الآية رقم (248) - وَقَالَ لَهُمْ نِبِيُّهُمْ إِنَّ آيَةَ مُلْكِهِ أَن يَأْتِيَكُمُ التَّابُوتُ فِيهِ سَكِينَةٌ مِّن رَّبِّكُمْ وَبَقِيَّةٌ مِّمَّا تَرَكَ آلُ مُوسَى وَآلُ هَارُونَ تَحْمِلُهُ الْمَلآئِكَةُ إِنَّ فِي ذَلِكَ لآيَةً لَّكُمْ إِن كُنتُم مُّؤْمِنِينَ

(248) - (And their prophet said to them, "Indeed, a sign of his kingship is that the chest will come to you in which is assurance from your Lord and a remnant of what the family of Moses and the family of Aaron had left, carried by the angels. Indeed in that is a sign for you, if you are believers.")

( وَقَالَ لَهُمْ نَبِيُّهُمْ إِنَّ آيَةَ مُلْكِهِ..) (And their prophet said to them, “Indeed, a sign of his kingship is…): Allah (swt) wanted to support this chosen king by a miracle to prove that he is the chosen king, not a prophet but one among them who had been chosen by the Almighty. The miracle of the king was:

(أَن يَأْتِيَكُمُ التَّابُوتُ فِيهِ سَكِينَةٌ مِّن رَّبِّكُمْ وَبَقِيَّةٌ مِّمَّا تَرَكَ آلُ مُوسَىٰ وَآلُ هَارُونَ تَحْمِلُهُ الْمَلَائِكَةُ ۚ) (..that the chest will come to you in which is assurance from your Lord and a remnant of what the family of Moses and the family of Aaron had left, carried by the angels…): What is that chest? Have we heard of it? When Moses’ mother was concerned about him, Allah (swt) revealed to her:

 {أَنِ اقْذِفِيهِ فِي التَّابُوتِ فَاقْذِفِيهِ فِي الْيَمِّ فَلْيُلْقِهِ الْيَمُّ بِالسَّاحِلِ يَأْخُذْهُ عَدُوٌّ لِّي وَعَدُوٌّ لَّهُ }

([Saying], ‘Cast him into the chest and cast it into the river, and the river will throw it onto the bank; there will take him an enemy to Me and an enemy to him..)  (Taa-Haa: 39)

So, the chest mentioned in the Holy Qur’an is the one inside which Moses (PBUH) was put and casted into the river by Moses’ mother. It is one of the remnants of Moses (PBUH), and the king would bring it. The question here is who has brought the remnants of prophets and saints which have been destroyed by the Takfiris, who have also destroyed the tombs and all Islamic ruins there!!!!

When the chest in which Moses (PBUH) was put and casted into the river is seen, belief and tranquility must fill up the human entity. Likewise, your heart is filled up with tranquility when you see the Holy Quran, one of the hairs of Prophet Muhammad (saws), the ring of him (saws), or when you see the Qur’an (book) on which the blood of Othman (may Allah be pleased with him) spilled. Just imagine that once you open it, you are told that this is the book of Qur’an which Othman was reading when he was killed. How would be the belief and tranquility within you? Therefore, the remnants of prophets, saints and heavenly people bring tranquility to one’s heart. Allah (swt) is the One Who says so, not us. Wahhabism, however, has fought against this concept. Yet, this is the strongest response to them.

Hence, the sign of the kingship of that king was that he would bring the chest, and the question here is where is that chest? What happened to it? The companions of Moses and his brother, Aaron, used to keep the remnants of Moses and Aaron, which were preserved generation after generation till they went out in thousands fearing death. So, they looked forward to see those remnants after that. After that, they were told that the sign of Saul’s kingship was:

(أَن يَأْتِيَكُمُ التَّابُوتُ فِيهِ سَكِينَةٌ مِّن رَّبِّكُمْ وَبَقِيَّةٌ مِّمَّا تَرَكَ آلُ مُوسَىٰ وَآلُ هَارُونَ تَحْمِلُهُ الْمَلَائِكَةُ ۚ) (..that the chest will come to you in which is assurance from your Lord and a remnant of what the family of Moses and the family of Aaron had left, carried by the angels…): The rest of the remnants of the families of Moses and Aaron is the staff of Moses (PBUH) which he had thrown and turned into a serpent, manifest; with which he had struck the sea and the latter parted; and with which he had struck a stone and water gushed forth from it. So, is it reasonable that they did not take it since it’s part of the remnants of Moses? It must have been in the chest. Let’s notice here:

( آيَةَ مُلْكِهِ أَن يَأْتِيَكُمُ التَّابُوتُ ۚ  ..  ) (..a sign of his kingship is that the chest will come to you…): The chest would not come on its own, and Saul was not carrying it. So, does it walk on its own? The answer is:

( تَحْمِلُهُ الْمَلَائِكَةُ  ..  ) (..carried by the angels…): In fact, it walks before you while you do not see the angles, and Saul did not carry it. So, the sign of Saul’s kingship is that the chest would come.

( إِنَّ فِي ذَٰلِكَ لَآيَةً لَّكُمْ إِن كُنتُم مُّؤْمِنِينَ   ) (... Indeed in that is a sign for you, if you are believers.”.): It is a miracle if you are believers