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The Prophet Jerjees (Georgeous) (PUH)
As attributed to Ibn `Abbâs he said that God sent Jerjees (PUH) to
a king in the lands of Canaan that was called Ðu-Ðânah who
used to worship an idol, and he advised him and guided him to worship God
and forbid him to worship the idols and said to him: the creations should
not worship except of God and don't pray except to Him, so then the king
said: from where are you? and he answered: from the Romans and live in
Palestine, and then he ordered to capture him and then he ordered to brush
his body with iron brushes until the meat of his body fell down and then
sprankled the vinegar over him and rubbed his body with harsh tools and
then ironed his body just to let him die by torture, but since he didn't
die he then put long wedges in his head and made his brain go out like
a liquid but he didn't die and then he put a large rock over his abdomen.
When night came over an angel came down to him and said: O Jerjees, God
says to you be patient and be glad and don't be afraid or God is with you
and He shall make a relief for you and they shall kill you for four times
and during all of that God shall remove the sense of pain from you and
this is destined for you and He knows the ends. Then the king wiped him
over his back and his abdomen and then got him back to the jail, and then
the king wrote (a letter) to the magicians to send him the best of them
so they sent him a magician who used everything he can of magic over him
(Jerjees) but nothing did happen to him and then he brought a poison and
made him drink it and Jerjees said: by the name of God that lies of the
wicked and the magic of the magicians shall be astrayed by His truth, and
nothing happened to him, and then said the magician: if I made the people
of the earth to drink this poison then their powers would be gone and their
eyes would go blind, and then said the magician to Jerjees (PUH): then
you are the bright light and the shining lamp and the obvious truth and
I testify that your God is true and everything else is false and I believed
in Him and believed in His prophets and to Him I shall repent, and then
the king killed him. Then he got Jerjees back to the jail and tortured
him severely and he didn't die and then he torn him apart and threw him
into a well and he died there. Then the king gathered with his folks for
some food and drinks, and then the universe changed and it went dark and
a black cloud came with lightning and thunder and the earth started to
shake and they thought that this is their end, and God then ordered Michael
(PUH) and he went to the head of the well and said: stand up O Jerjees
by the permission of God and by His Will the One who created you, and then
Jerjees stood up alive again and Michael got him out of the well and he
said to him: be patient and be glad and then Jerjees went to the king and
he said to him: God resurrected me and sent me to you to be a clue for
you, and then stood the head officer and said: I believed in your God,
the One who resurrected you after your death and I testify that He is the
truth and everything else is false, and four thousand people followed him
and all believed and followed Jerjees, and the king killed them all by
the sword and then he ordered to bring a board made of copper and he fired
under it until it went red and he made Jerjees to lie on it and then he
ordered to bring lead and it was melted down and poured into his mouth
and then he struck his eyes and his head with wedges and when he saw that
this didn't kill him, he sat the fire under him until he died and ordered
to throw his ashes to the wind.
In brief about what remained of his conditions is that God resurrected
him by His Will and then sent him to the king while he was sitting with
lot of his folks. Then one of the king's folks said: we have fourteen pulpits
and food between our hands that is made of many plants some of them give
fruit and some others don't, so ask your God to give each tree a life and
to plant in each of them its own leaves and fruit and if He did that I
shall believe in you, and then Jerjees put his knees on the floor and prayed
to God and yet before leaving his place, every branch bore its fruit and
when they saw that they had no way but to believe in him. When the king
saw that he ordered to put him between two wedges and then a saw was put
over his head and he was sawn into two halves and then he put them in a
great cauldron and cooked his meat, and the earth went dark and God sent
Isrâfeel (Raphael ?) and he shouted and made the people fall down
over their faces and God resurrected him again and sent him again to the
damned king and when people saw him they got amazed, and the king said:
if I left this magician my people shall be doomed, and all of them then
gathered together and wanted to kill him by the sword and then said Jerjees:
don't be in a hurry to kill me, and then said: O Lord, if I died then idols
shall be worshipped and I ask You to make my name among the people as an
example of patience for those who reach You for every adversity and trouble,
and then they knocked down his neck with the sword and he died, and they
were out of town that time so after that they went inside it in a hurry
and all of them were doomed.
Al-Mas'udi said: of those who were in the period of time after the
Messiah, there was Jerjees (PUH) and he met some apostles and God sent
him to a king in Mosul [in Iraq] and he called him to worship God but he
killed him and God resurrected him and sent him back to him again and he
killed him, and God resurrected him and in the third time he ordered that
he shall be sawn and then burned and spreaded his ashes in Tigris and then
God destroyed the king and all of his kingdom of those who followed him.
This is as it was narrated by the people of Scripture who believed in Islam,
and the truth is that God knows the truth.
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