Stories of the Prophets – Lut (as)

<div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/bismillah-31.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #b85b5a; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Bismillah-hir Rahman-nir Raheem (in the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful)" height="63" src="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/bismillah-31.jpg?w=267&h=63" style="border: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="bismillah 3" width="267" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Prophet Lut (as) was sent to a people who were at the heights of a crime that is becoming widespread and common today – homesexuality and sodomy. It is important that people realise that homosexuality and sodomy is haraam and not down to genetics. This is a behaviour that is wrong and goes against the nature of creation. Nowadays you will have all sorts of excuses, pretending that there’s nothing wrong with homosexuality, that its a lifestyle choice. More disturbing is that many youth are now experimenting in homosexuality, whilst at school, college and university. Recently, laws in Europe have opened the way for gay marriages, another step towards making wrong seem right.</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> This is what happens when you don’t have a moral compass to guide your actions and guide how a country is governed. It is not the place of any government, any human being to change the Laws of Allah. You even find today cases where homosexuals claim to be Muslim – however that is a contradiction – you cannot be a Muslim and homosexual at the same time.</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Learn about the story of Sodom and Gomorrah in the true Islamic context and in the book: <a href="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/stories-of-the-prophets-by-ibn-kathir.pdf" style="border: 0px; color: #b85b5a; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Stories Of The Prophets By Ibn Kathir</a>.</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/stories-of-the-prophets-pbut.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #b85b5a; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" height="263" src="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/stories-of-the-prophets-pbut.jpg?w=300&h=263&h=263" style="border: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="stories-of-the-prophets-pbut" width="300" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <strong><a href="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/stories-of-the-prophets-by-ibn-kathir.pdf" style="border: 0px; color: #b85b5a; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Stories Of The Prophets By Ibn Kathir</a></strong></div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The following are some snippets of the Stories of the Prophets as written by the renowned scholar (masha’Allah), Ibn Kathir and translated by Sheikh Muhammad Mustafa Geme’ah (Office of the Grand Imam, Sheikh Al-Azhar). I hope you will find them beneficial, insha’Allah.</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <strong>THE MOB AT LUT’S HOUSE</strong><br />When darkness fell on the town, Lot escorted his guest to his home. No one was aware of their presence. However, as soon as Lot’s wife saw them, she slipped out of the house quietly so that no one noticed her. Quickly, she ran to her people with the news and it spread to all the inhabitants like wildfire. The people rushed towards Lot quickly and excitedly. Lot was surprised by their discovery of his guests. and he wondered who could have informed them. The matter became clear, however, when he could not find his wife, anywhere, thus adding grief to his sorrow.</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> When Lot saw the mob approaching his house, he shut the door, but they kept on banging on it. He pleaded with them to leave the visitors alone and fear Allah’s punishment. He urged them to seek sexual fulfillment with their wives, for that is what Allah had made lawful. Lot’s people waited until he had finished his short sermon, and then they roared with laughter. Blinded by passion, they broke down the door. Lot became very angry, but he stood powerless before these violent people. He was unable to prevent the abuse of his guests, but he firmly stood his ground and continued to plead with the mob.</div>

Stories of the Prophets – Lut (as)

Prophet Lut (as) was sent to a people who were at the heights of a crime that is becoming widespread and common today – homesexuality and...

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Stories of the Prophets – Hud (as)

<div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/bismillah-31.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #b85b5a; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Bismillah-hir Rahman-nir Raheem (in the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful)" height="63" src="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/bismillah-31.jpg?w=267&h=63" style="border: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="bismillah 3" width="267" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The Story of Prophet Hud (as) is a major lesson for all of us. It is a prime example of how civilisations grow arrogant, haughty and proud and then are brought down with the severest of punishments. The people of ‘Ad were well built and known for their craftmanship and building of lofty towers; they also had unjust rulers – remind you of any civilisation you know?</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Prophet Hud (as), a descendant of Prophet Nuh (as) was sent to the people of ‘Ad to warn them of their disbelief and guide them to the straight path. They did not heed the warnings and were punished with hurricanes so fierce that nothing could withstand it.</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> We are witness to the havoc and destruction that is caused by hurricanes today. These hurricanes move across land and in the few moments that they pass an area, they have reduced it to rubble. Imagine then, the destruction of the people of ‘Ad, who were punished with the severest of hurricanes, which was unrelenting and smashing their cities for 8 days and 7 nights, continuously! Can you picture the destruction and the bodies being thrown all over the place, being bashed and battered? May Allah Protect us from the arrogance that led to this punishment.</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/stories-of-the-prophets-pbut.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #b85b5a; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter" height="263" src="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/stories-of-the-prophets-pbut.jpg?w=300&h=263&h=263" style="border: none; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="stories-of-the-prophets-pbut" width="300" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <strong><a href="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/stories-of-the-prophets-by-ibn-kathir.pdf" style="border: 0px; color: #b85b5a; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Stories Of The Prophets By Ibn Kathir</a></strong></div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The following are some snippets of the Stories of the Prophets as written by the renowned scholar (masha’Allah), Ibn Kathir and translated by Sheikh Muhammad Mustafa Geme’ah (Office of the Grand Imam, Sheikh Al-Azhar). I hope you will find them beneficial, insha’Allah.</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <strong>THE DISBELIEVERS QUESTION HUD</strong><br />The chiefs of Hud’s people asked: “Is it not strange that Allah’s chooses one of us to reveal His message to?” Hud replied: “What is strange in that? Allah wants to guide you to the right way of life, so HE sent me to warn you. Noah’s flood and his story are not far away from you, so do not forget what happened. All the disbeliveers were destroyed, no matter how strong they were.”</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “Who is going to destroy us Hud?” the chiefs asked.</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “Allah.” replied Hud.</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The disbeliveers among his people answered: “We will be saved by our gods.”</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Hud’s people started to flee. They ran to their tents to hide but the gale became stronger, ripping their tents from their stakes. They hid under cloth covers but the gale became stronger and still<br />and tore away the covers. It slashed clothing and skin. It penetrated the apertures of the body and destroyed it. It hardly touched anything before it was destroyed or killed, its core sucked out to<br />decompose and rot. The storm raged for 8 days and 7 nights.</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Almighty Allah recounts:<br /><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>“Then when they saw it as a dense cloud coming towards their valleys, they said: “This is a cloud bringing us rain!” Nay but it is that torment which you were asking to be hastened! a wind wherein is a painful torment! Destroying everything by the command of its Lord! (Ch 46:24-25 Quran)</strong></em></div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Allah the Exalted described it thus:<br /><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>“And as for Ad, they were destroyed for a firious violent wind which Allah imposed on them for seven nights and eight days in succession, so that you could see men lying overthrown (destroyed) as if they were hollow trunks of palm trees! (Ch 69:6-7 Quran)</strong></em></div>

Stories of the Prophets – Hud (as)

The Story of Prophet Hud (as) is a major lesson for all of us. It is a prime example of how civilisations grow arrogant, haughty and prou...

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Stories of the Prophets – Salih (as)

<div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/bismillah-31.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #b85b5a; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Bismillah-hir Rahman-nir Raheem (in the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful)" height="63" src="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/bismillah-31.jpg?w=267&h=63" style="border: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="bismillah 3" width="267" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> This is the story of the people of Thamud, to whom the Prophet Salih (as) was sent to. They built for themselves huge buildings on the plains and out of the hills. But they ruled the land with tyranny and oppression.</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> They DEMANDED miracles be shown to them! Can you imagine the arrogance being displayed here? There are miracles around us at all times – the miracle of life, of creation, the perfect order of the universe – and yet they wanted more. They were tested with a she-camel, which the people of Thamud asked to appear from the mountains but the majority of them still refused to believe. It’s amazing how some hearts are sealed from such clear proofs. Furthermore, they challenged Prophet Salih (as) to bring upon them the Punishment of Allah. Today we face similar calls from people who refuse to believe and mock Islam and Muslims.</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Allah Visited upon them a severe punishment which killed all the disbelieving people of Thamud, all at the same time.</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The dwellings of Thamud have been left as a sign and a reminder of what has happened to civilisations of the past. That no matter how great you think you are, there is the Greatest, Allah, and we all return to Him. We should not look on these dwellings of Thamud as being impressive – rather we should be fearful of such an end and make dua that we do not suffer to such a degree ourselves by following in the footsteps of the people of Thamud.</div> <div class="wp-caption alignleft" data-shortcode="caption" id="attachment_1183" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border-radius: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); color: #333333; float: left; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 10px; max-width: 96.5%; padding: 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 310px;"> <a href="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/800px-thamud16.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><img alt="Dwellings of Thamud 1" class="size-medium wp-image-1183 " data-attachment-id="1183" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":""}" data-image-title="Dwellings of Thamud 1" data-large-file="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/800px-thamud16.jpg?w=614" data-medium-file="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/800px-thamud16.jpg?w=300&h=200" data-orig-file="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/800px-thamud16.jpg" data-orig-size="800,530" data-permalink="https://standup4islam.wordpress.com/2011/03/01/stories-of-the-prophets-salih-as/800px-thamud16/" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" src="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/800px-thamud16.jpg?w=300&h=200" srcset="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/800px-thamud16.jpg?w=300&h=200 300w, https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/800px-thamud16.jpg?w=600&h=398 600w, https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/800px-thamud16.jpg?w=150&h=99 150w" style="border: 0px none; 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font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Dwellings of Thamud 6" class="size-medium wp-image-1188" data-attachment-id="1188" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":""}" data-image-title="Dwellings of Thamud 6" data-large-file="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/thamudcantik.jpg?w=296" data-medium-file="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/thamudcantik.jpg?w=222&h=300" data-orig-file="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/thamudcantik.jpg" data-orig-size="296,400" data-permalink="https://standup4islam.wordpress.com/2011/03/01/stories-of-the-prophets-salih-as/thamudcantik/" height="300" sizes="(max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px" src="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/thamudcantik.jpg?w=222&h=300" srcset="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/thamudcantik.jpg?w=222&h=300 222w, https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/thamudcantik.jpg?w=111&h=150 111w, https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/thamudcantik.jpg 296w" style="border: 0px none; 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font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Dwellings of Thamud 7" class="size-medium wp-image-1189 " data-attachment-id="1189" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":""}" data-image-title="Dwellings of Thamud 7" data-large-file="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/thamudi.jpg?w=600" data-medium-file="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/thamudi.jpg?w=300&h=200" data-orig-file="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/thamudi.jpg" data-orig-size="600,391" data-permalink="https://standup4islam.wordpress.com/2011/03/01/stories-of-the-prophets-salih-as/thamudi/" height="200" src="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/thamudi.jpg?w=300&h=200" style="border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 98%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Dwellings of Thamud 7" width="300" /></a><div class="wp-caption-text" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 17px; padding: 0px 4px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Dwellings of the people of Thamud 7</div> </div> <div class="wp-caption alignleft" data-shortcode="caption" id="attachment_1190" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border-radius: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); color: #333333; float: left; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 10px; max-width: 96.5%; padding: 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 310px;"> <a href="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/ww29.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Dwellings of Thamud 8" class="size-medium wp-image-1190 " data-attachment-id="1190" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":""}" data-image-title="Dwellings of Thamud 8" data-large-file="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/ww29.jpg?w=500" data-medium-file="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/ww29.jpg?w=300&h=200" data-orig-file="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/ww29.jpg" data-orig-size="500,332" data-permalink="https://standup4islam.wordpress.com/2011/03/01/stories-of-the-prophets-salih-as/ww29/" height="200" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" src="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/ww29.jpg?w=300&h=200" srcset="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/ww29.jpg?w=300&h=200 300w, https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/ww29.jpg?w=150&h=100 150w, https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/ww29.jpg 500w" style="border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 98%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Dwellings of Thamud 8" width="300" /></a><div class="wp-caption-text" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 17px; padding: 0px 4px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Dwellings of the people of Thamud 8</div> </div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/stories-of-the-prophets-pbut.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #b85b5a; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" height="263" src="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/stories-of-the-prophets-pbut.jpg?w=300&h=263&h=263" style="border: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="stories-of-the-prophets-pbut" width="300" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <strong><a href="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/stories-of-the-prophets-by-ibn-kathir.pdf" style="border: 0px; color: #b85b5a; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Stories Of The Prophets By Ibn Kathir</a></strong></div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The following are some snippets of the Stories of the Prophets as written by the renowned scholar (masha’Allah), Ibn Kathir and translated by Sheikh Muhammad Mustafa Geme’ah (Office of the Grand Imam, Sheikh Al-Azhar). I hope you will find them beneficial, insha’Allah.</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <strong>DESCRIPTION OF SALIH (AS)</strong></div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> So Allah sent unto them His Prophet Salih (PBUH), a man from among them. His name was Salih Ibn Ubeid, Ibn Maseh, Ibn Ubeid, Ibn Hader, Ibn Thamud, Ibn Ather, Ibn Eram, Ibn Noah. He called his people to worship Allah alone, and to not associate partners with Him. While some of them believed him, the majority of them disbelieved and harmed him by both words and deeds. Salih directed them:</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>“O my people! Worship Allah, you have no other Ilah (god) but Him.” (Ch 11:61)</strong></em></div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Salih was known for his wisdom, purity and goodness and had been greatly respected by his people before Allah’s revelation came to him. Salih’s people said to him:</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>“O Salih! You have been among us as a figure of good hope and we wished for you to be our chief, till this, new thing which you have brought that we leave our gods and worship your God (Allah) alone! Do you now forbid us the worship of what our fathers have worshipped? But we are really in grave doubt as to that which you invite us to monotheism.” (CH 11:62 Quran)</strong></em></div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <strong>SALIH’S (AS) PEOPLE DEMAND A MIRACLE</strong></div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> They merely wanted to worship the same gods as their fathers had, with no reason, no proof, no thought. The proof of Salih’s (PBUH) message was evident, but despite this it was obvious that most of his people did not believe him. They doubted his words, thinking he was charmed, and they saw that he would not stop preaching. Fearing that his followers would increase, they tried to put him off by assigning him an important task; to prove that he was a messenger of Allah by performing a miracle. Let a unique she camel issue from the mountains. Allah granted Salih this miracle and a huge, unique, she camel appeared from the direction of the mountain.</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The Quranic commentators said that the people of Thamud gathered on a certain day at their meeting place, and the Prophet Salih (PBUH) came and addressed them to believe in Allah, reminding them of the favors Allah had granted them. Then pointing at a rock, they demanded: “Ask your Lord to make a she camel, which must be 10 months pregnant, tall and attractive, issue from the rock for us.” Salih replied: “Look now! If Allah sends you what you have requested, just as you have described, will you believe in that which I have come to you with and have faith in the message I have been sent with?”</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> They answered: “Yes.”</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> So he took a vow from them on this, then prayed to Allah the Almighty to grant their request. Allah ordered the distant rock to split asunder, to bringing forth a great ten month pregnant she-camel. When their eyes set on it, they were amazed. They saw a great thing, a wonderful sight, a dazzling power and clear evidence!</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> A number of Salih’s people believed, yet most of them continued in their disbelief, stubbornness, and going astray. Allah the Almighty said:</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>“We sent the she camel to Thamud as a clear sign, but they did her wrong. (Ch 17:59)</strong></em></div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> and also:</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>“Verily the dwellers of Al Hijr (the rocky tract) denied the Messengers. We gave them Our Signs, but they were averse to them. (Ch 15:80-81 Quran)</strong></em></div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> There are a number of ancient accounts of this camel and its miraculous nature.</div>

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Stories of the Prophets – Ibrahim (as)

<div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/1-makkah.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #b85b5a; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Makkah at Hajj" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2231" data-attachment-id="2231" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":""}" data-image-title="Makkah at Hajj" data-large-file="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/1-makkah.jpg?w=614?w=604" data-medium-file="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/1-makkah.jpg?w=614?w=300" data-orig-file="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/1-makkah.jpg?w=614" data-orig-size="604,401" data-permalink="https://standup4islam.wordpress.com/2012/10/28/hajj-an-example-of-unity/1-makkah/" height="265" sizes="(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px" src="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/1-makkah.jpg?w=614" srcset="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/1-makkah.jpg 604w, https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/1-makkah.jpg?w=150 150w, https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/1-makkah.jpg?w=300 300w" style="border: none; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="400" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/bismillah-31.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #b85b5a; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Bismillah-hir Rahman-nir Raheem (in the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful)" height="63" src="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/bismillah-31.jpg?w=267&h=63" style="border: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="bismillah 3" width="267" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Prophet Ibrahim (as) – also known as Prophet Abraham – is one of the greatest Prophets and the father of us all. He is described by Allah as being an Ummah. Muslims, jews and christians all trace roots back to him. Prophet Ibrahim (as) is mentioned in our prayers, at least 5 times a day, such an honoured position has he, and he was described as Khalil-ullah – the Friend of Allah (swt).</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> From Ibrahim’s (as) two sons lie the lineage of the Muslims and the Jews. From Ismail comes the line of the Arabs – the Muslims. From Ishaq comes the line of the Jews.</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Alhamdulillah, Prophet Ibrahim (as) was on the truth from an early age. He questioned and challenged the idol worship of his time; he faced the disbelievers of Babylon; he faced Nimrud (Nimrod); with his son, Ismail, he built the Kaaba and it is from the family of Ibrahim that Hajj was established as one of the pillars of Islam, and something practised by millions upon millions of Muslims since the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh).</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> It is essential that Muslims know of the story of Prophet Ibrahim (as) as much of Islam refers to him.</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/stories-of-the-prophets-pbut.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #b85b5a; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter" height="263" src="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/stories-of-the-prophets-pbut.jpg?w=300&h=263&h=263" style="border: none; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="stories-of-the-prophets-pbut" width="300" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <strong><a href="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/stories-of-the-prophets-by-ibn-kathir.pdf" style="border: 0px; color: #b85b5a; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Stories Of The Prophets By Ibn Kathir</a></strong></div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The following are some snippets of the Stories of the Prophets as written by the renowned scholar (masha’Allah), Ibn Kathir and translated by Sheikh Muhammad Mustafa Geme’ah (Office of the Grand Imam, Sheikh Al-Azhar). I hope you will find them beneficial, insha’Allah.</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <strong>IBRAHIM (AS) BREAKS THE IDOLS</strong><br />He explained to them the beauty of Allah’s creation, His power and wisdom. Idol worship is detested by Allah for Allah is the Lord of the universe Who created mankind, guided him and provided him with food and drink and cured him when he was sick and Who will cause him to die and be raised up again. iT was He to Whom Abraham prayed and Who would forgive his sins on the Day of Judgment. However, they would not give up but clung fast to idolatry. Abraham left his father’s house and abandoned his people and what they worshipped. He decide to do something about their state of disbelief, but did not reveal it. He knew that there was going to be a great celebration on the other bank of the river which would be attended by all the people.</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Abraham waited until the city was empty, then came out cautiously, directing his steps towards the temple. the streets leading to it were empty and the temple itself was deserted for the priests had also gone to the festival outside the city. Abraham went there carrying a sharp axe. He looked at the stone and wood statues of the gods and at the food laid in front of them as offerings. He approached one of the statues and asked: “The food in front of you is getting cold. Why don’t you eat?” the statue kept silent and rigid.</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Abraham asked all the other statues around him: <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>“Will you not eat of the offering before you?” (Ch 37:91)</strong></em></div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>He was mocking them for he knew they would not eat. He once again asked then: “What is the matter with you that you do not speak?” (Ch 37:92)</strong></em></div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> He then raised his axe and started smashing the false gods worshipped by the people. He destroyed them all except one on whose neck he hung the axe. After this his anger subsides and he felt at peace. He left the temple. He had fulfilled his vow to show his people a practical proof of their foolishness in worshipping something other than Allah.</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <strong>THE IDOLATERS QUESTION IBRAHIM (AS)</strong></div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> When the people returned, they were shocked to see their gods smashed to pieces, lying scattered all over the temple. They began to guess who had done that to their idols and Abraham’s name came to their minds.</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>Allah the Almighty said: they said: “Who has done this to our aliah (gods)? He must indeed be one of the wrongdoers.”</strong></em></div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>They said: “We heard a young man talking against them who is called Abraham.” They said: “Then bring him before the eyes of the people, that they may testify.”</strong></em></div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>They said: “Are you the one who has done this to our gods, O Abraham?” Abraham said: “nay, this one, the biggest of them (idols) did it, Ask them, if they can speak!”So they turned to themselves and said: “Verily you are the Zalimun (polytheists, and wrongdoers).”Then they turned to themselves (their first thought and said): “Indeed you (Abraham) know well that these idols speak not?”</strong></em></div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>Abraham said: “DO you then worship besides Allah, things that can neither profit you nor harm you? If upon you, and upon that which you worship besides Allah! Have you then no sense?” (Ch 21:59-67 Quran)</strong></em></div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Furious, they demanded that Abraham be arrested and tried. Abraham did not resist. This was precisely what he had been aiming for, so that he could show them up in public for their foolish beliefs. At the trial they asked him if he was responsible for breaking the idols. Smiling, he told them to ask the biggest idol which was still whole. He told them that he must be the culprit! They replied that he knew well that the idol could not speak or move which gave Abraham the chance to prove the foolishness of worshipping these lifeless objects.</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> They then realised the senselessness of their beliefs; however, their arrogance would not allow them to admit their foolishness. All they could do was to use their power of authority as tyrants usually do to punish Abraham. They kept him in chains and planned their revenge.</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <strong>THE IDOLATERS TRY TO BURN IBRAHIM (AS)</strong></div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Anger was burning in their hearts. They decided to throw Abraham into the biggest fire they could build. All the citizens were ordered to gather wood as a service to their gods. Ignorant, sick women vowed that if they were cured they would donate so much wood to burn Abraham.</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> For several days they collected fuel.</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> They dug a deep pit, filled it with firewood and ignited it. They brought a catapult with which to cast Abraham into the fire. Abraham was put on the catapult, his hands and feet were tied. The fire was ready with its flame reaching the sky. The people stood away from the pit because of the great heat. Then the chief priest gave his order to cast Abraham into the fire.</div>

Stories of the Prophets – Ibrahim (as)

Prophet Ibrahim (as) – also known as Prophet Abraham – is one of the greatest Prophets and the father of us all. He is described by All...

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Stories of the Prophets – Nuh (as)

<div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/bismillah-31.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #b85b5a; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Bismillah-hir Rahman-nir Raheem (in the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful)" height="63" src="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/bismillah-31.jpg?w=267&h=63" style="border: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="bismillah 3" width="267" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The Story of Prophet Nuh (as) is probably one of the most famous stories in the world. Children are taught it in schools, studies are done by archaeologists to determine what happened. Jews, Christians and Muslims all know about it. But only Muslims have the remaining truth of the story of Nuh (as).</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Prophet Nuh (as) was sent to bring his people back to the Truth and Straight Path of Allah (subhana wa ta’ala) and his people were those who had first adopted idol worship. Prophet Nuh (as) is classed as one of the great Prophets from Allah and he preached to his people for 950 years! This is a great lesson for those of us who are impatient when trying to spread the message of Islam to others. Only after Nuh (as) had exhausted all manner of spreading the message to his people, did the Punishment of Allah come down on them – the great flood!</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/stories-of-the-prophets-pbut.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #b85b5a; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter" height="263" src="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/stories-of-the-prophets-pbut.jpg?w=300&h=263" style="border: none; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="stories-of-the-prophets-pbut" width="300" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/stories-of-the-prophets-by-ibn-kathir.pdf" style="border: 0px; color: #b85b5a; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Stories Of The Prophets By Ibn Kathir</a></div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The following are some snippets of the Stories of the Prophets as written by the renowned scholar (masha’Allah), Ibn Kathir and translated by Sheikh Muhammad Mustafa Geme’ah (Office of the Grand Imam, Sheikh Al-Azhar). I hope you will find them beneficial, insha’Allah.</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <strong>NOAH’S PEOPLE – IDOLATERS</strong><br />For many generations Noah’s people had been worshipping statues that they called gods. They believed that these gods would bring them good, protect them from evil and provide all their needs. They gave their idols names such as Waddan, Suwa’an, Yaghutha, Ya’auga, and Nasran (These idols represented, respectively, manly power; mutability, beauty; brute strength, swiftness, sharp sight, insight) according to the power they thought these gods possessed.</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>Allah the Almighty revealed: “They (idolaters) have said: “You shall not leave your gods nor shall you leave Wadd, nor Suwa, nor Yaghuth, nor Ya uq nor Nasr (names of the idols).” (Qur’an 71:23)</strong></em></div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Originally these were the names of good people who had lived among them. After their deaths, statues of them were erected to keep their memories alive. After sometime, however, people began to worship these statues. Later generations did not even know why they had been erected; they only knew their parents had prayed to them. That is how idol worshipping developed. Since they had no understanding of Allah the Almighty Who would punish them for their evil deeds, they became cruel and immoral…</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <strong>NOAH’S REASONING WITH HIS PEOPLE</strong><br />Allah in His Mercy sent His messenger Noah to guide his people. Noah was an excellent speaker and a very patient man. He pointed out to his people the mysteries of life and the wonders of the universe. He pointed out how the night is regularly followed by the day and that the balance between these opposites were designed by Allah the Almighty for our good. The night gives coolness and rest while the day gives warmth and awakens activity. The sun encourages growth, keeping all plants and animals alive, while the moon and stars assist in the reckoning of time,<br />direction and seasons.</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> He pointed out that the ownership of the heavens and the earth belongs only to the Divine Creator. Therefore, he explained to this people, there cannot have been more than one deity. He clarified to them how the devil had deceived them for so long and that the time had come for this deceit to stop. Noah spoke to them of Allah’s glorification of man, how HE had created him and provided him with sustenance and the blessings of a mind.</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> He told them that idol worshipping was a suffocating injustice to the mind. He warned them not to worship anyone but Allah and described the terrible punishment Allah would mete out if they continued in their evil ways.</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <strong>DIVISION AMONG NOAH’S PEOPLE</strong><br />The people listened to him in silence. His words were a shock to their stagnating minds as it is a shock to a person who is asleep under a wall which is about to fall and who is vigorously awakened. This person may be alarmed and may even become angry although the aim was to save him.</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Noah’s people were divided into two groups after his warning. His words touched the hearts of the weak, the poor, and the miserable and soothed their wounds with its mercy. As for the rich, the strong, the mighty and the rulers they looked upon the warning with cold distrust. They believed they would be better off if things stayed as they were. Therefore they started their war of words against Noah.</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <strong>THE DISBELIEVER’S ARGUMENTS</strong><br />First they accused Noah of being only human like themselves.</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>“The chiefs of the disbelievers among his people said: “We see you but a man like ourselves.”‘ (Ch 11:27 Quran)</strong></em></div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> He, however, had never said anything other than that. He asserted that, indeed, he was only a human being; Allah had sent a human messenger because the earth was inhabited by humans. If it had been inhabited by angels Allah would have sent an angelic messenger. The contest between the polytheists and Noah continued. the rulers had thought at first that Noah’s call would soon fade on its own. When they found that his call attracted the poor, the helpless and common laborers, they started to verbally attack and taunt him: ‘You are only followed by the poor, the meek and the worthless.’</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Allah the Almighty told us:</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>“Indeed We sent Noah to his people (he said): “I have come to you as a plain Warner that you worship none but Allah, surely, I fear for you the torment of a painful Day.” the chiefs of the disbelievers among his people said: “We see you but a man like ourselves, nor do we see any follow you but the meanest among us and they too followed you without thinking. And we do not see in you any merit above us in fact we think you are liars.” (CH 11:25-27).</strong></em></div>

Stories of the Prophets – Nuh (as)

The Story of Prophet Nuh (as) is probably one of the most famous stories in the world. Children are taught it in schools, studies are don...

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Stories of the Prophets – Idris (as)

<div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/bismillah-31.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #b85b5a; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Bismillah-hir Rahman-nir Raheem (in the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful)" height="63" src="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/bismillah-31.jpg?w=267&h=63" style="border: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="bismillah 3" width="267" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Prophet Idris (as) – also known as Enoch – was the first of the children of Adam (as) to be given prophethood after Adam (as) and Seth (as). He was mentioned in the Qur’an and so I am therefore mentioning him as well.</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/stories-of-the-prophets-pbut.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #b85b5a; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter" height="263" src="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/stories-of-the-prophets-pbut.jpg?w=300&h=263" style="border: none; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="stories-of-the-prophets-pbut" width="300" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/stories-of-the-prophets-by-ibn-kathir.pdf" style="border: 0px; color: #b85b5a; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Stories Of The Prophets By Ibn Kathir</a></div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The following is from the book, the Stories of the Prophets, as written by the renowned scholar (masha’Allah), Ibn Kathir and translated by Sheikh Muhammad Mustafa Geme’ah (Office of the Grand Imam, Sheikh Al-Azhar). I hope you will find it beneficial, insha’Allah.</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Allah has praised Enoch, describing him as being a prophet and truthful:</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “Mention in the Book (Quran) Idris (Enoch). Verily! He was a man of truth (and) a prophet. We raised him to a high station”. (Ch 19:56-57 Quran).</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <strong>Birth and Teachings</strong><br />Enoch was born and raised in Babylon following the teachings and religion of Prophet Adam (pbuh) and his son Seth (pbuh). Enoch was the 5th generation of the Prophet Adam. He called the<br />people back to his forefathers religion, but only a few listened to him, while the majority turned away. Prophet Enoch and his followers left Babylon for Egypt. There he carried on his mission, calling people to what is just and fair, teaching them certain prayers and instructing them to fast on certain days and to give a portion of their wealth to the poor.</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <strong>The Wise Sayings of Prophet Enoch</strong><br />He was the first of the Children of Adam to be given prophethood after Adam and Seth (peace upon them). It is reported that he was the 1st to invent the basic form of writing. Some of his wise<br />sayings are:</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “Happy is he who looks at his own deeds and appoints them as pleaders to his Lord.”<br />“None can show better gratitude for Allah’s favors than he who shares them with others.”<br />“Do not envy people for what they have as they will only enjoy it for a short while.”<br />“He who indulges in excess will not benefit from it.”<br />“The real joy of life is to have wisdom.”</div>

Stories of the Prophets – Idris (as)

Prophet Idris (as) – also known as Enoch – was the first of the children of Adam (as) to be given prophethood after Adam (as) and Seth (a...

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Stories of the Prophets – Adam (as)

<h3> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/bismillah-31.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #b85b5a; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Bismillah-hir Rahman-nir Raheem (in the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful)" height="63" src="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/bismillah-31.jpg?w=267&h=63" style="border: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="bismillah 3" width="267" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The Story of Prophet Adam (as) is probably one of the most fundamental and important stories for, not only the Muslims, but for all mankind. We are told by Allah, about the Creation of the first man and woman, our purpose and how Shaytaan (also known as the devil or satan) caused the two of them to be expelled from Paradise and placed upon the earth, fulfilling the role that Allah Had Ordained for Adam and his wife, Hawa (Eve). We also learn about the fact that each and every one of us – Muslim and non-Muslim alike – have already born witness that Allah is our Lord alone. We learn that Shaytaan, or the devil (as he is referred to in Christian sources), was not one of the angels. Rather that he was of the Jinn and was elevated to a high status but was exposed for his pride and arrogance.</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/stories-of-the-prophets-pbut.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #b85b5a; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-1122 aligncenter" data-attachment-id="1122" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":""}" data-image-title="stories-of-the-prophets-pbut" data-large-file="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/stories-of-the-prophets-pbut.jpg?w=500" data-medium-file="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/stories-of-the-prophets-pbut.jpg?w=300&h=263" data-orig-file="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/stories-of-the-prophets-pbut.jpg" data-orig-size="500,439" data-permalink="https://standup4islam.wordpress.com/2011/02/09/stories-of-the-prophets-adam-as/stories-of-the-prophets-pbut/" height="263" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" src="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/stories-of-the-prophets-pbut.jpg?w=300&h=263" srcset="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/stories-of-the-prophets-pbut.jpg?w=300&h=263 300w, https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/stories-of-the-prophets-pbut.jpg?w=150&h=132 150w, https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/stories-of-the-prophets-pbut.jpg 500w" style="border: none; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="stories-of-the-prophets-pbut" width="300" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="https://standup4islam.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/stories-of-the-prophets-by-ibn-kathir.pdf" style="border: 0px; color: #b85b5a; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Stories Of The Prophets By Ibn Kathir</a></div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The following are some snippets of the Stories of the Prophets as written by the renowned scholar (masha’Allah), Ibn Kathir and translated by Sheikh Muhammad Mustafa Geme’ah (Office of the Grand Imam, Sheikh Al-Azhar). I hope you will find them beneficial, insha’Allah.</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Almighty Allah Revealed:<br />“And surely, We created you (your father Adam) and then gave you shape (the noble shape of a human being), then We told the angels, “Prostrate to Adam”, and they prostrated, except Iblis, he refused to be those who prostrate. Allah said: “What prevented you (O Iblis) that you did not postrate when I commanded you?”</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Iblis said: “I am better than him (Adam), You created me from fire and him You created from clay.”</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Allah said: “O Iblis get down from this (Paradise), it is not for you to be arrogant here. Get out for you are of those humiliated and disgraced.”</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Iblis said: “Allow me respite till the Day they are raised up (Day of Resurrection).”</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Allah said: “You are of those allowed respite.”</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Iblis said: “Because You have sent me astray, surely I will sit in wait against them (human beings) on Your Straight Path. Then I will come to them from before them and behind them, from their right and from their left and You will not find most of them as thankful ones (they will not be dutiful to You).”</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Allah said: “Get out from Paradise, disgraced and expelled. Whoever of them (mankind) will follow you, then surely I will fill Hell with you all.”</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “And O Adam! Dwell you and your wife in Paradise, and eat thereof as you both wish, but approach not this tree otherwise you both will be of the Zalimeen (unjust and wrongdoers).”</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “Then Satan whispered suggestions to them both in order to uncover that which was hidden from them of their private parts before, he said:” Your Lord did not forbid you this tree save you should become angels or become of the immortals.” Satan swore by Allah to them both saying: “Verily I am one of the sincere well wishers for you both.” So he misled them with deception. Then when they tasted of the tree, that which was hidden from them of their shame (private parts) became manifest to them and they began to stick together the leaves of Paradise over themselves (in order to cover their shame). Their Lord called out to them saying “Did I not forbid you that tree and tell you, Verily Satan is an open enemy unto you?”</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> They said: “Our Lord! We have wronged ourselves. If You forgive us not, and bestow not upon us Your Mercy, we shall certainly be of the losers.” Allah said: “Get down one of you an enemy to the other (i.e. Adam, Eve, and Satan etc). On earth will be a dwelling place for you and an enjoyment, for a time.” He said: “therein you shall live, and therein you shall die, and from it you shall be brought out (resurrected).” (Chapter 7:11-25 Qur’an)</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> We imagine when Allah the Almighty decided to create Adam: He addressed His angels and told them to prostrate before him. He did not mean to ask their opinion or take their advice, for He is<br />above that. Allah the Exalted told them that He was going to create a vicegerent on the earth who would have children and grandchildren who would corrupt the earth and shed each other’s blood. That is why the angels said to Allah the Almighty: “Will You place therein those who will make mischief therein and shed blood!” (Chapter 2:30 Quran).</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> There are old traditions about the angels before the creation of Adam. According to Ibn Qatadah, it was said that the angels were informed about the creation of Adam and his progency by the jinn who lived before Adam. Abdullah Ibn Umar said that the jinn had existed for about 2000 years before Adam and then shed blood. Therefore Allah sent on them an army of angels that drove them out to the depths of the seas.</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Ibn Abi Hatim narrated from Ali jafar Al Baqer that the angels were informed that man would cause wickedness and shed blood on earth. It was also said that they knew that no one would be<br />created on earth who would not be wicked and shed blood.</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Whether or not these traditions are correct, the angels did understand that Allah would create a vicegerent on earth. Allah the Almighty announced that HE was going to create a human being<br />out of clay, that HE would mould him and blow His spirit into him and then the angels should prostrate before him.</div> <div style="background-color: #bcc5c1; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 1.8em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Abi Musa al Sha’arai narrated that the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: “Allah created Adam from a handful of dust taken from different lands, so the children of Adam have<br />been created according to the composition of the land. Therefore from mankind we have white, red, black and yellow ones; we have good and evil, ease and sorrow, and what comes in between<br />them.” (Sahih al Bukhari).</div> </h3> <div> <br /></div>

Stories of the Prophets – Adam (as)

The Story of Prophet Adam (as) is probably one of the most fundamental and important stories for, not only the Muslims, but for all mank...

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