“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.’”
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.
“Cursed were those who disbelieved among the Children of Israel by the tongue of David and of Jesus, the son of Mary. That was because they disobeyed and [habitually] transgressed.” [Maaʾidah:78]
October 16, 2023 § Leave a comment
Ibn ʿAbbās said, “They were cursed with every tongue. Cursed in the time of Moses (alaihis-salām) in the Tawrāh. Cursed in the time of David (alaihis-salām) in the Zabūr. Cursed in the time of Jesus (alaihis-salām) in the Injīl. And cursed in the time of Muhammad ﷺ in the Qurʾān.”
Mujāhid said, “They were cursed by the tongue of David and so become apes. And they were cursed by the tongue of Jesus and turned into pigs.”
Tafsīr aṭ-Ṭabarī.
The Young Ibn Taymiyyah and the Jew
May 20, 2020 § Leave a comment
Al-Bazzār said, “And the signs of eminence and superiority could be seen in him from an early age.
That he was under [Divine] protection was clear.
Someone I trust told me from his grandmother that when the Shaikh, may Allah be pleased with him, was still a child and would go to school he would come across a Jew whose house was on the way who would put questions to him due to the intelligence and acumen he noticed in him. Ibn Taymiyyah would answer him swiftly which amazed him. This continued such that every time he went by him he would tell him things proving the falsehood of what he believed.
It wasn’t long before the Jew became a Muslim, and a good one at that.
And this was from the blessings of the Shaikh despite his young age.”
Al-Aʿlām al-ʿAliyyah fī Manāqibi Shaikhil-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah, p. 21.
Ibn al-Qayyim on Whether the Prophet Muhammad Forced People to Enter Islaam
June 12, 2013 § Leave a comment
Ibn al-Qayyim said, “So when Allaah sent His Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم, most of the people of other religions responded to him and to his Khulafaa after him out of their own freewill and of their own choosing–and he never once forced anyone to enter the religion ever.
Rather he would only fight those who declared war against him and fought him, he never fought or forced to enter the religion those who kept peace with him and had a truce with him, in conformance with the order of his Lord سبحانه where He said:
“There is no compulsion in religion.” [Baqarah 2:256]
And this is a negation in the form of a prohibitive order, i.e., ‘Do not force anyone to enter the religion.’
This aayah was revealed concerning some of the Companions who had children who had become Jews or Christians before Islaam, so when Islaam came and the fathers became Muslims they wanted to compel their children to enter it, so Allaah سبحانه forbade them from doing that, such that they themselves should be the ones who choose to enter Islaam …
And it will become clear to whoever ponders the biography of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم that he never forced anyone to enter the religion ever, and that he only fought those who fought him. And as for those who made a treaty with him, he did not fight them as long as they stuck to their treaty and did not break their covenant. In fact, Allaah, the Most High, ordered him to be faithful to the treaty between them as long as they upheld it, as He said:
“So long as they are true to you, stand you true to them.” [Tawbah 9:7]
And when he came to Medinah he made peace with the Jews and acknowledged their religion, so when they waged war against him and broke their covenant with him and initiated fighting [against him], he fought them and so was gracious to some of them, expelled some and killed some.
Likewise when he had a truce with the Quraish for ten years he never initiated any fighting against them until they themselves were the ones who started fighting him and broke their covenant, so it was then that he raided them … and they were the ones who would invade him before that just as they had set out for him on the Day of Uhud and the Day of the Trench and the Day of Badr too. They came to fight him–and if they had turned away he would not have fought them.
The point is that he صلى الله عليه وسلم never ever forced anyone to enter his religion.
Rather people entered his religion out of their own choosing and freewill, so most of the people in the world embraced his call when the guidance became clear to them and when it became clear to them that he truly was the Messenger of Allaah.”
Abridged from Hidaayatul-Hayaaraa fi Ajwibatil-Yahudi wan-Nasaaraa, pp. 29-30.
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