The Prophets, Their Lives and Their Stories: Moses: Aaron as A Henchman as Moses Requested

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Aaron as A Henchman as Moses Requested Thr request of Moses to make his brother Aaron as a henchman for him because he was more eloquent in speech than him is something weird since before and then after, and it might be as a joke and a mysterious secret. They said many things about it, and it is weird because God is the One that sent him (as a prophet) and everything is under His control, so as He sent him as a prophet and taught him and made him able and made his stick do many amazing deeds, He, the Exalted, was able also to make him the most eloquent of all the creations, and as He wants and wishes, and if He wanted Moses to be the most eloquent in every tongue and language He would make him, as He gave him the miracles in lot of situations, for He does what He wants and does not do what He wants as well and He shall not be asked about His deeds but only them would be asked. God has a wisdom in everything He does that a servant may catch some of it or may catch nothing of it, some gave reasons for such a request from Moses to God, to make Aaron as his henchman and a messanger to the pharaoh, which is something considered as we appointed before, and that is because Moses had an accent in his language and that because when he was a child at the house of the pharaoh, he (the pharaoh) put him on his lap and he (Moses) cought his beard and the pharaoh got frustrated and wanted to kill him but his wife Âsiyyah bent Mozâhim made an excuse for this and said: he has no mind and not able to think, and suggested to test him by putting dates and live coals in front of him, and when they did so, he (Moses) took a live coal abd put it into his mouth and so it had an effect on his tongue, and for this Moses grew up with some difficulties in his speech, but some other said that when his mother put him in the ark and threw him into the waters and then been picked up by the household of the pharaoh, God forbade the midwives for him and he stayed for three days without breastfeeding until his mother came, so they made this as a reason for his speech problem.
They say also that Moses went out of Egypt a long time ago and he stayed in Midian for a long time so he forgot the Egyptian language which is the language of the coptic people and because there are no one that could speak to him with this language, but as for Aaron he was living among the Egyptians and so he had more knowledge in their language, and so on of such useless stories they said about this matter that must not be discussed or even looked at but only to know what had been said. Yes, Aaron being more eloquent in speech than Moses is something that quran mentioned as attributed to Moses, so God said: My brother Aaron is more eloquent than me in speech. Therefor send him with me as a helper to confirm me(Al-Qasas:34), and also quran pointed out that there was a problem with the speech of Moses for God's saying: And loose a knot from my tongue, That they may understand my saying(TaHa:27-28), and the pharaoh mocked at him because of his problem in speech by saying: I am surely better than this fellow, who is despicable and can hardly make (his meaning) plain!(Al-Zokhrof:52), and yes it might be that they barely understood him and they did not understand his language clearly as they do understand each other, for any reason, and we shall say: at any time or place did kings follow the truthful men? Needless to say those who called themselves as gods and everyone else are servants for them just as the pharaoh, and at any time did the Israelites feel safe with him while he was killing their children and captivate their women and see no dignity for any elder or chief? But as for Aaron he was, for the pharaoh, an innocent man that had no sins or crimes recorded against him and he spent a long time among them (the coptic people) without any problems and everyone used to hear to him when he speaks and his intercession was accepted, but as for Moses (PUH) he was grown up in the house of the pharaoh and he was beloved, but at the end they considered him a betrayer and so he had no dignity in their eyes, but for them he is the first enemy, and so how come they accept any sermon or hear for him while he is their enemy, and they knew for sure that he was the one that commited the crime when he fled away after discovering his deed, and he addmited: He said: My Lord! Lo! I killed a man among them and I fear that they will kill me(Al-Qasas:33), and also he said: And they have a crime against me, so I fear that they will kill me(Al-Shu`arâ':14), and so if this is his situation with them how come they will listen to him or even look at any condition of his conditions? The tyranny of the pharaoh and his pride, and he is the one who said: I (Pharaoh) am your Lord the Highest(Al-Nâzi`ât:24) and also he said: I know not that ye have a god other than me(Al-Qasas:38), they keep listening to Moses far away and this tyrant would not understand the speech of Moses because of his tyranny, and does anyone hope that this tyrant would listen to the one who he had grown up in his house and then killed someone from his people? No and No, and for this reason Moses asked from his Lord to make Aaron a henchman for him to express for them what he wants because he can make them understand what they do not understand from Moses (PUH).
Some faithful sermons sayers said about Moses' saying: And loose a knot from my tongue, That they may understand my saying(TaHa:27-28) what has a general meaning of that he was speaking to his Lord saying that "I am shy to speak to You with my tongue that I do use to speak with others, thus my shyness had become a knot in my tongue so Loose it," and they said about his saying: Appoint for me a henchman from my folk, Aaron, my brother(TaHa:29-30), that he was asking God to appointment Aaron as his henchman to avoid speaking to them with a tongue that he spoke to God with. That might be of truth somewhat, although prophets used to speak to God and His enemies with the same tongue and it is better to reach the desired results and among them (the prophets) there are who is even of higher place than Moses and among His enemies there are who is worse than the pharaoh.

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