{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/pro/jet00.htm","path":"isl/pro/jet00.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pro/jet00.htm","text":"Shu`ayb (Jethro) The Prophet (PUH)\n He is Shu`ayb (Jethro) ben Nowayt ben Ra`u'eel (Reuel) ben Murrah ben `Anq\u00e2'\n ben Midian ben Abraham (PUH) [notice: unfortunately I couldn't find the\n ancestry of Jethro in Torah to check with the name listed above in Arabic,\n but for Nowayt it is close to the name Nahath mentioned in Torah as one\n of Reuel sons, but Reuel is a son for Esau and do not follow the chain\n mentioned here, but Nahath and Nowayt have some similarities as you can\n see], and his tongue was Arabic and was sent from the people of Midian\n as it is mentioned in Muruj Al-\u00d0ahab, and `At\u00e2' [seems a person's\n name] said: He is Shu`ayb ben Nowayt ben Midian ben Abraham (PUH) and he\n was called the Speaker of Prophets for his billiant ways in debate with\n his people and his talent in proving his point against his people and disapprove\n their clues, and his people here is meant to be the people of Al-Aykah\n (the dwellers in the wood), and some say that he was sent twice, once to\n Midian and once to Al-Aykah (and it is a place near Midian with lot of\n waters and trees). It is mentioned that he was the first one to measure\n the balance with his hands so they were measruing with honesty but then\n they cheated in their measures so then they were taken by a great shake\n and left dead in their dwelling place, it is mentioned also that he sent\n some messangers from his side to the people, and one of his messangers\n was Shu'ayb ben S\u00e2lih, he sent him to his (Shu`ayb ben S\u00e2lih's)\n people but they killed him and threw him in a well, and it is possible\n that he was sent to the lands of Shem as it is shown by history and traces,\n and one of his messengers was Hass\u00e2n ben Sin\u00e2n Al-Awza\u00e2`ee,\n he was the messanger of Jethro to the lands of Africa so he went to them\n calling for faith in God and work to fullful His commandments, but they\n called him a liar and kept him a prisoner in a hole until he died, and\n another one was Al-H\u00e2ri\u00fe ben Shu`yb Al-Ghass\u00e2ni, and\n he was Jethro's messanger to Midian but they called him a liar and killed\n him as well. Jethro used to cry a lot, and as attributed to Anas ben M\u00e2lik\n that he reported from the prophet (PUH) that he said: Jethro cried for\n God's love until he became blind, and then his sightness was brought back\n to him by God, then he cried again until he became blind and God brought\n his sightness again, and so on until the fourth time when God inspired\n to him: O Jethro, until what time you shall be crying? If it was for your\n fear of hell, then know that I protected you against it, and if it was\n for your love for paradise, then know that I made it for you, so then he\n said: O my Lord and Master, You know that I did not cry for the fear of\n Your hell nor for the love of Your paradise, but Your love is knotted in\n my heart and I can't keep patience to see You, then God inspired to him:\n if it was like that then I will send to you my speaker Moses ben Amram\n (PUH) to serve you, and this story could have many interpretations, maybe\n the most probable of all is that he meant \"I will keep crying until I see\n you after my death.\"","title":"The Prophets, Their Lives and Their Stories: Shu`ayb (Jet...","type":"page"}