{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/pro/dan00.htm","path":"isl/pro/dan00.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pro/dan00.htm","text":"Sacred Texts\u00a0\nIslam\u00a0\nIndex\u00a0\nPrevious\u00a0\nNext\u00a0\nD\u00e2ni\u00e2l (Daniel) (PUH)\nThey say that he was an orphan and had no mother or father and grown up\nwith an old woman from the Israelites, and he was captivated by Nebuchadnezzar\nas well as `Uzair (Ezra), and God made them safe away from this tyrant's\npunishment and torture, and he (Daniel) died some where near Shush, and\nseems it is a village behind the river, and the river of Sh\u00e2sh is\na well-known river like Tigris and Euphrates and the Nile as they said.\nWhen Nebuchadnezzar captured Daniel and kept him for a while, many things\nhappened about him and people knew him by his virtues and they gathered\naround him to listen to his sermons to guide them to their happiness, and\nso then Nebuchadnezzar got afraid because of him and he kept him in a pit\nlike a well and he kept with him a lioness that got milk, and all that\nlong time in that pit he used to drink her milk and this is what kept him\nalive and she used to eat from the mud of the pit, and he stayed like this\nfor long time until he got annoyed of it and got even weaker, so he then\nprayed to God to make a relief for him. Then God inspired to the prophet\nthat was in Jerusalem and God sent him there after the leaving of Nebuchadnezzar,\nso God inspired to him to take the food and the drink to Daniel and tell\nhim My greets, and the prophet asked: and where is he O Lord? so He answered\nhim: you will find him in the well of Babylon, and then the prophet came\nto him and saw him in the well and said to him: O Daniel, and he answered:\nyes, O strange voice, and he said to him: your Lord greets you and He sent\nto you this food and drink, and so he hanged it down for him and then Daniel\nsaid: thanks be to God who never forgets who mentions Him, thanks be to\nGod who never disappoints who prayed to Him, thanks be to God who is enough\nfor who depends on Him, thanks be to God who never delivers to another\nwho trusted Him, thanks be to God who gives goodness in exchange of goodness,\nthanks be to God who gives triumph by patience, thanks be to God who gives\na relief after our adversities, thanks be to God who is our Trust when\nwe have no tricks to do, thanks be to God who is our hope when we doubt\nabout our works..etc. Then at that night, after the pray of Daniel, Nebuchadnezzar\nsaw in his dream that his head was made of iron and his legs were made\nof copper and his chest was made of gold, and then he called out for the\npriests and the astrologers and asked them: what did I see in my dream?\nThey answered: we don't know, but tell us what you saw in your dream, and\nhe said to them: I give you the money for a long time and you can't tell\nwhat I had in my dream, and he ordered to kill them all, and someone who\nwas attending in his court said to him: if anyone had something, then that\nwould be the man of the well because the lioness never stopped feeding\nhim and she is giving him milk while she eats the mud, and so then he ordered\nto bring Daniel (PUH) and he asked him: what did I see in my dream? He\nanswered: you saw that your head is made of iron and your legs are made\nof copper and your chest is made of gold, and then he said: yes this is\nwhat I saw so what is this? Then said Daniel to him: your kingdom is to\nbegone and you are to be killed after three days and a man from Persia\nshall kill you, and then Nebuchadnezzar said: I have seven cities and for\nevery city there are guards, and even I'm not satisfied with those so I\nput up a duck made of copper on the gates of every city so that whenever\na stranger goes in it shall shout and he would be taken, and then said\nDaniel to him: the matter is what I told you.\nThen he sent the knights to the borders of his cities and said to them:\nwhoever passes you by kill him, and Daniel was sitting with him so he said\nto him: don't leave me for three days and when they are passed I shall\nkill you, and when it was the third day he got sad and saw a kid that he\nused to take as a son and he was a persian but he didn't know that he was\nfrom Persia, so he gave him his sword and said to him: O kid, whoever you\nfind in your way then kill him and if you found me kill me then, so then\nthe kid took the sword and struck his head with it and killed him [this\nstory is different from the one told in Torah, and the one in Torah is\nanother famous version among Shiites as well with some difference]. It\nis narrated that once Daniel wanted to pass over a river so he gave the\nboatman a piece of bread so that he would transport him, but he didn't\naccept that and said: what shall I do with it and bread is to be stepped\nupon by the legs for us? and when Daniel saw that from him he raised his\nhands to the sky and said: O Lord be victorious for the bread for You saw,\nO Lord, what this slave made and what did he say about the bread, and then\nGod inspired to the sky to hold the rains and inspired to the earth and\nit turned like clay and didn't plant anything until they began to eat each\nother and the story about this is long, and then God had mercy upon them\nby the prays of Daniel and then the sky rained over the earth and earth\nplanted and goodness started to show and they got back to what they used\nto by the blessings of Daniel, and it is given to Daniel that he shall\njudge between people in the after-life and he was during his childhood\nan owner of wisdom.\nIt is narrated in a long story that he was standing and watching some\nchildren playing in the road and among them there was a child that they\ncalled M\u00e2t Al-Deen [religion is dead] so he stepped towards him and\nasked him about his name and he said: my name is M\u00e2t Al-Deen, and\nthen he asked about his father and he said: he is dead, and then he asked\nabout his mother and he said that she's alive and he took him and went\nto her in her home and he asked her about the name of her son, and she\nsaid to him: his name is M\u00e2t Al-Deen, and then he asked her: who\nnamed with such name? She said then: his father, he went away with some\npeople for some trade and then they got back but he didn't come back with\nthem and they told me that he is dead, and then I asked them about his\nfortune and money and they said that he didn't leave anything back, and\nthen I asked them if he did say anything to you? they said: yes he claimed\nthat your are pregnant so he said: tell her that either she got a male\nor a female let her name it M\u00e2t Al-Deen, and then Daniel asked her\nabout his companions whether they are alive or not, and she said they are\nall alive, and then he gathered them all together and got help from the\nguards to do so and then he separated them and asked about the man and\nthey said he is dead, and then he started to ask them one by one about\nthe time of his death and about his sickness and who used to take care\nof him and who washed his body and who prayed over his body and buried\nhim and in what land he was buried and whether there were other people\nattending all of that.\nIn general, they all differed severely in their answers, and then they\nadmitted that they killed him and divided his money among them, so the\nman's blood was taken over them and he took from them the charge of crime\nand gave it to the man's family and took also all of his money, all of\nthat by his own wisdom and by his art and his ways that no one would be\nable to do except of someone like him as he is one of the viceroys, and\nhe gave all of that to the man's family and then said to the mother: name\nyour son `\u00c2sh Al-Deen [religion is living] and so she did. For Daniel\nthere are many more miracles and virtues and have nothing alike them except\nfrom viceroys like him may peace be upon him and them and the blessings\nof God.\n\u00a0\nNext: `Uzair (Ezra) Iramy\u00e2' (Jeremiah) (PUT)","title":"The Prophets, Their Lives and Their Stories: D\u00e2ni\u00e2l (Daniel): D\u00e2ni\u00e2l (Daniel) (PUH)","type":"page"}