ٱلْقَصَص : ٢٩

  • فَلَمَّا Then when
  • قَضَىٰ Musa fulfilled
  • مُوسَى Musa fulfilled
  • ٱلۡأَجَلَ the term
  • وَسَارَ and was traveling
  • بِأَهۡلِهِۦٓ with his family
  • ءَانَسَ he saw
  • مِن in
  • جَانِبِ (the) direction
  • ٱلطُّورِ (of) Mount Tur
  • نَارٗاۖ a fire
  • قَالَ He said
  • لِأَهۡلِهِ to his family
  • ٱمۡكُثُوٓاْ Stay here
  • إِنِّيٓ indeed, I
  • ءَانَسۡتُ [I] perceive
  • نَارٗا a fire
  • لَّعَلِّيٓ Perhaps
  • ءَاتِيكُم I will bring you
  • مِّنۡهَا from there
  • بِخَبَرٍ some information
  • أَوۡ or
  • جَذۡوَةٖ a burning wood
  • مِّنَ from
  • ٱلنَّارِ the fire
  • لَعَلَّكُمۡ so that you may
  • تَصۡطَلُونَ warm yourselves
And when Moses had completed the term and was traveling with his family, he perceived from the direction of the mount a fire. He said to his family, "Stay here; indeed, I have perceived a fire. Perhaps I will bring you from there [some] information or burning wood from the fire that you may warm yourselves."
So when Moses had completed the term, of his tending - of eight years, or of ten years, which is what is generally assumed - and was travelling with his family, his wife, with the permission of her father, in the direction of Egypt, he ﷺ in the distance on the side of the Mount [Toor] a fire (al-Toor is the name of a mountain). He said to his family, 'Wait, here; I see a fire in the distance. Maybe I will bring you from it news, about [how to rejoin] the route [to Egypt] - for he had strayed from it [along the way] - or a brand (read with any of the three vowels [jadhwa, jidhwa, or judhwa], which [either] means 'a bundle', or 'a flame') from the fire, that you may warm yourselves' (tastaloona: the taa' replaces the taa' of the [8th verbal paradigm] ifta'ala of the verb saliya, or salaya).