Stories of the Prophets – EP09 Prophets Dawud & Sulaiman

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The Stories of the Prophets series continues with Prophets Dawud & Sulaiman (peace be upon them).

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The speaker discusses the Prophet's story of a father-son relationship, where two individuals, one of whom has farm and the other with goats and livestock, are left with goats and livestock. The farm is expected to restore the farm and create problems for the family, and parents should take lessons from their children. The loss of animals is a result of a lack of knowledge and wisdom, and negative consequences may arise from the loss of family members. The speaker emphasizes the importance of sharing information and making suggestions for future projects.

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			In the Quran, Allah subhanaw taala tells us about many different prophets. Allah subhanaw taala
tells us about some prophets where there is a father son relationship, Brother, brother
relationship. So there are even some very interesting dynamics and relationships between some of the
profits that are taught to us in the Quran. One of these pairs of prophets that is spoken about in
the Quran, and multiple places is the Prophet diode, who is the father and his son Solomon alima
salam David and Solomon, golden Solomon Halima salam, one of the very fascinating for me personally,
one of the very fascinating stories about this father son duo that is mentioned in the Quran is in
		
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			Surah, number 21, sort of Columbia is 78 and 79. Allah subhanaw taala says we're the ones who lay
mana is the Aquaman isn't healthy, it never shut fee when I'm alone. Well couldn't really hurt me
him shahidan. So here's the backdrop of the story. Somebody comes they're two individuals, one of
them has a farm, the other one he has like a herd a flock of goats and cheap animal livestock. What
ends up happening is during the nighttime, maybe, you know the gate gets left open, or they knock
part of the fence down. But the livestock the animal spills out onto the farmland of the neighbor.
And they end up eating and tearing through all of his crop. And when they wake up in the morning,
		
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			they find they've ruined all of his crop, his harvest all of his, you know, his, his farm has been
ruined, and the animals are all over the place. So they go to the old alehissalaam, who is the king,
the father, Prophet of Allah to settle the matter, he hears their case out. And he basically says,
well, let's estimate the value of the animals versus the crops that were damaged. And when they end
up finding out is that the animals are worth pretty close to, you know, what the crop would have
been worth if it hadn't been destroyed. So he basically says, you know, gentlemen be who owns these
animals, in retribution for your animals damaging the harvest the crop of your neighbor, the farmer,
		
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			he will basically be given your animals, you will transfer the ownership of the animals over case
settled. Thank you very much. That's it, as they're leaving the courthouse, and the narration
mentions that, you know, obviously the the farmer is at least grateful that a decision has been
made, but he doesn't really know what to do with these animals. And then the man, the shepherd, who
has to give you all those animals up, is very distraught, like this is everything this is everything
I own Suleyman, alayhis salam, a young man, the son of Prophet of Allah, is sitting at the back of
the court. And he says, Father, if I may offer a suggestion, he says, absolutely. What do you have
		
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			to offer? So layman alehissalaam says, a farmer doesn't know anything about raising animals
shepherding animals, while the shepherd here in this situation, we'll be left with nothing, probably
fall into poverty, we'll develop a lot of ill feelings in regards to that, and what's going to
happen to his family and it's going to create a lot more problems. Here's my solution.
		
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			The farmer will get the animals of the shepherd.
		
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			Wild, the shepherd will have the responsibility of restore me restoring the farm, the farmer will
get the animals of the shepherd, while the shepherd has to restore the farm. And this arrangement,
it will last as long as the shepherd takes to fix and restore the farm. The sooner He restores it,
the sooner the farmer gets his farm back in good condition, the sooner the shepherd gets his animals
back. The longer he takes, the longer he doesn't have his animals. window down. He said I'm here to
suggestion he says, that's an amazing suggestion. That's a remarkable suggestion. But couldn't you
hook me him shahidan for farhana hacer la man, Allah subhanaw taala says that we gave Sulaiman the
		
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			proper understanding. So going back to the previous verse, verse without Buddha was really mana yaku
Mani philhealth window Odin schliemann alayhi salam or making the decision in regards to the crop
the harvest that had been ruined. It never had to be economical home when the livestock had gone in
there and ran it over but could not be hurt me him Shaheen and Alyssa we were witnessing this whole
situation for for him now.
		
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			How to lay man Allah says we gave her name on the proper understanding of the situation wakulla and
Athena hoekman ye Ma, but both out and Solomon were both given knowledge and wisdom. Well coolin
Athena Hawkman where a man was sahana ma de whoodle de Bella, you Sabina what played what could not
very lean and then our last panel with Allah goes on praising the old alehissalaam. But
nevertheless, Allah subhanaw taala says we gave Suleiman the proper understanding, he made the
proper decision. So now this is a story about two prophets, father and son, dodon, Solomon, Ali
Hassan, why did I choose to talk about destroying? Why am I fascinated by this mention of these two
		
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			amazing profits father and son? It's because I think there are so many lessons that we can take from
here, as is the objective of us learning about all these profits? What are some of the lessons here,
you have an older person, right, a community leader, a lot of experience a lot of wisdom, but his
experience, his wisdom, and his authority does not prevent him from being open to suggestions from
people younger than him. Forget about taking a suggestion from somebody younger than you, those of
you who are parents, you know, taking a suggestion from your own child requires a great amount of
humility. I can tell you, I'm a father. So if my daughter came and tried to correct me, I'd be like,
		
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			I was changing your diapers, right? I have changed your diapers like, official rule. If you have
ever changed somebody's diapers, they will never know anything that you don't know. This is like a
very unfortunate human reaction. But the Dalai Lama, great prophet of Allah shows us that somebody
older, wiser, knowledgeable, experienced, authoritative, should never close themselves off, should
never deprive themselves have newer fresher ideas from other people, younger people, a father, who
is a prophet of Allah, is so open to the suggestion of his son. So that's the first lesson we learn
here. Number two, a lot of times we have young people who got great fresh new ideas of doing some
		
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			stuff in the community, or whatever the setting may be. We see Sulaiman alehissalaam, he doesn't go
in there and say, You're wrong. This makes no sense. This is dumb. He doesn't behave that way. He's
got manners, he's got etiquette, and he is extremely respectful. If young people want their
suggestions to be heard, they want their ideas to be taken seriously. They have to carry themselves
accordingly. You can't be behaving like a child and be mature and be rude and obnoxious. But then
when you want to share an opinion, then you want everyone to take you seriously. You have to act in
accordance with what you're trying to communicate. So it's just such a profound lesson about family
		
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			relationships, the dynamics within the home between parents and children, and just in general across
the board, in communities, how the youth are meant to deal with the older generation and vice versa,
how the older generation should be embracing and accommodating the youth. So I just find a really
beautiful example of this in this story, and hope and pray everyone shall is benefiting from the
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