هُنَالِكَ ٱبْتُلِىَ ٱلْمُؤْمِنُونَ وَزُلْزِلُوا۟ زِلْزَالًۭا شَدِيدًۭا
Hunaalikab tuliyal mu'minoona wa zulziloo zilzaalan shadeedaa
There the believers were tested and shaken with a severe shaking.
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Lessons from past peoples
33:11Ayah 173
12 ayahs in Al-Ahzaab are strongly about lessons from past peoples. This is one of them.
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it was there that the believers were sorely tried there they were tested to distinguish the sincere individual from the one otherwise and were shaken with a mighty shock because of the severity of the terror.
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Ka'b reported that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said that the similitude of a believer is that of a standing crop in a field which is shaken by wind and then it comes to its original position but it stands at its roots. The similitude of a non-believer is that of a cypress tree which stands on its roots and nothing shakes it but it is uprooted (with) one (violent stroke).
that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), Abu Bakr, 'Umar, and 'Uthman climbed Uhud (mountain) and it shook them, so the Prophet of Allah (ﷺ) said: "Be firm O Uhud! For there is none upon you except a Prophet, a Siddiq, and two martyrs."
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) once stood up delivering a sermon and mentioned the trial which people will face in
the grave. When he mentioned that, the Muslims started shouting loudly.
"O Messenger of Allah, why will the believers be tested in their graves except the martyr?" He said: "The flashing of the swords above his head is trial enough."
The believers are like one person; if his head aches, the whole body aches with fever and sleeplessness.
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