The Quran Has It All #14 Women in Power

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

get closer and closer to Allah. Ameen.

get closer and closer to Allah. Ameen.