إِلَى أَنْ مَشَى جَمَاعَةٌ مِنْ رُؤَسَاءِ قُرَيْشٍ إِلَى...

إِلَى أَنْ مَشَى جَمَاعَةٌ مِنْ رُؤَسَاءِ قُرَيْشٍ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَقَالُوا: يَا مُحَمَّدُ هَبْكَ عَادَيْتَ الرِّجَالَ، فَمَا بَالُ النِّسَاءِ وَ الصِّبْيَانِ وَ الْبَهَائِمِ (It went on like this) until a group of the chiefs of Quraysh walked over to Rasool-Allah -saww and they said, ‘We concur that the men are your -saww enemies, but what is the case (fault) of the women, and the children, and the animals?’ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص: أَنْتُمْ بِهَذَا مُعَاقَبُونَ، وَ أَطْفَالُكُمْ وَ حَيَوَانَاتُكُمْ [بِهَذَا] غَيْرُ مُعَاقَبَةٍ بَلْ هِيَ مُعَوَّضَةٌ بِجَمِيعِ الْمَنَافِعِ- حِينَ يَشَاءُ رَبُّنَا فِي الدُّنْيَا وَ الْآخِرَةِ، وَ سَوْفَ يُعَوِّضُهَا اللَّهُ تَعَالَى عَمَّا أَصَابَهُمْ‏ So Rasool-Allah -saww said: ‘You (men) are being Punished with this, and your children and your animals are not being Punished with this, but it is instead (offset) with the entirety of the benefits – wherever our Lord -azwj so Desires, in the world and the Hereafter, and soon Allah -azwj the Exalted would Offset it from what has hit them’.

ثُمَّ عَفَا عَنْ مُضَرَ وَ قَالَ: «اللَّهُمَّ افْرِجْ عَنْهُمْ» فَعَادَ إِلَيْهِمُ الْخِصْبُ وَ الدَّعَةُ وَ الرَّفَاهِيَةُ Then he -saww pardoned (the clan of) Muzar and said ‘O Allah -azwj ! Relieve them!’ So there returned unto them, the fertility (productivity of the land), and the well-being, and the prosperity. فَذَلِكَ قَوْلُهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ فِيهِمْ يُعَدِّدُ (عَلَيْهِمْ نِعَمَهُ): فَلْيَعْبُدُوا رَبَّ هذَا الْبَيْتِ.

الَّذِي أَطْعَمَهُمْ مِنْ جُوعٍ وَ آمَنَهُمْ مِنْ خَوْفٍ‏ And that is in the Words of the Mighty and Majestic, Recounting His -azwj Bounties upon them: So let them worship the Lord of this House (Kabah) [106:3] Who Feeds them from the hunger and Secures them from the fear [106:4] ’.