Moses said to him, “Shall I follow you…”

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

67. He [the servant] said, “Verily You will not be able to have patience with me.”

68. “And how are you to be patient about that which you have not been told about?”

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

70. He [the servant] said, “If you follow me, do not ask me about a thing until I speak to you about it.”﴿

From the beginning, Moses specified his objective and the reason for his following the Virtuous Servant, which is the knowledge,

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

So when the Virtuous Servant set out and had Moses pbuh with him, he committed actions which Moses pbuh is supposed to learn from, but we find that these actions, the first of which is carpentry, the second which is killing and the third which is the construction of a wall, these are primitive and simple actions, so what did the Virtuous Servant want to say to Moses pbuh or what did he want to teach him? Is it possible that the Virtuous Servant wanted to teach Moses these actions? Or did he want to tell Moses that there are unseen matters which you, Moses, do not know? And would you accept this for Moses bin Imran, while he is a prophet from the Uli Al-Azem from the messengers? Is Moses ignorant of the fact that the Knower of the unseen is Allah swt, and that He swt reveals some of the unseen to the messengers?

And then Moses requests the knowledge and says to the Virtuous Servant, “I shall follow you to learn from you.” And the Virtuous Servant speaks to him about patience, yet Moses still accepts and promises that he will be patient, but praise be to Allah and His will is compelling, that Moses was not able to fulfill his saying, rather it is as if he was compelled to fulfill the words of the Virtuous Servant,

“Verily You will not be able to have patience with me.”

So Moses was saying, “I will be patient,” and the Virtuous Servant said to him, “You will not be patient,” and the saying of the Virtuous Servant was fulfilled and the one to fulfill it was precisely Moses who vowed patience. And the test in patience is an important matter in the teaching of Moses pbuh;^[1] to bear with those who are beneath him and to be patient with them, because of their constant objections. So now, and in this situation, he was the one who objected and did not have patience. And he felt for himself how much patience the Virtuous Servant had with him, and how much he himself needed this patience from the Virtuous Servant in order to reach the truth.

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