Shuaib (peace be upon him)

We live with you today with the story of the prophet Shuaib, one of the few prophets whom God sent from the Arabs, in addition to Hood, Saleh, Ismael, Shuaib and Mohammed.  

Shuaib was sent peace upon him to a village called Midian, located on the outskirts of the Levant in the area of Hejaz.

It was a small village, and its people were weak and resourceful. Allah had to count them a lot, and their business flourished.

Despite his call for peace for the people of Median, they defied the grace of God, and departed from the straight path. 

The first of them who disbelieved in Allah was that they had worshiped a tree called the Ayka.

With this disbelief and polytheism in Allah, they had a sin that they were said to have invented, and no one preceded them to do, which is that they were highwaymen, blocking convoys that walk in their direction, Because they passed through their land, they ate people's money unjustly.

The people of Midian were also engaged in commerce, sale, and purchase, and their business was based on cheating, slandering, and playing in the balance. 

Glory be to God, how he told us the story of this noble prophet with his people to warn people about human models that took this approach in dealing and dealing, cheating, deceiving, and plundering in Makial, and whose authority is considered the supreme rule of God in the people of Shoaib. ”“Their stories have been a lesson to those with insight.”

Invitation to God

Shuaib (peace be upon him) called on his people to worship Allah almighty, and to stop them from cheating and deception that they drowned in, and bring them miracles that prove to them the sincerity of his prophecy and his call, and told them that I see you fine,

That Allah almighty has provided you with good and halal trade enough for you about forbidden dealings, fraud and deception, but weak. Faith or who does not believe is afraid of poverty, but of loss, so he resorts to cheating and forbidden dealings, and to not be honest in his trade,

“ He started his business and forgot that God is the Giver and the Conciliator.

And that the king's treasuries are in his hand, and that no matter how he works through his efforts, he will not get any good without the success of Allah the Almighty. 

That if a man can cheat and deceive people, this is not intelligence or intelligence, but is a test and a test from Allah the Almighty, to see his deeds if he was able to deceive people.

If he fails this test, Allah will give him blessing, Man finds his blessing in himself and his family, his health and his livelihood.

Determination to be infidels

They started to ridicule him. They said, “ “O Shuaib, you are commanded to abandon what our fathers worship, or to do with our property what we will.you are the forbearing, the right-minded.” 

They faced his call for peace by lying and wondering about the request he asked of them, as they marveled at the fact that religion should be the one who calls on them to unite.

What made them even more surprised was that religion intervened in their business, prevented them from cheating, and regulated the disposal of money.

What is strange about this is that there are those who call today for separating religion from the matters of life, and that it hinders development in financial transactions and international trade. 

They do not know that God, the Almighty, who created creation, made religion to discipline ethics and control the affairs of their lives.

Cynicism

After the rounds of his invitation to his people to God, and they left the error and disbelief that they were in, they started mocking him, mocking him, and doubting the truth of his message, although they knew that he was right, and that they were all misguided. 

They said, 'You are the wise and wise one.' This is evidence of their mockery of him.

But their ridicule was met with arguments, arguments, and miracles.

How is it that peace is not popular with the prophets?

When they were tired of arguing with him, and saw that they could not make arguments against him, they moved to a new stage of denial by closing their minds on what their prophet says to them. 

They rejected guidance, threatened him with stoning, but what disappoints them is the status of his family and his tribe.

continuation of the call

In spite of this control, ridicule, and insistence on refuting and disparaging the value of his message, peace be upon him, and his intentions in getting them out of error, disbelief, and distraction, 

He continued to call on them without tiredness, or destruction, for what they provoke of lies. 

When they saw that, they decided to expel him and those who believed with him, to expel you, "O Shuaib, and those who believed with you from our village, or you, or to return to our kingdom, 

Shuaib said to them, “If we were hating, we would not be forced out of this land.

Peace be upon him. Our Lord, open up the truth between us and our people, and you are the best of pioneers. He promised them that you would lie. 

He said, “And he said, " O my people ,work according to your station; I am working; You'll know who's giving him a scare, and who's a lie.” And watch out. I'm with you, Sergeant.”

Responding to the Call

After this prayer, which came out of a prophet of the prophets of God the Almighty, the response came, and the punishment began for people of Median.

The wind stopped them for seven days, and the temperature increased, until people grew tired of the weather, and they breathed with difficulty the air for a look at it.

Then came the agony and followed those seven heavy days on the people of Median, the clouds came, and shadows started to turn towards them...

They remained standing still, and the people rushed to them to seek shade, after the difficult days they spent without shade or air. 

Everyone came out to them except the believers. 

As soon as they gathered under that cloud, the earth fell from under their feet, and they fell on the ground from the intensity of the earthquake.{So they called him a liar. So the punishment of the day of darkness overtook them}. 

It was the punishment of a great day. The Almighty said, “When our decree came, we saved Shuaib and those who believed with him, by mercy from Us.” The Blast struck the wrongdoers, and they became motionless bodies in their homes”.

The people of Median remained in this state until Shuaib passed by them, leaving their land. 

He spoke to them as dead bodies, He said, “Saying: “O people, I have been informed by the messages of my God, and I have advised you, so how can he deplore the people of unbelievers.”  

He then stated that peace is upon him who moved from Median and lived in Mecca, and died and was buried there.

A call for unity

God sent to the people of Midian, Shuaib to call upon them to unite, worship God Almighty, and to stop them from worshiping the tree, cheating in buying and selling, and blocking the way of people, and following the trust in commercial transactions.

The Almighty said: {And to Median, their brother Shuaib. He said, “O my people, worship Allah; you have no god but Him.” And lack neither measure nor balance. I see you all well and I fear for you the agony of a surrounding day.

Wait for us with another story from ancient history.

Abu Musa

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