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Prosecution always occurred to believers. It's the type of oppression, corruption and degree of it as well the degree that believers are in peril. There is another condition as well that believers ought to have been waiting for a Faraj. Quran shows that ships of God (which are lead by Captains from him) when they go through tribulations, believers become sincere and call upon God to deliver them. Yet when they reach safety a lot of them being ungrateful and become polytheist. We see this with Bani-Israel they were sincere while waiting for Musa (a) but then began to doubt Musa (a) and question him, and then Messengers were denied or killed. So this is a cycle that happens per Quran. The type of Messenger is important, because Messengers always come in groups, but they don't all result in destruction if denied. But rather per Quran there is always prolonging of the time of destruction and then a time is eventually set.
Also, Quran shows he does not destroy a people when they are yet reforming. So if people overall are still striving to become better as a people, he won't destroy them.
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Here are some of the related verses of Quran regarding the Jews and what happend to them:
5:20 And (remember) when Moses said to his people: “O my people! You remember the Favor of Allah upon you. When He raised prophets among you, and made you kings, and gave you what He had not given to any one of the worlds.
5:21 O my people! Enter the Holy Land which Allah has destined for you ˹to qenter˺. And do not turn back or else you will become losers
[5.70] Certainly We made a covenant with the
children of Israel and We sent to them apostles;
whenever there came to them an apostle with what that their souls did not desire, some (of them) did they call liars and some they slew.
The Jews were favored first, but they were told if they turn back, they will loose all Allah had given them, meaning all glory and power they were given, would be lost, if they turn back! But later they turned back, and denied Revelations of Allah that had come to them through Jesus and killed Jesus as well as previous prophets between Moses and Jesus. According to the following verse, there is no greater wrong than this:
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Who does greater wrong than someone who fabricates a lie against God or
denies His revelation?
Those who do such wrong will not prosper." Quran, 6:21
So, again how did God punish them?
Let me show you how God punished them according to the Quran. He had said, if they turn back, they will loose all Allah had given them. How did Allah do it? This verse tells us:
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59.2] He it is Who caused those who disbelieved of the followers of the Book to go forth from their homes at the first banishment you did not think that they would go forth, while they were certain that their fortresses would defend them against Allah; but Allah came to them whence they did not expect, and cast terror into their hearts; they demolished their houses with their own hands and the hands of the believers; therefore take a lesson, O you who have eyes!
[59.3] And had it not been that Allah had decreed for them the exile, He would certainly have punished them in this world, and in the hereafter they shall have chastisement of the fire.
[61.14]
O you who believe! be helpers (in the cause) of Allah, as~ Isa son of Marium said to (his) disciples: Who are my helpers in the cause of Allah? The disciples said: We are helpers (in the cause) of Allah. So a party of the children of Israel believed and another party disbelieved; then We aided those who believed against their enemy, and they became uppermost.
According to the Quran, God punished the Jews by causing them to be exiled from their homes. He did that by aiding their enemies agains them!
And this is established according to the recorded History as well. I mean not just by Quran, but you can verify it with History as well, the sequences of events that happend to Jews following the rejection of Jesus:
66–70AD:
The
First Jewish–Roman War ended with destruction of the Second Temple and the fall of Jerusalem. 1,100,000 people are killed by the Romans during the siege, and 97,000 captured and enslaved.
73AD:
Final events of the
First Jewish–Roman War – the fall of
Masada.
115–117AD:
Kitos War (Revolt against Trajan) – a second Jewish-Roman War initiated in large Jewish communities of Cyprus, Cyrene (modern Libya), Aegipta (modern Egypt) and Mesopotamia (modern Syria and Iraq). It led to mutual killing of hundreds of thousands Jews, Greeks and Romans,
ending with a total defeat of Jewish rebels and complete extermination of Jews in Cyprus and Cyrene by the newly installed
Emperor Hadrian.
131–136AD:
The Roman emperor Hadrian, among other provocations, renames Jerusalem "Aelia Capitolina"......In
the aftermath, most Jewish population is annihilated (about 580,000 killed) and Hadrian renames the province of Judea to Syria Palaestina, and attempts to root out Judaism.
en.wikipedia.org
The Jews were exiled for more than a Thousand years from their home land, the Holy Land that God had given them first.
But now, They returned to their Holy Land again as promised:
[17.104] And We said to the Children of Israel after Pharaoh, “Reside in the land, but
when the promise of the Hereafter comes to pass,
We will bring you all together.”
Why the Jews started to come back following 19th century from exiles and mingled together in the Holy Land?
Becasue the Promise of Hereafter has come to pass. أخره، or Hearafter is the Judgement Day, the Day of Resurrection, which is the Day of Manifestation of the Qaim according to Quran, as interpreted by Imams. I have already showed this in my previous posts with verses and Hadithes, and no need to repeat here.
Why do you believe the Quran when it talks about physical punishments it's being metaphorical? For example, when Quran talks about earthquakes or a storm/wind that God wreaked for 8 consecutive days, why do you believe these to be metaphors? How else is God supposed to warn about physical punishments?
The punishments are two types.
Spiritual and physical.
The Spiritual punishment is, "Spiritual Death", meaning Allah puts a seal on their heands, and they do not see the truth or understand. He causes them to be "Apes", "Dogs", "Donkeys" and "Pigs", which is a spiritual degradation of the wrongdoers. As it had happend to the Jews before according to the Quran.
It is well-established according to the Quran and Hadithes, that exactly same events would happen to Ummah of Islam. I had already showed the verses and Hadithes before and no need to repeat.
But, what we see has been happening to People of Islam following 19th century, is exactly what happend to the Jews, following the Rejection of Jesus.
Meaning when Baha'u'llah came, following His time the Khilafat of Uthmani was destroyed as well as Persian empire. There has been many wars in that Region and people of Syria, Iraq, and many other Islamic countries had been destroyed, and many had to leave their countries. And it is written in Bahai Scriptures that Iran will be destroyed and People will have to leave their Homeland just as it happend to the Jews for rejecting Jesus.
