Jeremiah’s Family History
Another prophet is Jeremiah (pbuh) Ibn Hilkiah from the House of Levi Ibn Jacob (pbuh). It has
been claimed that he was Al-Khidr. This was related by Al-Dahak from Ibn Abbas but it is not
true.
Traditions About Jeremiah
Ibn Asakir reported that it is written in some scrolls that Jeremiah stood upon the blood of John
Ibn Zechariah while it was flowing and he said:
“O blood! You have enlightened the people, so take a rest.”
So it stopped and condensed until it disappeared.
There is a tradition that Jeremiah asked Allah: “O Lord! Which of Your slaves is more lovable to
You?”
He answered: “Those who remember Me most away from their remembrance of My
creatures; those who are not thinking of death, nor speak of eternal living; those who, when they
are allured by the riches of this world, despise them, and when they lose them are happy; those
have My love, indeed, and I shall reward them more than they desired.”
Allah’s Warning to the Children of Israel
Almighty Allah declared:
“And We gave Moses the Scripture and made it a guidance for the children of Israel (saying):
“Take not other than me as your Wakil (Protector, Lord, or Disposer of your affairs, etc). O
offspring of those whom We carried in the ship with Noah! Verily, he was a grateful slave.”
And We decreed for the children of Israel in the Scripture, that indeed you would do mischief of
the earth twice and you will become tyrants and extremely arrogant! So, when the promise came
for the first of the two, We sent against you slaves of Yours given to terrible warfare.
They entered the very innermost parts of your homes. And it was a promise completely fulfilled. Then
We gave you once again, a return of victory over them. And We helped you with wealth and
children and made you more numerous in manpower.
And We said: “If you do good, you do good for yourselves, and if you do evil (you do it) against
yourselves.”
Then, when the second promise came to pass, (We permitted your enemies) to make your faces
sorrowful and to enter the mosque (of Jerusalem) as they had entered it before, and to destroy
with utter destruction that fell in their hands.
(And We said in the Torah): “It may be that your Lord may show mercy unto you, but if you
return to sins, We shall return to Our Punishment. And We have made Hell a prison for the
disbelievers.” (Ch 17:2-8 Quran).
Allah’s Message to the Children of Israel
Wahb Ibn Munbah reported that when sin increased, Allah revealed to an Israelite prophet called
Amos (Mamia) (pbuh) that he should stand before his people and admonish them that they are
hard-headed, blind, and deaf and tell them:
“I (Allah) remember their forefathers, and that makes Me merciful with them. And ask them about My bounty: can any of them benefit from disobeying Me? And does any suffer who obeys Me? The beasts remember their countries and return to them, but those people have forgotten why I have favored them for the sake of their forefathers, and have misused their generosity.
Your cries have forgotten My tenets and your reciters worship other than Me, and your women have not learned a useful lesson and their rulers have lied against me and My messengers. Their hearts and mouths are full of lies.
And I swear by My majesty and power that I will send upon them people with strange tongues, and strange faces, merciless in the face of their tears; and I shall send them a tyrannous cruel king, with an army like clouds, and followers like storms, and their flags like the wings of eagles, and the paces of their hoses like the decades of a journey.
They will return buildings to dust, and leave the villages a wilderness. Woe betide it and its inhabitants if they shout and invoke! I will not look at their faces.”
Allah’s Warning to the Children of Israel – Variation
Ibn Asaker has related the same in these words: Ishaaq Ibn Bishr said that Idris told them that
Wahb Ibn Munbah said that Allah the Exalted sent Jeremiah to the children of Israel when the
situation had become worse among them – in disobedience, killing of prophets and covetousness.
Allah was determined to revenge Himself upon them vindictively; and so He revealed to Jeremiah:
“I am going to destroy Jerusalem (the children of Israel) irevenge. Go to the Dome of the Rock. I
will give you My commands and revelations.” Jeremiah stood up and rent his clothes, and applied
ashes to his face and fell prostrate and said:
“O Lord! Would that my mother had not borne me, when You made me the last prophet of Israel, and Jerusalem be destroyed in my time.”
Allah said:
“Raise your head.” He raised his head, wept,
and said: “O my Lord! Whom will You set against
them?”
He said: “The worshippers of fire who do not fear My punishment, nor expect My reward.
Stand up Jeremiah, and hear the news about Israel. Before I chose you, I had made you and
favored you and honored you. Go with the king and guide and protect him.”
(He was with the king while he was receiving revelation from Allah, and they forgot how Allah
saved them.)
“Go and tell them what I have told you.”
“O Allah! I am weak and if You do not strengthen me.”
“Do you not know that all affairs are controlled by Me? I am Allah without
semblance, or any like Me. I spoke to the oceans so; I am with you, and nothing shall harm you.
Go to your people and tell them:
Allah has remembered you, with His remembrance of our forefathers’ good deeds. The animals remember their countries and return to them.
But those people of yours are drenched in destruction and damnation, for they have forgotten the purpose of My generosity to their forefathers and have misplaced My favors. The scholars and priests have gone astray and have worshipped another god besides Me.
“As for their kings and princes, they have been lavished with My bounty and though themselves safe from My fate. They abandon My Book and kill My prophets. Is it possible for Me to have a partner?
Is it possible for Me to make a creature to be worshipped and to be obeyed besides Me? As for their reciters and jurists, they teach and learn what they like. As for the children of the prophets, they are oppressed and seduced and go with the crowd. They want the positions of their fathers without the discipline, patience, piety, and kindness of their fathers.
“By my power, I swear, that I shall send woe upon them that no wise man can understand. I shall
replace their luxury with ordeal, chains, and fetters and after dwelling in palaces, they will dwell in
dust.
I will disgrace and degrade their womenfolk. I create My creatures and slaves with mercy
and bounty. If they accept and recognize it, I complete My favors and mercy. When I change My
mind, I change My mind; and if I change, I am angry; and if I am angry, I punish, and nothing
prospers with My anger.”
Jeremiah Pleads on Behalf of His People
According to Ka’b, Jeremiah said:
“By your grace I have come to learn before You; how is it
possible when I am weak and powerless, to speak before You?
But by Your mercy You have spared me to this day. None fears this punishment more than I do, because I have been among them while they disobeyed You, yet without it changing me. If You punish me, I deserve it, and if You spare me, I expect it of Your kindness.
O Lord, You are Overlord! Are you going to destroy their country when it is the place of Your prophets the place of Your revelations?
O Lord the Exalted and Blessed by Your Name! For You to destroy this mosque and all pertaining to it, and those houses which landed Your praise!
O Lord, for You to kill these people and punish them, when they are the issue of Abraham Your faithful friend and David Your chosen one!
O lord, which village will escape Your punishment then? Which worshipper will escape Your vengeance
after the children of Your faithful friend Abraham?”
He on High said: “He who disobeys Me will not detest My punishment. I had honored them
because they obeyed Me. If they disobeyed me I will place them among the disobedient, until I
rescue them out of My Mercy.”
Jeremiah said: “O Lord, You made friends with Abraham and for his sake You preserved us; and
Moses You did save; and he asked You to save us and not abandon us, nor throw us to the
enemy.”
And so Allah revealed to him: “O Jeremiah, I made you honored in your mother’s womb
and have chosen you to this day. If your people had protected the orphans, the widows, the
helpless, and the stranded, I would have been their Sustainer.
They would have been like a blissful garden to Me; but I complain of the children of Israel to you. I have been the kind shepherd to them; but I honor only those who honor and despise those who despise My command.
Those before them feared Me, but these people displayed their obedience of Me in the temple, market
place, hill and mountain tops, and under the shade of trees until the heavens wondered at them
before Me, and the earth and the mountains, including the beasts, wondered and wailed. All that
had no effect on them; nor was the Book useful to them.”
Jeremiah’s People Refuse to Listen
Ka’b said that when Jeremiah delivered the message of his Lord, and the people heard the threats
and warnings in it,
they said: “You are lying, if you are saying that Allah shall destroy the land, His temple, His Book, His worship, and monotheism.” They captured Jeremiah, tied him up and imprisoned him. At this, Allah sent Nabuchadnezzar upon them. He entered the country with his troops and surrounded the city. When the siege was prolonged they surrendered to his rule.
They opened the gates and Nabuchadnezzar’s troops streamed in.
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