Friday, March 15, 2024

Quranic stories pt.3: by Sh Tariq Appleby

 The Dwellers of the town, if not all Muslim scholars say that Antioch, is the city where Prophet Isa was sent by Allah.

Allah sent two messengers but the city denied both, so Allah saw a third, some say that Jesus is the reason why Antioch was the first city to believe in Jesus.

It is said that they denied Jesus, or Prophet Isa and Allah struck the city down.

The story of Antioch happened after the Torah was revealed Abu Sa'id al-Khudi said that "Allah did not destroy an entire nation with a punishment, but instead put the believers against the disbelievers".

Although we don't really know what city Allah was referring to in this story, as it may be another city other than Antioch, most believe it is Antioch as it is a well-known ancient city.
We also don't know if it was destroyed, but we can guess.

If we believe anything that anyone said about Islam blindly, we would get nowhere, as arguments were used to argue that this is false, or this is true.

For example, for Ramadhan, do we rely on Saudi, or in the local sighting of the moon, Makis vs the Moonies, and the 20s and the 8ths. Where during Taraweh you pray either 20 or 8 rakaat.
Last, during the Prophet's time, he would pray 8 rakaat, but recite for a long time, or pray 20, but recite less.
Now we do roughly the same, as the shorter rakaat you pray the more you recite.

 Do you take offence because you're reminded of Allah?.



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