[2] فَقَالَ الْمَأْمُونُ يَا أَبَا الْحَسَنِ فَمَا تَقُولُ...
[2] فَقَالَ الْمَأْمُونُ يَا أَبَا الْحَسَنِ فَمَا تَقُولُ فِي الْقَائِلِينَ بِالتَّنَاسُخِ فَقَالَ الرِّضَا ع مَنْ قَالَ بِالتَّنَاسُخِ فَهُوَ كَافِرٌ بِاللَّهِ الْعَظِيمِ مُكَذِّبٌ بِالْجَنَّةِ وَ النَّارِ (In a lengthy Hadith) Al-Ma’mun said, “O Abu Al-Hassan (Imam Al-Reza -asws ), what do you say about those who believe in reincarnation?” Al-Reza -asws ’ said, “Whoever believes in reincarnation is an unbeliever in Allah -azwj .” He (therefore) denies Heaven and Hell.
قَالَ الْمَأْمُونُ مَا تَقُولُ فِي الْمُسُوخِ قَالَ الرِّضَا ع أُولَئِكَ قَوْمٌ غَضِبَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِمْ فَمَسَخَهُمْ فَعَاشُوا ثَلَاثَةَ أَيَّامٍ ثُمَّ مَاتُوا وَ لَمْ يَتَنَاسَلُوا فَمَا يُوجَدُ فِي الدُّنْيَا مِنَ الْقِرَدَةِ وَ الْخَنَازِيرِ وَ غَيْرِ ذَلِكَ مِمَّا وَقَعَ عَلَيْهِمْ اسْمُ الْمُسُوخِيَّةِ فَهُوَ مِثْلُ مَا لَا يَحِلُّ أَكْلُهَا وَ الِانْتِفَاعُ بِهَا Al-Ma’mun said, “What do you say about the ‘الْمُسُوخِ’ (Maskh – Metamorphosed) people?” Al-Reza -asws ‘ said, “These are people upon whom was the Wrath of Allah -azwj , so He -azwj Metamorphosed (transformed) them, so they lived for (only) three days, then they died without reproducing, so what is found in this world from apes and pigs and other than that, which are named from the metamorphosed are (actually) similar to them and (this is the reason) it is not permissible to eat and make use of their (flesh) (an extract).
[3] Some of the enemies of Ahl Al-Bayt -asws were metamorphosed into lizards, e.g., the Hadith below (an extract, the complete Hadith is in Appendix II) قَالَ وَ قَالَ أَبِي لَيْسَ يَمُوتُ مِنْ بَنِي أُمَيَّةَ مَيِّتٌ إِلَّا مُسِخَ وَزَغاً قَالَ وَ قَالَ إِنَّ عَبْدَ الْمَلِكِ بْنَ مَرْوَانَ لَمَّا نَزَلَ بِهِ الْمَوْتُ مُسِخَ وَزَغاً فَذَهَبَ مِنْ بَيْنِ يَدَيْ مَنْ كَانَ عِنْدَهُ وَ كَانَ عِنْدَهُ وُلْدُهُ فَلَمَّا أَنْ فَقَدُوهُ عَظُمَ ذَلِكَ عَلَيْهِمْ فَلَمْ يَدْرُوا كَيْفَ يَصْنَعُونَ ثُمَّ اجْتَمَعَ أَمْرُهُمْ عَلَى أَنْ يَأْخُذُوا جِذْعاً فَيَصْنَعُوهُ كَهَيْئَةِ الرَّجُلِ قَالَ فَفَعَلُوا ذَلِكَ وَ أَلْبَسُوا الْجِذْعَ دِرْعَ حَدِيدٍ ثُمَّ لَفُّوهُ فِي الْأَكْفَانِ فَلَمْ يَطَّلِعْ عَلَيْهِ أَحَدٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ إِلَّا أَنَا وَ وُلْدُهُ.
He -asws (Abu Abdullah -asws ) said: ‘And my -asws father -asws said: ‘ There is none from the Clan of Umayya who dies, but he gets metamorphosed as a lizard. Abdul Malik Bin Marwaan, when death descended upon him, was metamorphosed into a lizard in front of the children who were in his presence .
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