معجزة نقل جبل المقطم

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معجزة نقل جبل المقطم



فى عهد المعز لدين الله الفاطمى أول حكام الدولة الفاطمية في مصر ، كان له وزيراً اسمه يعقوب بن كلس ، كان يهوديا واسلم ، وكان له صديق يهودي ، كان يدخل به إلى المعز اكثر الأوقات ويتحدث معه ، فاتخذ ذلك اليهودي دالة الوزير علي المعز وسيلة ليطلب حضور الاب البطريرك ليجادله ، فكان له ذلك ، وحضر الاب ابرام ومعه الاب الانبا ساويرس ابن المقفع أسقف الاشمونين ، وأمرهما المعز بالجلوس فجلسا صامتين ، فقال لهما “ لماذا لا تتجادلان ؟ “ فأجابه الأنبا ساويرس “ كيف نجادل في مجلس أمير المؤمنين من كان الثور اعقل منه “ فاستوضحه المعز عن ذلك ، فقال إن الله يقول علي لسان النبي " ان الثور يعرف قانيه والحمار معلف صاحبه أما إسرائيل فلا يعرف ( اش 1 : 2 ) " ثم جادلا اليهودي وأخجلاه بما قدما من الحجج الدامغة المؤيدة لصحة دين النصارى ، وخرجا من عند المعز مكرمين ، فلم يحتمل اليهودي ولا الوزير ذلك ، وصارا يتحينان الفرص للإيقاع بالنصارى ، وبعد ايام دخل الوزير علي المعز وقال له إن مولانا يعلم إن النصارى ليسوا علي شئ ، وهذا إنجيلهم يقول "لو كان لكم إيمان مثل حبة خردل لكنتم تقولون لهذا الجبل انتقل من هنا إلى هناك فينتقل " ولا يخفي علي أمير المؤمنين ما في هذه الأقوال من الادعاء الباطل ، وللتحقق من ذلك يستدعي البطريرك لكي يقيم الدليل علي صدق دعوى مسيحهم ، ففكر الخليفة في ذاته قائلا "إذا كان قول المسيح هذا صحيحا ، فلنا فيه فائدة عظمي ، فان جبل المقطم المكتنف القاهرة ، إذا ابتعد عنها يصير مركز المدينة اعظم مما هو عليه الآن ، وإذا لم يكن صحيحا ، تكون لنا الحجة علي النصارى ، ثم دعا المعز الاب البطريرك وعرض عليه هذا القول ، فطلب منه مهلة ثلاثة ايام فأمهله ، ولما خرج من لدنه جمع الرهبان والأساقفة القريبين ، ومكثوا بكنيسة المعلقة بمصر القديمة ثلاثة ايام صائمين مصلين إلى الله ، وفي سحر الليلة الثالثة ظهرت له السيدة العذراء ، وأخبرته عن إنسان دباغ قديس و هو سمعان الخراز ، سيجري الله علي يديه هذه الآية ، فاستحضره الاب البطريرك وأخذه معه وجماعة من الكهنة والرهبان والشعب ، ومثلوا بين يدي المعز الذي خرج ورجال الدولة ووجوه المدينة إلى قرب جبل المقطم ، فوقف الاب البطريرك ومن معه في جانب ، والمعز ومن معه في جانب أخر ، ثم صلي الاب البطريرك والمؤمنون وسجدوا ثلاث سجدات ، وفي كل سجدة كانوا يقولون كيرياليسون يارب ارحم ، وكان عندما يرفع الاب البطريرك والشعب رؤوسهم في كل سجدة يرتفع الجبل ، وكلما سجدوا ينزل إلى الأرض ، وإذا ما ساروا سار أمامهم ، فوقع الرعب في قلب الخليفة وقلوب أصحابه ، وسقط كثيرون منهم علي الأرض ، وتقدم الخليفة علي ظهر جواده نحو الاب البطريرك وقال له لقد علمت الآن انك ولي ، فاطلب ما تشاء وأنا أعطى ، فلم يرض إن يطلب منه شيئا ، ولما ألح عليه قال له "أريد عمارة الكنائس وخاصة كنيسة القديس مرقوريوس ( أبو سيفين ) التي بمصر القديمة ، فكتب له منشورا بعمارة الكنائس وقدم له من بيت المال مبلغا كبيرا ، فشكره ودعا له وامتنع عن قبول المال فازداد عند المعز محبة نظرا لورعه وتقواه .

و قد سجل الانبا ساويرس ابن المقفع أسقف الاشمونين هذه المعجزة ، بصفته شاهد عيان و سط المئات من شهود العيان ، فى كتاب تاريخ البطاركة ، و قد سجلتها الباحثة مدام بوتشر المؤرخة البريطانية فى كتابها "تاريخ الكنيسة القبطية" . .

أيدت هذه المعجزة براهين موجودة حتى الآن :
* كان صوم الميلاد 40 يوم ، أضيف له الثلاثة أيام تذكار صوم نقل جبل المقطم ، و لذلك فإن صيام الميلاد الآن 43 يوم .
* عيد القديس سمعان الخراز ونقل جبل المقطم 27 نوفمبر من كل عام وتقام الصلوات من 25 – 27 نوفمبر.
* بل آنه أيضاً ذُكر فى كتاب ( المواعظ والاعتبار في ذكر الخطب والآثار ) للمؤرخين : أحمد بن علي بن عبد القادر ، الحسيني ، العبيدي ، المقريزي ، تقي الدين ، أبو العباس - الجزء الأول - الفصل 26 من 167 بالتحديد تحت عناون ذكر الجبال" وجبل المقطم‏:‏ يمرّ على جانبي النيل الى النوبة ويعبر من فوق الفيوم فيتصل بالغرب " ، كما مذكور أيضاً فى نفس الكتاب و نفس الفصل : "ذكر الجبل المقطم اعلم انّ الجبل المقطم اوّله من الشرق من الصين حيث البحر المحيط ويمرّ على بلاد الططر حتى ياتي فرغانة الى جبال اليتم الممتدّ بها نهر السغد الى ان يصل الجبل الى جيحون فيقطعه ويمضي في وسطه بين شعبتين منه وكانه قطع ثم في وسطه ويستمرّ الجبل الى الجورجان وياخذ على الطالقان الى اعمال مرو الرود الى طوس فيكون جميع مدن طوس فيه ويتصل به جبال اصبهان وشيراز الى ان يصل الى البحر الهندي وينعطف هذا الجبل ويمتدّ الى شهر زور فيمرّ على الدجلة ويتصل بجبل الجوديّ موقف سفينة نوح عليه السلام في الطوفان ولا يزال هذا الجبل مستمرًّا من اعمال امد وميافارقين حتى يمرّ بثغور حلب فيسمى هناك جبل اللكام الى ان يعدّي الثغور فيسمى نهرًا حتى يجاوز حمص فيسمى لبنان ثم يمتدّ على الشام حتى ينتهي الى بحر القلزم من جهة ويتصل من الجهة الاخرى ويسمى المقطم ثم يتشعب ويتصل اواخر شعبه بنهاية الغرب‏" و مذكور أيضاً : "والذي ذكره العلماء‏:‏ انّ المقطم ماخوذ من القطم وهو القطع فكانه لما كان منقطع الشجر والنبات سمي‏:‏ مقطمًا ذكر ذلك عليّ بن الحسن الهناءي الدوسي المنبوذ بكراع وغيره‏.‏"

- و القديس سمعان الخراز كان يعمل في دباغة الجلود وصناعة الأحذية ولذلك كان يلقب بسمعان الدباغ أو سمعان الخراز أو سمعان الإسكافى. أتت إليه امرأة لتصلح حذائها وبينما هى تخلع حذاءها انكشفت ساقاها فنظرت عيناه إليها وفى الحال ضرب المخراز في إحدى عينيه فأفرغها . نفذ الوصية حرفياً ببساطة. " إن كانت عينك اليمنى تعثرك فاقلعها وإلقها عنك لأنه خير لك أن يهلك أحد أعضائك ولا سلقى جسدك كله في جهنم " (مت 5: 28)

كما أن مارك بولو الرحالة المشهور عالمياً قد سجل هذه المعجزة :

THE MIRACLE OF MOKATTAM MOUNTAIN

RELATED BY MARCO POLO



The story of the miracle of Mokattam Mountain is one with which every Coptic Orthodox Christian is familiar. It tells how during the reign of the Fatimid Caliph al-Mu‘izz Li Din Illah (969-975) his Islamized Jewish vizier sought to embarrass the Coptic Pope, Saint Abraam the Syrian (975-978), by quoting the biblical injunction, "If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove" (Matthew XVII: 20).

Having acknowledged the authority of this text, the Caliph then challenged Pope Abraam to prove its veracity by moving the Mokattam Mountain, which towered over the new city of Cairo. He was given three days to work this miracle of faith or face three unpalatable alternatives: acceptance of Islam, forcible emigration or the sword. The Pope called on all Christians for a holy fast and to offer fervent prayers, during which the Holy Virgin Saint Mary appeared to him and warned him to look out for a one-eyed tanner and shoe-maker called Samaan, through whose prayers the miracle would be effected. The Pope sought and found Samaan so that when the caliph assembled everyone together to put the Christians’ faith to the test, Samaan’s prayers were joined with the others and the mountain moved three times terrifying the caliph and the crowds who had gathered. After this event the Christians were treated with greater consideration and Pope Abraam was authorised to restore many of the ancient churches of Cairo which had fallen into disrepair.

The principal authority for these events is the Coptic History of the Patriarchs by Bishop Sawirus ibn al-Muqaffa‘, who was closely associated with both the Caliph and Pope Abraam and therefore wrote with authority as an eye-witness of the Mokattam miracle.

However, the events were sufficiently memorable for them to be common knowledge throughout the Middle East, so that the Venetian explorer, Marco Polo (died circa 1324) recounts them in his Travels. Polo believes the miracle had taken place in 1225 (only a couple of generations earlier than when he had heard the story) and places it somewhere in modern Iraq without giving any of the names of the principal protagonists but it is immediately recognisable as the miracle of Mokkatam Mountain. There are of course minor variations between the accounts of Polo and Bishop Sawirus (the Caliph is hostile rather than manipulated by his vizier; they are given ten, rather than three days grace; the vision is of an angel rather than Saint Mary; and it is made public to all the Christians rather than the quiet one-to-one exchange between Pope Abraam and Saint Samaan) but in other respects Polo recounts the story he has been told faithfully, which is possibly a testimony to the reliability of oral tradition.



"The miracle which I will relate to you took place between Baghdad and Mosul. In the year of the Incarnation of Christ 1225 there lived a Caliph at Baghdad who was very ill-disposed towards the Christians. Day and night he was for ever thinking how he could convert all the Christians in his country into Saracens or, failing that, have them all put to death. And on this problem he continually sought the advice of his men of religion and counsellors. For they all joined with him in wishing ill to the Christians; indeed, it is a fact that all the Saracens in the world are agreed in wishing ill to all the Christians in the world. Now it happened that the Caliph and his advisers hit upon the following text. They found it written in one of the Gospels that, if there were a Christian who had faith as great as a grain of mustard seed, then by praying to the Lord his God he could make two mountains join together. When they found this, they were overjoyed: here, they declared, was a pretext for converting the Christians into Saracens or else putting them all to death. Thereupon the Caliph sent for all the Christians, Nestorians and Jacobite, that were in his country, who amounted to a very great number. When they had come before him, he showed them this passage and had it read to them. After they had read it, he asked them if it was true. They replied that it was most certainly true. ‘Then do you affirm,’ said the Caliph, ‘that a Christian whose faith is as a grain of mustard seed is able by praying to his God to make two mountains join together ?’ ‘Certainly we do,’ said the Christians. ‘Then,’ said the Caliph, ‘I will set you a test. Among so many Christians, there must surely be one who has a little faith. Therefore I tell you this: either you will move this mountain, which you see there,’ and he pointed to a mountain not far away, ‘or I will make you all die an evil death. For, if you do not make it move, you will show that you have no faith. So you will all be put to death; or else you will be converted to the good law that Mahomet our prophet has given us, and will have true faith and be saved. To do this I will allow you ten days’ grace. And if at the end of that time you have not done it, I will have you all put to death.’ After that the Caliph spoke no more and gave the Christians leave to depart.

When the Christians heard the Caliph’s words, they were greatly perturbed and very much afraid of death. All the same, they had good hope that their Creator would deliver them from this great peril. A council was held of all the learned Christians who were their prelates; for they had bishops and archbishops and priests in plenty. But they could see no way out of it but to pray to the Lord their God that He of His pity and mercy would send them guidance and deliver them from such a cruel death as the Caliph would inflict upon them if they did not do as he commanded. What more shall I say ? You may be sure that the Christians spent day and night in prayer, and earnestly besought the Saviour, God of heaven and earth, that He of His pity would deliver them from the great peril that they were in.

In this solemn prayer and supplication the Christians continued eight days and eight nights, male and female, great and small. While they were thus occupied, it happened that an angel came in a vision bringing a message from God to a certain bishop, who was a man of very holy life. ‘O bishop,’ he said, ‘go now to such-and-such a shoe-maker, a man with one eye, and tell him to pray that the mountain may move; and the mountain will move forthwith.’

Now, as to this shoe-maker, I will tell you what sort of man he was and whgat life he led. You may be well assured that he was a man of great probity and chastity. He fasted much and committed no sin. Every day he went to Church and to Mass. Every day he gave away some of his daily bread for God’s sake. He was a man of such virtuous character and such holy life that you could find none better, near or far. I will tell you of one thing he did that will convince you that he was a good man of good faith and good life. He had often heard the lesson read from the Holy Gospel; that if thine eye offend thee thou shouldst pluck it out of thy head or blind it, so that it may not cause thee to sin. It happened that one day a beautiful woman came to the house of this shoe-maker to buy shoes. He wished to see her leg and foot, so as to see which shoes would fit her. So he asked her to show her leg and foot, and she promptly did so. And without doubt she had a beautiful leg and a beautiful foot, so that you could not ask for greater beauty. And when the master of the shop, who was as virtuous a man as I have described him, saw this woman’s leg and foot, he was forthwith tempted, because his eyes looked on them with pleasure. He let the woman go and would not sell her the shoes. When the woman had gone, the master said to himself: ‘ah, false traitor that you are, what are you thinking of ? Surely I will take heavy vengeance on these eyes of mine which offend me so.’ There and then he took a little awl and made it very sharp and thrust it into the midst of one of his eyes in such a way that he burst the eye inside his head, so that he never saw with it again. So he was certainly a very holy and virtuous man. And now to return to our story.

Now you may be sure that when this apparition had come several times to the bishop, bidding him send for the shoe-maker so that he by his prayer might make the mountain move, the bishop gave a full account of it to his fellow Christians. And they were all in favour of summoning the shoe-maker to come before them. And so they did. When he had come, they told him that they wished him to pray God to move the mountain. At first he declared that he was not such a good man that the Lord God would do so great a thing in answer to his prayer. But the Christians begged him and coaxed him. And what need of more words ? They begged him to such purpose that he promised to do as they wished and make this prayer to his Creator.

When the last of their days of grace had come, the Christians rose early in the morning, make and female, great and small, and went to church and chanted the Holy Mass. After they had chanted and performed all the service of our Lord God, they set out all together towards the plain at the foot of the mountain, carrying the Cross of the Saviour before them. When the whole company, who numbered fully 100,000 souls, had come to this plain, they stationed themselves before the Cross of the Lord. The Caliph was there, with such a great multitude of Saracens that it was a marvel to behold; they had come to kill the Christians, because they did not in the least believe that the mountain would move. And all the Christians, great and small alike, were filled with fear and doubt; but all the samne they had good hope in their Creator. And when all these people, Chrisatians and Saracens, were in this plain, then the shoe-maker fell on his knees before the Cross and lifted his hands to heaven and besought his Saviour that the mountain might moveand that such a multitude of Christians as were assembled might not be put to a cruel death. When he had finished his prayer, he cried: ‘In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, I command thee, mountain, by the virtue of the Holy Ghost, to depart thence.’ He had barely ceased speaking when the mountain began to crumble and to move. When the Caliph and the Saracens saw this, they were dumbfounded, and many of them turned Christian. The Caliph himself became a Christian, but in secret; for when he died, a cross was found round his neck. For this reason the Saracens did not bury him among the tombs of the other Caliphs, but put him in another place.

Now you have heard just how the miracle happened. Out of reverence to the show-maker and the grace vouchsafed to him, the anniversary of this miracle has been celebrated ever since by the Christians, both Nestorian and Jacobite, who regularly observe a solemn fast on the eve of the day. But in general, since Armenians, Nestorians, and Jacobites differ in certain points of doctrine, they repudiate and abhor one another."


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[sasoki]

بارك الله مصر وشعبها
وبارك فيك

[Atramez_Zeton]

انا ما بقدر بقول انو حكيك صح لتفرجينا المصدر

[Spaik]

كلامو صح يعني شوفيا مي جديدة مالحفارات و بدون عم تخلي الجبال ترقص مو بس تطلع و تنزل

[ma7aba]

توت توت توت أحد القوانين بالمنتدى ان تأتي بالمصدر ممكن المصدر من بعد إذنك

[Espaniol]

كما أن مارك بولو الرحالة المشهور عالمياً قد سجل هذه المعجزة :

كأنو المصدر مذكور يا إخوة
انا بنصح بقراء ة تاريخ الطبري وستجدون من مصدر اسلامي المعجزة

[Atramez_Zeton]

لا مو هيك القصد
الموضوع لابد و انو اجا من الانترنت من شي موقع و نحنا مبدنا هل الموقع
انا ما بقدر اعتمد على كتاب مطبوع على الكمبيوتر لانو احتمال انو يكون محرف خلال النقل

[توت توت توت]

سلام الرب للجميع ....
بصراحة .. أنا كتبت هالموضوع ... وموضوع قبله بعنوان ( هل هناك معجزات تحدث ) بناء على طلب أحد الأخوة ...
وإلى كل من شكك بمصداقية هذا المعجزة .... بإمكانكم .. أن تراجعوا كتاب ( المواعظ والاعتبار في ذكر الخطب والآثار ) للمؤرخين : أحمد بن علي بن عبد القادر ، الحسيني ، العبيدي ، المقريزي ، تقي الدين ، أبو العباس - الجزء الأول - الفصل 26 من 167 بالتحديد تحت عناون ذكر الجبال" وجبل المقطم‏
أو في كتاب الباحثة مدام بوتشر المؤرخة البريطانية "تاريخ الكنيسة القبطية" . .
أو من خلال كتب الرحالة العالمي مارك بولو .. في زيارته لمصر ......
وأعتقد أني كفيت ووفيت ....
والسلام للجميع .......

[Spaik]

كاتب النص الأصلي : توت توت توت

سلام الرب للجميع ....
والسلام للجميع .......

وعليكم السلام و رحمة الله و براكاتو

[ma7aba]

شكرا توت على المصدر

[توت توت توت]

كاتب النص الأصلي : ma7aba

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