Al-Furqaan (The Criterion)

35. “And indeed We gave Moses the Book and We appointed His brother Aaron with him (as his) assistant.”

This noble verse sympathizes on one hand with the Prophet (S) and the believers, and on the other hand it threats pretext-seeking polytheists the kind of whose words were somehow mentioned in the previous verses.

It also refers to the history of previous nations and their gloomy destiny and it specially puts emphasis on six nations (Pharaohs, Noah’s nation, the people of ‘Ad and Thamūd, the people of Lūt, and the people of the Ditch).

It concisely expresses lessons from the destiny of these nations.

It says:

“And indeed We gave Moses the Book and We appointed His brother Aaron with him (as his) assistant.”

For these two had a difficult and important duty on their shoulder for struggling with Pharaoh people and they had to do this revolutionary job with the help of each other.