Yazma cildi 3 · Sayfa 305

هو ذاك الذي كان يحسن إلي»، ومعلوم أنه هو.

فيقال له سيعود معك إلى سيرته الأولى من الإحسان إليك، وهو في صورته ما تغير، ولكن تغير عليك فعله معك. وقدم الله هٰذا لموسى عليه السلام توطئة لما سبق في علمه سبحانه أن السحرة تظهر لعينه مثل هٰذا، فيكون عنده علم من ذٰلك حتى لا يذهل ولا يخاف إذا وقع منهم عند إلقائهم حبالهم وعصيهم وخيل إلى موسى أنها تسعى.

(خوف موسى الأول والثاني)

يقول له فلا تخف إذا رأيت ذٰلك منهم، يقوى جأشه. فلما وقع من السحرة ما وقع مما ذكر الله لنا في كتابه وامتلأ الوادي من حبالهم وعصيهم ورآها موسى فيما خيل له حيات تسعى، ﴿فَأَوْجَسَ في نَفْسِهِ خِيفَةً مُوسى﴾ [طه: ٦٧].

فلم تكن نسبة الخوف إليه في هٰذا الوقت نسبة الخوف الأول، فإن الخوف الأول كان من الحية ف﴿وَلَّى مُدْبِراً ولَمْ يُعَقِّبْ﴾ [النمل: ١٠] حتى أخبره الله تعالى. وكان هٰذا الخوف الآخر الذي ظهر منه للسحرة على الحاضرين لئلا تظهر عليه السحرة بالحجة، فيلتبس الأمر على الناس. ولهٰذا قال الله له: ﴿لا تَخَفْ إِنَّكَ أَنْتَ الْأَعْلى﴾ [طه: ٦٨].

ولما ظهر للسحرة خوف موسى مما رآه وما علموا متعلق هٰذا الخوف أي شيء هو، علموا

the same one who used to treat me kindly,” although it is known that he is the same person.

One says to him: he will return to his former conduct of treating you kindly. His form has not changed; what has changed toward you is his action in dealing with you. God presented this to Moses, peace be upon him, as preparation for what He, glorified is He, already knew: the sorcerers would make something like this appear to his eyes. He would thus possess knowledge of it, so that he would not be bewildered or afraid when it happened through them, as they cast down their ropes and staffs and it was made to appear to Moses that they were moving.

(Moses’ First and Second Fears)

He tells him: do not fear when you see this from them, strengthening his heart. When the sorcerers did what God has mentioned to us in His Book, the valley filled with their ropes and staffs, and Moses saw them, as they were made to appear to him, as moving serpents. “Moses felt fear within himself” [Ta Ha 20:67].

The fear attributed to him at this moment was not of the same kind as the first fear. The first fear was of the serpent, so “he turned away in flight and did not turn back” [al-Naml 27:10], until God Most High informed him. This later fear, which became apparent to the sorcerers, was for those present, lest the sorcerers prevail against him in argument and the matter become confused for the people. For this reason God said to him: “Do not fear; you are the uppermost” [Ta Ha 20:68].

When the sorcerers saw Moses’ fear at what he had seen, without knowing what that fear concerned, they knew