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Prophet ʿĪsā: Part 2 — The Table From Heaven, Raised Up Whole, and What Only Prophets Were Given

Section 14 of 18 · Lives of the Prophets

Yaʿqūb, Dāwūd and Sulaymān in the Old Testament

With Yaʿqūb (peace be upon him), it says also in the Old Testament that he stole — stole sheep and goats from his father-in-law, and ran away with them.

With David (peace be upon him) — and this story about David is really ridiculous: In the spring, at the time when kings go off to war, David sent Joab out with the king's men and the whole Israelite army. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained in Jerusalem. One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful, and David sent someone to find out about her. The man said: Isn't this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite? Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her.

Now, the story is long, but what happened is: this man was the leader of the armies of Sayyidunā Dāwūd**, as they claim. When David saw how beautiful his wife was, he slept with the wife, and then he made a plan to kill her husband so he could take her over. And then it says: but the thing David had done displeased the Lord.

And Sayyidunā Sulaymān (peace be upon him), King Solomon — and this is in Kings eleven, one: King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women besides Pharaoh's daughter — and it mentions how many women he loved. Here it says: nevertheless, Solomon held fast to them in love. He had 700 wives of royal birth and 300 concubines***. And his wives led him astray. As Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and he was not fully devoted to the Lord his God. He followed Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians, and Molech, the detestable god of the Ammonites. So Solomon did evil in the eyes of the Lord.

Anyway, so you can see that here is Sayyidunā Sulaymān (peace be upon him), as they accuse him: at the end of his life he started worshipping idols, and died as a murtadd.