Prophet Uzair (Ezra) Alaihi Salaam

Prophet Uzair (Ezra) Alaihi Salaam

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Preamble

Prophet Uzair (Ezra)

Ezra Sleeps For 100 Years

Ishaaq Ibn Bishr reported, on the authority of Ibn' Abbas and others, that Ezra was a saint and a

wise man. He went out one day to his own farm, as was his custom. About noon he came to a

deserted, ruined place and felt the heat. He entered the ruined town and dismounted his donkey,

taking figs and grapes in his basket. He went under the shade of the khaiba tree and ate his food.

Then he got up to look at what remained of the ruins. The people had long been lost, and he saw

bones.

سُوۡرَةُ البَقَرَة

أَوۡ كَٱلَّذِى مَرَّ عَلَىٰ قَرۡيَةٍ۬ وَهِىَ خَاوِيَةٌ عَلَىٰ عُرُوشِهَا قَالَ أَنَّىٰ يُحۡىِۦ هَـٰذِهِ ٱللَّهُ بَعۡدَ مَوۡتِهَا‌ۖ فَأَمَاتَهُ ٱللَّهُ مِاْئَةَ عَامٍ۬ ثُمَّ بَعَثَهُ ۥ‌ۖ قَالَ ڪَمۡ لَبِثۡتَ‌ۖ قَالَ لَبِثۡتُ يَوۡمًا أَوۡ بَعۡضَ يَوۡمٍ۬‌ۖ قَالَ بَل لَّبِثۡتَ مِاْئَةَ عَامٍ۬ فَٱنظُرۡ إِلَىٰ طَعَامِكَ وَشَرَابِكَ لَمۡ يَتَسَنَّهۡ‌ۖ وَٱنظُرۡ إِلَىٰ حِمَارِكَ وَلِنَجۡعَلَكَ ءَايَةً۬ لِّلنَّاسِ‌ۖ وَٱنظُرۡ إِلَى ٱلۡعِظَامِ ڪَيۡفَ نُنشِزُهَا ثُمَّ نَكۡسُوهَا لَحۡمً۬ا‌ۚ فَلَمَّا تَبَيَّنَ لَهُ ۥ قَالَ أَعۡلَمُ أَنَّ ٱللَّهَ عَلَىٰ ڪُلِّ شَىۡءٍ۬ قَدِيرٌ۬ (٢٥٩)

Surah Al-Baqara

Or (bethink thee of) the like of him who, passing by a township which had fallen into utter ruin, exclaimed: How shall Allah give this township life after its death? And Allah made him die a hundred years, then brought him back to life. He said: How long hast thou tarried? (The man) said: I have tarried a day or part of a day. (He) said: Nay, but thou hast tarried for a hundred years. Just look at thy food and drink which have not rotted! Look at thine ass! And, that We may make thee a token unto mankind, look at the bones, how We adjust them and then cover them with flesh! And when (the matter) became clear unto him, he said: I know now that Allah is Able to do all things. (259)

"Oh! How will Allah ever bring it to life after its death?" (Holy Quran Chapter 2:259 Quran)

He said this not out of doubt but out of curiosity. Allah sent the Angel of Death to take his life.

He remained dead for one hundred years.

After one hundred years had passed and there had been changes in Israelite affairs, Allah sent an

angel upon Ezra to revive his heart and his eyes in order for him to feel and see how Allah revives

the dead. The angel said: "For how long did you sleep?" He said: "A day or part of a day." He

said this because he knew he had slept early in the afternoon and woke up late in the afternoon.

The angel said: "You remained asleep for one hundred years." He ate and drank the food which

he had prepared before he was overtaken by that long sleep. Then the angel revived his donkey.

Almighty Allah said:

"And look at your donkey! Thus We have made of you a sign for the people. Look at the bones,

how We bring them together and clothe them with flesh." When this was clearly shown to him he

said: "I know now that Allah is able to do all things." (Ch 2:259)

Ezra Returns Home

He rode on his donkey and entered his native place, but the people did not recognize him, nor did

his household, except the maid, now an old woman. He asked her: "Is this the house of Ezra?"

She said: "Yes, but the people have long forgotten Ezra." He said: "I am Ezra, Allah had taken

my life for a one hundred years and has now returned it to me." She said: "Ezra used to be

answered when he prayed to Allah. Pray to cure me of blindness if you are Ezra." He prayed for

her and massaged her eyes and took her by the hand. "Get up by the power of Allah," he said. The

crippled woman stood up and walked; she opened her eyes and saw; her blindness was gone. She

said: "I bear witness that you are Ezra."

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Ezra Finds and Copies the Torah

She rushed to the assembly of the Israelites. Ezra's son was one hundred eighteen years old, and

his children 's children now were lords of the assembly. She called out to them saying: "This is

Ezra come to you." They accused her of lying. She said: "I am your old maid. He has just prayed

to Allah for me, and here I am whole again, walking and seeing." The people stood up and looked

at him. His son said: "My father had a mark between his shoulders, a black mole," and they

discovered it. They said: "None among us memorized the Torah since Nabuchadnezzar burned it,

except Ezra; and there was only one copy of the Torah, which was hidden by Sarukha. He buried

it in the days of Nabuchadnezzar in a place none but Ezra knows." Ezra led the people to the

hidden place and took out that copy of the Torah. Its leaves had rotted, and the book itself

crumpled.

Ezra sat under the shade of a tree surrounded by the children of Israel and copied out the Torah

for them from that script. Henceforth, the Jews said that Ezra is the son of Allah, for two

evidences which came down from Heaven and for his copying the torah and for his fighting the

cause of the Israelites.He had been copying the Torah for Ezekial in the land of darkness in the

hermitage of Ezekiel. The village which was in ruins is said to be Sayrabadh.

Ibn Abbas commanded: "So it is as Allah said:

"We have made of you a sign for the people." (Ch 2:259)

That is, for the Israelites, in that he was sitting among his children, the old men, and he a youth.

He died as a forty year old, and Allah resurrected him at the same age on the day of his death."

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