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God was angry with the Companions of the Sabbath because...Read more they disobeyed His command. They chose the Sabbath as a day for fishing despite His prohibition. So He punished them by preventing whales from appearing on that day, so they could not find anything to catch.
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Simeon envied Sheikh Ezekiel for the goodness and abundant...Read more provision God had bestowed upon him in his home. On the Sabbath, the people gathered in the temple as usual. While Simeon was watching the sea, he was surprised by the unusual number of whales that had appeared.
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Simeon went hunting whales on the Sabbath, disobeying God's...Read more command, and fear crept into the hearts of the people of the wrath and punishment of God if they followed him in his disobedience.
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Simeon tried to persuade Ezekiel to abandon prayer, refrain...Read more from going to the temple, and accompany him on a whale hunt on the Sabbath. The villagers were divided into two groups: one group supported Simeon and followed his disobedience, and the other group feared God's wrath and refused to disobey his command.
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When Companions of the Sabbath disobeyed God despite His...Read more prophets and upright servants, He got angry. The wall they had taken refuge behind collapsed on them, and He transformed them into monkeys and pigs as punishment for their disobedience and transgression of God's limits.
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People of the Ditch
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A king claimed divinity and ordered a magician to teach a...Read more young boy the art of magic to help him. However, while traveling between the palace and the town, the boy met a monk who preached monotheism and the worship of God. Impressed by his words, the boy began to lean toward the truth.
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The boy learned a lot from the monk, and his faith and...Read more attachment to monotheism grew until he followed him wholeheartedly. When the magician noticed the boy's change and his refusal to obey him, he complained to the king, frustrated at his rebellion and his abandonment of magic.
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The monk refused to follow the king, invited the king to...Read more worship God, and asked God to restore his sight and God answered the monk's prayer. When the king learned of the matter, he became furious. He ordered the monk and the boy imprisoned and began torturing them to turn them away from their faith.
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The boy survived and began calling people to faith. The king...Read more became angry and dug ditches to kill the believers, but God destroyed him and his followers with a fire they had planned for others.
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Companions of the Rass
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The people worshipped the pine tree and forbade others from...Read more approaching the nearby spring or drinking from its water.
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The people celebrate annually a tree called 'Shahdrekht',...Read more where the devil would incarnate to tempt them to offer sacrifices and increase their obedience to it.
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The Companions of the Rass denied their prophet when he...Read more called them to worship God and abandon the tree. When the people persisted in their disbelief, the prophet cursed them, and as a result, God destroyed them.
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When the crops perished and the sea dried up, the king...Read more became angry and put the Prophet in a well to be tortured. Then God sent down a plague that destroyed the king and his people but saved his Prophet and the believers.
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The Companions of the Thicket
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The Companions of the Thicket worshipped the thicket trees,...Read more and they were cheating in their trade, taking their full rights, and they gave people less in measure and weight.
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Prophet Shuaib's servant tried to advise the people to stop...Read more cheating on the scales, but Satan took the form of a man and tempted them to fight the Prophet.
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The people gathered and asked Shuaib to leave the village,...Read more so God brought down a severe punishment and a cloud that sent fire and flames over them and destroyed them.
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The People of the City
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The village was ruled by a tyrannical king called Antakhas,...Read more so God sent three of his prophets to it: Sadiq, Saduq, and Shalum, to guide the people and call them to worship God alone.
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Sadiq and Saduq approached the people of the village with...Read more kindness and wisdom and were able to invite them to the religion of God, but Satan whispered to the people that they were enemies who came to mislead them, so doubt began to creep into their hearts.
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The merchants asked King to keep Sadiq and Saduq away from...Read more them, fearing for their interests. The king ordered their arrest and imprisonment. When Shalum learned of what had happened, he worked hard to help them escape from prison and save them from the king's oppression.
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The king waged war against the three prophets, Saduq, Sadiq,...Read more and Shalum, so God sent down a revelation to them ordering them to leave the village. After they left, God's wrath and punishment descended upon its people as punishment for their stubbornness and denial.
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The Companion of the Whale
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For many years, Prophet Yunus (peace be upon him) called the...Read more people of his village to believe in God, warning them of His punishment if they continued in their disbelief. But when they turned away, he decided to leave the village and travel by sea without permission from his Lord.
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A violent storm arose at sea, and Yunus was thrown into the...Read more water, where the whale swallowed him by God's command. In the darkness of the whale's belly, he sought refuge with his Lord, supplicating humbly. God heard his request and ordered the whale to vomit him onto the shore safely.
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The Companions of the Garden
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People called the orchard 'the garden of paradise' because...Read more of its abundant bounty. The owner's sons disagreed on whether to give some of the garden's crop to the poor or keep it all.
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Satan took the form of a wealthy man and tried to tempt the...Read more orchard owner's son with a tempting offer to buy the crop at a high price.
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After the death of the orchard owner, his son refuses to...Read more carry out his father's will, determined to monopolize the wealth for himself.
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Satan bought the orchard from its owner's sons after...Read more tempting them with money. Before the deal was completed, they were surprised to find that the orchard had turned to ashes. They lost everything and their goodness was gone forever.
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People of the Elephant
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Abraha succeeded in killing his partner in the rule of...Read more Yemen, and the news reached the king of Abyssinia. At the same time, Abraha learned that people were traveling to Mecca and the Kaaba for trade and religious rituals, which piqued his interest.
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Abraha convinced the king of Abyssinia to build a place of...Read more worship that would surpass the Kaaba in beauty and grandeur, so he decided to build a large church with the aim of discouraging people from going to Mecca.
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Abraha began building the church using gold and diamonds to...Read more make it one of the most luxurious places of worship. Then he decided to demolish the Kaaba to turn people away from it once and for all.
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Abraha headed with his army towards the Kaaba, led by a...Read more giant elephant, but suddenly birds appeared from the sky and threw stones of burning clay at his army, destroying them all.
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