Allah Yang Maha Kuasa berfirman:

Allah the Almighty says:

{Demi langit yang mengandungi bintang-bintang besar. Dan demi Hari yang dijanjikan (iaitu

{By the heaven holding the big stars. And by the Promised Day (i.e.

...Hari Kiamat). Dan demi hari yang menyaksikan (iaitu hari Jumaat), dan demi hari yang disaksikan (iaitu Hari 'Arafah (Haji) pada 9 Dhul-Hijjah]. Dilaknatlah golongan Parit (dalam kisah Budak dan Raja). Api yang dinyalakan dengan bahan bakar. Ketika mereka duduk di sekelilingnya (api itu). Dan mereka menyaksikan apa yang mereka lakukan terhadap orang-orang beriman (iaitu membakar mereka). Dan mereka tidak mencela mereka melainkan kerana mereka beriman kepada Allah, Yang Maha Perkasa, Yang Maha Terpuji! Yang memiliki kerajaan langit dan bumi! Dan Allah adalah Saksi atas segala sesuatu. Sesungguhnya, mereka yang menguji orang-orang beriman lelaki dan perempuan (dengan menyiksa dan membakar mereka), kemudian mereka tidak bertaubat (kepada Allah), maka bagi mereka azab Jahannam, dan bagi mereka azab api yang membakar}. (Al-Buruj, 1-10)

the Day of Resurrection). And by the Witnessing day (i.e. Friday), and by .the Witnessed day (i.e. the Day of 'Arafat (Hajj) the ninth of Dhul- Hijjah]. Cursed were the people of the Ditch (in the story of the Boy and the King). Of fire fed with fuel. When they sat by it (fire). And they witnessed what they were doing against the believers (i.e. burning them). And they had no fault except that they believed in Allah, the All- Mighty, Worthy of all Praise! To Whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth! And Allah is Witness over everything. Verily, those who put into trial the believing men and believing women (by torturing them and burning them), and then do not turn in repentance (to Allah), then they will have the torment of Hell, and they will have the punishment of the burning Fire}. (Al-Buruj, 1-10)

Muhammad Ibn Ishaq mendakwa bahawa mereka hidup selepas kedatangan Jesus (Peace be upon him), tetapi sarjana-sarjana lain tidak bersetuju dengannya dan mendakwa mereka hidup sebelum baginda (Peace be upon him). Walau bagaimanapun, ramai sarjana menyebut bahawa kejadian ini berulang lebih daripada sekali. Terdapat sebuah Hadis Nabawi yang menceritakan kisah mereka yang disebut dalam Al-Qur'an yang Mulia. Imam Ahmad berkata: Aku telah diberitahu oleh Hammad Ibn Salamah, daripada Thabit, daripada 'Abdur Rahman Ibn Abu Laila, yang berkata: Suhaib (semoga Allah meredai dirinya) melaporkan bahawa Rasulullah (Peace be upon him) bersabda: "Ada seorang raja hidup sebelum kamu, dan dia mempunyai seorang ahli sihir istana. Apabila ahli sihir itu semakin tua, dia berkata kepada raja: Aku telah semakin tua, hantarkan kepadaku seorang budak muda supaya aku dapat mengajarnya sihir. Raja pun menghantar kepadanya seorang budak muda supaya dia melatihnya (dalam sihir). Dalam perjalanannya (ke tempat ahli sihir), budak itu terjumpa seorang rahib yang sedang duduk di situ. Dia mendengar percakapan rahib itu dan terpesona dengannya. Menjadi kebiasaannya untuk melalui rahib itu dan menghabiskan masa bersamanya, mendengar ajarannya, kemudian pulang lewat kepada ahli sihir. Ahli sihir itu memukulnya kerana kelewatan itu. Dia mengadu hal itu kepada rahib, dan rahib berkata kepadanya: Apabila kamu berasa takut kepada ahli sihir, katakanlah: Ahli keluargaku telah menahanku. Dan apabila kamu berasa takut kepada keluargamu, katakanlah: Ahli sihir telah menahanku. Maka berlakulah, datang seekor binatang buas yang besar lalu menghalang jalan orang ramai, dan dia (budak itu) berkata: Aku akan tahu hari ini sama ada ahli sihir itu lebih hebat atau rahib itu lebih hebat. Dia mengambil sebiji batu dan berkata: Ya Allah..."

Muhammad Ibn Ishaq claimed that they lived after the advent of Jesus (Peace be upon him), but other scholars disagreed with him claiming them to live before him (Peace be upon him). However, many scholars mentioned that this incident was repeated more than once. There is a Prophetic Hadith narrating the story of those mentioned in the Glorious Qur'an. Imam Ahmed said: I was told by Harnrnad Ibn Salamah after Thabit after' Abdur Rahman Ibn Abu Laila as saying: Suhaib (May Allah be pleased withhim) reported that Allah's Messenger (Peace be upon him) thus said: 'There lived a king before you and he had a (court) magician. As he (the magician) grew old, he said to the king: I have grown old, send some young boy to me so that I should teach him magic. He (the king) sent him a young boy so that he should train him (in magic). And on his way (to The magician) he (the young boy) found a monk sitting there. He listened to the monk's lalk and was impressed by it. It became his habit to pass by the monk and spent the time with him listening to his teachings and then leave to the magician late. He (the magician) beat him because of delay. He made a complaint of that to the monk and he said to him: When you feel afraid of the magician, say: Members of my family had detained me. And when you feel afraid of your family you should say: The magician had detained me. It so happened that there came a huge beast (of prey) and it blocked the way of the people, and he (the young boy) said: I will, come to know today whether the magician is superior or the monk is superior. He picked up a stone and said: 0

Ya Allah, jika urusan rahib itu lebih Engkau sukai daripada urusan ahli sihir, maka matikanlah binatang ini supaya orang ramai dapat bergerak dengan bebas. Maka dia melemparkan batu ke arahnya, lalu binatang itu mati dan orang ramai mula bergerak dengan bebas (di laluan itu). Kemudian dia (pemuda itu) pergi kepada rahib tersebut dan memaklumkannya, lalu rahib itu berkata: Wahai anakku, hari ini engkau lebih utama daripada aku. Urusanmu telah sampai ke peringkat di mana aku dapati engkau tidak lama lagi akan diuji, dan jika engkau diuji, jangan tunjukkan tempatku. Pemuda itu mula merawat orang buta dan penghidap kusta. Malah, dia mula menyembuhkan orang daripada (pelbagai jenis) penyakit. Apabila seorang pembesar raja yang telah menjadi buta mendengar tentang dirinya, dia datang kepadanya dengan membawa banyak hadiah dan berkata: Jika engkau menyembuhkan aku, semua hadiah yang terkumpul di sini akan menjadi milikmu. Pemuda itu berkata: Aku sendiri tidak menyembuhkan sesiapa. Allah jualah yang menyembuhkan, dan jika engkau beriman kepada Allah, aku akan berdoa kepada Allah supaya menyembuhkanmu. Lelaki itu pun beriman kepada Allah, lalu Allah menyembuhkannya, dan dia pergi menemui raja serta duduk di sisinya seperti yang biasa dia lakukan sebelum ini. Raja bertanya kepadanya: Siapakah yang memulihkan penglihatanmu? Dia menjawab: Tuhanku! Raja terkejut: Adakah maksudmu Tuhanmu itu selain daripada aku? Dia menjawab: Tuhanku dan Tuhanmu ialah Allah. Maka raja menangkapnya dan menyeksanya sehingga dia memberikan petunjuk tentang budak itu. Pemuda itu pun dipanggil, dan raja berkata kepadanya: Wahai anak muda, telah disampaikan kepadaku bahawa engkau telah begitu mahir dalam sihirmu sehingga engkau dapat menyembuhkan orang buta dan penghidap kusta, serta engkau melakukan begini dan begitu. Budak itu berkata: Aku tidak menyembuhkan sesiapa; Allah jualah yang menyembuhkan. Raja menangkapnya dan mula menyeksanya. Akhirnya, budak itu memberikan petunjuk tentang rahib tersebut. Rahib itu pun dipanggil, dan dikatakan kepadanya: Engkau mesti berpaling daripada agamamu. Namun dia enggan berbuat demikian. Baginda memerintahkan agar sebatang gergaji dibawa, dan (apabila ia sudah tersedia) baginda meletakkannya di tengah kepalanya dan menggergaji kepala itu hingga sebahagiannya jatuh. Kemudian pembesar baginda dibawa dan dikatakan kepadanya: Berpalinglah daripada agamamu. Lalu dia enggan berbuat demikian, maka gergaji itu diletakkan di tengah kepalanya dan kepalanya digergaji hingga sebahagiannya jatuh.

Allah, if the affair of the monk is dearer to Thee than the affair of the magician, cause death to this animal so that the people should be able to move about freely. He threw that stone towards it and killed it and the people began to move about (on the path freely). He (the young man) then came to that monk and informed him and the monk said: Sonny, today you are superior to me. Your affair has come to a stage where I find that you would be soon put to a trial, and in case you are put to a trial don't give my clue. That young man began to treat the blind and those suffering from leprosy. He in fact began to cure people from (all kinds) of illness. When a companion of the king who had gone blind heard about him, he came to him with numerous gifts and said: If you cure me, all these things collected together here would be yours. He said: I myself do not cure anyone. It is Allah Who cures and if you affirm faith in Allah, I shall also supplicate Allah to cure you. He affirmed his faith in Allah and Allah cured him and he came to the king and sat by his side as he used to sit before. The king said to him: Who restored your eyesight? He said: My Lord! The king got astounded: should it mean that your Lord is another One besides me. He said: My Lord and your Lord is Allah, so he (the king) took hold of him and tormented him till he gave a clue of that boy. The young man was thus summoned and the king said to him: 0 boy, it has been conveyed to me that you have become so much proficient in your magic that you cure the blind and those suffering from leprosy and you do such and such things. The boy said: I do not cure anyone; it is Allah Who cures. The king took hold of him and began to torment him. Eventually the boy gave a clue of the monk. The monk was thus summoned and it was said to him: You should turn back from your religion. He, however, refused to do so. He (ordered) for a saw to be brought (and when it was done) he (the king) placed it in the middle of his head and tore it into parts till a part fell down. Then the courtier of the king was brought and it was said to him: Turn back from your religion. And he refused to do so, and the saw was placed in the midst of his head and it was torn till a part fell down.

Kemudian budak lelaki itu dibawa, lalu dikatakan kepadanya: Berpalinglah daripada agamamu. Dia enggan berbuat demikian, lalu dia diserahkan kepada sekumpulan pembesar istananya.

Then that young boy was brought and it was said to him: Turn back from your religion. He refused to do so and he was handed over to a group of his courtiers.

Raja itu memerintahkan: "Bawalah dia ke gunung sekian-sekian, suruh dia mendaki gunung itu, dan apabila kamu sampai ke puncaknya (mintalah dia meninggalkan imannya), tetapi jika dia enggan berbuat demikian, maka campakkanlah dia (dari puncak gunung itu)." Maka mereka membawanya, menyuruhnya mendaki gunung itu, lalu dia berkata: "Ya Allah, selamatkanlah aku daripada mereka dengan cara apa sekalipun yang Engkau kehendaki." Lalu gunung itu mula bergoncang, mereka semua terjatuh, dan orang itu berjalan kembali menghadap raja. Raja bertanya kepadanya: "Apa yang telah berlaku kepada sahabat-sahabatmu (para pembesar istana)?" Dia menjawab: "Allah telah menyelamatkan aku daripada mereka." Raja kemudian menyerahkannya sekali lagi kepada sebahagian pembesarnya dan berkata: "Bawalah dia, muatkanlah dia dalam sebuah perahu kecil, dan apabila kamu sampai ke tengah lautan (mintalah dia meninggalkan) agamanya, tetapi jika dia tidak mahu meninggalkan agamanya, campakkanlah dia ke dalam air." Maka mereka membawanya, dan budak itu berkata: "Ya Allah, selamatkanlah aku daripada mereka dan daripada apa yang mereka mahu lakukan." Tidak lama kemudian perahu itu terbalik, lalu mereka semua tenggelam, dan dia berjalan kembali menghadap raja. Raja bertanya kepadanya: "Apa yang telah berlaku kepada sahabat-sahabatmu (para pembesar istana)?" Dia menjawab: "Allah telah menyelamatkan aku daripada mereka." Kemudian dia berkata kepada raja: "Engkau tidak akan dapat membunuhku sehingga engkau melakukan apa yang aku pinta." Raja bertanya: "Apakah itu?" Dia berkata: "Kumpulkanlah orang ramai di sebuah dataran, gantungkan aku pada batang (pokok), kemudian ambillah sebatang anak panah dari bekas panahmu dan katakanlah: 'Dengan nama Allah, Tuhan sekalian alam,' kemudian lepaskanlah anak panah itu. Jika engkau berbuat demikian, barulah engkau akan dapat membunuhku." Raja mengumpulkan orang ramai di sebuah dataran terbuka, mengikat budak itu pada batang pokok, kemudian mengambil sebatang anak panah dari bekas panahnya, meletakkannya pada busur, lalu berkata: "Dengan nama Allah, Tuhan budak muda ini," lalu dia melepaskan anak panah itu dan ia mengenai pelipis budak itu. Budak itu meletakkan tangannya pada pelipis tempat anak panah itu mengenainya, lalu dia mati. Maka orang ramai berkata: "Kami beriman dengan Tuhan budak muda ini, kami beriman dengan Tuhan budak muda ini, kami beriman dengan Tuhan budak muda ini." Para pembesar datang kepada raja dan dikatakan kepadanya: Tidakkah engkau melihat bahawa Allah sebenarnya telah melakukan apa yang engkau cuba elakkan?

The king ruled: Take him to such and such mountain,' make him climb up that mountain and when you reach its top (ask him to renounce his faith) but if he refuses to do so, then throw him (down the mountain). So they took him and made him climb up the mountain and he said: 0 Allah, save me from them (in any way) Thou likest and the mountain began to quake and they all fell down and that person came walking to the king. The king said to him: What has happened to your companions (the courtiers)? He said: Allah has saved me from them. He again handed him to some of his courtiers and said: Take him and carry him in a small boat and when you reach the middle of the ocean (ask him to renounce) his religion, but if he does not renounce his religion throw him (into the water). So they took him and the boy said: 0 Allah, save me from them and what they want to do. It was quite soon that the boat turned over and they were drowned and he came walking to the king, and the king said to him: What has happened to your companions (the courtiers)? He said: Allah has saved me from them, and he said to the king: You cannot kill me until you do what I ask you to do. And he said: What is that? He said: You should gather people in a plain and hang me by the trunk (of a tree). Then take hold of an arrow from the quiver and say: In the name of Allah, the Lord of the worlds, then shoot an arrow and if you do that then you would be able to kill me. The king called the people in an open plain and tied the boy to the trunk of a tree, then he took hold of an arrow from his quiver and then placed the arrow in the bow and then said: In the Name of Allah, the Lord of the young boy; he then shot an arrow and it bit his temple. He (the boy) placed his hands upon the temple where the arrow had bit him and he died and the people said: We affirm our faith in the Lord of this young man, we affirm our faith in the Lord of this young man, we affirm our faith in the Lord of this young man. The courtiers came to the king and it was said to him: Do you see that Allah has actually done what you aimed at averting.

Mereka (orang-orang itu) telah menegaskan keimanan mereka kepada Tuhan. Raja memerintahkan agar parit-parit digali di beberapa tempat di sepanjang jalan. Apabila parit-parit itu telah digali dan api dinyalakan di dalamnya, dikatakan (kepada orang-orang itu): Barang siapa tidak berpaling dari agamanya (agama budak itu), dia akan dicampakkan ke dalam api, atau dikatakan kepada mereka untuk melompat ke dalamnya. (Orang-orang itu menyongsong kematian tetapi tidak meninggalkan agama mereka)

They (the people) have affirmed their faith in the Lord. The king commanded ditches to be dug at certain points in the path. When these ditches were dug, and the fire was lit in them it was said (to the people): He who would not turn back from his (the boy's) religion would be thrown in the fire or it would be said to them to jump in it. (The people courted death but did not renounce religion)

sehingga datang seorang wanita bersama anaknya, lalu dia merasa ragu-ragu untuk melompat ke dalam api, dan anak itu berkata kepadanya: "Wahai ibu, bersabarlah, kerana sesungguhnya ini adalah kebenaran." (Diriwayatkan oleh Imam Ahmad, Imam Muslim dan An-Nasa'i daripada Hadis Hammad bin Salamah).

till a woman came with her child and she felt hesitant in jumping into the fire and the child said to her: 0 mother, endure (this ordeal) for it is the Truth." (Transmitted by Imam Ahmed, Imam Muslim and An-Nasa'i from the Hadith of Hammad Ibn Salamah).

Sebahagian ulama mendakwa bahawa peristiwa parit itu berulang atau diulang pada zaman dahulu lebih daripada sekali. Ibn Abu Hatim berkata: Ayahku menceritakan kepadaku daripada Abul Yaman, daripada Safwan bin 'Abdur Rahman bin Jubair, katanya:

Some scholars claimed that the incident of the ditch was recurred or repeated in the past more than once. Ibn Abu Hatim said: I was told by my father after Abul Yaman after Safwan Ibn 'Abdur Rahman Ibn Jubair as saying:

Peristiwa parit itu berlaku di Yaman pada zaman hidup Tubba'.

the incident of the ditch took place in the Yemen during the lifetime of Tubba'.

Dan ia juga berlaku di Constantinople semasa hayat Constantine, yang menyalakan api dan melemparkan ke dalamnya orang-orang Kristian yang berpegang kepada agama Jesus (Tauhid Islam). Ia juga berlaku di Iraq, di tanah Babylon semasa hayat Bikhtinassar, yang mendirikan sebuah berhala dan memerintahkan rakyat supaya sujud kepadanya. Daniel, 'Izrya dan Mashayl enggan, lalu dia menyalakan api yang besar dan melemparkan mereka ke dalamnya. Namun Allah Yang Maha Kuasa menyelamatkan mereka daripada api itu, dan menyebabkan sembilan orang yang melampaui batas terhadap mereka jatuh ke dalam api yang mereka sendiri buat.

And, it took place in Constantinople during the lifetime of Constantine who set the fires in which he threw the Christians who were sticking to the religion of Jesus (Islamic Monotheism). It also took place in Iraq, in the land of Babylon during the lifetime of Bikhtinassar who erected an idol and ordered the people to prostrate themselves before it. Daniel, 'Izrya and Mashayl refused and thereupon, he set a great fire and threw them into it. However, Allah Almighty saved them from the fire and caused the nine men who transgressed over them to fell into the fire they themselves made.

Mengenai firman Allah yang berbunyi: {Terlaknatlah orang-orang yang membuat parit}, As-Sadiy berkata: Terdapat tiga parit: satu di Sham (Syria), satu lagi di Iraq, dan yang ketiga di Yaman. (Diriwayatkan oleh Ibn Abu Hatim)

Concerning Allah's Statement that reads: {Cursed were the people of the Ditch}, As-Sadiy said: There were three ditches: one in Sham (Syria), another in Iraq, and the third in the Yemen. (Narrated by Ibn Abu Hatim)