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Prophet Sulaymān: Part 2 — The Queen of Sabaʾ and the Worm in the Staff

Section 10 of 18 · Lives of the Prophets

What the Qur'an Does Not Say

That is the end of the story in the Qur'an. And again, we do not go beyond that, because there are many fairy tales about what happened after that, and there is no proof of the authenticity of any of these stories. They say that Sulaymān (peace be upon him) married Bilqīs, and it is turned into a romantic story — and we do not, again, get into this, because if it is not true, it is being very disrespectful with the anbiyāʾ of Allah (swt); so we avoid it completely.

And whatever has been mentioned in the Qur'an is for us to learn the lessons from — al-ʿibrah. And whatever has not been mentioned in the Qur'an has not been mentioned because there is no ʿibrah in it; there is no lesson in it. And we need to be practical and learn what will benefit us — al-ʿilm al-nāfiʿ, the beneficial knowledge — and get away from the knowledge that does not do us any good, and does not have any practicality or applications for it.

The essence of the story is that in the end Bilqīs became a Muslim, after she saw what Allah (swt) had given Sulaymān (peace be upon him).