ثُمَّ أَخَذْتُ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ ۖ فَكَيْفَ كَانَ نَكِيرِ
Summa akhaztul lazeena kafaroo fakaifa kaana nakeer
Then I seized the ones who disbelieved, and how [terrible] was My reproach.
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Lessons from past peoples
35:26Ayah 145
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Then I seized those who disbelieved for their denial and how was My abhorrence! how was My rebuttal against them by way of punishment and destruction in other words it was appropriate.
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"By the One in Whose Hand is my soul! I nearly ordered that firewood be gathered to be lit, then I would have ordered that the Adhan be called for prayer, and ordered a man to lead the people in prayer, then I would have gone from behind to those men and burned their houses down over them. By the One in Whose Hand is my soul! If any one of them knew that he would get a meaty bone or some meat in between two ribs, he would attend Isha'.''
I passed when AbuJahl had fallen as his foot was struck (with the swords). I said: O enemy of Allah, AbuJahl, Allah has disgraced a man who was far away from His mercy. I did not fear him at that moment. He replied: It is most strange that a man has been killed by his people. I struck him with a blunt sword. But it did not work, and then his sword fell down from his hand, I struck him with it until he became dead.
Abu Bakr came to towards me and struck me violently with his fist and said, "You have detained the
people because of your necklace." But I remained motionless as if I was dead lest I should awake
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) although that hit was very painful.
I was one of those who stoned him at the Musalla in Al-Madina (See Hadith 5272).
I was standing in the mosque and somebody threw a gravel at me. I looked and found that he was
`Umar bin Al-Khattab. He said to me, "Fetch those two men to me." When I did, he said to them,
"Who are you? (Or) where do you come from?" They replied, "We are from Ta'if." `Umar said, "Were
you from this city (Medina) I would have punished you for raising your voices in the mosque of
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)."
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