Haifaa Younis – The Quran Has It All #14 Women in Power
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Speaker 1 discusses the personality and appearance of Sayid Nas Suleyman, a woman of great potential. They share a letter to her, telling her to stay away from her and move back. The letter describes Sayid as a woman of great potential and is addressed to a woman of great potential, who is a woman of great potential and is a woman of great potential. Speaker 1 compares the response to Sayidna's actions to the one of Qarun's, who saw the throne. They also discuss the woman who faced pride and confusion when she saw her throne at Sayyidna, where she faced pride and confusion. She eventually found out she was a jinn and was rewarded by Sayyidna for her leadership.
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1 of the
women who is mentioned in the Quran in
details,
in details actually, is the queen of Sheba,
Belkis.
And most mentioned
her in Surat and Nami in details
when he was talking about the story of
Sayid Nas Suleyman
and how he was looking
for the bird. First of all, Sayid Nas
Suleyman said, where is the bird if he
disappear?
And the bird says,
I came to know something you don't know
and I brought to you from Saba,
from that place,
clear news.
What is the clear news, y'all? In
I found there a woman,
a queen of power.
Gave her everything.
She has a huge
throne.
However,
I found them prostrating, she and her people
prostrating
to their son
and shayta allured them, beautified to them what
they are doing and they are not guided.
Why don't they prostrate to Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala?
And here actually is a place of sajdah
in the Quran you prostrate.
So Sayyid al Sulaiman
believed him
and he said,
let's see.
Are you saying telling me the truth or
you're making this up? SubhanAllah. It's in the
Quran.
He gave him a letter.
Take it.
Give it to
them, stay away, move back and let's wait
and see what they will come back with.
Now, Allah
starts telling us who she her personality.
It's a woman of strength and wisdom.
She possess a great throne.
The length of it is 80 cubits,
and the width of it is 40 cubits.
And it weighs
or the height is about 30 and made
all of gold and silver.
And then it is entrusted with pearls
and a lot of gems.
Look at this woman,
what she has.
So now a letter is thrown to her.
And what does the letter says? This is
one of the only
chapter in the Quran that has 2 Bismillah
Ar Rahman Ar Rahim. This is all in
Sola to Nama in the ends.
Nahu alaihman,
this letter is from Solaaiman
and That's the only thing he wanted from
her. Don't act with arrogance
and just come and submit
to what I am telling you. Come to
me as a Muslim.
Now this is a queen with power.
Right? What did she do? Wise.
A woman of wisdom,
a woman who take consultations,
a woman who, when she ask, people willing
to listen and change her mind. Although she's
a queen, she is not a person who
looks only
my way.
They responded,
They said, we're people of power. We're people
of
great might. It's your choice. You decide what
you wanna do. She said,
She was very worried, not because of how
can he send a letter to me. Rather,
she was thinking
when usually, naturally,
when people of power, when kings come and
overtake a city, what do they do? They
spread mischief
and basically makes the people off power.
They humiliate them.
So she said, let me try something.
When he was certainly him be had yet
him,
she said, I'm gonna send them a gift,
and I'm gonna wait and see.
The people who I'm sending them with the
gift, when they come back, let's see what
they did. Why is that?
Because if Suleiman is a king, he will
take the gift. If Suleiman is a prophet,
he does not take gifts.
So she is very smart and very wise.
She wanted to see who is this Suleyman.
She didn't know.
Now they came to him.
Are you giving me are
you trying to lure me and change me
through money? This is Sayidna Suleiman responding
to her emissaries,
what Allah
gave me is way more
than what you are giving me.
And he said, you are so happy about
what you are
giving me. Basically,
he was saying, I don't need it. I
am not gonna be lured by money to
change what I am supposed to do.
Right? And then he said,
go back,
and then we're gonna come to them with
a huge and a mighty army. Then he
said and this is
Subhanahu Wa'ala, Sayyidina Sulaiman. I mean, he has
a huge throne, and he has a a
lot of wealth. And then he looks and
says, people,
who
among them can get me her throne
before they come back?
So there was 2 people responded.
1
is
a jinn,
a free terminal jinn. He said,
I will get it to you before you
even stand up
and I am capable of doing
this. A person who has knowledge, I'm not
gonna mention who is he,
he said, I will get you her her
throne.
Literally, this is what he said to him.
Look up
and the moment you're gonna look down you
will see her throne. And that's exactly what
happened.
What happened,
they say, made
the the throne come through the earth quickly
and in front of Sayyidina Suleyman. Sayyidina Suleyman
opened his eyes and he see the throne
that we just described in front of him.
SubhanAllah. What did he say?
He saw the huge throne in front of
him, and he is a king,
but he's a prophet.
This is from the blessings of my lord
upon me. Why?
Am I gonna be grateful that Allah responded
to what I want immediately or I'm gonna
say I did it? Now compare it with
Qarun
that we talked about when he had all
the money.
And then he said a statement, of course,
the Quran is teaching me and you.
Grateful, you're grateful for yourself.
And if you are ungrateful,
my lord is
absolutely self sufficient, doesn't need anything, and he's
very generous. The story goes on. So now
the throne in front of him, and he
said,
change it a little bit. Let's see if
she's gonna know it or not. So now
they came
to visit Suleyman
back and she came with them. Then she
saw the throne, they asked her,
do you think this is your throne? She
was very smart.
She said,
could be. It looks like it. And then
Allah responded,
In spite of her smartness,
in spite of her wisdom, but because of
the people around her, she was
a disbeliever.
Power and the influence of company.
Then he said,
Salayman said to her, come on in. He
had a huge
palace and it was made of a clear
marble. It looks like if it is water.
So they they were told to her, come
on in. Enter.
Enter. She pulled
up her clothes or her dress so it
doesn't get wet.
Said this is not water. It's just a
crystal clear. It's a crystal but it's very
clear.
Now when she saw that
and she saw her throne,
what did she do?
I have done wrong. I have wronged myself.
Was
to and I submit
to
Allah, the Lord of all the creation. What
do we learn? Why this detail in this
story is like 2 pages in the Quran?
Couple of things.
Whether a man or a woman,
when Allah give us power,
let's us not get or become
arrogant.
Let's always listen to the others,
take opinion on the others, and when we
find out we are wrong,
we admit,
submit,
ask Allah for forgiveness,
and that's exactly what she did. A woman
full of power and she was misguided by
her people to prostrate to the sun.
The woman she saw the miracle,
how her throne moved
across the world and she did see it.
She didn't say this is not true. This
is no. No. No. No.
On the contrary, she said, you Allah, I
wronged myself and I submit to Saliman. May
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala make us
Follow the example of,
Beltis and may Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala make
us of those who one day read the
Quran not only learn, but practice it and
get closer and closer to Allah. Ameen.