Baqarah 65-66

65- AND YOU HAVE KNOWN THOSE OF YOU WHO TRANSGRESSED ON THE SABBATH,

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AND WE HAVE SAID TO THEM: BE APES, DE- SPISED AND REJECTED.

66- THIS WAS MADE TO BE AN EXAMPLE FOR THE TIME AND THE SUCCEEDING GENERATIONS, AND A LESSON FOR THE PI- OUS.

Another event in the chronicles of the Children of Israel, happened in a town believed to be Al-Aqa- ba. The people in that town lived mostly by fish- ing. They were not righteous people; however they used to be very particular about religious appear- ances, rather than the core spirit and the meaning of their faith. Allah the Highest decided to test them and show their hypocrisy by testing them in the things that they upheld as highest, like not working on the Sabbath.

Allah the Highest made the fish disappear from the sea all week, so that they could not catch any fish, however on the Sabbath, there were be fish in the sea, the sea was so full of fish that they could be seen jumping in the water. They soon decided to violate the Sabbath and went on fishing of that day. Allah the Highest said about them “AND ASK

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THEM ABOUT THE TOWN BY THE SEA AS THEY VIOLATED THE SABBATH, WHEN THE FISH CAME TO THEM VISIBLY ON THE DAY OF THEIR SABBATH, WHILE ON OTHER DAYS THEY DID NOT COME. SUCH WE TRIED THEM FOR THEIR EVIL DOING”. (S: 7 A: 163)

This means that this test was because of their evil doing and hypocrisy, and in order to uncover it.

The righteous people of the town warned them, but they did not take head “AND WHEN SOME OF THEM SAID: WHY DO YOU ADVISE PEOPLE ALLAH WILL DESTROY OR PUNISH SE- VERELY? THEY SAID: TO BE FREE FROM BLAME BEFORE YOUR LORD, AND HOPING THAT THEY MAY BECOME PIOUS * WHEN THEY FORGOT WHAT THEY WERE RE- MINDED OF, WE SAVED THOSE WHO FOR- BAD THE EVIL AND TOOK THE EVIL DOERS WITH SEVERE PUNISHMENT BECAUSE OF THEIR EVIL DOING * WHEN THEY TOOK PRIDE IN DOING WHAT THEY WERE FOR- BIDDEN TO DO, WE SAID TO THEM: BE

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APES, DESPISED AND REJECTED”. (S: 7 A: 164-166)

So, it is important that the righteous people con- tinue to advise and to warn the others about evil, even if they think that it will be all in vain.

Allah the Highest tested the evil doers in what they held highest, to show that is all part of the facade. This test was to show what was inside them, which Allah the Highest knows, but the others do not.

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