# Does the Quran criticise the Queen of Sheba for ruling over men? *The Queen of Sheba: a powerful woman the Quran does not rebuke* - URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zotvtgdumv8/s/3/ - Date: 2019-01-08 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: In Depth: Sulaiman (a.s.), the Throne of Sheba, and Miracles in the Quran -Mufti Abu Layth (15:58–18:30) - Status: general teaching - Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOTvTgdUMV8&t=958s - Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zotvtgdumv8/ **Topics:** Stories of the prophets; Women in Islam **Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** No: the Quran portrays her as a woman of great power over male ministers and never rebukes her for it. **Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran does not rebuke the Queen of Sheba in any sense for her power over an administration of men. **Evidence, his words at 16:33:** “the Quran does not rebuke her in any sense for that power this is an interesting lesson to be taken from that story” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOTvTgdUMV8&t=993s) ## Longer summary Mufti Abu Layth begins the story of the throne of the Queen of Sheba, noting that the Quran does not name her and Muslim sources call her Bilqis. He says the Quran portrays her as a woman of immense power over an administration of men and does not rebuke her for that power, which he calls a lesson to take from the story. He reads the hudhud's report that it found a woman ruling them who had been given everything and a mighty throne, and says Sulayman held one of the most powerful kingdoms of his time, with gold arriving from Ophir, a region still unidentified. ## Sources and names cited - the Queen of Sheba - Sulayman (Solomon) - Quran 27:23 (I found a woman ruling over them, given of everything, with a mighty throne): https://quran.com/27/23 - hudhud (hoopoe) ## Transcript (machine tier, 15:58–18:30) [15:18] the whole thing is way too convenient and it's at these places that detectives will say well you know it's - hmm this is more like it's got I know it immediately he makes sense but when we zoom out it doesn't make sense because this person for example that's the worst way to do it he could have done it in hundred other ways and got away with it why would he do it in such a stupid way and still stand there and do this it doesn't make sense so this in a similar way that kind of thinking cap has to be applied with these surahs that yes we can just read them like this and say super powers [15:57] supernatural stuff doesn't matter but when we zoom at there's a problem it doesn't make sense like that okay so let's take a look at for example the story of the throne of the queen of sheba so all the below min ash-shaytani r-rajim now now in this story it's actually very interesting I won't go through the whole story thing but I'll focus on the verses to do with the throne of the queen of sheba now the quran doesn't mention her name but muslim sources generally say her [16:33] name was Bill T's Allah Adam but she was the queen of sheba but one of the things that is interesting is how the quran portrays her as a woman of immense power beneath whom the administration and the ministers are all men now the Quran does not rebuke her in any sense for that power this is an interesting lesson to be taken from that story so when hood hood says you know in the widget to embrace and timely comb that I found a woman that owned them she owned [17:12] these people they were her subjects what idiot mean leash a and she's been given everything wala ha harsh on Harvey and above all what stood out for me was her majestic throne so this is an amazing kind of an account of a woman with great immense power being told to Solomon now Solomon aleihsalaam held one of the most powerful kingdoms in his time on earth and it was so powerful that and if you just look at the gold that the kind of [17:51] gold reserves that he had and gold that was reaching him and stuff like this and even to today they don't know what they have certain traces are from the region of ophea and they don't know where this region was and there's been a gold hunt trying to discover it because he was receiving a lot of gold from that region so hood hood and just to kind of touch up here it's interesting this isn't my point but I know a lot of people have asked me who was hood hood or what was hot now in this verse of the Quran it mentions that Solomon Ali Salaam ## Cite Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment zOTvTgdUMV8/s/3. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zotvtgdumv8/s/3/ Not a fatwa: these answers were given to specific people at specific times. Ask a qualified scholar about your own situation.