{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/pro/geo00.htm","path":"isl/pro/geo00.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pro/geo00.htm","text":"Sacred Texts\u00a0\nIslam\u00a0\nIndex\u00a0\nPrevious\u00a0\nNext\u00a0\nThe Prophet Jerjees (Georgeous) (PUH)\nAs attributed to Ibn `Abb\u00e2s he said that God sent Jerjees (PUH) to\na king in the lands of Canaan that was called \u00d0u-\u00d0\u00e2nah who\nused to worship an idol, and he advised him and guided him to worship God\nand forbid him to worship the idols and said to him: the creations should\nnot worship except of God and don't pray except to Him, so then the king\nsaid: from where are you? and he answered: from the Romans and live in\nPalestine, and then he ordered to capture him and then he ordered to brush\nhis body with iron brushes until the meat of his body fell down and then\nsprankled the vinegar over him and rubbed his body with harsh tools and\nthen ironed his body just to let him die by torture, but since he didn't\ndie he then put long wedges in his head and made his brain go out like\na liquid but he didn't die and then he put a large rock over his abdomen.\nWhen night came over an angel came down to him and said: O Jerjees, God\nsays to you be patient and be glad and don't be afraid or God is with you\nand He shall make a relief for you and they shall kill you for four times\nand during all of that God shall remove the sense of pain from you and\nthis is destined for you and He knows the ends. Then the king wiped him\nover his back and his abdomen and then got him back to the jail, and then\nthe king wrote (a letter) to the magicians to send him the best of them\nso they sent him a magician who used everything he can of magic over him\n(Jerjees) but nothing did happen to him and then he brought a poison and\nmade him drink it and Jerjees said: by the name of God that lies of the\nwicked and the magic of the magicians shall be astrayed by His truth, and\nnothing happened to him, and then said the magician: if I made the people\nof the earth to drink this poison then their powers would be gone and their\neyes would go blind, and then said the magician to Jerjees (PUH): then\nyou are the bright light and the shining lamp and the obvious truth and\nI testify that your God is true and everything else is false and I believed\nin Him and believed in His prophets and to Him I shall repent, and then\nthe king killed him. Then he got Jerjees back to the jail and tortured\nhim severely and he didn't die and then he torn him apart and threw him\ninto a well and he died there. Then the king gathered with his folks for\nsome food and drinks, and then the universe changed and it went dark and\na black cloud came with lightning and thunder and the earth started to\nshake and they thought that this is their end, and God then ordered Michael\n(PUH) and he went to the head of the well and said: stand up O Jerjees\nby the permission of God and by His Will the One who created you, and then\nJerjees stood up alive again and Michael got him out of the well and he\nsaid to him: be patient and be glad and then Jerjees went to the king and\nhe said to him: God resurrected me and sent me to you to be a clue for\nyou, and then stood the head officer and said: I believed in your God,\nthe One who resurrected you after your death and I testify that He is the\ntruth and everything else is false, and four thousand people followed him\nand all believed and followed Jerjees, and the king killed them all by\nthe sword and then he ordered to bring a board made of copper and he fired\nunder it until it went red and he made Jerjees to lie on it and then he\nordered to bring lead and it was melted down and poured into his mouth\nand then he struck his eyes and his head with wedges and when he saw that\nthis didn't kill him, he sat the fire under him until he died and ordered\nto throw his ashes to the wind.\nIn brief about what remained of his conditions is that God resurrected\nhim by His Will and then sent him to the king while he was sitting with\nlot of his folks. Then one of the king's folks said: we have fourteen pulpits\nand food between our hands that is made of many plants some of them give\nfruit and some others don't, so ask your God to give each tree a life and\nto plant in each of them its own leaves and fruit and if He did that I\nshall believe in you, and then Jerjees put his knees on the floor and prayed\nto God and yet before leaving his place, every branch bore its fruit and\nwhen they saw that they had no way but to believe in him. When the king\nsaw that he ordered to put him between two wedges and then a saw was put\nover his head and he was sawn into two halves and then he put them in a\ngreat cauldron and cooked his meat, and the earth went dark and God sent\nIsr\u00e2feel (Raphael ?) and he shouted and made the people fall down\nover their faces and God resurrected him again and sent him again to the\ndamned king and when people saw him they got amazed, and the king said:\nif I left this magician my people shall be doomed, and all of them then\ngathered together and wanted to kill him by the sword and then said Jerjees:\ndon't be in a hurry to kill me, and then said: O Lord, if I died then idols\nshall be worshipped and I ask You to make my name among the people as an\nexample of patience for those who reach You for every adversity and trouble,\nand then they knocked down his neck with the sword and he died, and they\nwere out of town that time so after that they went inside it in a hurry\nand all of them were doomed.\nAl-Mas'udi said: of those who were in the period of time after the\nMessiah, there was Jerjees (PUH) and he met some apostles and God sent\nhim to a king in Mosul [in Iraq] and he called him to worship God but he\nkilled him and God resurrected him and sent him back to him again and he\nkilled him, and God resurrected him and in the third time he ordered that\nhe shall be sawn and then burned and spreaded his ashes in Tigris and then\nGod destroyed the king and all of his kingdom of those who followed him.\nThis is as it was narrated by the people of Scripture who believed in Islam,\nand the truth is that God knows the truth.\nNext: Kh\u00e2lid ben Sin\u00e2n Al-`Absi","title":"The Prophets, Their Lives and Their Stories: The Prophet Jerjees (Georgeous): The Prophet Jerjees (Georgeous) (PUH)","type":"page"}