They Used to Hate Their Prophets
November 22, 2023 § Leave a comment
The Shaikh of Islaam Ibn Taymiyyah said, “The Jews used to hate their Prophets, so how will their hatred for the believers be?”
Daqāʾiqut-Tafsīr, vol. 2, p. 66.
“And ˹Remember˺ when We Took a Covenant from You and Raised the Mountain Above you ˹Saying˺, ‘Hold Firmly to that ˹Scripture˺ …” [2:63]
November 5, 2023 § Leave a comment
“It is reported that they refused to accept the rulings in the Tawrah due to how tough and weighty they were. So Allaah raised Mt. Ṭūr above their heads covering their encampment, which was a farsakh by a farsakh [a farsakh or ‘parasang’ is about 5.5 km] and they were told, ‘Either you accept what is in it or it will fall on you.’ So when they looked at the mountain each one of them fell into prostration on his left eyebrow while looking up at the mountain with his right eye scared that it would fall on them.”
Tafsīr ar-Rāzī.
And then, being cursed, they turned away again.
He is Closely Counting Every Single Thing They Do
November 1, 2023 § 2 Comments
Allaah said, “So do not be in haste against them ˹O Prophet˺, for indeed We are ˹closely˺ counting down their days.” [Maryam:84]
Aṭ-Ṭabarī said, “He عزّ ذكره is saying, ‘We only delay their destruction so that they can increase in sin. We are counting every single one of their deeds and adding them up—even the [very] breaths they take so that We can repay them for it all. And We have not left speeding up their destruction for any good that We have intended for them.’”
“Is it Him?” · Cursed of Old
October 31, 2023 § Leave a comment
Ibn al-Qayyim mentions, “Ibn Isḥāq mentioned from ʿAbdullah ibn Abī Bakr who said, ‘Someone told me from [the Mother of the Believers, the Prophet’s ﷺ wife] Ṣafiyyah bint Ḥuyay that she said, ‘I was the most beloved of my father’s children to him and likewise to my uncle Abū Yāsir [both of whom were Jews]. When Allaah’s Messenger ﷺ came to Medinah they both went to him in the morning and later returned in the evening.
So I heard my uncle say to my father: ‘Is it him?’
He replied: ‘Yes, wallāhī.’
He said: ‘Do you recognise him and affirm it?’
He said: ‘Yes.’
He said: ‘So what do you feel about him?’
He said: ‘Enmity for him, wallāhī, as long as I live.’’
[Then Ibn al-Qayyim said] so this Nation under Allaah’s Wrath [الأمة الغضبية] is well-known of times old for its enmity to the Prophets.”
Hidāyatul-Ḥayārā, p. 47.
The Rāfiḍah and Jerusalem
October 31, 2023 § Leave a comment
The Shaikh of Islaam Ibn Taymiyyah said, “The Rāfiḍah were one of the greatest reasons the Christians in the past were able to capture Bait al-Maqdis, until the Muslims were able to take it back from them.”
Minhāj as-Sunnah an-Nabawiyyah, 7/414.
The Nation Under Allaah’s Wrath
October 28, 2023 § Leave a comment
Ibn al-Qayyim said, “The nation under Allaah’s Wrath, the Yahūd: liars, slanderers, betrayers, deceivers, tricksters, murderers of Prophets, consumers of the forbidden, of usury and bribes, having the most malicious conscience of all nations, the most defective of them in character, the furthest removed from mercy, the closest to punishment, their very habit is hatred and malice, their custom enmity and hostility, a house of magic, lies and deceit, they hold no sanctity for anyone who opposes their disbelief and denials even if a Prophet, they honour not the bonds of kinship or treaties with the believers, nor [even] does anyone who agrees with them get any rights or pity, there is no justice or fairness for anyone who goes along with them, no serenity or peace for anyone who mingles with them, no love of good towards someone who might utilise/employ them, nay—their most intellectual is the most vile, their most truthful the most fraudulent, the one having a sound breast among them—and far be it that such a person be found from or among them—is not a Jew in reality, the most distressed among creation, the darkest houses and the most rotten courtyards, the wildest in character, their greeting is a curse, meeting them is misfortune, their inner-garment is anger, and their outer hatred.”
Hidāyatul-Ḥayārā, p. 15.
What Do You Expect when They Wanted to Stone Some of the Greatest of all Prophets to Death?
October 24, 2023 § Leave a comment
Ibn al-Qayyim said about the Jews, “Allaah split the sea in two for them and saved them from their enemy yet their feet hadn’t even dried when they said to Mūsā, “Make for us a god like their gods.” He replied, “Indeed, you are a really ignorant people!” [Al-Aʿrāf:138] … and even though they had witnessed signs and wonders they wanted to stone Mūsā and his brother Hārūn to death on numerous occasions even though revelation was still being revealed among them!”
Hidāyatul-Ḥayārā, p. 303.
What Can You Expect from the Murderers of Prophets?
October 23, 2023 § Leave a comment
Ibn al-Qayyim said about the Jews, “Murderers of Prophets. They murdered Zakariyā and his son Yaḥyā and many other Prophets—to such an extent that they killed seventy in one day and then set up a market at the end of the day as though they had done nothing.”
Hidāyatul-Ḥayārā, p. 48.
ُThe Future is for Islaam · “And ˹Remember, O Prophet,˺ when your Lord Declared that He Would Send Against them Others who Would Make them Suffer Terribly Until the Day of Judgment.”
October 20, 2023 § Leave a comment
“And ˹remember, O Prophet,˺ when your Lord declared that He would send against them others who would make them suffer terribly until the Day of Judgment. Indeed, your Lord is swift in punishment, but He is certainly All-Forgiving, Most Merciful.” [Al-Aʿrāf:167]
Ibn ʿAbbās said, “He would send against them others who would make them suffer terribly …”—Muḥammad ﷺ and his Ummah all the way up until the Day of Judgement.”
Tafsīr aṭ-Ṭabarī, vol. 9, p. 102.
Gifts of Knowledge 