Now we come to read the third part of the story of Moses in the above passage of Qurän.

      When he was matured and well established, God gave him wisdom and knowledge. Moses was a good-doer and a virtuous youth, and his piety brought him the necessary merits of being especially favoured by his compassionate Lord. As to the question what age was that of his maturity and establishment, one view is that; full age or maturity is that time when a person has been brought by natural process to completeness of growth and development. The age of maturity for the prophet might be different. Our prophet reached maturity for his prophetic mission, when he was forty years old; when his physical build was completed and his mental and moral habit formed.

      Therefore when Moses came out from the king's palace and went to the city, his external as well as internal development was perfect. So he went into the outer world to be tried and proved, to develop enough for his divine mission.

      One day Moses left the palace and went to the town, in a time that he could be unnoticed by the townsfolk; because it was a time of break and untracked of the routine business, which might have been at noon.

      In the time he went out all the business in the town had been suspended. He might have deliberately chosen that time, because a courtier in the king's palace was not free to wander about at anytime he liked. Moses was visiting the city privately and without any body guard.

      There in the town he encountered with a quarrel that was broken between two men; friend and a foe; or say it, an Israelite and one Egyptian.

      The Israelite appealed to Moses against the Egyptian. Moses who found the Israelite in an oppressed and helpless condition, went forth and with the intention of separating them he struck the Egyptian on the chest, by a fist; and the man suddenly died!

      When he died, Moses was filled with sorrow, and trembled with the fear for having committed a sin; and said:-

      ``This was of the work of Satan, because he is an open misleading enemy to Man.''

      As a matter of fact, Moses did not mean to kill the chap. He struck him so as to release the collar of the Israelite but the Egyptian died at once.

      When so, Moses was filled with sorrow, regret, and repentance for what he had done. Then in order to obtain God's forgiveness, in a fervent prayer he said and vowed:-

      ``My Lord! I have oppressed my soul. So forgive me. Then Allah forgave him that He is All-forgiving Compassionate.''