AhlulBayt News Agency: One of the negative characteristics mentioned in the Quran about a large number of Jews is the hardening of their hearts as a result of sins and failing to believe numerous miracles.
The name of Prophet Moses (AS) is mentioned in the Quran 129 times, more than any other divine messengers. The followers of Judaism are also mentioned in the Quran with different names, such as Jews (8 times), Hudaa (3 times) and Bani Isra’il (41 times).
In these verses, many characteristics are pointed out for Jews. For a group of Jews (not all of them) who break their promise and hatch plots against Islam, there are negative characteristics mentioned in these verses.
One of them is having hearts as hard as rock. In Surah Al-Baqarah, the Quran refers to the divine blessings granted to Bani Isra’il such as saving them from pharaoh, dividing the sea to make it possible for them cross it, accepting their repentance after they started worshiping a calf, sending the best meals, leadership of an infallible, and also a murder and how God helped them find the murderer in a miraculous way. Then God says: “Yet after that your hearts became as hard as rock or even harder. Indeed among the stones are those from which rivers burst. And others split so that water issues from them; and others crash down through fear of Allah. Allah is not inattentive of what you do.” (Verse 74 of Surah Al-Baqarah)
According to the Quran, their failure to pay attention to so many signs because of their obstinacy was the reason why their hearts became even harder than a rock. According to numerous historical evidences, this group of Jews were among the cruelest of nations, and when they conquered a land, they went on a murderous rampage in the most brutal way.
Maybe they adopted such a conduct from the distorted Torah. For example, it says, “Go through the city behind the man dressed in linen and kill. Don't pity anyone, and don't show mercy. Kill and destroy old men, young men and women, little children, and older women,...” (Ezekiel 9:5-6)
The Quran criticizes such an attitude: “yet you murdered each other and forced a number of your people out of their homeland, helping each other to commit sin and to be hostile to one another. When you had expelled people from their homeland and later they had been made captives (of other people), you then paid their ransom (thinking that it was a righteous deed). God forbade you to expel these people in the first place. Do you believe in one part of the Book and not in the other? Those who behave in this way shall reap disgrace in this world and severe punishment on the Day of Resurrection. God is not unaware of things that you do.” (Verse 85 of Surah Al-Baqarah)
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The name of Prophet Moses (AS) is mentioned in the Quran 129 times, more than any other divine messengers. The followers of Judaism are also mentioned in the Quran with different names, such as Jews (8 times), Hudaa (3 times) and Bani Isra’il (41 times).
In these verses, many characteristics are pointed out for Jews. For a group of Jews (not all of them) who break their promise and hatch plots against Islam, there are negative characteristics mentioned in these verses.
One of them is having hearts as hard as rock. In Surah Al-Baqarah, the Quran refers to the divine blessings granted to Bani Isra’il such as saving them from pharaoh, dividing the sea to make it possible for them cross it, accepting their repentance after they started worshiping a calf, sending the best meals, leadership of an infallible, and also a murder and how God helped them find the murderer in a miraculous way. Then God says: “Yet after that your hearts became as hard as rock or even harder. Indeed among the stones are those from which rivers burst. And others split so that water issues from them; and others crash down through fear of Allah. Allah is not inattentive of what you do.” (Verse 74 of Surah Al-Baqarah)
According to the Quran, their failure to pay attention to so many signs because of their obstinacy was the reason why their hearts became even harder than a rock. According to numerous historical evidences, this group of Jews were among the cruelest of nations, and when they conquered a land, they went on a murderous rampage in the most brutal way.
Maybe they adopted such a conduct from the distorted Torah. For example, it says, “Go through the city behind the man dressed in linen and kill. Don't pity anyone, and don't show mercy. Kill and destroy old men, young men and women, little children, and older women,...” (Ezekiel 9:5-6)
The Quran criticizes such an attitude: “yet you murdered each other and forced a number of your people out of their homeland, helping each other to commit sin and to be hostile to one another. When you had expelled people from their homeland and later they had been made captives (of other people), you then paid their ransom (thinking that it was a righteous deed). God forbade you to expel these people in the first place. Do you believe in one part of the Book and not in the other? Those who behave in this way shall reap disgrace in this world and severe punishment on the Day of Resurrection. God is not unaware of things that you do.” (Verse 85 of Surah Al-Baqarah)
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