Let me tell you my own experience \u2026 While I read Qur\u2019an (the last divine book), I find the children of Israel are the most mentioned people in Qur\u2019an. So I start to wonder what did they really do to be mentioned in Qur\u2019an a lot?<\/p>\n
A lot of questions came into my mind: Who is Israel? Why Is Israel mentioned in the Quran? Why did Allah favor Bani Israel? Who are the famous prophets sent to them? Why are they mentioned a lot in Muslim Book (Qur\u2019an)? What did they do to be mentioned in Qur\u2019an? What can we get from their stories? I found all answers in God\u2019s words (Qur\u2019an) and prophet Mohammed saying (Sunnah).<\/p>\n
\u201cIsrael\u201d is the messenger of God his name is \u201cJacob\u201d the son of Isaac. God called them by these names He means \u201cOh children of Jacob, be pious and obedient like your father.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n There were a lot of messengers were sent to the Children Of Israel including Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Joshua, Aaron, David, Solomon, Jonah, Zechariah\u2026 etc.<\/p>\n The Israelites were mentioned a lot in the Quran as examples for either good deeds and good consequences for listeners to do similar deeds; or bad deed and their bad consequences for listeners to avoid.<\/p>\n Every story mentioned in Qur\u2019an has a purpose and reason behind it.\u00a0 The stories of the children of Israel are no exception. These stories should teach us a lot of lessons and values. Look at other\u2019s mistakes and faults to learn in order not to make the same mistakes.<\/p>\n Here are some example of the mentions of The children of Israel in the Quran:<\/p>\n Allah mentions in the Quran the story of the cow of the children of Israel that told them the true killer of a certain man:<\/p>\n And [recall] when Moses said to his people, \u201cIndeed, Allah commands you to slaughter a cow.\u201d They said, \u201cDo you take us in ridicule?\u201d He said, \u201cI seek refuge in Allah from being among the ignorant.\u201d<\/p>\n [Quran.com\/2\/67].\u00a0<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n One day, some people of Israel found a man killed by an unknown person. They wanted to know about the murderer, so they went to the prophet Moses and asked him what to do to know the murderer. Moses told them that God commanded them to slaughter a cow. They were astonished to hear that and said to Moses (the summary of the story):<\/p>\n \u201cDo you take us in ridicule?\u201d Moses said that it is God\u2019s order. But the children of Israel didn\u2019t obey God\u2019s order immediately, as they started to argue and ask persistent questions. [Quran.com\/2\/70-71].\u00a0\u00a0<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Indeed, at the end they found the cow and they were forced to pay a huge amount of money to its owner. Moses told them that God\u2019s order is to \u201cStrike the slain man with part of it.\u201d Thus does God bring the dead to life, and He shows you His signs that you might reason.<\/p>\n The lessons deduced from the the story of the cow are many:<\/p>\n Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) said:<\/p>\n \u201cGod has forbidden you And Allah dislikes idle talk, to ask too many questions (for things which will be of no benefit to one\u201d.<\/p>\n [Al-Bukhari and Muslim].<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Prophet Muhammad also said:<\/p>\n \u201cDo not ask me unnecessarily about the details of the things which I do not mention to you. Verily, the people before you were doomed because they were used to putting many questions to their Prophets\u201d<\/p>\n [Al-Bukhari and Muslim].<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Allah also referred to this meaning also in the Quran:<\/p>\n O you who have believed, do not ask about things which, if they are shown to you, will distress you. But if you ask about them while the Qur\u2019an is being revealed, they will be shown to you. Allah has pardoned that which is past, and Allah is Forgiving and Forbearing.\u201d<\/p>\n [Quran.com\/5\/101].\u00a0<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n The main lesson here is don\u2019t ask too many question that will not benefit you at all. Don\u2019t be like children of Israel who are known for their silly argument.<\/p>\n The Story Sabbath in Quran starts happens at the time pf Prophet David. There was a town in which a group of children of Israel lived there. It was forbidden in their legislation to work or fishing on Saturday. It was God\u2019s order to test them whether they obey or disobey.<\/p>\n The amount of the fish increased especially on Saturday. At the beginning, they were patient and obeyed God\u2019s order, but the devil played trick on them and tempted them to disobey God.<\/p>\n They made a trick to gain the biggest amount of fish as possible as they can. They put their fishing nets in the sea on Friday and lift them till sunday by this way the could get the big amount of fish. They played the trick and thought that they never disobeyed God. God said in Qur\u2019an:<\/p>\n \u201cAnd ask them about the town that was by the sea -when they transgressed in [the matter of] the sabbath- when their fish came to them openly on their sabbath day, and the day they had no sabbath they did not come to them. Thus did We give them trial because they were defiantly disobedient .\u201d<\/p>\n [Quran.com\/7\/163].\u00a0<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Do you think that all people of the town did this wrong deed? Of course not.. There was a group of righteous people advised wrongdoers to stop doing this deed, and there was also a group of frustrated people who advised righteous people to stop advising the wrongdoers, as Qur\u2019an showed the dialogue among them:<\/p>\n And when a community among them said, \u201cWhy do you advise [or warn] a people whom Allah is [about] to destroy or to punish with a severe punishment?\u201d they [the advisors] said, \u201cTo be absolved before your Lord and perhaps they may fear Him\u201d<\/p>\n [Quran.com\/7\/164].\u00a0\u00a0<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n The disobedient people didn\u2019t listen to the advice and never stopped disobeying God. The righteous people decided to keep away from the disobedient people and not to engage with them in such wrong deed. One day, the town was empty and quiet. Suddenly, a huge number of monkeys appeared! What happened? God punished the wrongdoers who insisted on disobeying by tuning them to monkeys.<\/p>\n As Allah said,<\/p>\n \u201cSo when they exceed the limits of what they were prohibited, We said to them: \u201cBe you monkeys, despised and rejected.\u201d<\/p>\n [Quran.com\/7\/166].<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n There are many lessons behind the The Story of Sabbath In Quran:<\/p>\n 1.\u00a0 \u00a0 Don\u2019t play trick on God, because He knows well your intentions. As God said \u201cGod knows the fraud of the eyes, and all that breasts conceal.\u201d [Quran.com\/40\/19].<\/p>\n 2.\u00a0 \u00a0 Don\u2019t insist on doing wrong deeds ,like what children of Israel did. If children of Israel turned in repentance to God, God wouldn\u2019t punish them.<\/p>\n 3.\u00a0 \u00a0 If people insist on disobey God even after your advice, keep away from them and don\u2019t engage.<\/p>\n 4.\u00a0 \u00a0 The advisors are the only people who survived from God\u2019s punishments, as God said:<\/p>\n And when they forgot that by which they had been reminded, We saved those who had forbidden evil and seized those who wronged, with a wretched punishment, because they were defiantly disobeying\u201c. [Quran.com\/7\/165].<\/p>\n To sum up, the stories in Qur\u2019an are not mentioned haphazardly, every story has values.\u00a0 As prophet Mohammed (PBUH) said:<\/p>\n Convey (my teachings) to the people even if it were a single sentence, and tell others the stories of Bani Israel (which have been taught to you), for it is not sinful to do so\u201d<\/p>\n [Sahih al-Bukhari].\u00a0\u00a0<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n So we mentioned the story of Bani Israel (Sons of Israel) to know their faults and avoid them.<\/p>\n Finally, there is lot to learn from the rest of the stories about the Israelites in Quran. Read the Quran and see what lessons you can get from it. Also check out our other articles about Jews in Islam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Let me tell you my own experience \u2026 While I read Qur\u2019an (the last divine book), I find<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15384,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15383\/revisions\/15384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Who are the famous Messengers sent to Children of Israel In Quran?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Why are the Israelites mentioned a lot in Qur\u2019an?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
1. The Story of The Cow of The children of Israel:<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\nThey said: \u201cCall upon your Lord to make clear to us what it is\u201d.
\nMoses said: \u201c[Allah] says, \u2018It is a cow which is neither old nor virgin, but median between that,\u2019 so do what you are commanded\u201d.
\nThey didn\u2019t stop asking and said: \u201cCall upon your Lord to show us what is her color\u201d.
\nMoses said that God said: \u2018It is a yellow cow, bright in color-pleasing to the observers\u201d.
\nThey didn\u2019t stop asking more questions and said:
\n\u201cCall upon your Lord to make clear to us what it is. Indeed, [all] cows look alike to us. And indeed we, if Allah wills, will be guided.\u201d
\nMoses said to them: \u201cIt is a cow neither trained to plow the earth nor to irrigate the field, one free from fault with no spot upon her.\u201d
\nThey said: \u201cNow you have come with the truth.\u201d So they slaughtered her, but they could hardly do it.\u201d<\/p>\nLessons from the story of the Cow in the Quran<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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2. The Story of Sabbath In Quran \u2013 Sabbath Breakers:<\/strong><\/h2>\n
The lessons behind The Story of Sabbath In Quran<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Be the advisor \u2013 Share The Stories of the Children of Israel In Quran To others<\/strong><\/h2>\n