{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/pro/dav00.htm","path":"isl/pro/dav00.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pro/dav00.htm","text":"Sacred Texts\u00a0\nIslam\u00a0\nIndex\u00a0\nPrevious\u00a0\nNext\u00a0\nDavid (PUH)\nWhen David killed Goliath, the armies got separated and got back from their\ncoming destination and God made him victorious and he became closer for\nSaul and he (Saul) made him marry his daughter Michal and he also made\nhim a leader fos his armies and the Israelites considered him a great man\nand the friendship grew tight between David and the son of Saul Yona\u00fe\u00e2n\n(Jonathan) and the relations between David and Saul were good for some\ntime, and then when the conditions of David grew higher and he became famous\namong the people and the Israelites became under his commands, Saul envied\nhim for this and feared him and feared that he would try to take from him\nthe kingdom, so he desired to kill him and assasinate him, but his son\nJonathan used to defend him (David) and praise him and show his father\nthat he is loyal to him and worked on enhancing the position of David in\nthe eyes of his father. When Saul wanted to destroy David, his wife Michal,\nthe daughter of Saul, warned him and he ran away, and she told her father\nthat he (David) is on his bed so send someone to kill him and when they\nwanted to they only found some clothes been covered. This is what was told\nby some historians and seems that they copied this from Torah apparently.\nThen David gathered his close relatives and his brothers in belief and\nwhoever was escaping Saul of the Israelites and lot of others joined him\nand so he became stronger and he raised up to face Saul, and then many\nchasings and wars started between them and at the end David won and killed\nhim (Saul).\nThey say then after that David went to the city of Hebron and then\nthe men of Judah came to him and they were far from him before, and they\ngave him the kingdom and made him a king over the house of Judah as he\nis a king over others, and so his kingdom grew wider even, and there were\na group of people of them (the house of Judah) and others among the Israelites\nthat did not go along with him and went under the command of the son of\nSaul, and also the men of his father and the leaders of the armies, and\nwars again started between them until the son of Saul died after two years\nof wars beginning between him and David, and when he died, David had all\nthe kingdom and all the Israelites came under his command and he lived\nin the city of Jirun (Hebron) [seems there is a printing mistake in this\npoint], and it is the city of Al-Khaleel now [Al-Khaleel, the Arabic name\nof Hebron], and he lived there for seven years and then he moved to Sahyun\n(Zion) and it is a fort that was called later on by the city of D\u00e2wud\n(David), and there lived beside him lot of enemies but at the end all of\nthem came under his command and all of their lands became under the rule\nof the Israelites, and there were lot of wars during the days of rule of\nDavid and he went out of them victorious, and his kingdom grew wider until\nhe reached the bay of Aqabah and the Euphrates in Iraq, so all of these\nlands went under his command after many wars that he won all, and so he\nconquered the lands of Palestine and took Damascus the capital of the Arameans\nafter fierce wars, and he fought against the tribes and clans on the Euphrates\nand won against them all, and he ruled Jordan after wars with Ammonites.\nThat was in brief what was mentioned in Torah and the real thing is known\nonly by God.\nIt is attributed to Al-B\u00e2qir (PUH) that he said: God did not\nsend prophets as kings after Noah except of four: \u00d0ul-Qarnain and his\nname was `Ayy\u00e2sh, and David and Solomon and Joseph (PUT), and as\nfor `Ayy\u00e2sh he ruled what was between the east and west, and as for\nDavid\nhe ruled the lands of Canaan upto the lands of Issachar, and so it was\nthe same for Solomon, and as for Joseph he ruled Egypt and its lands and\ndid not come over behind this. As for Solomon, maybe that was the beginning\nof his rule because what is well-known about him that he ruled what was\nbetween the east and west as \u00d0ul-Qarnain without a difference, although\nthere is a difference in the mentioned narration and only God knows. As\nreported by S\u00e2hib Al-K\u00e2mil [either a book's or a person's name]\nthat David ben Jesse was from the house of Judah and when Saul was killed\nall of the Israelites came to him and gave him the keys of treasures of\nSaul and they made him a king over them and when he became a king God made\nhim a prophet and revealed upon him the Zabur (Psalms) and He ordered the\nmountains and the birds to sanctify God with him when he does, and God\ndid not give anyone a voice like his voice and whenever he used to read\nthe psalms the beasts would come to him even if he wanted to take hold\nof their necks, and he used to worship at night and fast the daytime and\nused to eat from his own work and trade.\nThey say that at the time of David, the plague spread among the people\nand so he went out with them to the location of the Temple and he used\nto see before that time the angels going to heavens from that location\nand that is why he went to that location to pray to God in it, so when\nhe stood in the location of the Rock and prayed to God to raise the plague\nfrom among them, God answered him then and they all knew that this spot\nis a sacred one and he made a mosque in it, and they started to build it\nfor eleven years from the time of his rule but he died before it is done\nand he advised his son Solomon to complete its building. They say when\nthe end of David drew near, he had a maid that used to lock all the doors\nand bring the keys to him, and then he prays to his Lord, and one night\nshe locked all the doors as usual and then she came back and she saw a\nman so she said to him: who let you into the room? He said to her: I am\nthe one who goes into the courts of kings without their permission, and\nDavid heard this so he asked: are you the angel of death? He said: yes,\nand David then said to him: shouldn't you send messangers to me to get\nprepared? Then the angel of death said: I sent to you many times before,\nand then David asked: who was your messanger? He said: where is your father\nand your brother and your neighbour, and he mentioned some names, so David\nanswered: they all died, so he said: they are my messangers to you and\nyou shall die as they died before, and so he took his soul. When he died,\nSolomon inherited his kingdom, and he had nineteen sons but only Solomon\ninherited him, and his age at the time of his death was one hundred years,\nand his rule was for forty years (out of the one hundred years), and some\nothers say that he lived for one hundred and forty years.\nAl-Mas`udi mentioned that God made the iron flexible for David and\nso he made out of it the shields and He made the mountains and the birds\nsanctify with him, and then he said: and God revealed upon him the psalms\nin Hebrew and made of one hundred and fifty chapters and divided it into\nthree thirds, and the last third of them is made of sermons and attractions\nand warnings, and it has no commands and no laws, and David built a house\nfor worshipping in Jerusalem and it is the Sacred House (the Temple) and\nit is the one the remained until this very day and it is called the chancel\nof David [Arabic: Mihr\u00e2b D\u00e2wud], and from the top of it one\ncan see the dead sea and the river Jordan, and God gave many favours for\nDavid and gave him lot of properities that would not pass over the mind\nof anyone and He praised him aind thanked for him the beautiful stands\nhe did take.\nGod did test him and showed his faith and he was one of the best that\nGod did choose for His religion and for His inspirations, of those who\nguide with His own commands and turn angry for His case with a plain clue\nthat is not corrupted with doubt, for they are infallible and faithful\nand wise with passion.\nNext: The Awaited Manifesto","title":"The Prophets, Their Lives and Their Stories: David: David (PUH)","type":"page"}