Ezra Sleeps For 100 Years
\nIshaaq Ibn Bishr reported, on the authority of Ibn\u2019 Abbas and others, that Ezra was a saint and a wise man. He went out one day to his own farm, as was his custom. About noon he came to a deserted, ruined place and felt the heat. He entered the ruined town and dismounted his donkey, taking figs and grapes in his basket. He went under the shade of the khaiba tree and ate his food. Then he got up to look at what remained of the ruins. The people had long been lost, and he saw bones.
\n\u201cOh! How will Allah ever bring it to life after its death?\u201d (Ch 2:259 Quran)
\nHe said this not out of doubt but out of curiosity. Allah sent the Angel of Death to take his life. He remained dead for one hundred years.
\nAfter one hundred years had passed and there had been changes in Israelite affairs, Allah sent an angel upon Ezra to revive his heart and his eyes in order for him to feel and see how Allah revives the dead. The angel said: \u201cFor how long did you sleep?\u201d He said: \u201cA day or part of a day.\u201d He said this because he knew he had slept early in the afternoon and woke up late in the afternoon. The angel said: \u201cYou remained asleep for one hundred years.\u201d He ate and drank the food which he had prepared before he was overtaken by that long sleep. Then the angel revived his donkey.
\nAlmighty Allah said:
\n\u201cAnd look at your donkey! Thus We have made of you a sign for the people. Look at the bones, how We bring them together and clothe them with flesh.\u201d When this was clearly shown to him he said: \u201cI know now that Allah is able to do all things.\u201d (Ch 2:259)
\nEzra Returns Home
\nHe rode on his donkey and entered his native place, but the people did not recognize him, nor did his household, except the maid, now an old woman. He asked her: \u201cIs this the house of Ezra?\u201d She said: \u201cYes, but the people have long forgotten Ezra.\u201d He said: \u201cI am Ezra, Allah had taken my life for a one hundred years and has now returned it to me.\u201d She said: \u201cEzra used to be answered when he prayed to Allah. Pray to cure me of blindness if you are Ezra.\u201d He prayed for her and massaged her eyes and took her by the hand. \u201cGet up by the power of Allah,\u201d he said. The crippled woman stood up and walked; she opened her eyes and saw; her blindness was gone. She said: \u201cI bear witness that you are Ezra.\u201d
\nEzra Finds and Copies the Torah
\nShe rushed to the assembly of the Israelites. Ezra\u2019s son was one hundred eighteen years old, and his children \u2018s children now were lords of the assembly. She called out to them saying: \u201cThis is Ezra come to you.\u201d They accused her of lying. She said: \u201cI am your old maid. He has just prayed to Allah for me, and here I am whole again, walking and seeing.\u201d The people stood up and looked at him. His son said: \u201cMy father had a mark between his shoulders, a black mole,\u201d and they discovered it. They said: \u201cNone among us memorized the Torah since Nabuchadnezzar burned it, except Ezra; and there was only one copy of the Torah, which was hidden by Sarukha. He buried it in the days of Nabuchadnezzar in a place none but Ezra knows.\u201d Ezra led the people to the hidden place and took out that copy of the Torah. Its leaves had rotted, and the book itself crumpled.
\nEzra sat under the shade of a tree surrounded by the children of Israel and copied out the Torah for them from that script. Henceforth, the Jews said that Ezra is the son of Allah, for two evidences which came down from Heaven and for his copying the torah and for his fighting the cause of the Israelites.He had been copying the Torah for Ezekial in the land of darkness in the hermitage of Ezekiel. The village which was in ruins is said to be Sayrabadh. Ibn Abbas commanded: \u201cSo it is as Allah said:
\n\u201cWe have made of you a sign for the people.\u201d (Ch 2:259)
\nThat is, for the Israelites, in that he was sitting among his children, the old men, and he a youth. He died as a forty year old, and Allah resurrected him at the same age on the day of his death.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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