The Bible's Burning Bush Explained
Islam, too, incorporates their own understanding of the burning bush incident, which varies from both Jewish and Christian interpretations. There are three separate mentions of this story of Moses in the Qur'an, but only one of them mentions the burning bush. According to Sura 28:30, "And when [Musa, or Moses] came to it, a voice was uttered from the right side of the valley in the blessed spot of the bush, saying: O Musa! surely I am Allah, the Lord of the worlds" (via The Spirit of Islam).
The Qur'annic version of the story strips it of the Jewish salvation tale and instead solidifies the common revelation that Allah is the only true God. Yet, in Esra Akin-Kivanc's study on "Mirror Writing in Islamic Calligraphy," "Moses's metaphysical experience [of the burning bush] can be considered ... viewing a muthanna: one's enlightenment is circumscribed by one's level of preparedness and receptivity." In other words, the form a revelation takes is due to the reality of our want or need. Kivanc notes that Musa needed fire for his family, so he saw the revelation of Allah as a bush on fire. The content of the revelation may be completely holy and other, but the form in which the revelation takes, according to Kivanc, is relative to the desire of the witness.
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