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26:176 - The Companions of the Wood rejected the apostles. 3214
50:14 - The companions of the Wood and the people of Tubba; each one (of them) rejected the
apostles and My warning was duly fulfilled (in them).
15:78 - And the Companions of the Wood were also wrongdoers; 2000
2000 "Companions of the Wood": As-hab ul Aikati. Perhaps Aika is after all a proper noun, the name of a town or tract. Who
were the Companions of the Aika? They are mentioned four times in the Qur-an, viz., here, and in xxvi. 176-191;
xxxviii. 13; and 1. 14. The only passage in which any details are given is xxvi. 176-191. There we are told that their
Prophet was Shu'aib, and other details given correspond to those of the Madyan, to whom Shu'aib was sent as
Prophet;, see vii. 85-93. In my notes to that passage I have discussed the question of Shu'aib and the Madyan
people. It is reasonable to suppose that the Companions of the Wood were either the same as the Madyan, or a
Group among them or in their neighbourhood. (15.78)
COMPANIONS OF THE RASS:
25:38 - As also `Ad and Thamud and the Companions of the Rass and many a generation between
them. 3094
3094 Commentators are not clear as to who the "Companions of the Rass" were. The root meaning of "rass" is an old well
or shallow water-pit. Another root connects it with the burial of the dead. But it is probably the name of a town or
place. The "Companions of the Rass" may well have been the people of Shu'aib, as they are here mentioned with the
'Ad, the Thamud, and Lot's people, and the people of Shu'aib are mentioned in a similar connection in xxvi. 176-190
and in xi. 84-95. Shu'aib was the prophet of the Madyan people in the north-west of Arabia, where many old wells are
found. There is however an oasis town al-Rass in the district of Qasim in Middle Najd, about thirty-five miles southwest
of the town of 'Unaiza, reputed to be the central point of the Arabian Peninsula, and situated midway between
Makkah and Basra. See Doughty's Arabia Deserts, thin-paper one-volume edition, London 1926, 11, 435 and Map,
Lat. 26*N., and Long. 43*E. (25.38)
25:39 - To teach one We set forth parables and examples; and each one We broke to utter
annihilation (for their sins).
COMPANIONS OF THE CITY:
36:13 - Set forth to them by way of a parable the (story of) the Companions of the City. Behold
there came apostles to it. 3957
3957 Many of the classical Commentators have supposed that the City referred to was Antioch. Now Antioch was one of
the most important cities in North Syria in the first century of the Christian era. It was a Greek city founded by
Seleucus Nicator, one of the successors of Alexander, about 300 B.C. in memory of his father Antiochus. It was close
to the sea, and had its sea-port at Seleucia. Soon after Christ his disciples successfully preached there, and they
"were called Christians first in Antioch": Acts, xi. 26. It afterwards became the seat of a most important Bishopric of the
Christian Church. In the story told here "by way of a parable", the City rejected the Message, and the City was
destroyed: xxxvi. 29. Following Ibn Kathir, I reject the identification with Antioch decisively. No name, or period, or
place is mentioned in the text. The significance of the story is in the lessons to be derived from it as a parable, for
which see the next note. That is independent of name, time, or place. (36.13)
36:29 - It was no more than a single mighty Blast and behold! they were (like ashes) quenched and
silent. 39733974
3973 Allah's Justice or Punishment does not necessarily come with pomp and circumstance, nor have the forces of human
evil or wickedness the power to require the exertion of mighty spiritual forces to subdue them. A single mighty Blasteither
the rumbling of an earthquake, or a great and violent wind-was sufficient in this case. Cf. xi. 67 and n. 1561
(which describes the fate of the Thamud; also. n. 3463 to xxix. 40). (36.29)
3974 Cf. xxi. 15. They had made a great deal of noise in their time, but they were reduced to silence, like spent ashes.
(36.29
36:30 - Ah! alas for (My) servants! There comes not an apostle to them but they mock Him!
3975
3975 Cf. vi. 10 and many other passages of similar import. Ignorant men mock at Allah's prophets, or any one who takes
Religion seriously. But they do not reflect that such levity reacts on themselves. Their own lives are ruined and they
cease to count. If they study history, they will see that countless generations were destroyed before them because
they did not take Truth seriously and undermined the very basis of their individual and collective existence. The
servants is here equivalent to "men". Allah regrets the folly of men, especially as He cherishes them as His own
servants. (36.30)
47:13 - And how many cities with more power than thy city which has driven thee out have We
destroyed (for their sins)? And there was none to aid them. 4831
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