NEHEMIAH

Not mentioned in the Qurʾān or in Muslim commentaries. But the following legend given in the Qurʾān Sūrah ii. 261 , seems to have its origin in the circuit made by Nehemiah ( Neh. ii. 13 ):— “Hast thou considered him who pa ed by a city which had been laid in ruins. ‘How,’ said he, ‘shall God give life to this city, after she hath been dead?’ And God caused him to die for an hundred years, and then raised him to life. And God said, ‘How long hast thou waited?’ He said, ‘I have waited a day or part of a day.’ He said, ‘Nay, thou hast waited an hundred years. Look on thy food and thy drink; they are not corrupted; and look on thine a ; we would make thee a sign unto men: And look on the bones of thine a , how we will raise them, then clothe them with flesh.’ And when this was shown to him, he said, ‘I acknowledge that God hath power to do all things.’ ” The commentators, al-Kamālān, say it was either Jeremiah, or K͟hiẓr, or Ezekiel.