{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/pro/jes12.htm","path":"isl/pro/jes12.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pro/jes12.htm","text":"Sacred Texts\u00a0\nIslam\u00a0\nIndex\u00a0\nPrevious\u00a0\nNext\u00a0\nBukht Nassar (Nebuchadnezzar)\nAs it is apparent, the situation with Nebuchadnezzar was like that of Nimrod\nat the time of Abraham (PUH), and he was a tyrant man and his capital and\nthe center of his kingdom was in Babel (Babylon) in the lands of Iraq near\nby Al-Hillah, and he was a magus and a bastard (natural son) and had no\nfather, all of that was mentioned. Then he invaded the holy lands and conquered\nJerusalem and destroyed it and burned the Torah and threw the dead bodies\nin the Temple and he killed for the blood of John ben Zacharias (PUH) seventy\nthousand and he captivated the others and took their fortunes and brought\nthem to Babylon and they remained in Babylon for one hundred years as slaves\nfor the magii. Then God had mercy upon them and so a king of the kings\nof Persia who knew God ordered to get them back to their lands, and they\nremained for one hundred years doing the goodness and remained on the straight\npath, but then they got back to the ill manners and the sins, so then a\nking (caesar) of the romans that was called Anti\u00e2khius [probably\nTitus] so he destroyed Jerusalem again and captivated the people and they\nhave a long story that shouldn't be mentioned here because the speech is\nabout Nebuchadnezzar. They say he was called like that because he was found\nlaying down at an idol called Bukht that belonged to a king called Nassar\n(Nezzar), and that was when he was born and no father nor a mother for\nhim were known, and some say that he was called by this name because he\nwas breastfeeeded from a she-dog that was called Bukht and it belonged\nto a man called Nassar, and he wasn't circumcised and he invaded Jerusalem\nwith six hundred thousand legions.\nIt is testifed about this matter by God's saying: And We decreed for\nthe Children of Israel in the Scripture: Ye verily will work corruption\nin the earth twice, and ye will become great tyrants. So when the time\nfor the first of the two came, We roused against you slaves of Ours of\ngreat might who ravaged (your) country, and it was a threat performed.\nThen we gave you once again your turn against them, and We aided you with\nwealth and children and made you more in soldiery. (Saying): If ye do good,\nye do good for your own souls, and if ye do evil, it is for them (in like\nmanner). So, when the time for the second (of the judgments) came (We roused\nagainst you others of Our slaves) to ravage you, and to enter the Temple\neven as they entered it the first time, and to lay waste all that they\nconquered with an utter wasting(Al-Isr\u00e2':4-7), and the meaning of\nthat and only God knows, that We inspired (mentioned) for the Israelites\nin Torah and told them about what shall they do of sins and tyranny and\nthey will commit many crimes that they should be punished in this life\nbefore the after-life and most important of what they shall commit are\ntwo things: the first is to do against what is mentioned in Torah of laws\nand regulations and to rebel against God, and then kill Isaiah and Jeremiah\nwith no right but because they are prophets calling back to worship God\nand order with the goodness and prohibit the ill-manners, and the second\none is that they shall kill Zacharias and John and the desire to kill Jesus\nthe son of Mary (PUT). About God's saying \"So when the time for the first\nof the two came, We roused against you slaves of Ours of great might who\nravaged (your) country, and it was a threat performed\" meaning the promise\nof punishment in this life before the after-life, at that time We shall\nsend over you servants for us, meaning Nebuchadnezzar and his soldiers,\nthat shall come and ask for you and look for you and look for your shameful\nhistory and your crimes and punish you severely, because the wrong disbeliever\nis God's sword that God uses to revenge and to punish the rebellious, and\nthen God shall take revenge of him in the after-life. So he shall be sent\nover you to kill you and to captivate you and take all of your fortunes.\nThen God shall have mercy upon you and let you back to your lands and homes\nand you shall be in safety for some time as long you are on the straight\npath, and when your souls turn ill as before and rebelled, God shall send\nto you the sword of revenge of what He prepared for such purpose as He\ntook revenge of you in the first time, and then by a mercy from Him he\ngot you back home again.\nFor God's saying \"So, when the time for the second (of the judgments)\ncame (We roused against you others of Our slaves) to ravage you,\" it means\nthat We sent them to let your faces shown up because the traces of the\nrevenge and the sins are obvious in them, and to lay waste all what they\nconquered by their force and their invasion for you and so they shall be\ncontrolling you again, and for this came the invasion of the king (caesar)\nof the romans or the king of Persia, both are mentioned. So God humiliated\nthem by scattering them around and killing them and by destruction and\nthey entered the Temple as they did in the first time and they killed their\nchildren and humiliated their nobles and their elders and took their fortunes.\nIt is narrated by the prophet (PUH) that Nebuchadnezzar ruled for one hundred\nand eighty seven years, and killed seventy thousand warriors of jews for\nthe blood of John ben Zacharias and destroyed the Temple and the jews were\nscattered all over the lands. As attributed to Al-S\u00e2diq (PUH) that\nhe said: the earth was ruled by four, two believers and two disbelievers,\nas for the believers they were Solomon ben David (PUH) and \u00d0ul-Qarnain,\nand as for the two disbelievers, they were Nimrod and Nebuchadnezzar.\n\u00a0\n\u00a0\nNext: D\u00e2ni\u00e2l (Daniel) (PUH)","title":"The Prophets, Their Lives and Their Stories: Jesus The Son of Mary: Bukht Nassar (Nebuchadnezzar)","type":"page"}