About Prophet and King Solomon - salam to him:
Quran 38: 30-40, which mean:
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30. And We gave to David [his son] Solomon a; how excellent a servant [of God, Solomon was!] he was ever turning [to God, with repentance and obedience.]
31. When there were set before him, at evening, the ‘noble thoroughbred horses’ that 'stand with one front-extremity slightly raised'.b
32. And he said: "I have loved [the horses] as do I love the prayers [which lead to every blessing], so that the [horses] have distracted me from glorifying my Lord [in the prayers], until [the horses] were hidden in [the stable.]"
33. "Bring [the horses] back to me." d Then he started to free [their] legs from the iron bonds] and necks [from the rope ties. e]
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a By his wife: Bathsheba, daughter of Eliam, who was the former wife of Uriah the Hittite.
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b So when they were set before him, they distracted him from his prayers.
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d So they brought them back to him.
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e And to release them, and he said: “I don’t want such horses that distracted me from remembering my Lord in the prayers.”
It means: He abandoned his hobby with the horses, and distributed his horses to his companions, because the horses distracted him from the prayers.
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Quran 38: 34-40, which mean:
34. Surely We tried [and tested] Solomon, and We cast upon his chair a statue, then he turned [to God] repenting [from his imagination about that statue.]
35. He said: "My Lord, forgive me [my fault], and offer to me a kingdom inaccessible to anyone after me; it is You Who are the All-Offering. f
36. So We subjected to him the wind to blow softly
g at his command [to drive the sailing ships on the sea] to wherever he might find [construction substances for building the temple at Jerusalem.]
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37. And [We subjected to him out of] the genies – every builder
i and diver
j.
38. And others [the disobedient of Solomon’s command] were bound in fetters
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39. This is Our surplus; so bestow [your gift on whomever you like] or withhold [your giving from whomever you like], without being taken to account [about that.]
40. And there will be for him a high position in Our neighborhood [in the Next Life] and a fair resort [in Paradise.]}
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35 f So he ruled forty years following the death of David his father.
The story [of Solomon and the statue]
Solomon married many women, some of whom were idolaters and associaters. One of them invited him to visit her idol, but he refused and said to her: “Do you worship a stone that neither hears nor sees?”
She said: “Who told you he cannot hear and see? For we ask of him and he understands what we want and gives us what we demand.”
He said: “This is not true.”
She said: “Do you want that I call him to come here and sit on your chair, so that you will know that he understands and hears?”
Then she, from her place, called the idol and said: “Let your sitting on this chair early in the morning, so that Solomon will know that you hear, see and understand.”
Then when she went to sleep in her bed, she recommended her maiden to bring the idol by night and to put it secretly on the chair of Solomon.
Then when it was morning, Solomon got out of his room, and started to walk about in his palace, when he saw the idol sitting on his chair. so he thought what his wife had said about the idol was true, and he intended to bow to it with salutation, but he perceived an idea to test it with speaking, so that if it answered, then his wife’s words would be true; and if it does not answer then his wife is a liar; therefore, he asked it about something, but it did not answer and talked to it but it did not speak, so he knew that his wife had tricked him, therefore, he lifted the idol up and hurled it on the ground and broke it up.
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g Not stormy.
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h It means: The wind drove the sailing ships to where he might find some wood or stones or other things which they would carry in the ships for building the Holy House of God at Jerusalem.
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i To build for him.
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j To dive in the sea to bring forth the shells to decorate the walls and the arches with decorations.
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k Of iron.
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