The People of the Trench
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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, were the People of the Trench Christians or monotheists?
Answer:
Monotheists? Yes. They were disbelievers. The People of the Trench were disbelievers who tortured the Muslims and killed them. They dug trenches for them and demanded they commit apostasy, but they refused. They dug trenches and kindled fires in them, then drove them and threw them into the fire while they were still alive.
The Shaykh: Killing means cursing[Al-Buruj 85:4-8]. [Al-Buruj 85:9] Then He said [Al-Buruj 85:10] meaning those who will abide in it [Al-Buruj 85:10] We ask Allah for safety. They burned the Muslims and thought it was over, but the burning awaits them. They have a burning like the burning of this world, which ends. They have a punishment, they have the punishment of Hell. [Al-Buruj 85:10] We ask Allah for safety. Yes.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, were the People of the Trench Christians or monotheists?
Answer:
Monotheists? Yes. They were disbelievers. The People of the Trench were disbelievers who tortured the Muslims and killed them. They dug trenches for them and demanded they commit apostasy, but they refused. They dug trenches and kindled fires in them, then drove them and threw them into the fire while they were still alive.
The Shaykh: Killing means cursing
(4) Cursed were the companions of the trench (5) [Containing] the fire full of fuel, (6) When they were sitting near it (7) And they, to what they were doing against the believers, were witnesses. (8) And they resented them not except because they believed in Allah, the Exalted in Might, the Praiseworthy,
أَصْحَابُ الْأُخْدُودِ النَّارِ ذَاتِ الْوَقُودِ إِذْ هُمْ عَلَيْهَا قُعُودٌ وَهُمْ عَلَىٰ مَا يَفْعَلُونَ بِالْمُؤْمِنِينَ شُهُودٌ وَمَا نَقَمُوا مِنْهُمْ إِلَّا أَن يُؤْمِنُوا بِاللَّهِ الْعَزِيزِ الْحَمِيدِTo whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth. And Allah, over all things, is Witness.
الَّذِي لَهُ مُلْكُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ وَاللَّهُ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ شَهِيدٌIndeed, those who have tortured the believing men and believing women
إِنَّ الَّذِينَ فَتَنُوا الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَالْمُؤْمِنَاتِand then have not repented will have the punishment of Hell, and they will have the punishment of the Burning Fire.
ثُمَّ لَمْ يَتُوبُوا فَلَهُمْ عَذَابُ جَهَنَّمَ وَلَهُمْ عَذَابُ الْحَرِيقِand they will have the punishment of the Burning Fire.
وَلَهُمْ عَذَابُ الْحَرِيقِ
Source
المنتقى من أخبار سيد المرسلين [26] — alfawzan.live (1:04:47)
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