{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/pro/dav04.htm","path":"isl/pro/dav04.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pro/dav04.htm","text":"God did say: And ye know of those of you who broke the Sabbath, how We\nsaid unto them: Be ye apes, despised and hated! And We made it an example\nto their own and to succeeding generations, and an admonition to the Allah-fearing\n(Al-Baqarah:65-66), and also: Ask them (O Muhammad) of the township that\nwas by the sea...etc(Al-A`r\u00e2f: 163). In one narration they were three\ngroups: one did the forbidden deeds, and one denied this, and one that\ndid not deny and did not do the forbidden, so God saved those who denied\nthis attitude, and made those who did not deny it as a dust, and mutated\nthe group that used to do the foribdden deeds and made them as apes. The\nnarrator of this narration, and he is `Ali ben T\u00e2woos: the mutation\nof the group that did not deny into dust or grains might be because that\nthey made the greatness of God so small and made it such an easy thing\nto come over God's laws, so God made them small and turned them into grains.\nAs attributed to `Ali ben Al-Husain (PUH) about God's saying: And ye\nknow of those of you who broke the Sabbath...etc, that they were living\nby the sea and God with the prophets forbade them to hunt fishes in Sabbath\nso they made a tricky way to allow what had been illegal for them, so they\nmade ditches and made a way leading to a basin that whales can enter but\ncannot leave it, so the whales came on the Sabbath and feeling safe and\nthen fell into the basin, and when it was night time and desired to leave\nthey couldn't and remained there, so they can pick them from there without\nhunting and easily on the next day and so they say \"we did not hunt on\nSabbath\" and they did so until their fortunes increased.\nIn brief, what they did and what they ended up with as been told in\nthe narration of Al-Sajj\u00e2d (`Ali ben Al-Husain) (PUH) is that they\nwere in a town of a population of nearly eighty thousand, and those who\ndid the forbidden deeds counted as much as seventy thousand, and the rest\nare those who denied such deeds, and those who denied such deeds did leave\nthe rest to another village, and God then mutated those who did the wrong\ndeeds into apes, and after mutation the others did visit them to check\ntheir conditions after such rebel and bad deeds and they found them turned\ninto apes, and the comers used to identify each ape of them and say for\nany of them: your are so and so, and the ape would shake his head for agreement\nwith a tear in his eyes for his sorrow and regret for what he did and for\nwhat happened to him, and they remained like this for three days, and God\nthen sent down on them the rains and storms that swept them to the sea\nand whoever remained was mutated again as well, this is as it is mentioned\nin the Tales of Prophets for Al-Jaz\u00e2'iri. Then said Al-Sajj\u00e2d\n(PUH): and those you see now with the same shape are similar creatures\nbut they are not the same as those before and they are not from their descendants,\nand then he (PUH) said: God mutated those for hunting fishes in ways God\ndid not allow so how is it then with those who killed the children of the\nprophet of God and broke their veils? even though God did not mutate them\nin this life but He prepared for them what is counted as multiplies of\nthe torture of mutation, and then he (PUH) said: those who broke the Sabbath\nif only they asked God by the rights of Muhammad and his Household (PUT)\nto prevent them from doing such bad deeds, He would answer them, but God\ndid not inspire them to do so for their rebellious nature and so He did\nnot guide them to the way of their happiness.\nIn a narration told about the interpretation of God's saying: Those\nof the Children of Israel who went astray were cursed by the tongue of\nDavid, and of Jesus, son of Mary..etc(Al-M\u00e2'idah:78), and the most\nfamous thing is that apes are mentioned by the tongue of David and the\npigs by the tongue of Jesus, and Al-Baydh\u00e2wi [seems a scholar name]\nsaid: it is mentioned that when the people of Obbalah - and it is a village\n- when they broke the Sabbath, God damned them by the tongue of David and\nwere mutated to apes and pigs, and the people of the table when they disbelieved\nin Jesus he prayed against them and damned them and they were mutated into\npigs and they were counted as much as five thousand men. Al-Sayid Al-Jaz\u00e2'iri\nsaid: Obbalah is a location near by Basra, and in God's saying: Ask them\n(O Muhammad) of the township that was by the sea(Al-A`r\u00e2f:163), and\nas mentioned in the interpretation of `Ali ben Ibr\u00e2him: it was a\ntownship that belonged to the Israelites and was by the sea, and in low\nand high tides the sea used to go into their rivers and farms and the fishes\nused to out of the sea and reach the end of their farms, and God prohibited\nthem to hunt on Sabbath so they get to prepare the nets on the night before\nSabbath and hunt on sunday while the fishes used to go out on Sabbath and\nsunday, so their scholars prohibited them to do so but they didn't stop\nso they were mutated into apes and pigs, and the reason for prohibitition\nof hunting on Sabbath was that that all believers and faithful ones and\nothers had their holiday on friday but the jews denied that and made it\non Sabbath (saturday) and said: our holiday is on Sabbath so God prohibited\nhunting for them on Sabbath, and we've pointed out that they were divided\ninto three main groups, one group was advising against the wrong doing,\nand another group did not advise nor do the bad deeds and they said to\nthe ones advising: Why preach ye to a folk whom Allah is about to destroy\nor punish with an awful doom(Al-A`r\u00e2f:164) and the answer was: In\norder to be free from guilt before your Lord, and that haply they may ward\noff (evil)(Al-A`r\u00e2f:164), and then the first group said: by God we\nshall not sit with you and do not live with you in this town that you made\nsins in starting from this night for we fear that adversities would be\nrevealed upon you and us, so it is mentioned that they left the town and\nsettled down near by and slept under the sky, and when it was the morning\ntime they went to check the sinners so they reached the gate of the town\nand it was closed, and they knocked on it but none did answer and they\ndid not hear any sounds or movements, but they heard sounds like moaning\nthat doesn't sound like human voices, so then they put a ladder on the\ntown's wall and made a man to climb over, so when he went on top and looked\non it he found out that most of the people turned into apes, so they broke\nthe door and got inside and they said to them: hadn't we forbid you!. Whoever\nwants to check the story can check the long stories mentioned about them\nin this matter, and God is the Bringer of success.","title":"The Prophets, Their Lives and Their Stories: David: Mutat...","type":"page"}