And [recall] when Moses prayed for water for his people, so We said, "Strike with your staff the stone." And there gushed forth from it twelve springs, and every people knew its watering place. "Eat and drink from the provision of Allah, and do not commit abuse on the earth, spreading corruption." And [recall] when you said, "O Moses, we can never endure one [kind of] food. So call upon your Lord to bring forth for us from the yields of the earth its herbs and its cucumbers and its garlic and its lentils and its onions." [Moses] said, "Would you exchange what is better for what is lower? Go down to 'Egypt' (Misr), for you will have what you have asked!" And they were struck with humiliation and poverty and drew upon themselves wrath from Allah. That was because they [repeatedly] disbelieved in the signs of Allah and killed the prophets without right. That was because they disobeyed and [habitually] transgressed.} (Al-Baqarah 57-61)

Abu Sa'id, the struggler in the way of Allah, narrated in the book (Al-Ma'arif) on the authority of al-Hamadhani, from Abu Sa'id, from Ibn Sinan, who said:

"Indeed, the five [items] requested by the Children of Israel are the nourishments of the body (aghdhiyat al-jasad). Thus, [Moses] said to them: {Would you exchange what is lower} (Al-Baqarah 61)—referring to that which sustains the body—