{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/pro/dav01.htm","path":"isl/pro/dav01.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pro/dav01.htm","text":"God did say: And assuredly We gave David grace from Us, (saying): O ye\nhills and birds, echo his psalms of praise! And We made the iron supple\nunto him(Saba':10), and He spoke to His prophet (PUH) by saying: Bear with\nwhat they say, and remember Our bondman David, lord of might, Lo! he was\never turning in repentance (toward Allah). Lo! We subdued the hills to\nhymn the praises (of their Lord) with him at nightfall and sunrise, And\nthe birds assembled; all were turning unto Him. We made his kingdom strong\nand gave him wisdom and decisive speech(S\u00e2d:17-20), and He said in\nanother chapter: And we preferred some of the prophets above others, and\nunto David We gave the Psalms(Al-Isr\u00e2':55), and also He mentioned\nas attributed to him (David): And he said: O mankind! Lo! we have been\ntaught the language of birds, and have been given (abundance) of all things.\nThis surely is evident favour(Al-Naml:16) [I belive in this point the author\nwas mistaken because it seems the Solomon is the one who said this sentence\nas mentioned in Quran and not David], and there are lot of other holy phrases,\nso check them out. It is mentioned that when David used to read the psalms\nand come cross the lands you would see the beasts and birds would sanctify\nwith him and all would say as he is saying as if it was not possible to\nhelp about it but to follow him with what he was saying even if it was\nabout a non-living object, and that is the miracle of David, or the thing\nthat should be put under the question, and that is the clue for others\nto follow him and believe in him and in his message, because it is heard\nfrom the mountains and the birds their sanctification whenever David does\nand none before did hear their way of sanctification, thus it should be\nknown that this is something from God for him, and all of these things\npoint out to his highness and his power where He made the mountains under\nhis command and also the birds when they gather around him when he reads\nthe book of his Lord, either listening with care or attracted with humiliation\nand for the command of their Lord going forth, and driven by the sound\nof miracle and the words of the Giver, the Lord of angels and soul.\nHe also made the iron supple unto him and made it like wax in his hands\nto take whatever he likes from and leave whatever he likes without putting\nit to fire and striking by tools and force, and he used to do the shields\nwith his hands as a miracle for him and abnormal thing, otherwise it would\nnot be a special thing if he used to use fire to make it and the miracle\nof God would not be apparent, and he used to make the shields out of the\niron rings and not iron sheets so they can become lighter for anyone who\nwear them and protect him against his enemies and also to allow some air\nto go through his body thus he can stay in rest and safe and never be annoyed\nwith it. God did say: And We taught him the art of making garments (of\nmail) to protect you in your daring. Are ye then thankful?(Al-Anbiy\u00e2':80)\nso meditate, may God reveal a mercy upon you, in the way that God mentions\nHis favours, and concentrate on understanding the wisdom from the speech\nof your Lord, the Wise, the Almighty that He pointed out about this, and\nHe also said: We made his kingdom strong and gave him wisdom and decisive\nspeech(S\u00e2d:20). So, He made him a wise judge and a prophet and a\nmessenger and a victorious king against his enemies, before he comes a\nprophet and a king and then after as well.\nHe remained for long time without any opposition from anyone unless\nhe had defeated it and God made him strong with his respect and made him\nvictorious by His strength and by his will and by the believers, and they\nsay that he prayed to God to teach him how to judge among people with what\nGod has of facts and realities so then God inspired to him: O David people\nwon't bear that and I will show you. Then a man came to him and claimed\nthat another man had wronged him and been aggressive towards him, so then\nGod inspired to him that the one who is claiming killed the father of the\none who was claimed on without having a right to do so, and so He commanded\nhim to command the man who was claimed on to kill the claiming man as a\nrevenge for his father, and so when he did so the Israelites took that\nfor great and they said: a man came to him (to David) to complain and he\nordered the aggressive one to kill the one of complaint! and there were\nlot of sayings and gossip about it and claimed that David is wrong-doer\nand ignorant and so on, and then David asked God to give him a relief from\nthis trouble and said: O Lord save me from what I fell in, so God then\ninspired to him: O David, you asked Me to inspire you with the judgement\nwith the right I have and so the rightful judgement was that the (aggressive)\nman should kill the claiming man as a revenge for his father, and he (the\nfather) is buried in that place in a garden under that tree so go one with\nthe Israelites and call him with his name and he shall answer you and ask\nhim about the one who killed him and let the Israelites hear his speech\nso that you will be excused and your situation is fixed among them and\nstop to doubt about you, and so he took them with him to the place of his\ngrave and he called him with his name and the man answered: here I am O\nprophet of God, and he asked him: who killed you? He answered: that man\n(naming the killer), so then the Israelites believed in him again and obeyed\nhim when they heard that. Then God inspired to him: O David the servants\nwill not be able to bear the judgement with what right I do have so ask\nthe one claiming to give the clues and swear by My name.\nAnd God gave him the wisdom and the decisive speech, and the meaning\nof \"wisdom\" as it is defined by the language is to put everything in its\nright place and doing the right thing that has no mistakes in it and no\none is able to criticise it, so it has no mistakes and is not accompanied\nwith regret and sorrow, but it is a complete act, so God gave him the prophecy\nand also the wisdom in addition to it. the prophecy is to receive the commands\nand the regulations from God by inspirations and by heart, and the wisdom\nis something else that God did give to him as a gift from Him for him without\nstudying or researching or competing with the soul, and the prophecy can\nbe a road to the wisdom that God made it special for whom He chose from\nHis servants and He is the Passionate the Knower.\nWe do not about the wisdom of the prophets, and they are the most complete\nmen at their time among their own people [some words here I couldn't understand]\nand for this David said to Luqm\u00e2n the wise: joy for you O Luqm\u00e2n,\nyou were given the wisdom and the adversities were drawn away from you,\nand it is the leadership and the prophecy. David had a nice voice and a\nnice reading and his reading for the psalms had a passion that would take\nthe hearts of the listeners away and attract them without their choice\nand their souls would be affected, I imagine it as if the legs of the listeners\nstopped and their hands stopped doing their jobs and the senses and all\nthe feelings are attracted to what the ear is listening to of the melodies\nof David and his passion to be for his Lord and how he is feeling safe\nunder the protection of his Lord and how he is in love with his Lord as\nif his mind is lost for his Lord when he speaks to Him seeking His satisfaction\nand afraid of His punishment and eager for His paradise and its luxuries\nand whatever the Giver did make in it for His faith followers who are faithful\nand eager for His gifts. In the Zabur there are the sermons and the tidings\nabout what happened and what will be happening, and in them there is the\nsanctifications and the praises for God and humiliations before Him and\nbefore His might and power. The Zabur is the psalms and it is made of one\nhundred and fifty psalms.\nAbout this matter, there are some opinions for people of the scriptures\n(Jews,Christians) and others that are not true at all because such opinions\noppose the place of prophecy and its holiness, so there is no infallibility\nexcept for him who did God made him infallible and the guidance is by God\nand no power except by Him, the Exalted. As attributed to Ibn Abi-Al-Hadeed\nhe said that David was given the nice voice and the nice reading which\nmade the birds fall down for him on his praying niche and the beasts would\nhear him and get along among the people without fearing them because of\nhis nice voice, and in a speech for the prince of believers (PUH) in Al-Nahj\n[a book's name]: if you desired I shall make a third for David, the owner\nof the psalms and the reader of paradise, for he used to work with the\npalm leaves with his hands and then say to his companions: who would be\nable to sell it and eat the bread of barley out of its price. They say\nthat David divided the times of day and night for his family so that no\nhour passed by unless one of his children is in prayer, so that God did\nsay: Give thanks, O House of David!(Saba':13). It is mentioned that the\npower of David made him able to take a sheep from his cattle that would\nbe captured by a lion, out of the lion's mouth by his bare hands, and it\nis mentioned that he was a short man with not so much hair, this is what\nwas mentioned in Safinat Al-Bih\u00e2r for Al-Muhaddi\u00fe Al-Qummi.","title":"The Prophets, Their Lives and Their Stories: David: The A...","type":"page"}