Thus saith the Lord
Prophet: Musa aka Moses (pbuh)
Famous Next of Kin: Prophet Jethro was his father-in-law. Prophet Joseph was his great-great-(x?)-grandfather, I think.
He is: The One Who Took a Stroll In The Red Sea
Trailer: Ancient Egypt was ruled by a Pharoah, who wasn't very nice. He was mean to his slaves. Then he adopted one of them. The slave baby's name was Moses, who grew up and turned out very good except for the part where he killed an Egyptian to save one of his own people but that wasn't his fault really and he hadn't discovered God yet so he was still a little clueless at the time but he meant well. Anyway, Moses ended up leaving Egypt and headed for Midyan, where he met God masquerading as a Burning Bush. Then it got interesting.
Pop culture image: LET MY PEOPLE GO! - (standard catchphrase)
Notes: If only because of his sheer present day persona, Moses is the biggest of the prophets. Jesus doesn't really count because there's the whole god/prophet/god disagreement thing there, and Prophet Mohammed can't be visualised in this age where the visual medium is key. That leaves Moses, who's had a whole bunch of movies, cartoons and even musicals set in his name. After all, we've been fed a whole load of super-dramatic material surrounding his life: the thing with the basket on the river, the thing with the staff-slash-snake, the thing with the dozen plagues, and of course the thing with the parting of the Red Sea. I had dinner on the coast of the Red Sea twice, that was cool. Where was I? Oh right, Moses is a Big Name Prophet (I've mentioned that before, yes) but personally, I'd like for there to be more focus on the subsequent forty years Moses spent wandering the desert with his peeps, especially the part where he got 0wn3d by Prophet Khidr, I think. Or was he a saint? Are there even saints in Islam?
Tangent: Hey, Easter's this weekend! Wheeeeeee!
Famous Next of Kin: Prophet Jethro was his father-in-law. Prophet Joseph was his great-great-(x?)-grandfather, I think.
He is: The One Who Took a Stroll In The Red Sea
Trailer: Ancient Egypt was ruled by a Pharoah, who wasn't very nice. He was mean to his slaves. Then he adopted one of them. The slave baby's name was Moses, who grew up and turned out very good except for the part where he killed an Egyptian to save one of his own people but that wasn't his fault really and he hadn't discovered God yet so he was still a little clueless at the time but he meant well. Anyway, Moses ended up leaving Egypt and headed for Midyan, where he met God masquerading as a Burning Bush. Then it got interesting.
Pop culture image: LET MY PEOPLE GO! - (standard catchphrase)
Notes: If only because of his sheer present day persona, Moses is the biggest of the prophets. Jesus doesn't really count because there's the whole god/prophet/god disagreement thing there, and Prophet Mohammed can't be visualised in this age where the visual medium is key. That leaves Moses, who's had a whole bunch of movies, cartoons and even musicals set in his name. After all, we've been fed a whole load of super-dramatic material surrounding his life: the thing with the basket on the river, the thing with the staff-slash-snake, the thing with the dozen plagues, and of course the thing with the parting of the Red Sea. I had dinner on the coast of the Red Sea twice, that was cool. Where was I? Oh right, Moses is a Big Name Prophet (I've mentioned that before, yes) but personally, I'd like for there to be more focus on the subsequent forty years Moses spent wandering the desert with his peeps, especially the part where he got 0wn3d by Prophet Khidr, I think. Or was he a saint? Are there even saints in Islam?
Tangent: Hey, Easter's this weekend! Wheeeeeee!