses agrees to this matter wholeheartedly,

﴾He [Moses] said, “You will find me, if Allah wills, to be patient and not disobeying a command of yours.”﴿

And this verse is clear and obvious that Moses pbuh is submissive to this servant, docile to his commands, because he is commanded by Allah to do so. The truth is that it is like the command of Allah to the angels to prostrate to Adam pbuh, and this is clear from the saying of Moses,

﴾“You will find me, if Allah wills, to be patient and not disobeying a command of yours.”﴿.

The truth is that the time of the Virtuous Servant has not come yet, but when he descended to teach Moses in this physical world and Moses and he gathered, he became the proof [of Allah] upon Moses, and Moses cannot say anything in the existence of the Virtuous Servant other than,

﴾“and not disobeying a command of yours.”﴿

As for those who attempted [to interpret] these verses and made Moses more knowledgeable from one aspect and the Virtuous Servant more knowledgeable from another aspect, this is something which, if they did not engage in, would have been better for them, as the knowledge from Allah swt in the paths of the Skies, the jurisprudence, and the unseen is determined by the rank of the human being so it is not possible that Allah swt overflows knowledge upon a servant of a lower rank in knowledge which is greater than the knowledge overflowed upon a servant of a higher rank. This is not because He swt is incapable of doing so, but rather because in its truth, the issue is one, which is the overflowing of knowledge and the rank. So it cannot be said that Moses is more knowledgeable in some things and the Virtuous Servant is more knowledgeable in other things. The most knowledgeable here is most knowledgeable in all matters. We are not talking about two books of physics and chemistry, rather we are talking about the Kingdom of Heavens and the jurisprudence. We are talking about the Religion of Allah swt with which the prophets came. And the percentage of the matters of religion to the prophet and to the sent successor is one, and not a multiple or a varied percentage. So he from them who knows what is in the Kingdom of Heavens to a certain percentage knows the jurisprudence by the same percentage. So if the Virtuous Servant is more knowledgeable than Moses in the unseen matters and the paths of Skies, then he is certainly more knowledgeable than Moses in the jurisprudence as well. And if Moses is more knowledgeable than the Virtuous Servant in the jurisprudence then he is certainly more knowledgeable than him in the unseen matters and the paths of Skies.

And it cannot be said that Moses is absolutely more knowledgeable than the Virtuous Servant; how could that be while the Quran has narrated to us clearly that Moses came to learn from the Virtuous Servant just like the angels learned from Adam pbuh. So nothing is left except that the Virtuous Servant is absolutely more knowledgeable than Moses.

As for those who attempted [to interpret] this Quranic story, they have stumbled in regards to the Virtuous Servant and it was too difficult for them to picture a servant, whose identity or name was not declared by the Quran, to be more knowledgeable than Moses the prophet, who is from the messengers from Uli Al-Azem. They also did not know that the Virtuous Servant is a human who descended to this physical world to teach Moses, and that his era had still not come. The fact that the Virtuous Servant was named Al-Khidr^[1] in some narrations propelled them to disparage him and deny his clear and obvious Quranic right, which is that he is more knowledgeable than Moses, without paying attention to the fact that Al-Khidr is an attribute and not a name, which can be attributed to more than one Divine character considering that they pbut leave behind green land, which means from the religion, meaning that they spread the religion, as the green color indicates religion.

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