The People of the Ditch (15): Tests and Purification
The people came to the king and said “Don’t you see, by Allah, your fear brought about the very thing you were afraid of.”
The king didn’t know what to do. So he had ditches dug at all the roads out of the city. People try to escape, BOOM into a ditch. He had people brought to the ditches and said “disbelieve and live or believe and in you go.” They believed, so he threw them in.