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Did Prophet Sulayman steal the Queen of Sheba's throne?

exegesis tafasir tafaseer commentary muftis halal halaal permitted athari atharism athariyyah aya ayat ayaat aayah aayat verse salam as-salamu alaykum assalamu alaikum assalamualaikum salaams salam alaykum wa alaykum as-salam peace greeting

Bringing the throne: a replica made from a description, not theft

LessonRecorded 8 Jan 2019Ponderings on the Holy QuranSegment 7 of 9 in the recording2019-01-08-S07

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No: he reads the story as Sulayman having a grander replica made from a detailed description, since prophets do not steal thrones.

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Mufti Abu Layth says taking 'bring me her throne' literally means a prophet ordering his people to steal another kingdom's throne to impress her, which he calls a problem when one zooms out. He reads it as a request to make a throne like hers, and says the capable man offered to do it before Sulayman rose from his royal sitting. He reads the one with knowledge of the Book as someone with a detailed written description of the throne, as the Peacock Throne had been described to the British, citing Abdul Karim Athari's [?] tafsir, and takes 'before your glance returns' as figurative. On Sulayman's order to alter the throne, he prefers the reading that it be made even more glorious so that she would be humbled, over the reading that a stolen throne be disguised, and says the claim that a prophet stole thrones is to him a blasphemous allegation.

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Mufti Abu Layth says it does not befit prophets to steal thrones.

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“i've said before it doesn't befit prophets to steal Thrones okay to me that's a blasphemous allegation”

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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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he's just saying because there is no war between these people he we're assuming he's saying to his people go steal her throne and that's okay for a prophet to instruct people to steal Thrones just to impress her because the reason he's gonna bring the throne is just to impress her we're gonna see that in a moment so he's gonna steal it without her permission that's you see you zoom out that's a problem you zoom in it's like well okay we're just reading it as a story now what was he saying and who can bring me her throne as in who can bring

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me like onto it who can make you know you've praised her throne so much make bring a throne for me like that get it done who can get it done and this person who is very capable says I can make a throne like hers before you get up from this gathering armed every day what's transmitted in scriptures is that Solomon would generally sit after sunrise after a little while till noon and that was his mom it was a royal maqam a royal sitting now he would sit there and he would deal with people's and the person said before

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in a day before you get up I will get this I will make you a throne like hers but then listen call le the end ah ho l mu min al khattab a person who had the in the science of the knowledge of the Kitab he said Anna Atika be cobbling here today la Couture folk before in a glance I will get it done for you fala Mara are almost occur and Linda then when Solomon Sri Paula Harmon fugly Robbie Lia blue any ash

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guramukh for he said surely this capacity God has tested me with that will I be grateful despite having all this power and then he says woman chakra for in the Maya she coral in FC woman Kara for in Nairobi honey uncaring and he says indeed whosoever is grateful allah is you know he says that he's grateful for he only does good to himself and whoever disbelieves and that Allah is surely rich and generous and that's an interesting thing but I'll just say come to that in a moment who was this person that said to Solomon

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I will get the throne some people many more first Serena I've said this was a person who had knowledge from Allah lawful Mahfouz and mystical powers and he created it in a blink and he created this and zoom in it's justice it's a narrative is paranormal you zoom and that's a problem because these things don't happen like that now what's an alternative narrative that actually makes sense and once again in the tafseer orator was Baal Cher Abdul Karim Allah Abdul Karim Allah sorry he writes that this was a person who

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HEPT he had detailed descriptions this Khattab of key features of key of landmark whether they were events or landmark kind of icons he had these things and he said I've actually got a descriptive detailed description of this massive throne the way like the peacock throne was described in so much detail with all its fine I think qualities to the British in a similar way this had been described and he has it written he's saying I can I can make

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you from that so meaning it will be spot-on not just this person saying you know he can make it from his knowledge like he's heard about it but I have a detailed descriptive and people say there were drawings of it and things like this and so I can make it like for like and this thing of before you return to this coupling yesterday like a thoughtful before you look at this matter again what is a figurative speech of before you look at this matter again not that before you blink as in literally because once again that's problematic when you zoom out because

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things like that don't happen so he does create this throne now Solomon al-islam is incredibly impressed with this gnome then he says look all Aniki rule aha are shahe number attached at the mtech unum an takuna mean and levena latin this is an amazing ayah because you can understand in so many different ways Nakuru many people understood here that this means and you can take that understanding it means disguisey because

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they believed this person went and stole her throne and i've said before it doesn't befit prophets to steal Thrones okay to me that's a blasphemous allegation but nevertheless a lot of Muslims went with it they believed that Solomon had her stole throne her throne stolen and it was brutal back so he said disguisey nikiro that's one way of looking at it the other way of looking at it is he had it like for like made but then he said top it even

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further make it even more glorious and he said make it so you know what it's already amazing take it up a notch to that extent that by doing so lucky ruler haha that even her throne she will be literally when she thinks looks at this throne so she will neck here and test and kill our shall be more our belly had a lot that she looking at this

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2019, January 8). Did Prophet Sulayman steal the Queen of Sheba's throne? [Video, segment 2019-01-08-S07, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zotvtgdumv8/s/7/
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