Make their years to be like the years of (drought of) Yusuf -as !

Make their years to be like the years of (drought of) Yusuf -as !’ ففي الخبر أن الرجل منهم كان يلقى صاحبه فلا يمكنه الدنو، فإذا دنا منه لا يبصره من شدة دخان الجوع، و كان يجلب إليهم من كل ناحية، فإذا اشتروه و قبضوه لم يصلوا به إلى بيوتهم حتى يتسوس و ينتن، فأكلوا الكلاب الميتة و الجيف و الجلود، و نبشوا القبور، و أحرقوا عظام الموتى فأكلوها، و أكلت المرأة طفلها It is in the Hadeeth that the man among them will be meeting his companion and will not be able to approach him.

And if he approaches him, will not be able to visualise him due to the intensity of the smoke and the hunger, which will come to them from all directions. And if they were to buy (food) and capture it, they will not reach with it to their houses until it decays and rots away. So, they will eat the dead dogs, and the carcasses, and the skins, and they will be digging up the graves and burn the bones of the dead in order to eat these, and the woman will eat her young child.

و كان الدخان يتراكم بين السماء و الأرض، و ذلك قوله تعالى: فَارْتَقِبْ يَوْمَ تَأْتِي السَّماءُ بِدُخانٍ مُبِينٍ يَغْشَى النَّاسَ هذا عَذابٌ أَلِيمٌ And the smoke would be seen from the sky to the earth, and these are His -azwj Words: So watch out for the day the sky would come with evident smoke [44:10] Overwhelming the people. (They would say), ‘This is a painful Punishment! [44:11] .

فقال أبو سفيان و رؤساء قريش: يا محمد، أ تأمرنا بصلة الرحم، فأدرك قومك فقد هلكوا فدعا لهم So, Abu Sufyan and the elders of the Quraysh said, ‘O Muhammad -saww ! You -saww are ordering us for maintaining the ties of kinship, but I see you -saww that your -saww people have perished, so supplicate for them’.

و ذلك قوله تعالى: رَبَّنَا اكْشِفْ عَنَّا الْعَذابَ إِنَّا مُؤْمِنُونَ، فقال الله تعالى: إِنَّا كاشِفُوا الْعَذابِ قَلِيلًا إِنَّكُمْ عائِدُونَ، فعاد إليهم الخصب و الدعة، و هو قوله تعالى: فَلْيَعْبُدُوا رَبَّ هذَا الْبَيْتِ الَّذِي أَطْعَمَهُمْ مِنْ جُوعٍ وَ آمَنَهُمْ مِنْ خَوْفٍ And these are the Words of the Exalted: Our Lord! Remove the Punishment from us, we are Momineen!’ [44:12] .

So Allah -azwj the Exalted Said: We would be Removing the Punishment a little, (but) you will be returning (to evil) [44:15] , so there would return to them their richness, and their complacency, and these are the Words of the Exalted: So let them worship Lord of this House (Kabah) [106:3] Who Feeds them from hunger and Secures them from fear [106:4] ’.

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