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Nasr

نسر

Nasr — a pre-Islamic Arabian idol.

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Overview

Nasr: Himyar's idol at Dhu al-Khala'a; the last of Noah's people's five idols in the peninsula.

In the sira presentation

Al-Mubarakpuri mentions that idolatry entered the Arabs in the time of Amr ibn Luhayy, who saw the people of al-Balqa venerating idols and carried them to the Hijaz — until every clan had an idol and every house an idol 1.

For young visitors

Nasr is an idol some Arabs worshipped before Islam instead of God — until Islam demolished all the idols.

Connections

Held by
Himyar
Made in
Yemen

People and things also explored

Dhu Nuwas (Yusuf Asʾar Yathʾar)Sayf ibn Dhi Yazan (Maʾdikarib)YaʿūqThe Second Abyssinian Occupation of YemenThe letter of the kings of HimyarLiberation and Persian Rule of YemenBanu HamdanAbraha

Sources

  1. al-Raheeq al-Makhtum — Safi al-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri
  • Akhbar Makka — al-Azraqi
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Dhu Nuwas (Yusuf Asʾar Yathʾar)

The last Himyarite king before the second Abyssinian occupation: a convert to Judaism who in October 523 tried to force the Christians of Najran to apostatize and, on their refusal, dug the trench of fire — the event the Quran recalls in Surat al-Buruj.