RESPITE FOR THREE DAYS
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RESPITE FOR THREE DAYS
“Enjoy yourselves in your homes for three days. This is a promise that cannot be falsified.”
(Aayat 65, Surah Hood)
Once Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) with a group of Sahaabah passed by a grave. He said: “Do you know whose grave this is?” The Sahaabah said: “Allah and His Nabi know best.” Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said: “This is the grave of Abu Righaal. He was from the nation of Thamud. At the time of the punishment which destroyed the entire nation, he was in the Haram of Makkah. He was therefore saved. However, when he left the precincts of the Haram, the same punishment seized him. He was buried with a gold walking stick.” The Sahaabah later dug open the grave and retrieved the gold walking stick.
When the nation of Nabi Saalih (alayhis salaam) rejected his Call of Tauheed and taunted him to bring the punishment he was warning them of, then Allah Ta’ala ordered him to tell his people that the punishment they were demanding would overtake them in three days’ time. The evil people continued taunting and jeering Nabi Saalih (alayhis salaam), and they plotted to murder him. After a respite of three days, their faces turned yellow on the first day. On the second day, their faces became intensely red, and on the third day black. Then from above came the Mighty Scream – the screech of an Angel. From the earth came a massive earthquake. The entire nation perished. Mentioning their terrible fate, the Qur’aan Majeed says:
“The mighty quake apprehended them, and by the morning they lay prostrate on their faces in their homes (which had been utterly destroyed).”
In our age too there are communities lined up for similar punishment. When the appointed time arrives, the Mighty Scream will suddenly and swiftly eliminate them. In this regard the Qur’aan Majeed states:
“And, when We intend to destroy a city, We command its opulent inhabitants; then they commit evil in it. Then the decree (punishment) becomes justified for them. Thus do We then utterly annihilate them.”
(Surah Al-Israa’, Aayat 16)
Allah Ta’ala grants them respite to enjoy themselves in their drunken stupor of opulence. They madly indulge in unbridled fisq and fujoor. Then