Assalamu alaikum, fellow Muslims and non-Muslims. 

We may all know the importance of the Qur’an, the Holy Book written by Allah (swt). However, we may not necessarily follow the teachings of the Qur’an and follow the role models that were sent to the Earth to spread the word of Islam. In order to remind you of the important lessons taught by each of the significant prophets mentioned in the Qur’an, I will In Sha Allah, be starting a prophets series. This will contain lessons I learnt from each of the prophets. I am trying my best to In Sha Allah post every day of Ramadan about each prophet.

Today, we will talk about our twenty-fifth prophet, Dhul Kifl (pbuh). If you would like to know the story, sources are available below. If I also make any mistakes, I apologise and Allah (swt) knows the best. 

Allah has sent us so much evidence that we should worship Him.

Even though Allah was angry at the Bani Israel who kept breaking Allah’s laws and even killing the prophets, He sent a last warning by sending Aramaya (pbuh).

You should only believe things that have evidence.

The Bani Israel believed in their powerful ‘God’ Baal. They believed in these crazy idol stories which had no evidence as they loved idol-worshipping, which is completely Haram.

Allah punished the Bani Israel only after giving them so many chances and opportunities to repent and worship Allah. 

The Babylon’s army came to attack as part of Allah’s punishment to destroy the Bani Israel. They killed ⅓ of the Bani Israel and only left the elderly people and the disabled people. They took the rest of the people as their slaves. Babylon’s army destroyed everything in their city. Allah destroyed the whole nation of Bani Israel as a punishment. 

The innocent people will get justice.

The Bani Israel had previously imprisoned Aramaya (pbuh) and when the king of Babylon released he knew about this punishment before, he let Aramaya (pbuh) go as a free man.

Allah gives new chances to repent to Him and start afresh.

The king of Babylon took all the slaves (about 70,000 men, women and children) and put them back in that town. Aramaya (pbuh) told them to seek forgiveness from Allah, unite and rebuild the town again. But most of them did not want to stay in that destroyed country and they disobeyed Aramaya (pbuh). They migrated to other parts of the world, even though Aramaya (pbuh) tried to reunite the Bani Israel together.

Everything in Islam is authentic.

There is no confirmed place for where Aramaya (pbuh) passed away, but some historians say he moved to Egypt and died there. But Allah knows the best.

These were some of the lessons that I captured from Aramaya (pbuh). The story of Aramaya (pbuh) is beautifully said in this Youtube video and book which I used to create this article:

Please share this article with your family and friends to get some rewards this Ramadan. In Sha Allah you will stay well.

Thank you for reading and have a lovely day!