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hudhud (hoopoe)

Cited in 3 segments across 2 recordings · 2019 to 2021 · term/term:hudhud

Citing segments

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6 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Was Solomon's hudhud really a bird? The hudhud is addressed in Arabic forms used only for humans, so Mufti Abu Layth reads it as a person, perhaps an agent of Solomon's intelligence service, and he rejects a reading that makes a prophet steal a throne. Lessonguest speechSulayman (Solomon)hudhud (hoopoe)the Queen of Shebazindiq machine4 min 27 s3:36:01on YouTube
8 Jan 2019Ponderings on the Holy Quran Does the Quran criticise the Queen of Sheba for ruling over men? No: the Quran portrays her as a woman of great power over male ministers and never rebukes her for it. Lessonposition checkedthe Queen of ShebaSulayman (Solomon)Quran 27:23 (I found a woman ruling over them, given of everything, with a mighty throne)hudhud (hoopoe) machine2 min 32 s15:58on YouTube
8 Jan 2019Ponderings on the Holy Quran Was the hoopoe in the story of Sulayman really a bird? Probably not, in his reading: the Arabic used of it is used only for humans, so the tafsir that it was one of Sulayman's intelligence agents makes sense. Lessonposition checkedhudhud (hoopoe)Sulayman (Solomon)Maulana Abdul Karim Athari [?]Tafsir Urwat al-Wuthqa [?] (Abdul Karim Athari) machine6 min 24 s18:30on YouTube