Hadith 103

‘Tafseer Al Qummi’ – From my father, from Al Husayn Bin Khalid, ‘From Abu Al-Hassan Al-Reza-asws, I (the narrator) said, ‘(What about): [55: 5] The sun and the moon follow a Reckoning? ’ He-asws said: ‘They would both be Punished. ’ I said, ‘The sun and the moon would be Punished? ’ He-asws said: ‘If you ask about something, then perfect it. Surely the sun and the moon are two Signs from the Signs of Allah, flowing by His-azwj Command, obedient to Him-azwj. Their illumination is from the Light of His-azwj Throne, and their heat is from Hell. When it would be the Day of Qiyamah, both their lights would return to the Throne, and their bodies would return to the Fire. Thus, they would neither happen to be a sun nor a moon. And rather, what is meant are those two (Abu Bakr and Umar), Allah-azwj has Cursed them both. Aren’t the people reporting that Rasool-Allah-saww said: ‘The sun and the moon are two lights in the Fire? ’ I said, ‘Yes’. He-asws said: ‘And have you not heard the words of the people, ‘So and so, and so and so (Abu Bakr and Umar) are two suns of this community and their light? ’ These two are in the Fire, and Allah-azwj has not Meant (anything else) other than these two’ – the Hadeeth’. [104]