An-Nās

24 passages reference this surah

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Book 31: The Book of Repentance

Imam al-Ghazali · Ihya’ ‘Ulum al-Din

1. "An inquiry to Ibrahim ibn Adham elicited, "Avoid people yet embrace people, and you cannot do without people, for people are people, and not all people are truly people. The people have gone, leaving behind lesser ones, who are hardly people at all,"

   Source in Repentance →

Hud, Salih & the Destroyed Nations

Ibn Kathir · Stories of the Prophets

1. "may receive mercy? They said, Why are O my people, Why are O my people, Why are O my people, Why are O my people, Why are O my people, You are my people, Why are O my people, Laha dhalla sa'ah? Rather, you are a people being tested. And there were in the city"

   Source in The Story of Hud & Salih →

Book 20: The Book of the Prophetic Character

Imam al-Ghazali · Ihya' 'Ulum al-Din

1. "He was the most compassionate among people towards people, the best of people to people, and the most beneficial of people to people. Voices were not raised in his gathering. If he rose from his gathering, he would say: "Subhanak Allahumma wa bihamdika,"

   Source in The Book of the Prophetic Character →

Volume 1 — From Creation to Mūsā

Ibn Kathir · Al-Bidāya wal-Nihāya

1. "And O my people, let not your dissension cause you to suffer what befell the people of Noah or the people of Hud or the people of Salih. And the people of Lot are not far from you."

   Source in From Creation to Mūsā →

2. "and in Surah Kaaf before them the people of Noah and the people of the well and Thamud and Ad and Pharaoh and the brothers of Lot and the people of the thicket and the people of Tubba all had denied the messengers"

   Source in From Creation to Mūsā →

3. "Upon him I have relied, and to him I return. And O my people, let not my dissension cause you to be struck by that which struck the people of Noah, or the people of Hud, or the people of Salih."

   Source in From Creation to Mūsā →

Volume One

Ibn al-Qayyim · Madārij al-Sālikīn

1. "This is the utmost capability of the truthful ones. For the people of struggle, there is guidance and unveiling not available to those who strive. This is why الإِمَام الأَوْزَاعِيّ and اِبْن المُبَارَك said: If people differ on something, look at what the people of the frontier are upon, meaning the people of jihad, for اللّٰه says in سُورَة العَنْكَبُوت: "And those who strive for Us - We will surely guide them to Our ways."

   Source in Volume One →

2. "It informs him of the obstacles and pitfalls of the path, acquaints him with the self and its attributes, the corruptors and correctors of deeds, and shows him the path of the people of paradise and the people of hell, their deeds, conditions, and signs, the ranks of the people of happiness and the people of misery, and the divisions of creation, their agreements, and disagreements."

   Source in Volume One →

3. ""Common people" in this context refers to those outside the realm of unity and annihilation, even if they are people of spiritual journey, will, and knowledge. This is what they mean by the common people, and they call them "people of distinction," while their extremists call them "the veiled ones.""

   Source in Volume One →

Uthman ibn Affan

Ibn Kathir · Timeless Classics

1. "and that he had not followed the conduct of his two companions, the people of Egypt, the people of Kufa and the people of Basra wrote to one another and exchanged messages. Letters were forged in the name of the Companions who were in Medina, and in the name of Ali, Talha and al-Zubayr, calling the people to fight Uthman and support the religion, and saying that this was the greatest jihad of the day."

   Source in Uthman ibn Affan →

2. "When Abd al-Rahman ibn Rabi'a was killed, Sa'id ibn al-As set Salman ibn Rabi'a over that front, and Uthman reinforced them with the people of Syria under Habib ibn Maslama. Habib and Salman disputed over the command until they fell out, and it was the first dispute that arose between the people of Kufa and the people of Syria, so that a man of the people of Kufa, Aws, said of it:"

   Source in Uthman ibn Affan →

3. ""Whoever holds back his hand is safe." So the people held back and kept to their houses, and the people remained thus for some days. All this while the people did not know what the men would do or what they were resolved upon; and throughout it the Commander of the Faithful Uthman ibn Affan would come out of his house and lead the people in prayer,"

   Source in Uthman ibn Affan →

al-Fawāʾid — Points of Benefit, Volume One

Ibn al-Qayyim · Timeless Classics

1. "A point of benefit: whoever loses his intimacy with God among people and finds it in solitude is sincere but weak. Whoever finds it among people and loses it in seclusion is afflicted with a defect. Whoever loses it both among people and in seclusion is dead and cast out. And whoever finds it in seclusion and among people is the sincere lover, strong in his state."

   Source in al-Fawāʾid →

Umar ibn al-Khattab

Ibn Kathir · Timeless Classics

1. "From Ibn Abbas, that the Prophet, God's peace and blessings be upon him, said, "I have two ministers from the people of heaven and two ministers from the people of earth. My two ministers from the people of heaven are Gabriel and Michael, and my two ministers from the people of earth are Abu Bakr and Umar; and they are the hearing and the sight.""

   Source in Umar ibn al-Khattab →

2. ""You have done today a great thing in the eyes of the people of the earth; you have done such-and-such." He said: He struck him on the chest and said: "Would that someone other than you had said it, Abu Ubayda! You were the lowliest of people, the most despised of people and the fewest of people, and God honored you through Islam."

   Source in Umar ibn al-Khattab →

3. "He informed him of the state of Iraq, and al-Siddiq charged Umar to call the people to fight the people of Iraq. When al-Siddiq died and was buried on the night of Tuesday, Umar rose in the morning and called the people, urging them to fight the people of Iraq, exhorting them and making them desire the reward for it."

   Source in Umar ibn al-Khattab →

The Destroyed Nations & Yunus

Ibn Kathir · Stories of the Prophets

1. "Then Ibn Jarir himself rejected it, saying: It is not permissible to take these people to be the People of the Well mentioned in the Qur'an. He said: For God has told us of the People of the Well that He destroyed them, whereas these people changed their minds and believed in their prophet."

   Source in The Story of Yunus & the Destroyed →

2. "And He said, exalted is He, in the chapter of Qaf: "Before them the people of Nuh denied, and the People of the Well, and Thamud, and Ad, and Pharaoh, and the brethren of Lut, and the People of the Thicket, and the people of Tubba."

   Source in The Story of Yunus & the Destroyed → Play in preview

Book 40: The Book of the Remembrance of Death and the Afterlife

Imam al-Ghazali · Ihya' 'Ulum al-Din

1. "It is not befitting for anyone from the people of Paradise to enter Paradise, while one of the people of Hell has a claim against him, nor for anyone from the people of Hell to enter Hell, while one of the people of Paradise has a claim against him, even if it be a slap."

   Source in The Book of the Remembrance of Death and the Afterlife →

Al-Kabā'ir — The Major Sins

Imam al-Dhahabī · Timeless Classics

1. "into the fire. The Prophet peace be upon him also said, There are two types of people from the people of hell whom I have not seen, a people with whips like the tails of cows, striking the people, and women who are clothed yet naked, inclined to evil and leading others"

   Source in The Major Sins →

2. "may Allah be pleased with him, reported that the Prophet, peace be upon him, said, A man may act with the deeds of the people of Hell while he is among the people of Paradise, and another may act with the deeds of the people of Paradise while he is among the people"

   Source in The Major Sins →

Volume 2 — From the Israelite Prophets to Pre-Islamic Arabia

Ibn Kathir · Al-Bidāya wal-Nihāya

1. "people that the people of Najran were idol worshippers. In a village near Najran, which is the great village where the people of that land gather, there was a sorcerer who taught the boys of the people of Najran the art of magic. When"

   Source in Israelite Prophets to Pre-Islamic Arabia →

The Disease and The Cure

Ibn al-Qayyim · Timeless Classics

1. "his place in the Hereafter is presented to him morning and evening. If he is among the people of Paradise, then he is from the people of Paradise, and if he is from the people of Hell, then he is from the people of Hell."

   Source in The Disease and The Cure →

al-Fawāʾid — Points of Benefit, Volume Two

Ibn al-Qayyim · Timeless Classics

1. "It befits the bearer of the Qur'an that he be known by his night when people are asleep, by his day of fasting when people are eating, by his sorrow when people rejoice, and by his weeping when people"

   Source in al-Fawāʾid II →