قَالُوٓا۟ أَوَلَمْ نَنْهَكَ عَنِ ٱلْعَٰلَمِينَ
Qaalooo awalam nanhaka 'anil 'aalameen
They said, "Have we not forbidden you from [protecting] people?"
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Lessons from past peoples
15:70Ayah 199
27 ayahs in Al-Hijr are strongly about lessons from past peoples. This is one of them.
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They said ‘Have we not forbidden you from entertaining anyone?’ from offering them hospitality?
Related Hadiths
I tell you that the Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) said: Allow them; yet you say; we shall not allow them.
We would kill them, and the other one said: No, this should not be done, and it was on this occasion that this verse was revealed:" Why should you, then, be two parties in relation to hypocrites?" (iv. 88).
We were with `Umar and he said, "We have been forbidden to undertake a difficult task beyond our
capability (i.e. to exceed the religious limits e.g., to clean the inside of the eyes while doing ablution).
“We
were
forbidden to form a row between two pillars at the time of the
Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), and we would be repelled from them
forcefully.”
"It was forbidden to us for a town-dweller to sell for a desert-dweller." (Sahih )
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