{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/pro/grp01.htm","path":"isl/pro/grp01.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pro/grp01.htm","text":"In the interpretation of `Ali ben Ibr\u00e2him about God's saying: Bethink\nthee (O Muhammad) of those of old, who went forth from their habitations\nin their thousands, fearing death, and Allah said unto them: Die; and then\nHe brought them back to life. Lo! Allah is a Lord of Kindness to mankind,\nbut most of mankind give not thanks(Al-Baqarah:243), and that is there\nwas a plague in the lands of Shem (Canaan) in some villages and districts,\nso many people went out of there for their fear and escaping the plague\nand they all went out to a desert far away and they all died in one night\nand they remained there until that their bones would be pushed away from\nthe road by the feets of travellers, then God resurrected them and sent\nthem back to their homes and lived then after for long time until they\nburied each other, this is what was told in Tales of Prophets for Al-Jaz\u00e2'iri.\nIn it also reported by Al-B\u00e2qir (PUH) and Al-S\u00e2diq (PUH) about\nGod's saying \"Bethink thee (O Muhammad) of those of old, who went forth\nfrom their habitations in their thousands..etc\" they (PUT) said: they are\nthe people of one of the towns in the lands of Shem from the Israelites,\nand they were seventy thousand families and the plague used to strike them\nfor now and then, and when they feel it, the rich people would go out of\nthe town and the poor people remained for their weakness, so death would\nperish those who stayed, so those who went out would say: if we stayed\nwe would be doomed by now, and those who stayed would say: if we just went\nout we wouldn't have so much dead people among us, so they all agreed that\nnext time when plague reaches the town they all shall go out of the town,\nso when they felt that the plague is near they all went out fearing death,\nand they wandered in the lands until they reached a ruined town that was\nperished by the plague before so they settled in it and then God said to\nthem: Die all of you, so they all died and turned to bones, and then a\nprophet passed by that was called Hazqeel (Ezekiel), and when he saw them\nhe cried and said: O Lord, if You want You would resurrect them at once,\nso God resurrected them for him.\nIn a narration for Al-S\u00e2diq (PUH): the day of Nayruz [a persian\nholiday at the beginning of spring] is the day when God resurrected those\nwho went out of their lands in thousands fearing death, and God said to\nthem: Die, and then He resurrected them, and this is because a prophet\nasked his Lord to resurrect the people who went out from their lands, and\nthen they died by their appointed time..etc, and in that narration also\nmentioned that God inspired to him to pour some water on them, and so he\ndid and they lived, and they were thirty thousand, so pouring water at\nthe day of Nayruz became a usual habit that none knows its reason except\nof those who are in deep knowledgement, and the day of Nayruz is the first\nday of spring in every year, and the prophet that resurrected them by permission\nof God is Ezekiel (PUH) as mentioned before and his name was mentioned\nin lot of narrations, and there might be lot of occasions with others than\nhim, and the repetition of stories with being different each time from\neach other is possible, because the number in some stories is seventy thousand\nand in others it is thirty thousand, and what is understood from such narrations\nis that it is not allowed to escape from the plague, because destiny is\nsomething written and it is of no use to escape from death.\nBut there are many tidings that order people to escape from the plague,\nyes and there is a prophetic narration (Hadith) that tells: escaping from\nthe plague is like escaping from the invasion, and it is reported that\nAl-S\u00e2diq (PUH) answered about that that it was mentioned about some\npeople in their headquarters in the face of the enemy and if they had escaped\nfrom the plague then the enemy would takeover the land of muslims, so this\nis a special case and it is not to be measured with and it is not a base\nto work with and oppose others. For Ezekiel, the prophet that God resurrected\nby his hand thousands of death people, lot of amazing tidings and strange\nconditions, and it is mentioned that D\u00e2wud (David) the owner of the\nZabur (book of psalms) (PUH) went into a cave in Jerusalem and he found\nthere Ezekiel (PUH) worshipping his Lord and his skin was dried out upon\nhis bones, so he said the peace, and he answered: I hear a voice of someone\nsatisfied and soft, who are you? He said then: I am David, then he (Ezekiel)\nsaid: the one who has that much of women and that much of maids (and he\nmentions numbers)? He answered: yes, while you are in such agony, then\nEzekiel said to him: I am not in agony, and you are not into gifts, until\nwe both go into paradise. As reported by Abu-Hamza Al-\u00deum\u00e2li\nfrom Al-B\u00e2qir (PUH) he said: when the king of the coptic people went\nout to knock down the temple in Jerusalem, all people gathered around Ezekiel\nand complained about it, he then said: maybe I will speak to my Lord tonight,\nso when it was night then he prayed to his Lord and then God inspired to\nhim: I've abandoned them before you and doomed them, and then God inspired\nto the angel of air to hold their breathes, and so he did and all of them\nwere dead, so then in the morning Ezekiel went to his people and told them\nabout the doom of their enemy, and they went out to look at them and they\nfound them dead. They say that Ezekiel got surprised and said to himself:\nwhat virtues Solomon ben David the prophet had and I'm given such thing\nlike this? He (Al-B\u00e2qir PUH) said: then he got an ulcer in his liver\nand he got annoyed for it, so then he prayed to God and humiliated himself\nin front of God and sat on ashes so then God inspired to him: take the\nfig and rub your chest with it, and so he did and the pain went out, and\nmaybe the rubbing of chest with the fig was with the green fresh branch\nof it, or it might be the fruit itself and only God knows.","title":"The Prophets, Their Lives and Their Stories: Elias, Elish...","type":"page"}