The Identification of the People of the Sabbath Mentioned in the Qur'an
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The questioner:
The questioner asks: Who are the People of the Sabbath mentioned in the Qur'an?
The Shaykh:
The People of the Sabbath were a group of Jews. Allah forbade them from hunting fish on the Sabbath as a trial and test for them, so the fish would come in large numbers on the Sabbath, coming in large numbers on the Sabbath. And they were prohibited from hunting them.
So when they saw their abundance, they coveted them, but they were prohibited from hunting them, so they devised a trick to catch them. They dug pits for them and set nets for them, so the fish would come and fall into the pits, then the nets would catch them, and then they would take them on Sunday, saying, "We did not hunt on the Sabbath." You tricked the prey; you caught them by trickery. This is a trick. We ask Allah for safety.
So when they did this, the people of righteousness forbade them,[Al-A'raf 7:164] they advised them, so a group said, "There is no benefit in them; do not advise them, they are not going to accept from you." So they divided into three groups: a group that committed the crime, refuge with Allah, a group that advised and forbade it, and a group that did not advise; they disapproved of this but did not advise, saying, "There is no benefit in them," they left them, and they blamed those who were advising them, [Al-A'raf 7:164]? So when the punishment came, it took those who committed the crime, and it took those who remained silent and did not disapprove, and none were saved except those who disapproved.
Those who condemned it were saved, but as for those who committed the crime, Allah transformed them into monkeys and pigs.[Al-Baqarah 2:65] On the Sabbath, they caught fish on the day of [Al-Baqarah 2:65], although they had been forbidden from doing so. [Al-Baqarah 2:65] Allah transformed them from human beings into monkeys, just as they had schemed against the command of Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He.
The questioner:
Everything.
The Shaykh:
[Al-A'raf 7:165] They forgot the admonition and the reminder. [Al-A'raf 7:165] Allah is silent regarding those who said, "Why do you admonish a people?" It appears that they perished with them. Yes.
The questioner asks: Who are the People of the Sabbath mentioned in the Qur'an?
The Shaykh:
The People of the Sabbath were a group of Jews. Allah forbade them from hunting fish on the Sabbath as a trial and test for them, so the fish would come in large numbers on the Sabbath, coming in large numbers on the Sabbath. And they were prohibited from hunting them.
So when they saw their abundance, they coveted them, but they were prohibited from hunting them, so they devised a trick to catch them. They dug pits for them and set nets for them, so the fish would come and fall into the pits, then the nets would catch them, and then they would take them on Sunday, saying, "We did not hunt on the Sabbath." You tricked the prey; you caught them by trickery. This is a trick. We ask Allah for safety.
So when they did this, the people of righteousness forbade them,
And when a community among them said, "Why do you advise [or warn] a people whom Allah is [about] to destroy or to punish with a severe punishment?"
وَإِذْ قَالَتْ أُمَّةٌ مِّنْهُمْ لِمَ تَعِظُونَ قَوْمًا اللَّهُ مُهْلِكُهُمْ أَوْ مُعَذِّبُهُمْ عَذَابًا شَدِيدًاWhy do you advise [or warn] a people whom Allah is [about] to destroy
لِمَ تَعِظُونَ قَوْمًا اللَّهُ مُهْلِكُهُمْThose who condemned it were saved, but as for those who committed the crime, Allah transformed them into monkeys and pigs.
And you had already known about those who transgressed among you
وَلَقَدْ عَلِمْتُمُ الَّذِينَ اعْتَدَوْا مِنكُمْ فِيconcerning the sabbath
السَّبْتِand We said to them, "Be apes, despised."
فَقُلْنَا لَهُمْ كُونُوا قِرَدَةً خَاسِئِينَThe questioner:
Everything.
The Shaykh:
And when they forgot that by which they had been reminded
فَلَمَّا نَسُوا مَا ذُكِّرُوا بِهِWe saved those who had forbidden evil and seized those who wronged, with a wretched punishment, because they were defiantly disobeying.
أَنجَيْنَا الَّذِينَ يَنْهَوْنَ عَنِ السُّوءِ وَأَخَذْنَا الَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا بِعَذَابٍ بَئِيسٍ بِمَا كَانُوا يَفْسُقُونَ
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لقاء مفتوح 07-09-1435هـ — alfawzan.live (15:06)
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