Baatil or Bāṭil (باطل)

The Falsehood

 وَقُلْ جَاءَ الْحَقُّ وَزَهَقَ الْبَاطِلُ ۚ إِنَّ الْبَاطِلَ كَانَ زَهُوقًا {81}

And say: ‘The Truth came and the Falsehood vanished, surely the falsehood would always vanish’ [17:81]

ابن شهر آشوب: ذكر أبو بكر الشيرازي في (نزول القرآن في شأن أمير المؤمنين (عليه السلام)): عن قتادة، عن ابن المسيب، عن أبي هريرة، قال: قال لي جابر بن عبد الله: دخلنا مع النبي (صلى الله عليه و آله) مكة، و في البيت و حوله ثلاثمائة و ستون صنما، فأمر بها رسول الله (صلى الله عليه و آله)، فألقيت كلها على وجوهها، و كان على البيت صنم طويل يقال له هبل

Ibn Shehr Ashub – ‘Abu Bakr Al Shirazi mentioned in (his book) ‘Revelations of the Quran regarding the glory of Amir Al Momineen-asws’, from Qatadah, from Ibn Al Musayyab, from Abu Hureyra who said,

Jabir Bin Abdullah said to me, ‘We entered Makkah along with the Prophet-saww, and in the House (Kabah) and around it were three hundred and sixty idols. So Rasool-Allah-saww ordered with these and all of them were thrown down upon their faces. And there was a tall idol upon the House (Kabah) called Hobal.

فنظر النبي (صلى الله عليه و آله) إلى علي (صلى الله عليه و آله)، و قال له: «يا علي، تركب علي أو أركب عليك لا لقي هبل عن ظهر الكعبة؟ قال (عليه السلام): «يا رسول الله، بل تركبني

‘The Prophet-saww looked towards Ali-asws and said to him-asws: ‘O Ali-asws! Either you-asws mount upon me-saww or I-saww mount upon you-asws in order to throw Hobal from the back of the Kabah?’ He-asws said: ‘O Rasool-Allah-saww! But, you-saww mount upon me-asws’.

قال (عليه السلام): «فلما جلس على ظهري لم أستطع حمله لثقل الرسالة، فقلت: يا رسول الله بل أركبك، فضحك و نزل و طأطأ ظهره و استويت عليه

‘He-asws said: ‘So when he-saww sat upon my-asws back I-asws was not able to carry him-saww due to the weight of the Message, and I-asws said: ‘O Rasool-Allah-saww! But, I-asws will mount upon you-saww’. So he-saww smiled and descended and I-asws trod upon his-saww back and stood upright upon him-saww.

فو الذي فلق الحب و برأ النسمة لو أردت أن أمسك السماء لمسكتها بيدي، فألقيت هبل عن ظهر الكعبة، فأنزل الله: وَ قُلْ جاءَ الْحَقُّ وَ زَهَقَ الْباطِلُ». الآية

‘By the One-azwj Who Split the seed and Formed the person! If I-asws had intended to withhold the sky, I-asws could have withheld it by my-asws hand. I-asws threw Hobal from the back of the Kabah, so Allah-azwj Revealed: ‘The Truth came and the Falsehood vanished [17:81] – the Verse’’.[1]


[1] المناقب 2: 135، شواهد التنزيل 1: 350/ 480.

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