فَقَالُوٓا۟ أَنُؤْمِنُ لِبَشَرَيْنِ مِثْلِنَا وَقَوْمُهُمَا لَنَا عَٰبِدُونَ
Faqaaloo annu'minu libasharaini mislinaa wa qawmuhumaa lanaa 'aabidoon
They said, "Should we believe two men like ourselves while their people are for us in servitude?"
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Lessons from past peoples
23:47Ayah 1118
16 ayahs in Al-Muminoon are strongly about lessons from past peoples. This is one of them.
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And they said ‘Shall we believe two humans like ourselves while their people are servile to us?’ obedient and submissive.
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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 young, so we said: Allah's Messenger, should we not have ourselves castrated? But he (the narrator) did not say; We were on an expedition."
I heard from Bara' a similar tradition except that he said:" These people (the Meccans) rebelled against us."
`Umar used to say, "Abu Bakr is our chief, and he manumitted our chief," meaning Bilal.
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