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Ukranian woman married in Kashmir urges PM Modi to stop war by using his rapport with Putin

Ukranian woman married in Kashmir urges PM Modi to stop war by using his rapport with Putin Pulwama: A Ukrainian lady married in Tral region of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Thursday appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to use his influence to stop the aggression on her native country. Aliza, who adopted the name Asiya after converting to Islam, is the wife of Bilal Ahmed, a businessman…

oho, what is this? a drawing? a sketcheroo? a doodle of some sort??

In Exodus/Shemot 2:5, the Egyptian woman who rescues Moses from the river is identified as “Pharaoh’s daughter,” not Pharaoh’s wife. For the longest time, I assumed that The Prince of Egypt’s alteration of the story to have the Pharaoh’s wife adopt Moses was purely a narrative choice. In order for Moses and Rameses to see each other as brothers, they had to be raised as brothers with the same parents.

However, in the Quran’s version of the story, it is Pharaoh’s wife who adopts Moses. In the Torah, Pharaoh’s daughter, who is named Bithiah by midrash, is given little characterization. By contrast, the Quran’s account says that Pharaoh’s wife, whose name is given as Asiya, was so compassionate and loved her adopted child so dearly that she eventually joined the Israelite religion.

The Prince of Egypt quotes the Quran in the ending credits, and the artbook lists four sources on the Quran that were consulted for the film: The Holy Quaran: Text, Translation, and Commentary by A. Yusuf Ali, The Message of the Qur’an by Muhammad Asad, Tafsir-Ul-Qur’an: Translation and Commentary of the Holy Qur’an by Maulana Abdul Majid Daryabadi, and Prophets in the Qur’an by Iftekhar Hussain. 

Given this, it’s likely that the filmmakers were aware of the Quran’s version and that it influenced their writing of Queen Tuya. Tuya’s royal position and love for Moses (complicated though it is by the ethics of his adoption) are drawn from the Quran much more so than from the Torah or the Christian Bible. 

Death of Asiya  / via dirtanddustt

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