{"collection":"Texts of Islam","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_pro_dav04_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_pro_dav04_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_isl_pro_dav04_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/pro/dav04.htm","summary":"This is Islamic exegetical (tafsir) writing that interprets Quranic passages about the divine punishment of Israelites who violated the Sabbath prohibition on fishing \u2014 specifically Quran 2:65\u201366 and 7:163\u2013164. The text synthesizes multiple classical Islamic narrations to reconstruct the full story: a coastal town (identified with Obballah near Basra) whose inhabitants devised a legal loophole \u2014 digging fish-traps on Friday so they could harvest fish on Sunday without technically \"hunting\" on the Sabbath \u2014 and were consequently transformed into apes and pigs as divine retribution. The community is divided into three groups: active sinners (~70,000), passive bystanders who neither sinned nor rebuked, and a righteous minority who condemned the sin and physically separated themselves before the punishment fell; the text carefully traces each group's fate. A distinctive theological point comes from Imam al-Sajjad (Ali ibn al-Husain), who uses the story as a comparative argument: if God punished mere Sabbath-breakers so severely, those who killed the Prophet's family deserved even greater punishment, though God deferred it to the afterlife as a multiplied torment. The text also preserves an unusual detail \u2014 that after transformation, the apes could still recognize their former acquaintances and weep in acknowledgment \u2014 before being swept into the sea by storms three days later.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"The Prophets, Their Lives and Their Stories: David: Mutat...","tradition":"Texts of Islam","translated_text":null,"word_count":1275}