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learned of righteousness?'
'You will not bear patiently with me,' he replied. 'For how can you bear patiently
with that which you have never encompassed in your knowledge?'
He (Moses) said, 'If Allah wills, you shall find me patient, I shall not disobey your
order.' He said, 'If you follow me, you must not question me about anything till I
myself speak to you concerning it.' So they departed and when they boarded a
ship, he bored a hole in it. 'What! Have you made a hole in it,' he asked, 'to
drown its passengers? You have done a dreadful thing!' 'Did I not I tell you that
you would not bear patiently with me?‟ he replied. Moses said, 'Do not blame me
for what I forgot, nor press me to do something which is too difficult,' and so they
moved on.
Thereafter they met a boy and he killed him. He (Moses) exclaimed, 'What! Have
you killed a pure soul and it was not done (in retaliation) for a soul? You have
done a terrible thing!'
'You will not bear patiently with me,' he replied. 'For how can you bear patiently
with that which you have never encompassed in your knowledge?'
He (Moses) said, 'If Allah wills, you shall find me patient, I shall not disobey your
order.' He said, 'If you follow me, you must not question me about anything till I
myself speak to you concerning it.' So they departed and when they boarded a
ship, he bored a hole in it. 'What! Have you made a hole in it,' he asked, 'to
drown its passengers? You have done a dreadful thing!' 'Did I not I tell you that
you would not bear patiently with me?‟ he replied. Moses said, 'Do not blame me
for what I forgot, nor press me to do something which is too difficult,' and so they
moved on.
Thereafter they met a boy and he killed him. He (Moses) exclaimed, 'What! Have
you killed a pure soul and it was not done (in retaliation) for a soul? You have
done a terrible thing!'