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Chapter 34: The migration of some of the Companions of the Prophet<br />
(Abyssinia/Ethiopia), from Makkah to the land of al-Ḥabashah ,ﷺ<br />
so as to flee with their religion from afflictions 230<br />
230 [TN: Some afflictions are more severe and worse than the others. The afflictions could be in a person’s Deen<br />
(religion) or his Dunya (worldly life) through loss of wealth, the death of someone, illness, or harm done by<br />
others. But the most severe ones are those in the Deen, as <strong>Al</strong>laah تعاىل says:<br />
﴿وَال فِت نَةُُأَشَدُُّمِنَُال قَت لِ ﴾<br />
{…and <strong>Al</strong>-Fitnah is worse than killing} [Surah al-Baqarah (2): 191]<br />
These trials of the Deen are through Shirk, Kufr, Hypocrisy, facing the enemy on the battlefield etc.<br />
:رحمه اهلل From the Tafseer of Imaam Ibn Katheer<br />
ت says: عاىل <strong>Al</strong>laah<br />
﴿وَال فِت نَة ُأَشَدُُّمِنَُال قَت لِ ﴾<br />
{…and <strong>Al</strong>-Fitnah is worse than killing} [Surah al-Baqarah (2): 191]<br />
Since Jihaad involves killing and shedding the blood of men, <strong>Al</strong>laah تعاىل indicated that these men (the Mushriks of<br />
Makkah) are committing disbelief in <strong>Al</strong>laah, associating with Him (in the worship) and hindering from His path,<br />
and this is more severe and much greater evil and more disastrous than killing.<br />
Abu Maalik commented about what <strong>Al</strong>laah تعاىل said:<br />
﴿وَال فِت نَة ُأَشَدُُّمِنَُالُقَت لِ ﴾<br />
{And <strong>Al</strong>-Fitnah is worse than killing}, meaning: “what you (disbelievers) are committing is much worse than<br />
killing.”<br />
Abu <strong>Al</strong>-`Aaliyah, Mujaahid, Sa`eed Ibn Jubair, `Ikrimah, <strong>Al</strong>-Ḥasan, Qataadah, al-Ḍhahhaak and al-Rabee` Ibn Anas<br />
:تعاىل said about the saying of <strong>Al</strong>laah<br />
﴿وَال فِت نَة ُأَشَدُُّمِنَُال قَت لِ ﴾<br />
{And <strong>Al</strong>-Fitnah is worse than killing}, they said: “Shirk (polytheism) is worse than killing.”<br />
And Imaam Ibn Katheer continues:<br />
﴿وَال فِت نَة ُأَك بَر ُمِنَُال قَت لِ ﴾<br />
{...and <strong>Al</strong>-Fitnah is greater than killing} means, trying to force the Muslims to revert from their religion and reembrace<br />
Kufr after they had believed, is worse with <strong>Al</strong>laah than killing. --end of quote<br />
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