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Did a jinn really bring the Queen of Sheba's throne to Sulayman?

imaam imams prayer leader muftis atharism athariyyah djinn jinnat jinni shaitan shaytaan iblees shayateen shayatin satan devil jahannam jahanam jahannum koran quraan al-quran mufassir mufasir mufassireen quran commentator aya ayat ayaat aayah aayat shaykh shaikh sheik shuyukh shaykhs salam as-salamu alaykum assalamu alaikum assalamualaikum salaams salam alaykum wa alaykum as-salam peace greeting

Who can bring her throne? The 'ifrit and the jinn as a division of Sulayman's forces

LessonRecorded 8 Jan 2019Ponderings on the Holy QuranSegment 6 of 9 in the recording2019-01-08-S06

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Mufti Abu Layth doubts it: following Athari's tafsir, the 'jinn' here were a division of Sulayman's forces, one of three branches of his state.

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Mufti Abu Layth reads Sulayman's question as to who would bring him her throne before her delegation arrived, likening the fame of her throne to the Mughal Peacock Throne. He says those who 'zoom in' read the 'ifrit from the jinn as a mystical demon, which in his understanding does not make much sense. He cites Abdul Karim Athari [?] and others that jinn here means a group of people, comparing the verse that Iblis was of the jinn, which many mufassirun read as meaning only something veiled. He relates Athari's [?] reading that Sulayman's forces were divided into three, an intelligence service, his manpower or human army, and a supreme internal unit, comparing the CIA, police and FBI in America and MI6, MI5 and the National Crime Agency in the UK.

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Mufti Abu Layth says the reading that a demon from the jinn would bring the throne does not, in his understanding, make much sense.

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“is out one see that in my understanding doesn't make much sense and I'll tell you why in a moment because we are zooming out”

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right to sub subjugate and you guys on my subjects some person just assumed that one day and it became a human legacy I find that so fascinating the way this verse kind of touched sup on this notion and then it goes on about she kind of liaises with Solomon ELISA Lam and then she eventually she decides to kind of come to him bring a delegation and come to Suleiman Alesana now the interesting thing is then comes the verse Carla this is Solomon aleihsalaam yeah a you hell Mela hey you

27:27

come here teeny bit are she her cobbler Enya Tunis Muslim II that who will bring her throne to me before they reach us so they've set off from where they are they it's gonna take a good while before they come obviously back then so who can bring me the throne because hood hood had praised he said oath yet mean cool Alisha she's been given everything and after saying everything he said well haha he said god damn that throne that

28:06

is something you see now so what kind of the pinnacle what the almost a landmark of her Majesty was this amazing throne that she had just as in the time of the British and the East India Company you see the peacock throne of the Mughal dynasty in India became like an emblem it became symbolic of the great majesty of the moguls and hence they wanted the Peacock Throne this was something that they were like we want we've heard so much about this throng we want the pick up thrall I suppose and then there's the

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game of thrones with it's kind of thrown in me but the point is that thrown sometimes are so powerful like this people want them now the question with this verse is caller a free terminal Jin Lee freed from the Jin and I'm gonna come to the TVs said I'm an RT kabhi cobbler and Takumi McCormack before you stand from your mom I will bring it well in me alayhi laka William a me indeed I have the capacity to get that done what is sorry man Allison I'm talking about

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where a crossroad people one group of people that have zoomed in their reading who can bring me her actual throne and they're reading that a Jim as in mystical demons like all like these characters that we can't see the jinn have said to Solomon aleihsalaam that one of them who is called efreet which is like a powerful person or powerful gene I suppose by this narrative by this group he's saying I will bring it before you stand up this

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is out one see that in my understanding doesn't make much sense and I'll tell you why in a moment because we are zooming out and taking a look Maulana Abdul Karim al a theory in his stuff seed and other people have said in orbital both are highlights that gene here was referring to a group of people does this not the jinn and how do we know this because let's take a look at the verse of the Quran where Allah speaks of a Shaitaan can Amina gene for facet on Amira P yet Imam no we could to

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be all these people will highlight the majority of the Muslims surprisingly actually I don't agree with them on that but look they themselves accept the majority of the Muslims do not believe they say that Shaytan was from the gym they say that he was something created and genie just meant a group that you can go to any tough scene read the verse of the ayah can I mean L Jin that Shaitaan was from the gene for face economy Robbie because gene just means the unveiled the kind of the thing that is veiled the the

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kind of like a selective something that isn't seen so and then there's the gene which are a creation because they are also veiled from from us being able to see them as in what are these things they're in a total different realm now most of them are first seen in say that verse they does not mean Shaitaan was from that gene they just mean he was from something that we didn't couldn't see we didn't have access to that's what they mean and that's actually most of them for sitting and they say that surprisingly that the majority of

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Muslims accept that so here at mawlana sheikh abdul karim la3 writes in his Tufts in all return was our that there was three groups of people that the army of solomon were divided in three he had his intelligence here which were a unique it's a bit like how governments today have so you know they will have so in America they will have their CIA for foreign things and then he had his manual army which were the intz he just referred to them and in Smith's man and

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people say well duh but even today we refer to things as manpower that is the manpower he is brought the manpower and he says and then he had a unique like a skill like a group a department that that were kind of supreme they also dealt with internal matters but they were supreme an example today to say if I if I was speaking about America would be like the FBI and you would have the normal police and have the FBI and you'd have foreign like CIA so this three division that you have an amusing America just because it's so popular as an example but otherwise all governments

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pretty much have this in the UK in the UK whether it's going to be the mi6 for example I suppose mi5 looking internally but you do also have the National Crime Agency looking internally now and then you have the regular police force manpower in this way in a similar kind not the same but a similar kind of division Solomon had splitted had split sorry his his his kind of manpower overall forces and hence he had one of the most powerful kingdoms on earth in his time this is how its explained in the tough seed of orbital Gaspar now to

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me that does make sense and I'll explain so a powerful person from this division says I will bring you now what does bring you the throng mean was Suleiman Alison I'm asking them to go get her throng see we zoom in that's fine go get her throng we zoom out that's a huge problem why it's theft this is theft we are assuming that Solomon Ali Salaam is stealing that the throne of another Kingdom

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