2. THE TRUTH CANNOT BE CONFUSED WITH FALSEHOOD
Truth has no similarities with falsehood and cannot be confused with it. But falsehood is disguised to those who have no sense of understanding, namely those who claim to have supernatural powers and miracles.
The number of people claiming to be Prophets even has been many but their wickedness and disgrace manifested to the public due to their reprehensible ideas, their indulgence in lustful desires and the nonsense in both the words they uttered and the actions they performed, all of which were exposed.
Ahmad Al-‘AnsI is one of the people who claimed to be a Prophet and gave himself the nickname “Dhul Khimar” (i.e. the person of the veil) because he used to say: ‘I receive revelation through Dhul Khimar.’
At the beginning, he was a fortune-teller who practiced black magic that made him conjure up wonders. His appearance was towards the end of the life of the Prophet and the tribes of Madhhaj, Wa’id and Najran sided with him and then expelled both ‘Amr Ibn Hazm and Khalid Ibn Sa’id, who were two of the Companions of the Prophet to then be alone in power to govern Yemen. He then killed Shahar Ibn badham and married his daughter who helped in killing him. His end was during the life of the Messenger of Allah and it was apparent to those with intelligent minds that he used sorcery.
Musaylamah was also one of the ones who claimed to be a Prophet and gave himself the nickname “Rahman Al-Yamamah” because he used to say: ‘I receive revelation via Rahman!’
He believed in the Prophet but claimed that Allah assigned him to be the partner of Prophet Muhammad in the Message of Islam that he advocates! Surprisingly, he then accused the Prophet of being a liar though he believed in him! He then introduced a new book that made people laugh as its passages were ridiculous such as the passage that stated, ‘Oh frog! The daughter of two frogs! Pure is what you choose, your upper part is in the water, and your bottom part is in the mud. From the wonders is the black sheep that gives us white milk!’ This poor language exposed his fabrication, not to mention the incidents when he passed his hand over the head of a boy causing him to lose his hair! And when he spat in a well, the water therein dried up!
He married Sujah who also claimed to be a Prophetess, and made her dowry to cancel the Prayer of I’ajrand Isba Sujah claimed to be a Prophetess after the death of the Prophet and some people believed and followed her. Then she said to her followers, ‘Prepare the horses, be ready to loot, and then pass over the white clouds, for there is no screen to prevent them, and fight them!’ Then she headed with her followers to Yamamah, the town of Musaylamah who feared her and decided to send her a letter with a gift so when she met him, she said, ‘Read to me what jibril reveals to you.’ He said: ‘You women were created in crowds, and were made wives for us; we penetrate you until it is penetrated.’ She then said, ‘You spoke the truth, you are a Prophet. He then said to her the following lines of poetry:
Come to the bedchamber….for the bed has been prepared for you
If you wish we coddle you….and if you wish you can be on four If you like,
You can have two thirds of it ….or if you like, you can have it all
So she said, ‘I would rather do all of it because it is more uniting!’
And this exposed her lies and false claim to the intelligent people among her followers, hence, ‘Utarid Ibn Hajib, one of her followers, recited the following lines of poetry:
Our Prophet has become a female that a man sleeps with,
while the Prophets of people are males.
May the curse of Allah, the Lord of all people, be upon Sujah and everyone who deceived us to follow her.
I mean with that Musaylamah, the Liar, may he not be watered for, any source wherever he is.
Then, after some time, she repented and embraced Islam and continued to expose the lies of Musaylamah until he was killed.
(Source: al-Hafiz Abu’l-Faraj ibn al-jawzl [d. 597AH] “CAPTURED THOUGHTS being” a translation of his masterpiece ‘Sayd al-K hatir)
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