{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/pro/sal01.htm","path":"isl/pro/sal01.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pro/sal01.htm","text":"Sacred Texts\u00a0\nIslam\u00a0\nIndex\u00a0\nPrevious\u00a0\nNext\u00a0\nProperities of The She-Camel\nThis she-camel has special properities which make her destinctive from\nother she-camels, such as the large size of her body and its attractive\ncolor that is mainly brown with yellow and her dense hair, and her ability\nto drink the water of all the people so that nothing of it is left at the\nday of her drink, and also giving milk so much that it was enough for the\npeople at that day, the youngs and adults, to drink, and also whatever\nwas on earth of plants was a pasture for her and no one has the right to\nprohibit her from that, and she didn't use to hurt or do damage towards\nanyone either in self or his plants or his trees, and she did not need\na guard, and the rest of the animals used to get afraid of her and get\noff her way.\nWhat is understood from the Holy Phrases about the she-camel is that\nno one of \u00deamud should do harm to her or to her food or her drink\nthat was appointed for her at her appointed day, and she also don't approach\nthe water at the day of their drinking, so her meanings and her characterestics\nare not obvious except for the One who created her. For this they were\nwarned and the threat was directed to them whenever they wanted to harm\nher, and the punishment will befall on them for the slightest harm they\nmight do or for killing her, and S\u00e2lih (PUH) did his best with his\npeople to advice them for he had the pity on them with sincerity, and carried\nso much of their cause and had patient with them to the fullest, and he\nwas lonely with sorrow for them for they were his people and his tribe\nand his beloved if only they obeyed God, but what a sorrow (You would be\nheard if you were calling a living, but there is no such life when the\none you're calling).\nHe used to remind them of the gifts of God to them and try to prohibit\nthem to do mischiefs on earth and worship other gods instead of the true\nGod, and also prohibited them to be tyrants on earth with pride, and for\nthe main heads and tyrants in his people had the pride upon him and they\ndidn't accept to be governed by the commandments and prohibitions of S\u00e2lih\nlike the other people and become under his rule after their pride and their\nrule, and for them such matter is something not to be discussed and not\nto be taken as it is for their pride keeps them from being under the rule\nof a man that had no money nor power, and they never look at what they\nwere worshipping of idols that have no benefits nor harm, no feelings and\ndon't talk to them or guide them, and they would know that the Creator\nis some One else only if they did meditate and understand.\nS\u00e2lih (PUH) is His messenger to them and his prophecy was proved\nby the miracles that none of the creatures would make, and the mischiefers\nthat had the rule among the people of S\u00e2lih went to the believers\nthat followed him and asked them as if they were mocking: do you know that\nS\u00e2lih was sent from his God? And their answer to them was: we are\nbelievers in whatever he was sent for. Then the tyrants said: we disbelieve\nin what you've believed in. We've pointed out before that the destruction\nof the people of S\u00e2lih ,for their killing of the she-camel and refusing\nthe commandments of God and His prophet, was done by the Cry as was mentioned\nin the Holy Quran in God's saying: And the (awful) Cry overtook those who\ndid wrong, so that morning found them prostrate in their dwellings(Hud:67).\nYes, and Quran also mentioned several ways of punishing them with the quake,\nthe thunders, tyranny..etc as in the chapters of Al-A`r\u00e2f, Al-\u00d0\u00e2riy\u00e2t,\nAl-H\u00e2qqah and Al-Sho`ar\u00e2' , and no doubt that all of the other\nways of punishing were revealed all together, because the Cry which is\nthe great noise, is done by the thunder and mostly accompanied with the\nquake and we shall believe that the conditions for the Cry are all satisfied\nin the Holy Phrases, and also the tyranny which is the expansion of the\ncircle of destruction that was revealed upon them and upon what they used\nto worship and upon where they used to live, so tyranny overcame them and\ntheir homes as mentioned in His saying: Then see the nature of the consequence\nof their plotting, for lo! We destroyed them and their people, every one,\nSee, yonder are their dwellings empty and in ruins because they did wrong.\nLo! herein is indeed a portent for a people who have knowledge(Al-Naml:51-52).\nWith no doubt it is apparent that the people of S\u00e2lih were in\ndoubt about his prophecy and his message and his truthfulness about everything\nhe claimed about the prophecy and the message of God to them before the\nfoundation of the she-camel and her weanling, especially the main tyrants\nof them, and it is probable that some of them believed just by calling\nthem back to God with showing them the clues for that as it is with the\nrest of the messengers and prophets for such people had wisdom and kind\nhearts and the good-will, and mostly they are the weak people on earth,\nand they said to the tyrants of the people of S\u00e2lih: Lo! In that\nwherewith he hath been sent we are believers(Al-A`r\u00e2f:75). Yes, and\nwhen he got with the great miracle of his which was the she-camel out of\nthe rock as they requested, those who were on faith been even more faithful,\nand it is probable that all of them believed in him at that time if it\nwasn't for the devil's seducation and the soul that runs after mischiefs\nand the stubborness of the harsh disbelievers that grabbed with them those\nof weak faith and those who have no working mind or wisdom. And in a famous\nspeech (Hadith) [this line probably taken from a famous Hadith for the\nprophet Muhammad PUH]: People are following their kings religions for their\ngreedness for this life's wreckage and their fear of power. So from here\nand there, those of stubborness got back from being faithful without a\nclue or a prove, and been doubting and disbelieving, and said to him: Let\nwhatever you were promising come over us if you were saying the truth.\nAnd as a witness for this we have God's saying: And as for Thamud, We gave\nthem guidance, but they preferred blindness to the guidance(Fossilat:17).\nSo, the she-camel is the miracle to prove the truthfulness of S\u00e2lih\nand his message from God to them, and it is a test for them, for God did\nsay: Lo! We are sending the she-camel as a test for them; so watch them\nand have patience(Al-Qamar:27), so by her, the prove was done and the forbidden\nhappened along with the torture, and all is said and done, and God did\nsay about this: We never punish until we have sent a messenger(Al-Isr\u00e2':15).\nNext: The Land of S\u00e2lih's (PUH) People","title":"The Prophets, Their Lives and Their Stories: S\u00e2lih: Properities of The She-Camel","type":"page"}