Narrated `Abdullah (bin Mas`ud): When the Prophet realized that the Quraish had delayed in embracing Islam, he said, O Allah! Protect me against their evil by afflicting them with seven (years of famine) like the seven years of (Prophet) Joseph. So they were struck with a year of famine that destroyed everything till they had to eat bones, and till a man would look towards the sky and see something like smoke between him and it. Allah said:-- Then watch you (O Muhammad) for the day when the sky will produce a kind of smoke plainly visible. (44.10) And Allah further said:-- Verily! We shall withdraw the punishment a little, Verily you will return (to disbelief). (44.15) (Will Allah relieve them from torture on the Day of Resurrection?) (The punishment of) the smoke had passed and Al-Baltsha (the destruction of the pagans in the Badr battle) had passed too.
Read More..Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah's Messenger said, May Allah bestow His Mercy on (Prophet) Lot. (When his nation troubled him) he wished if he could betake himself to some powerful support; and if I were to remain in prison for the period Joseph had remained, I would surely respond to the call; and we shall have more right (to be in doubt) than Abraham: When Allah said to him, Don't you believe?' Abraham said, 'Yes, (I do believe) but to be stronger in faith; (2.260)
Read More..Narrated Ibn `Umar: Allah's Messenger said, The keys of Unseen are five which none knows but Allah: None knows what will happen tomorrow but Allah; none knows what is in the wombs (a male child or a female) but Allah; none knows when it will rain but Allah; none knows at what place one will die; none knows when the Hour will be established but Allah. (See The Qur'an 31:34. )
Read More..Narrated Ibn `Umar: While we were with Allah's Messenger he said, Tell me of a tree which resembles a Muslim man. Its leaves do not fall and it does not, and does not, and does not, and it gives its fruits every now and then. It came to my mind that such a tree must be the date palm, but seeing Abu Bakr and `Umar saying nothing, I disliked to speak. So when they did not say anything, Allah's Messenger said, It is the date-palm tree. When we got up (from that place), I said to `Umar, O my father! By Allah, it came to my mind that it must be the date palm tree. `Umar said, What prevented you from speaking I replied, I did not see you speaking, so I misliked to speak or say anything. `Umar then said, If you had said it, it would have been dearer to me than so-and-so.
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