Allah cursed the People of the Ditch

Allah says, in Surah Al-Burooj:

وَالسَّمَاءِ ذَاتِ الْبُرُوجِ
وَالْيَوْمِ الْمَوْعُودِ
وَشَاهِدٍ وَمَشْهُودٍ
قُتِلَ أَصْحَابُ الْأُخْدُودِ

Translation: By the sky containing great stars. And [by] the promised Day. And [by] the witness and what is witnessed. Cursed were the companions of the trench. [Surah Al-Buruj, verses 1-4]
The story of Ashaab-ul-Burooj, the People of the Ditch, is pretty well-known; in fact, we have an entire 15-part series on this surah. Check it out insha’Allah.

Allah opens this surahs with testifications. Then he testifies: qutila ashaabul-’uqdood. ‘uqdood is another word for ditch. Qutila, literally, means “they were killed.” But Ibn Abbaas (radiallahu anhu) said, whenever you read qutila in the Qur’an, it means lu’ina–cursed.

Allah cursed the People of the Ditch. And Allah is not in need of cursing–He can do anything, to anybody, anytime, anywhere. Lu’ina means, they were destroyed.
And they aredestroyed.

So what great sin did they perpetrate in order to deserve this immense reward–not only being cursed and destroyed, but being documented in the Qur’an, to be recited until the end of time?
Let’s see.

Allah continues:

إِذْ هُمْ عَلَيْهَا قُعُودٌ
وَهُمْ عَلَى مَا يَفْعَلُونَ بِالْمُؤْمِنِينَ شُهُودٌ

Translation: When they were sitting near it. And they, to what they were doing against the believers, were witnesses. And they resented them not except because they believed in Allah , Al-Aziz, Al-Hamid [Surah Burooj, verses 6-8]

They were burning the believers with fire. Burning with fire is bad enough. Burning believers is worse. And not only that, they were sitting around, watching this happen. Witnessing what was happening.
Imagine that. It’s like Mecca–you see someone say “Laa ilaaha illa Allah” today, and tomorrow, you see them cooking in the sun with a pile of rocks on top of them–like Bilal radiallahu ‘anhu. Or you see them cut to pieces, like Sumaya radiallahu ‘anhaa.

Or, as with the people of the ditch–you see them thrown into a big bonfire and burned alive. While everybody else sits around watching with a bag of popcorn.
How would that make you feel? Would you publicly declare your Islam, knowing your flaming, torturous death was only around the corner?

And this intensified the punishment–that the believers saw this happening, saw it would happen to them, but couldn’t do a single thing about it.

Subhanallah.



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