An Explanation of Who the People of the Sabbath Are
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Question:
There is a section about the People of the Sabbath. It asks: Who are they?
Answer:
The People of the Sabbath are a group of Jews whom Allah forbade from hunting fish on the Sabbath. They dug pits and set up nets for them, so the fish would fall into these pits on the Sabbath and be caught by the nets, and then they would take them on Sunday. They said, "We did not hunt them; the nets hunted them." They devised a scheme to circumvent the law of Allah, the Exalted. So Allah transformed them into apes and pigs. Yes.
There is a section about the People of the Sabbath. It asks: Who are they?
Answer:
The People of the Sabbath are a group of Jews whom Allah forbade from hunting fish on the Sabbath. They dug pits and set up nets for them, so the fish would fall into these pits on the Sabbath and be caught by the nets, and then they would take them on Sunday. They said, "We did not hunt them; the nets hunted them." They devised a scheme to circumvent the law of Allah, the Exalted. So Allah transformed them into apes and pigs. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، برنامج (فتاوى) (177) لمعالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان بتاريخ [1440-05-04] - كبار العلماء — youtube.com (14:30)
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