Monday, March 16, 2020

Islam critiqued still bloated from his fried bacon; Solomon brings the Queen's throne?



In answer to the video "Quran, Mysticism and the Ignorance of Allah"

Solomon wanted to make her see beyond her and her people's materialistic mindset. They were people, as already shown, who thought that anyone or anything could be bought with riches. And the throne is the highest symbol of worldy power and riches. He wanted to make her understand the deep reality that her power isnt in her hands but could be stripped in an instant by Allah, and her dominion transfered to whomsoever Allah desires. But in the meantime that the plan was discussed and executed by Solomon, the queen left her country to meet him face to face, impressed by this wise man uninterested in wordly riches and ready to summon formidable forces to defend the dignity of the message he was calling her to. 

As she left, the plan was put into place and the throne was displaced in her absence, then brought to Solomon's palace where it was arranged in a manner so as to be recognizable to her when she would be called to see it. This shocked Solomon himself, who in his humble pattern as described in the Quran, immidiately attributed that event to God's will and power 27:40. This is the reality of the noble, humble and pious prophet Solomon, unlike the idolatrous and ungrateful depiction that is made of him in previous scriptures
38:30"most excellent the servant, surely he was frequent in returning to Allah" 2:102"and Solomon disbelieved not".
Neither was his father David a murderous adulterer, nor his mother an adulteress as shamelessly depicted by the lying pens of the scribes of Israel. They were praiseworthy people who were bestowed with favors by Allah, as humbly recalled in Solomon's prayer, quoted just before the story of his encounter with the Queen
27:19"My Lord, grant me that I should be grateful for Your favor that You bestowed on me and on my parents, and that I should do good such as You would be pleased with, and make me enter, by Your mercy, into Your servants, the good ones".
But Solomon did not need to send for her to come see her throne, she had arrived in the meantime and so the throne was pointed to her. She confessed there that she had already inclined to Islam by what she saw and heard from the prophet Solomon even before seeing this miracle. After all, she did go out of her way to come and see him personally instead of confronting him militarily when he rejected her envoys with the gifts and sent with them a declaration of war. Allah further confirmed her statement by pointing that the only thing that hindered her from finding the right path prior to coming to meet Solomon was not stubborness or willful rebellion, but her upbringing in a sinful nation 27:43. 

As she entered the splendid palace whose floors were in places made of glass, it had on her the illusory effect of a wide water expanse. The Queen thus tucked up her dress to avoid stepping on water, exposing a portion of her legs. 

The fantastic tales at that point related by some comentators of her having donkey's legs due to being a jinn hybrid from her mother's side are inauthentic reports traced to Kaab al Ahbar and Wahab ibn Munabbih. 

This tucking of her dress was a gesture beneath the dignity of a woman of her royalty. Solomon then immidiately displayed another aspect of his high character. To avoid her further embarrasement he told her the floor is made of glass. This was the last thing that openned her eyes and heart
27:44"My Lord i have been inflicting much wrong on myself. Now I submit myself with Solomon to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds".
In the racially prejudiced and monolatrous mindset of the scribes of the HB, this queen who had nevertheless recognized Solomon's wisdom, who had left her land, abasing herself to come and seek knowledge from another king, recognized and blessed the ethno-centric "Lord your God" and His "eternal love for Israel", but inexplicably remained a heathen 1Kings10. After all, you do not want some far away nation to come and claim their rights in the land as part of the "chosen race". The NT in Lk11 similarily doesnt indicate whether she eventually abandonned her polytheistic ways, but hints at her being higher in righteousness than the Jewish contemporaries of Jesus. It is also interesting how in the Biblical account, she praises the tribal "Lord your God" while in the Quran she submits herself, together with Solomon, to one and the same God, Lord of all worlds. 

This is the consistent Quran pattern of exposing and correcting the manipulations of the scriptures of the past. 

When for instance the Quran revisits the events at the "burning bush" and Moses' first encounter with the divine source, God reveals Himself to Moses, with words evoking universal, indiscriminate Lordship. Moses would later communicate these words throughout his prophetic career whether in his confrontation with the Egyptian elite, or the Israelites; He is the One Lord besides Whom there are none, the Lord of all worlds/aalamin, a word encompassing in its meaning all human beings in all ages. He will gather and judge every soul indiscriminately based on its individual merit 20:12-16,28:30. The version of the HB again reveals the deep inclination pervasive throughout the Jewish writings, for monolatry and its depiction of an ethno-centered tribal deity
Ex3:6"I am the God of your Father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob".
See how the Quran maintains its patterns, consistently and intricately throughout its discources revealed over 23 years in diverse contexts and circumstances.

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