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Clear filter...lars such as Ibn Kathir note that Idris was among the first people to write with a pen, to tailor garments, and to study the s...
... "the second father of humanity." He was sent by Allah to a people who had fallen into widespread idol worship, and he called ...
Hud (peace be upon him) was sent by Allah to the people of 'Ad — a powerful and prosperous Arab civilization that l...
Salih (peace be upon him) was sent by Allah to the people of Thamud — an ancient Arab civilization that inhabited the...
...ah" (Surah Al-An'am 6:79). He confronted his father and his people with clarity and wisdom, and when they refused to listen, h...
...with him from Iraq. Allah then sent Lut as a prophet to the people of Sodom and Gomorrah — cities whose inhabitants had commit...
...27). Ismail was himself a prophet who continued to call the people of Mecca and Arabia to the worship of Allah alone. The Qura...
... who came to Ibrahim with tidings of the destruction of the people of Lut also brought glad tidings of a son: Sarah, in astoni...
...o one despairs of relief from Allah except the disbelieving people" (Surah Yusuf 12:86–87). Allah reunited Yaqub with Yusuf a...
Shuaib (peace be upon him) was sent by Allah to two peoples: the people of Madyan (a prosperous trading community in t...
...d their faith. Despite nine clear miracles, Fir'awn and his people refused to submit. Finally, Allah commanded Musa to lead th...
...bsence, a man named al-Samiri crafted a golden calf for the people, who fell into worshipping it. Harun had strenuously oppose...
... region named Kifl. The exact identity of Dhul-Kifl and the people to whom he was sent is not specified in the Quran. Classic...
...indeed, Ilyas was among the messengers. When he said to his people: 'Will you not fear Allah? Do you call upon Baal and leave ...
...istory — through a long chain of prophets sent to different peoples and times. Each of these prophets carried the same essenti...
...uely tested prophets in Islamic history. He was sent to the people of Nineveh — a great city in what is now northern Iraq — an...
...r a confirming sign, he was told that he would not speak to people for three days except by gesture. This was not a punishment...
...which Allah asks: "O Isa, son of Maryam, did you say to the people: 'Take me and my mother as deities besides Allah?'" and Isa...
... rejection of polytheism. The Quran affirms that among the People of the Book — both Jews and Christians — there remained ind...
...ance from Allah delivered through His prophet to a specific people at a specific time. What is called the New Testament today ...
...d to exist — the Visigoths, the Vandals, and other Germanic peoples were converted to Arianism before Trinitarian Christianity...
.... The Quran itself acknowledges the existence of righteous People of the Book who maintained a degree of authentic faith. All...
...ould that I were young and could live to the time when your people will turn you out." This statement is extraordinary on sev...
...rophet Muhammad ﷺ later said of Salman: "Salman is from the People of the House (Ahl al-Bayt)." This statement — an extraordin...
... from Mecca — asked: "Is Salman one of us?" The Ansar — the people of Medina — asked: "Is Salman one of us?" The Prophet ﷺ res...
...ibn Ali was given the pledge of allegiance as caliph by the people of Iraq. However, Muawiyah marched with the Syrian army and...
...er of opposition in Mecca. Husayn received letters from the people of Kufa urging him to come and lead them in revolt, but the...
... receiving tens of thousands of pledges of support from the people of Kufa, Husayn travelled toward Iraq with a small group of...
...m: Hindus and Buddhists were treated as dhimmis — protected peoples — allowed to continue their religious practices and mainta...
... crusaders, having already annihilated the poorly equipped 'People's Crusade' earlier. His force initially fell upon the advan...
...liph al-Musta'sim and an estimated hundreds of thousands of people. Libraries were destroyed, including the House of Wisdom. T...
...ook his famous pilgrimage to Mecca with a caravan of 60,000 people and enormous quantities of gold. His lavish generosity alon...
... Damascus. His funeral was attended by an estimated 200,000 people. His writings have profoundly influenced modern Islamic rev...
... Russian imperial expansion in the Caucasus, uniting Muslim peoples under a Sharia-based state.
...r war between Iraq and Iran killed an estimated one million people and devastated both countries.