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'and Reveal to me every concealed secret' (from as-salat adh-Dhatiya). This is the motto of this section, which is for information and stories from Islam that was either told by great old Moslems or accepted and supported by Islam. It is also for the Sufi rare information told by the people of Allah. You can find all special expressions in the Glossary. We need your comments to develop this site for you.
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Last time
we talked about Aad, the first,
to which Allah sent prophet Houd
[PBUH]
to call
its people to worship Allah, the Almighty
one and abandon the worship of idols, some
of them believed in him, but others stayed
on disbelieving and fighting him.
Allah was angry with them and made their
wives sterile and warned them
that He would send them
a barren wind. But they remained on
their disbelief. Allah stopped their rain
for seven years. Their livestock died, their
provisions became rare, and even half of them perished. So
they chose the best pious men of them, to
go to the sacred Haram to pray to Allah
the lord of the house to give them rain, that
was their habit and their belief when
their land strives for water.
They used to get
rain after they have done that
within a month. This
time a man from their own people, who was living in Maccah,
hosted their delegation. His name is Luqman,
but not the famous wise
That was the situation of first Aad. As for the other Aad, Allah Almighty said: [Have you not seen how your Lord dealt with ‘Aad, of Iram with lofty pillars, the like of which were not created in (all) the land?] Fajr 89:6-8. Lots of opinions were said about this verse, including: that the first Aad is intended and not the other and that the word (Iram) is a clear indication of that, because It indicates old times. Some people said that the (Iram) is the city or the country, some said it’s Alexandria, and some said it was Damascus. I inclined to the opinion that said: this verse refers to and explains that Aad mentioned therein is the other one and Iram is the city that was created to be unique and had no resemblance in the country. The word (Aad of Iram) is referring to the people of Aad who lived in the Iram city, the city which had no resemblance. The story of this second Aad begins from the traces, I have read, that says that the elder Aad had two tough sons, and when he died, they ruled and the country was divided between them. Their names were Shaddad and Shadid. After the death of Shadid, Shaddad became the sole king. He ruled all the world and all the kings submitted to him. He liked reading old books, so he heard of paradise mentioned and its description. He decided to build something like it, out of arrogance and disrespect to Allah.
Abdullah
ibn qolabah, in
the reign of Mo'awya
[AAH],
said that he went out in
a search
for run-away camels.
When he was walking in Adan deserts, he
found a city in one of
these deserts,
with a fortress surrounded by a lot of palaces.
When he came near that city he thought
that there is some one inside,
so as to ask him about his camels.
But he did not see any one
When
shaddad wanted to build that city he ordered a
hundred of his tough men to build it
and gave each
one of them a thousand men
to help him. He wrote to the kings
of the earth to provide him with what they have
in their countries of the gems, the
gold and the silver.
At that time it was said that the
silver and the golden coins disappeared and were
replaced with
leather. The
leather was cut as coins
and tanned to become trading coins
for people. His men
went out to search for a piece of
land that fits the required specifications.
They found a
pure desert with no hills,
where they found water springs,
prairies and mild weather.
The four seasons
were like spring.
It was located
in India. Its
name is Hawa al-Hawa,
where there is no hot sun or bitter cold. They said:
"that must be the land which the
king wanted us to build on it".
They put the
basis the city
from Yemeni onyx.
They continued to build
it for three hundred years.
The age of shaddad
ibn Aad was nine
hundred years. When
they finished, they came
back to shaddad.
He said: "go
again and make a fort,
he meant a fortified wall, with a
Ka'b Alahbar continued: And there is a Muslim man will enter this city in your time. This man will be reddish, blond haired, short, with a mole on his eyebrow and also a mole on his neck. He will find it while going out to search for his camels. Ka'b Alahbar then looked back and saw Abdullah ibn qolabah, he said: "Oh, by Allah, this is that man". As for how shaddad and his people died, that goes back to when he was walking and before entering Iram city. Prophet Ibrahim, al-Khalil [intimate worshiping friend], [PBUH] met him, and told him to worship Allah, the One Almighty, and testify to the fact that "there is no god but Allah and that Ibrahim is His Khalil [intimate worshiping friend]". Shaddad said: "I don’t know who is Khalil of Allah. They had a conversation indicated by verse 2:258 in surat al-Baqarah [have you not considered him, who disputed with ibrahim about his Lord, because Allah had granted him the kingship? when Ibrahim said: my lord is He who gives life and causes death, he said: I give life and cause death. Ibrahim said: so surely Allah causes the sun to rise from the east, then make it rise from the west. Thus he who disbelieved was confounded; and Allah dose not give guidance to the unjust people].
Edited by Ahmed Abbas Translated by Mohamed Osman
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