Through the blessings of this, Allah had gifted him with many miracles [ karamah ] | Therefore, you should learn a lesson from the fate they met |
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That is, the Day of Resurrection | He escaped on a horse and they set out after him, but they were unable to catch him |
The best known event, however, relates to Najran, which has been related by Ibn Hisham, Tabari, Ibn Khaldun, the author of Mujam al-Buldan and other Islamic historians.
18Then Ibn Abi Hatim specifies three particular incidents: [ 1] a trench in Yemen | After this some of the people of Yemen accepted Judaism at the hands of these two rabbis, as Ibn Ishaq mentions at length |
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As He witnesses all things He has witnessed what the tyrants did to the believers | [85:13] Surely He originates creation and repeats it after death |
The immediate theme of the surah is the pit incident, when a community of believers who lived before the advent of Islam, said to be unitarian Christians, were faced by ruthless and tyrannical enemies who sought to force them away from their faith.
In the British Museum there are some Abyssinian manuscripts relating to that period or a period close to it, which support this story | Accordingly, the king appointed a boy |
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He would heal the blind and cure the lepers | His teacher used to beat him for his coming late |
meaning, indeed His punishment and His vengeance upon His enemies, who have rejected His Messengers, and opposed His command, is severe, great and strong.