# Why did Moses have to strike the sea with his staff for it to part?

*Brain chips, and why Moses struck the sea with his staff*

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/s/36/
- Date: 2021-01-19 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #198 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:43:20–2:45:11)
- Status: general teaching
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv-BlBVTr4M&t=9800s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/

**Topics:** Moses; Quran and science

**Question as asked:** What is your understanding of Moses being instructed to strike the sea with his staff for it to part and save the Children of Israel?

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** The sea did not part instantly but over a long while, Mufti Abu Layth says; striking it showed the Israelites the way would be through it.

**Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** Mufti Abu Layth says the sea did not just part; it took a long while.

**Evidence, his words at 2:43:20:** “the general description is that the sea didn't just part it took a long while” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv-BlBVTr4M&t=9800s)

## Longer summary

Mufti Abu Layth first says that talk of neural links and brain chips will require religion to start having those conversations. Asked why Moses was told to strike the sea with his staff for it to part, he says the sea did not simply part but took a long while, and that the strike was in some ways a ritual showing the Children of Israel, who complained of being trapped between the sea and Pharaoh's chariots, that the way would be through the sea. He cites research by Colin Humphreys and others documenting seas parting at the Gulf of Aqaba as a gradual process that may take a few hours, which he says matches the narrations that it took a whole night and the sea had parted by morning.

## Sources and names cited

- Musa (Moses)
- Pharaoh
- Colin Humphreys
- the Exodus

## Transcript (machine tier, 2:43:20–2:45:11)

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[2:43:20] religion play a role in this yeah I mean it will require to start asking you know having those conversations prepared to have any conversations um what is your understanding of Moses being instructed to strike the sea with his staff and for it to part save the children of of Israel the general description is that the sea didn't just part it took a long while but this was a kind of I suppose in some ways it's a ritual in some ways it's kind of showing them that

[2:43:58] look have hope in me this is the way it's going to be because the story is that the children of Israel said to Moses where have you brought us this is a dead end see in front of us and pharaoh and his chariots behind us right so here this striking the sea to kind of show that actually the way will be through here and like I mentioned in Colin Humphries and other people in their research show at the Gulf of akaba how other people have also documented the Seas to part but it is a gradual process that may take a few hours as actually

[2:44:37] are the narrations that it took a whole night and it was in the morning that the sea had parted cool all right we've done that people let's uh let's move move on let's move on to something a bit more uh let me add a little bit of spice spice people let's add a little bit of spice H this one this one I'll below it I'll below it I below it so peoples I below

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## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment Hv-BlBVTr4M/s/36. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/s/36/

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